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

1882

Bearded Irish clam diggers

1860

Crowd waiting near Boston Common for the Prince of Wales

1870

Louisa May Alcott (writter)

1952

The famous “O’Neil sisters”

1920

Custom House Tower

1920

Frozen Cars After Severe Frost Fire in Boston

1909

Slums

1967

Attempt To Stop WOMAN From Competing In The Boston Marathon

c. 1920

Boston Cop in the 1920s

c. 1880

Horticultural Hall

1910

Boylston Street

1897

Tremont Street Subway

c. 1940

KNIFE SHARPENER AT WEST END

1859

Inauguration of Daniel Webster statue, Massachusetts State House

1860

“Old Cocked Hat”

1896

Bates Hall, Boston Public Library

1860

Boston Public Garden. Detail of photo by D. Barnum

c. 1900

Apothecary

1906

Hotel Brunswick

1970

Bobby Orr

1901

East Platform of North Station

c. 1860

Portrait of a ballet dancer

1903

Mechanics’ Hall

1917

Margaret Ciampa

1905

Old State House

c. 1901

Elbert Hubbard

1909

Boston market

1919

Infrastructure damage from the Molasses Disaster

1968

Boy Wearing Supercap

1860

Aerial photo of Boston was captured from a hot air balloon

c. 1860

Old Feather Store

1939

North End Library

c. 1890

Boston Museum

1940

A soldier with his date

1905

Jaynes Store at Hanover and Washington streets

1914

Weather kiosk, Boston Common

1963

Taxi at Saxony Bar & Lounge

1885

"Honest John"

1901

Beacon Street

1908

Harry Houdini before he jumped off the Harvard Bridge