Leslie Jones photographed James Michael Curley and family at home on Christmas.
From the BPL's James Michael Curley collection. Posted under this Creative Commons license.
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By adamg - 12/24/14 - 10:05 am
The folks at the Boston City Archives wonder if you can figure out what's going on with the baskets in this photo, taken Christmas, 1903 - and where it was taken. See it larger.
By speakingouthere - 12/22/14 - 7:53 pm
THE BLAME GAME IS KILLING US! (USA)
It's so easy to point fingers
Play the blame game
He died, she died
Shot dead
So
Kill some cops
Shoot for the head
Remember your name
Gain some fame
It's easy to find a target
to hate
Easy to use race to bait
Blame the President,
Governors, Mayors
The Police
Agree Disagree
He said She said
Our country is at war
Us - Them mind set
No Peace
Yell, scream, rant, rave,
Comment, post, write, boast
Inciting riot? Inciting calm?
Call for healing or harm?
By adamg - 12/21/14 - 2:30 pm
A view of the Back Bay in 1878, when the massive landfill project will still in progress and when Mission Hill had a reservoir. That's Mission Church on the right.
From the City of Boston Archives' Landmark Commission collection of Roxbury photos. Used under this Creative Commons license.
By adamg - 12/18/14 - 12:21 pm
The folks at the Boston City Archives wonder if you can place this photo. See it larger.
By speakingouthere - 12/16/14 - 7:17 pm
All Lives Matter
BY Deb CH 2014
You may think I deserved to die
My family still will mourn, grieve, and cry
Do they have the right
Or just pretend I did not exist
Innocent victims in harms way
Never to live another day
Such a damn shame we say
Police running to save a life
Soldiers facing war and strife
SWAT in the midst of a hostage crisis
CIA, FBI chasing ISIS
First responders on the scene
Firefighters in the heat and flame
Someone died, now who to blame
All lives matter
Young or old
By adamg - 12/16/14 - 3:54 pm
Transit historian and Harvard University librarian Foster Palmer narrates the trip, with a brief stopover at Barry's Ledge, once a gravel pit, then a never-was driving range.
H/t Tim Murphy.
By adamg - 12/16/14 - 12:20 pm
Matthew Burke writes how he tracked down the life of Pvt. Elmer Gorham, who served as a medic on the front lines in France - and how he found his unmarked grave in New Calvary Cemetery on the Mattapan/Roslindale line.
Now, Pvt. Gorham belongs to the ages, his name etched in stone along with his service during The Great War. It may fade with time and someday be reclaimed by the earth, but by installing it, we are saying thank you, at least for today, 100 years later.
Via Plunkett Prime Props.
By adamg - 12/15/14 - 10:22 am
The folks at the Boston City Archives wonder if you can place this photo. See it larger.
By adamg - 12/10/14 - 11:24 am
The folks at the Boston City Archives wonder if you can place this photo. See it larger.
By adamg - 12/9/14 - 11:26 am
The Boston City Archives has begun digitizing its collection of photos of Boston Elevated Railway photos, including a set showing construction of the North Station/Lechmere section, such as this photo of Haymarket Square on March 24, 1909.
Posted under this Creative Commons license.
By adamg - 12/7/14 - 11:27 am
When trolleys ran down Blue Hill Avenue and Seaver Street - with maps and photos.
By adamg - 12/4/14 - 2:07 pm
The folks at the Boston City Archives wonder if you can place this photo. See it larger.
By adamg - 11/28/14 - 12:48 pm
Remnants of the fire.
The Boston Public Library has a collection of photos of the aftermath of the Cocoanut Grove fire on Nov. 28, 1942.
Earlier:
Police release witness statements on Cocoanut Grove fire.
Unusual object unearthed in luxury construction project on the site.
Photo posted under this Creative Commons license.
By adamg - 11/28/14 - 11:23 am
Entering Boston reflects on the transition from the old to the new Boston, as signaled by the demolition of the Orange Line el through Jamaica Plain and Roxbury, as highlighted through the lens of the photos in Dirty Old Boston:
What photos in Dirty Old Boston also bring back to mind is how many people would gather outside, for one occasion or another. Even the marches for Occupy Boston in 2011 were a far cry from larger turn-outs downtown protesting the Vietnam War, racial inequality in the public schools, or the attempt to remedy inequality through mandatory busing. Before the seventies, Boston also had larger crowds at other events, from Park League baseball and football games to neighborhood parades.
By adamg - 11/27/14 - 8:38 pm
We just gobbled up a story by Vermont Public Radio on 19th-century turkey drives in which turkeys were herded and marched from the Green Mountain State to Boston in time for Thanksgiving.
"We're talking about thousands [of turkeys] in each trip ... Up to 10,000," Peter Gilbert, chair of the Vermont Humanities Council, tells Vermont Edition. "One of the largest drives in the fall of 1824 involved 40 homesteads ... They went all the way from northern Vermont and the Canadian border by a variety of routes, through Ferrisburgh in the west, down the Connecticut River [in the east]."
Via MetaFilter.
By adamg - 11/27/14 - 10:47 am
Also notice that even back in the day, there was a kids' table. By Boston's own Winslow Homer for Harper's, 1858.
From the BPL's Homer collection. Posted under this Creative Commons license.
By adamg - 11/23/14 - 9:42 pm
Leslee watched the refurbished lion being re-installed atop the Old State House today - complete with a new time capsule.
Posted under this Creative Commons license in the Universal Hub pool on Flickr.
By adamg - 11/17/14 - 11:30 am
The folks at the Boston City Archives wonder if you can place this photo. See it larger.
By adamg - 11/17/14 - 7:30 am
Allen Morrison posted a copy of 16-mm footage of trolleys running from Maverick to Suffolk Downs in 1949.
H/t A.P. Blake.
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