Old pictures of Boston

1860

“Old Cocked Hat”

1896

Bates Hall, Boston Public Library

1910

Boylston Street

1909

Fish Peddlers

1920

Custom House Tower

1970

Bobby Orr

1897

Tremont Street Subway

1882

Bearded Irish clam diggers

1905

Schooners at T wharf

1952

The famous “O’Neil sisters”

1920

Frozen Cars After Severe Frost Fire in Boston

1915

Steam Locomotive During The Boston Flood

c. 1920

Boston Cop in the 1920s

1968

Boy Wearing Supercap

1846

First Surgery Using Inhaled Ether

1872

Washington Street tomada después del gran incendio de Boston

1916

Snow plow on Berkeley Street

1914

Weather kiosk, Boston Common

1901

East Platform of North Station

1914

Junior dressmaking class at the Boston Trade School for Girls

1909

132 Marginal Street, East Boston

1951

New traffic lights at Walnut Avenue

1898

Boston City Hospital during the Spanish-American War

1905

Jaynes Store at Hanover and Washington streets

1948

Blue Hill Avenue and Quincy Street

1860

Aerial photo of Boston was captured from a hot air balloon

1932

TRAFFIC

1909

Boy selling fish from a basket in Boston street market

1860

Boston, as the Eagle and the Wild Goose See It

c. 1901

Elbert Hubbard

1899

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

c. 1880

Horticultural Hall

c. 1890

Boston Museum

1860

Crowd waiting near Boston Common for the Prince of Wales

c. 1860

Old Feather Store

1859

Inauguration of Daniel Webster statue, Massachusetts State House

1860

Boston Public Garden. Detail of photo by D. Barnum

1870

Louisa May Alcott (writter)

1908

Harry Houdini before he jumped off the Harvard Bridge

1919

Babe Ruth Red Sox