boston

Boston circa 1908. Hotel Thorndike, Boylston and Church Streets.

1903 ride through Boston.

The Thomas Edison crew set up outside of a Boston Fire Department and captured a horesedrawn fire wagon coming to camera. And then we see a Steam driven wagon and then a mix of horsedrawn and mechanical firefighting rigs come past the camera. September 15, 1899.

The aftermath of the Great Boston Fire of 1872

Aftermath of the Great Boston Fire of 1872

After the Boston Fire, Washington Street. 1872. James Wallace Black.

City ruins of Boston after the fire of 1872.

Boston Fire from Washington & Bromfield panoramic by Whipple

Hussey Wells & Co., Federal Street

South Side of Milk Street - Looking Toward Washington

Devonshire Street to the Corner of Milk Street

Federal Street, East side

The Corner of Perkins and Pearl Streets, Looking to Broad Street

Not far from the Boston Public Garden there is this unremarkable building called Steinert Hall. Piano dealers M. Steinert & Sons own the building, erected in 1896 by company employee Alexander Steinert. Architects Winslow and Wetherell designed the "six-story limestone and brick Beaux Arts-style...

The Boston Massacre / Crispus Attucks monument honors the victims of the Boston Massacre. It stands at 25 feet high and 10 feet wide. On top stands a figure representing the Spirit of the Revolution inspired by Eugene Delacroix’s painting of Liberty Leading the People, a symbol of the French...