1870s Snow BostonCommon JJHawes MFABoston
Snow Scene on the Northeast Corner of the Boston Common. about 1875. Josiah Johnson Hawes, American, 1808–1901. Photograph. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
1900 TremontSt Boston view, photochrome print postcard.
Detail of a photochrom postcard published by the Detroit Photographic Company.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Rogers Building, Boston, ca. 19...
Photochrom print of the Rogers Building, the first building of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
MIT c1901 LOC cph 3g09599 view, photochrome print postcard.
Picryl description: Public domain image of a historical building, landmark architecture, world heritage, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
1870s (circa) Corner of Washington & Franklin Sts., by G. Klucken, fro...
1870s (circa) Corner of Washington & Franklin Sts., by G. Klucken, from the Digital Commonwealth - commonwealth 7s75dh08m. (:7s75dh08m)
View of unidentified street with commerical businesses and traffic, fr...
Boston, Massachusetts Public domain photograph related to the history of Boston, Massachusetts, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
View of unidentified street with commerical businesses and traffic, fr...
Boston, Massachusetts Public domain photograph related to the history of Boston, Massachusetts, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
View of unidentified street with commerical businesses and traffic, fr...
Boston, Massachusetts Public domain photograph related to the history of Boston, Massachusetts, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
-182--184 State Street, Fifty Associates (14413306485)
Title: #182-#184 State Street, Fifty Associates Creator: Boston Transit Commission Date: 1912 October 7 Source: Public Works Department photograph collection, 5000.009 File name: 5000_009_0319 Rights: Public do... More
-196--204 State Street (14565158294)
Title: #196-#204 State Street Creator: Boston Transit Department Date: 1912 September 26 Source: Public Works Department photograph collection, 5000.009 File name: 5000_009_0513 Rights: Public Domain Citation:... More
-200 Atlantic Avenue south side (14498616196)
Title: #200 Atlantic Avenue south side Creator: City of Boston Public Works Department Date: 1912 September 26 Source: Public Works Department photograph collection, 5000.009 File name: 5000_009_0490 Rights: P... More
-223--225 Tremont Street (14464787791)
Title: #223-#225 Tremont Street Creator: City of Boston Public Works Department Date: circa 1890-1915 Source: Public Works Department photograph collection, 5000.009 File name: 5000_009_0445 Rights: Public Dom... More
-238--280 State Street (14541829473)
Title: #238-#280 State Street Creator: City of Boston Public Works Department Date: 1912 September 26 Source: Public Works Department photograph collection, 5000.009 File name: 5000_009_0491 Rights: Public Dom... More
-564 Washington Street (12224974335)
Title: #564 Washington Street Creator: Boston Transit Commission Date: 1905 February 12 Source: Public Works Department photograph collection, 5000.009 File name: 5000_009_004 Rights: Public domain Citation: P... More
1912 buildings at -27 Tremont Row to Woolworth's (12225566026)
Title: Buildings at #27 Tremont Row to Woolworth's. Depicts Bowdidge Bros. restaurant, and Imperial Photo Studio. Creator: Boston Transit Commission Date: 1912 November 28 Source: Public Works Department photog... More
Boston and Maine Railroad station in Haymarket Square, circa 1894
The Boston and Maine Railroad station in Haymarket Square around the time of its 1894 closure
Boylston Street at Arlington Street (13083519194)
Title: Boylston Street at Arlington Street Creator: Boston Transit Commission Date: undated Source: Public Works Department photograph collection, 5000.009 File name: 5000_009_100 Rights: Public domain Citati... More
Public Domain Images - Brattle Street (12439596345)
Title: Brattle Street Creator: Boston Transit Commission Date: circa 1895 Source: Public Works Department photograph collection, 5000.009 File name: 5000_009_024 Rights: Public domain Citation: Public Works De... More
Building at corner of State Street and Chatham Row (13630452274)
Title: Building at corner of State Street and Chatham Row Creator: Boston Transit Commission Date: 1902 January 29 Source: Public Works Department photograph collection, 5000.009 File name: 5000_009_0237 Rights... More
Buildings at -182--192 Boylston Street (13630121253)
Title: Buildings at #182-#192 Boylston Street On the right: Ground Floor: A. L. Lavers, furs 1st floor: B. Paris, ladies tailor, furs Creator: Boston Transit Commission Date: 1913 September 12 Source: Public W... More
Buildings at -188--202 Boylston Street (13630091995)
Title: Buildings at #188-#202 Boylston Street In the middle: Ground Floor: A. L. Lavers, furs, millinery 1st floor: B. Paris, ladies tailor, furs Creator: Boston Transit Commission Date: 1913 September 12 Sour... More
Buildings at -202--212 Boylston Street (13630450554)
Title: Buildings at #202-#212 Boylston Street Creator: Boston Transit Commission Date: 1913 September 12 Source: Public Works Department photograph collection, 5000.009 File name: 5000_009_0246 Rights: Public d... More
Buildings on Dorchester Avenue and Division Street looking westerly (1...
