Old pictures of Smiths (historical)

c. 1910

Two women driving a buggy

c. 1880

Horticultural Hall

1949

Salem Street

1908

Harry Houdini before he jumped off the Harvard Bridge

1919

Babe Ruth Red Sox

1948

Blue Hill Avenue and Quincy Street

1890

Charlestown & Bunker Hill Monument

1846

First Surgery Using Inhaled Ether

1952

The famous “O’Neil sisters”

1916

Snow plow on Berkeley Street

1871

Alexander Graham Bell, top right at the Boston School for Deaf Mutes

1899

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

1903

Helen Keller and Miss Sullivan

c. 1940

KNIFE SHARPENER AT WEST END

c. 1890

Boston Museum

1898

Boston City Hospital during the Spanish-American War

c. 1901

Elbert Hubbard

1860

Aerial photo of Boston was captured from a hot air balloon

1932

TRAFFIC

1915

Steam Locomotive During The Boston Flood

1919

Infrastructure damage from the Molasses Disaster

1905

Jaynes Store at Hanover and Washington streets

1903

Mechanics’ Hall

1904

STATE HOUSE

1914

Weather kiosk, Boston Common

1896

Bates Hall, Boston Public Library

1920

Frozen Cars After Severe Frost Fire in Boston

1882

Bearded Irish clam diggers

1860

Boston Public Garden. Detail of photo by D. Barnum

1901

East Platform of North Station

1920

Custom House Tower

1909

Boy selling fish from a basket in Boston street market

1906

Hotel Brunswick

c. 1920

Boston Cop in the 1920s

1909

Slums

1905

Old State House

1859

Inauguration of Daniel Webster statue, Massachusetts State House

1870

Louisa May Alcott (writter)

1909

Fish Peddlers

1940

Kids in Quincy

1909

132 Marginal Street, East Boston