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By adamg - 8/4/15 - 10:40 am
The folks at the Boston City Archives wonder if you can figure out what's going on here, where and when.
By adamg - 8/3/15 - 9:51 am
J.L. Bell alerts us to recreations of Stamp Act protests on the anniversary of them next week at the intersection of Boylston and Washington streets in Chinatown.
By adamg - 7/31/15 - 1:17 pm
The MBTA reports workers at the Government Center rehab project found remnants of a 1915 Boston Post behind an old door jamb.
Other, larger reminders of the station's past will be put on display: Read more.
By adamg - 7/27/15 - 10:59 am
The folks at the Boston City Archives wonder if you can place this old Boston scene.
By adamg - 7/23/15 - 10:49 am
Where City Hall didn't used to be. See it larger.
Between 1954 and 1959, urban planner Kevin Lynch took hundreds of photos in Boston and Cambridge to help show how residents build up a sort of mental map of what their city is like. The MIT Libraries have posted 1,900 of his photos. Read more.
By adamg - 7/22/15 - 12:12 pm
Historic New England has release the final documentary in Justin Goodstein's series about the long-running market as part of its Haymarket Project.
By adamg - 7/18/15 - 11:32 am
Today's the anniversary of Kevin White's 1972 call to police in Warwick, RI to convince them to release the Stones - who'd been arrested for a scuffle the night before - or there'd be a riot at the Garden, where 15,000 fans were waiting for them.
Photo of White on the stage at the Garden, telling fans the Stones had been busted, but that he'd just freed them and they were on their way.
By bibliotequetress - 7/15/15 - 12:10 pm
The Library of the Royal Irish Academy wants to identify the people in the photograph below. Please contact the Library if you recognize any of the subjects. The Library can be reached via Twitter @Library_RIA, or by email at www.ria.ie/library/contact, citing "8 May Photo Query Tweet."
If more information regarding the location, subjects, time, et cetera, of the photograph become available, I will update this post.
By adamg - 7/15/15 - 10:55 am
The folks at the Boston City Archives wonder if you can place this photo.
By adamg - 7/6/15 - 12:05 pm
The folks at the Boston City Archives wonder if you can figure out what's going on in this photo and when and where it was going on. See it larger.
By adamg - 7/4/15 - 12:07 pm
Seems our second president would have preferred July 2 as Independence Day, although that would have deprived us of that story about him and Jefferson both dying within hours of each other on the national holiday.
David Parsons captured the Adams mural in Quincy.
Copyright David Parsons. Posted in the Universal Hub pool on Flickr.
By adamg - 7/2/15 - 7:13 pm
Most of the time, when you enter Boston, the signs say "Est. 1630." But when you enter Charlestown on Broadway from Everett, the signs say "Inc. 1822," which, while not inaccurate, since they refer to when Boston was incorporated as a city, just seem kind of odd.
By adamg - 7/1/15 - 12:04 pm
The folks at the Boston City Archives wonder if you can place this photo.
By adamg - 7/1/15 - 11:59 am
Anthony Sammarco reports somebody borrowed a collection of photos and documents related to the old West End from the BPL's West End branch and then just never returned them.
A collection of West End photographs and archives was loaned to someone who has not returned it to the West End Library. We are looking to recreate a collection on the Lost West End. Any photographs or materials on the once thriving neighborhood would be greatly appreciated. Please send to West End Library, 151 Cambridge Street, Boston, MA 02114. Let's recreate what has been lost by theft.
By adamg - 6/29/15 - 6:15 am
Remains of the flag. Photo by Hkergrrl.
The Globe reports Melissa Carino took down a Confederate flag that had been draped over the memorial to the North's first black regiment last night after State and Boston Police declined to act, each saying the other was responsible for the historic marker across from the State House.
By adamg - 6/28/15 - 9:41 pm
The Boston City Archives recently posted a collection of photos of Boston street cars, including this photo of trolleys lined up in Copley Square for the School Boy Parade on June 6, 1937, and a photo of the scene on Tremont Street around 1895 - two years before the first subway tunnel in America opened underneath Tremont: Read more.
By adamg - 6/27/15 - 12:18 pm
What's not to love? 2012 photo.
ArchDaily interviews a trio of architects writing a book about the glory of 1960s and 1970s concrete architecture in Boston and why they prefer to call it "Heroic" rather than "Brutalist." For starters, not all concrete buildings are brutalist. Equally important, they say, all that concrete reflects an era in which city leaders managed to revitalize a city that had been somnolently declining for decades. Read more.
By adamg - 6/22/15 - 11:17 am
The folks at the Boston City Archives wonder if you can figure out what this control center controlled, and when. See it larger.
By adamg - 6/16/15 - 6:21 pm
The Boston Preservation Alliance posts an interview with city archaeologist Joe Bagley. He brings us up to date on the archaeological digs in the front yard of Old City Hall (site of an even older home for Boston Latin School) - they've found the remains of a building, but which one? - and alerts us that his next major project will be at at the Epiphany School in Dorchester, looking for an outhouse that would have been in use when the site was home of the Industrial School for Girls in the mid-19th century.
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