Old pictures of Gloucester

1905

A Cape Ann fisherman

c. 1910

Boston and Maine Railroad depot

1906

Memorial Hall

c. 1920

The Noonans, a family of 15 living in 1920s

1939

Man and Woman Installing Lie Detector

1907

Pigeon Camera

1954

Galina Ulanova and Yuri Zhdanov in the ballet Romeo and Juliet

1967

Bagel Production

1925

Conversation between Niels Bohr and Albert Einstein

1970

Flight Attendants

1882

Bearded Irish clam diggers

1948

Blue Hill Avenue and Quincy Street

1909

132 Marginal Street, East Boston

1885

"Honest John"

1860

Crowd waiting near Boston Common for the Prince of Wales

1920

Custom House Tower

1939

North End Library

c. 1940

KNIFE SHARPENER AT WEST END

1896

Bates Hall, Boston Public Library

1860

Boston Public Garden. Detail of photo by D. Barnum

1967

Attempt To Stop WOMAN From Competing In The Boston Marathon

1870

Louisa May Alcott (writter)

c. 1890

Boston Museum

1952

The famous “O’Neil sisters”

1915

Steam Locomotive During The Boston Flood

1970

Bobby Orr

1846

First Surgery Using Inhaled Ether

1910

Boylston Street

1968

Boy Wearing Supercap

c. 1860

Portrait of a ballet dancer

1899

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

c. 1920

Boston Cop in the 1920s

1919

Infrastructure damage from the Molasses Disaster

1901

Beacon Street

1909

Boy selling fish from a basket in Boston street market

1905

Schooners at T wharf

1919

Babe Ruth Red Sox

1914

Junior dressmaking class at the Boston Trade School for Girls

1909

Slums

1940

A soldier with his date

1898

Boston City Hospital during the Spanish-American War