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Boston, 1950s
From the Boston Public Library’s vast collection of Leslie Jones negatives comes this undated wintry photo labeled Rowes Wharf. One would think the Bostonian snowplow drivers would have done a better...
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Boston, 1956
While most of the Leslie Jones photos we’ve seen in the Boston Public Library’s photo collections on Flickr depict scenes of automotive carnage and mayhem dating back to the 1920s and 1930s, these...
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Boston, 1960s
Reader Robert Carolan sent us this photo showing traffic at Kenmore Square, where Commonwealth Avenue and Beacon Street intersect, not far from Fenway Park and right beneath the big Citgo sign. Maybe...
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Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1950s
Interesting series of images we came across over on the MIT Libraries Flickr page, all taken by one Nishan Bichajian and showing an unnamed intersection from above, with a steady stream of cars and...
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Boston, 1972
We know that Roger Wollstadt – whose photos from across America have wound up in our carspotting series several times now – spent some time in the 1950s at MIT, and we see in these photos of downtown...
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Boston, 1950s
The same folks from MIT that brought us those overhead shots of traffic in and around Cambridge also took these two photos of Boston’s sun-dappled Union Park sometime in the Fifties. They likely fit...
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Boston, 1940s
Ah, here we go. You can’t see the faces of the men walking down the street in these Leslie Jones photos from the Boston Public Library of a blizzard somewhere in Boston sometime in the Thirties, but...
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Boston, 1980s
While the Boston Public Library has these two Spencer Grant photos of Boston’s Central Artery dated to the mid-1970s, a quick scan shows that they’re at least from the following decade, which makes...
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Boston, 1960s
Based entirely on the license plates and the campaign posters for Gabriel Piemonte, we can say with certainty that these two photos which we came across on the Duke University Libraries Digital...
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Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1950s
Date: late 1950s Location: Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Boston, Cambridge, Massachusetts Source: Nishan Bichajian, photographer; MIT-Libraries on Flickr What do you see here?
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Boston, 1950s
Date: circa 1950s Location: Charles Street, Boston, Massachusetts Source: Nishan Bichajian, via MIT-Libraries on Flickr What do you see here?
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