And This Is Good Old Boston

Charles from Shopping Days in Retro Boston has a  new blog: Retro Boston Remembered . Make sure to check it out - Charles does a lot of wor...

I just wanted to share this link to four short films made in Boston at the very start of the 20th century, courtesy of the Boston Public Lib...

"View of Boston from Telegraph Hill, South Boston" by Bernard Spindler, 1854. George Washington famously brought cannon to be...

The Students of Girl's Trade High School, circa 1914 (all photos, taken from glass slides, courtesy of the City of Boston Archive ). ...

I fell in love with this 1860 photograph of a horsecar passing by Pemberton square along Tremont Row.This is Scollay square wayyy back in...

Busy Washington Street Scene, 1901, W.L. Taylor ( BPL Flickr photo group ).  W.L. Taylor was a painter and  illustrator whose work was ...

Early print of Charlestown Prison -  looks like the illustration of a Poe story. Charlestown, showing the prison and the new Prison P...