Historic Boston at the New York Public Library

The New York Public Library has posted zillions of images in its NYPLDigitalGallery. Among them: 944 images of Boston, from old prints to photographs (like, say, one of the Custom House before they stuck a tower on it). Click on the link and you'll get the Boston images, along with a search box for other queries (such as, oh, Jamaica Plain or Harvard).

Via PlasticBoy.

The BPL, meanwhile, has posted short movies of Boston between 1901 and 1906, including one that shows some Boston things just never change - even back then, crazy people ran into Dorchester Bay from L Street in the middle of winter.