Title: Buildings on Dorchester Avenue and Division Street looking westerly Creator: Boston Transit Commission Date: 1910 December 7 Source: Public Works Department photograph collection, 5000.009 File name: 500... More
Buildings on east side of Washington Street, -398--406 (12439593545)
Title: Buildings on east side of Washington Street, #398-#406 Creator: Boston Transit Commission Date: 1904 March Source: Public Works Department photograph collection, 5000.009 File name: 5000_009_039 Rights: ... More
Buildings on east side Washington Street south side Harvard (145201867...
Title: Buildings on east side Washington Street south side Harvard Creator: City of Boston Public Works Department Date: 1904 April 30 Source: Public Works Department photograph collection, 5000.009 File name:... More
Buildings on east side Washington Street, corner Kneeland Street (sout...
Title: Buildings on east side Washington Street, corner Kneeland Street (south side) Creator: Boston Transit Department Date: 1904 March Source: Public Works Department photograph collection, 5000.009 File name... More
Buildings on east side Washington Street, numbers -574--580 (144645158...
Title: Buildings on East side Washington Street, numbers #574-#580 Creator: City of Boston Public Works Department Date: 1904 March 25 Source: Public Works Department photograph collection, 5000.009 File name: ... More
Huntington Avenue at Copley Square, 1910s
Huntington Avenue at Copley Square. The number signs on the streetcars were only used in the 1910s.
Ipswich Street line streetcars at Boylston Street Incline, 1910s
Trams on the Ipswich Street line to/from Chestnut Hill at the Boylston Street Portal in the 1910s
Streetcars outside the Boylston Street Incline, 1910s
Trams at the Boylston Street Portal in the 1910s Public domain photograph of a tram car, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Streetcars outside the Boylston Street Incline, July 1915
The Boylston Street Portal in 1915. Visible are streetcars to Chestnut Hill (219), Jamaica Plain via South Huntington Avenue (212), and an unknown destination via Beacon Street (705), as well as an inbound car... More
Washington Street looking northerly from Dock Square (13473420153)
Title: Washington Street looking northerly from Dock Square Creator: Boston Transit Commission Date: 1897 February 8 Source: Public Works Department photograph collection, 5000.009 File name: 5000_009_0156 Righ... More
1890s CausewaySt Boston detail1 LC
Detail of "North Terminal Station, Boston" Related Names: Detroit Publishing Co. , publisher Date Created/Published: [between 1890 and 1899] Medium: 1 negative : glass ; 8 x 10 in. Part of: Detroit Publishin... More
1890s CausewaySt Boston detail2 LC
Detail of "North Terminal Station, Boston" Related Names: Detroit Publishing Co. , publisher Date Created/Published: [between 1890 and 1899] Medium: 1 negative : glass ; 8 x 10 in. Part of: Detroit Publishin... More
1890s CausewaySt Boston LC detail1x
Detail of: "North Terminal Station, Boston" Related Names: Detroit Publishing Co. , publisher Date Created/Published: [between 1890 and 1899] Medium: 1 negative : glass ; 8 x 10 in. Part of: Detroit Publishi... More
1890s CausewaySt Boston LC detail2x
Detail of: "North Terminal Station, Boston" Related Names: Detroit Publishing Co. , publisher Date Created/Published: [between 1890 and 1899] Medium: 1 negative : glass ; 8 x 10 in. Part of: Detroit Publishi... More
1890s CausewaySt Boston LC detail3x
Detail of: "North Terminal Station, Boston" Related Names: Detroit Publishing Co. , publisher Date Created/Published: [between 1890 and 1899] Medium: 1 negative : glass ; 8 x 10 in. Part of: Detroit Publishi... More
1893 HancockMansion Boston LC
Hancock house, Beacon St., Boston Public domain photograph of building in Boston, Massachusetts, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Dudley Street OperaHouse 19thc Boston
