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Young scientist at work
By adamg on Mon, 11/16/2020 - 10:43am
The folks at the Boston City Archives wonder if you can figure out when this was taken and what event the kid is participating in. See it larger.
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Honestly?
No idea.
Thanks for chiming in. I have
Thanks for chiming in. I have nothing to add either. Let's start a club. You like Doritos? How bout cantaloupe? Me too, me too...
Wild Guess
Boston Farm and Trade School, Thompson Island, Boston Harbor
Methinks it is at the
Methinks it is at the Elizabeth Peabody House in the old West End. Mid to late 1930's. If not physically there, it is related to the science program there. Chemical Man lead me to this conclusion. Hyman Gordon is the creator of Chemical Man.
Haven't found anything on the hydroponics experiment though.
The Times was on it! https://www.nytimes.com/1936/01/06/archives/robot-blinks-at-stab-boston-...
If you told me the images were taken somewhere outside of greater Boston, I'd guess the 1939 World's Fair in NY, as the science club participated in that. The lab coats might match the ones from our mystery photos. https://thewestendmuseum.org/article/chemical-man-the-1939-worlds-fair/
This was a fun little exercise, I should play this game more often.
Was the West End?
Boston or Cambridge?
I swear they tried to invade us across the river...
Replicating the secret formula
for Brylcreem. (A little dab'll do ya, as it were.)
young donny trump
pouring bleach into a skeleton?
The Science Fair
No idea where though.
Science Park
n/t
A young Timothy Leary?
A young Timothy Leary?
It's Walter White
(before he became follicly-challenged, obv.)
MOS
Was it the annual sleepover at the Museum of Science?
The Answer
Thanks for playing, folks! This photo shows a student associated with the West End's Elizabeth Peabody House at the 1939-1940 Worlds Fair in New York. The Peabody House had an active science club. A Simmons University history fieldwork class put together a great exhibit called "Learned from Our Neighbors" about the Peabody House. There's a section about the science programs here: https://archives86.wixsite.com/fridayswitheva/science
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Is there an answer?
Is there an answer?