Old boston

Circa 1900 Boston, Massachusetts Old Corner Bookstore, first brick building in Boston.

An online library of photographs, manuscripts, audio recordings, and other materials of historical interest from libraries, museums, archives, and historical societies across Massachusetts.

Washington Street in #Boston circa 1860

Son the crooks and turnings and devious wanderings of Old Boston landmarks and byways would be nothing more than a memory of the past.

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boston 1906

Change may be inevitable, but some places have withstood the passage of time better than others.

Adams Square in Boston

Some of the most striking photos in "Dirty Old Boston" include double parking in the North End in the 1940s and plywood panels checker-boarding the Hancock Tower after its windows began to fall out in the 1970s.