Bostonian Society / Dudley Street Opera House (est.1879), no.113 Dudley St., corner of Washington St., Boston
State Street ca1801 byJamesMarston detail
Detail of James B. Marston's painting of State Street, Boston, ca.1801. The red house at lower right may have been that of merchant Charles Apthorp (1698-1758) (Cf. Paul S. Harris. Gilbert Stuart and a Portrai... More
Tremont Street, Boston, Winter, April 26, 1911 by AC Goodwin
Public domain reproduction of artwork, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
1920 WashingtonSt Boston byLeonAbdalian 2589548639
Accession No.: 08_01_000459 Title: Washington Street looking toward Spring Lane, School Street, Milk Street, and Old South Meeting House Format: photograph Source: 8x10 glass negative Date: Oct. 29, 1920 Photo... More
RR Jubilee 1 Gleasons1854
Railroad Jubilee, Boston MA; Gleason's Pictorial, 1854. Image also used in 1851: https://archive.org/stream/gleasonspictoria01glea#page/308/mode/1up
Gleasons Hall 18oct1851
Gleason's Publishing Hall, corner of Tremont and Bromfield Streets; formerly the Boston Museum building. Illustration in Gleason's Pictorial, Oct. 18, 1851.
State Street Block Boston bySoule G90F368 033F detail 2
State Street Block, Boston, Massachusetts Public domain photograph of a car, automobile, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
State Street Block Boston bySoule G90F368 037F detail 1
State Street Block, Boston, Massachusetts Public domain photograph of building in Boston, Massachusetts, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
State Street Block Boston by Soule G90F368 037F detail 4
State Street Block, Boston, Massachusetts Public domain photograph of a truck, military vehicle, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
State Street Block Boston G90F368 023F detail 2
State Street Block, Boston, Massachusetts Public domain photograph of a car, automobile, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
1852 fire NationalTheatre Boston
Fire at National Theatre, Boston, 1852. Public domain image of 17th-18th-century architecture, palace, castle, historical city building, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
1860 NationalTheatre Boston
National Theatre, Boston, 1860 Public domain photograph of theater building, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
1875 UnionClub ParkSt Boston June17
Boston, Massachusetts
1896 TremontSt May8 Boston
Trolleys on Tremont Street in Boston in 1896 Public domain photograph of a tram car, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
1906 NewspaperRow Boston DetroitPubCo postcard NYPL
Boston, Mass., USA Public domain photograph related to the history of Boston, Massachusetts, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Ashburton Place ca1870s Boston
Boston, Massachusetts Public domain photograph related to the history of Boston, Massachusetts, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Court St Boston BPL 08 02 003375
Samuel S. Peirce shop, and other buildings, Court Street, Boston, 19th c.
Harvard 1740 by William Burgis
Public domain image of a large historic building, city hall, urban architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description
Howard St ca1890s Boston
Howard Street, Boston, ca.1890s-1910s
Portland St ca1860 NationalTheatre Boston
National Theatre, Portland St., Boston Public domain photograph related to the history of Boston, Massachusetts, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Tremont St RoxburyCrossing ca1880 BostonianSociety
Tremont St. at Roxbury Crossing, ca.1880, Boston
Americana 1920 Boston - Copley Square
Photograph of Copley Square, Boston. Public domain photograph related to the history of Boston, Massachusetts, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
BF Keiths advertising wagon ca1894
B.F. Keith's "electrical" advertising wagon