Old pictures of Providence

1939

Winter

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

1860

“Old Cocked Hat”

1890

Miss Florence Hope Luscomb

c. 1880

Horticultural Hall

1860

Crowd waiting near Boston Common for the Prince of Wales

c. 1940

KNIFE SHARPENER AT WEST END

1904

STATE HOUSE

1885

"Honest John"

1909

Boston market

1920

Frozen Cars After Severe Frost Fire in Boston

c. 1860

Old Feather Store

1860

Boston Public Garden. Detail of photo by D. Barnum

c. 1901

Elbert Hubbard

1968

Boy Wearing Supercap

1896

Bates Hall, Boston Public Library

c. 1900

Apothecary

1905

Old State House

1909

Slums

1910

Boylston Street

1903

Helen Keller and Miss Sullivan

1920

Custom House Tower

1905

Jaynes Store at Hanover and Washington streets

1909

Fish Peddlers

1940

A soldier with his date

1899

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

1909

Boy selling fish from a basket in Boston street market

1859

Inauguration of Daniel Webster statue, Massachusetts State House

1970

Bobby Orr

1909

132 Marginal Street, East Boston

1897

Tremont Street Subway

1870

Louisa May Alcott (writter)

1948

Blue Hill Avenue and Quincy Street

c. 1918

Boat Suspected of Selling Alcohol is Inspected

1898

Boston City Hospital during the Spanish-American War

1952

The famous “O’Neil sisters”

1914

Weather kiosk, Boston Common

1919

Infrastructure damage from the Molasses Disaster

c. 1920

Boston Cop in the 1920s

1949

Salem Street

1967

Attempt To Stop WOMAN From Competing In The Boston Marathon

1903

Mechanics’ Hall