Old pictures of Massachusetts

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

c. 1920

The Noonans, a family of 15 living in 1920s

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

1909

Hall, Freud, Jung in front of Clark

1852

Louisa May Alcott headshot

1870

Louisa May Alcott (writter)

1859

Dickinson and Turner

1846

Emily Dickinson

1908

Harry Houdini before he jumped off the Harvard Bridge

1919

Babe Ruth Red Sox

1903

Helen Keller and Miss Sullivan

1888

Keller (left) with Anne Sullivan vacationing

1919

Infrastructure damage from the Molasses Disaster

1871

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

c. 1901

The old sawmill

c. 1918

Boat Suspected of Selling Alcohol is Inspected

1940

Kids in Quincy

1906

Hotel Brunswick

1890

Charlestown & Bunker Hill Monument

1903

Mechanics’ Hall

1939

North End Library

c. 1940

KNIFE SHARPENER AT WEST END

1925

AERIAL VIEW

1949

Salem Street

1963

Taxi at Saxony Bar & Lounge

1904

STATE HOUSE

1909

Slums

c. 1954

Eleanor Roosevelt at Martha's Vineyard