Old pictures of Providence

1939

Winter

1848

"Ultima Thule" daguerreotype of Edgar Allan Poe

1928

H. P. Lovecraft with Vrest Orton

c. 1901

Howard Phillips Lovecraft

1887

Lenin at the University

1901

East Platform of North Station

1905

Old State House

c. 1880

Horticultural Hall

1949

Salem Street

1860

Crowd waiting near Boston Common for the Prince of Wales

1940

Kids in Quincy

1882

Bearded Irish clam diggers

1909

Boston market

1860

Boston, as the Eagle and the Wild Goose See It

c. 1860

Old Feather Store

1860

Boston Public Garden. Detail of photo by D. Barnum

c. 1920

Boston Cop in the 1920s

1925

AERIAL VIEW

1896

Bates Hall, Boston Public Library

c. 1900

Apothecary

1932

TRAFFIC

1968

Boy Wearing Supercap

1952

The famous “O’Neil sisters”

1903

Helen Keller and Miss Sullivan

1915

Steam Locomotive During The Boston Flood

1860

“Old Cocked Hat”

1948

Blue Hill Avenue and Quincy Street

1909

Boy selling fish from a basket in Boston street market

1899

Elsie Leslie as Lydia Languish in Sheridan's play The Rivals

1905

Schooners at T wharf

1970

Bobby Orr

1909

132 Marginal Street, East Boston

1897

Tremont Street Subway

c. 1918

Boat Suspected of Selling Alcohol is Inspected

1870

Louisa May Alcott (writter)

1898

Boston City Hospital during the Spanish-American War

1914

Weather kiosk, Boston Common

1919

Infrastructure damage from the Molasses Disaster

1908

Harry Houdini before he jumped off the Harvard Bridge

1890

Miss Florence Hope Luscomb

1939

North End Library

c. 1860

Portrait of a ballet dancer

1940

A soldier with his date

1963

Taxi at Saxony Bar & Lounge

1903

Mechanics’ Hall