Old pictures of City of Providence

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

c. 1940

KNIFE SHARPENER AT WEST END

c. 1880

Horticultural Hall

1860

Aerial photo of Boston was captured from a hot air balloon

1860

Crowd waiting near Boston Common for the Prince of Wales

1951

New traffic lights at Walnut Avenue

1919

Babe Ruth Red Sox

1909

Boston market

c. 1920

Boston Cop in the 1920s

1860

Boston Public Garden. Detail of photo by D. Barnum

1909

Boy selling fish from a basket in Boston street market

c. 1860

Portrait of a ballet dancer

1948

Blue Hill Avenue and Quincy Street

c. 1860

Old Feather Store

1909

132 Marginal Street, East Boston

c. 1900

Apothecary

1860

Boston, as the Eagle and the Wild Goose See It

1870

Louisa May Alcott (writter)

1901

East Platform of North Station

1952

The famous “O’Neil sisters”

1846

First Surgery Using Inhaled Ether

1882

Bearded Irish clam diggers

1906

Hotel Brunswick

c. 1890

Boston Museum

1917

Margaret Ciampa

1967

Attempt To Stop WOMAN From Competing In The Boston Marathon

1909

Fish Peddlers

1968

Boy Wearing Supercap

1910

Boylston Street

1903

Helen Keller and Miss Sullivan

1940

A soldier with his date

1898

Boston City Hospital during the Spanish-American War

1949

Salem Street

1914

Weather kiosk, Boston Common

1903

Mechanics’ Hall

c. 1901

Elbert Hubbard

1919

Infrastructure damage from the Molasses Disaster

1901

Beacon Street

1905

Old State House

1908

Harry Houdini before he jumped off the Harvard Bridge

1871

Cabinet card