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United Nations War Relief Cavalcade, 1942

  

Vincent Club horse cart advertising fund raiser 

for Vincent Memorial Hospital, 1935

 

Who wouldn't be a life saver? 1917-34

 

Woman painting at Gloucester

 

Women rowers on the Charles, ca. 1930

 

Women swimmers, ca. 1942

 

Young couples ready for game of ping pong

 

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Tech Rush, MIT, Cambridge

  

The Duke & Duchess of Windsor being interviewed in 

their suite at the Ritz-Carlton, September 23, 1943

 

Three boys in sailor suits

 

Tunnel going under Chinatown, Beach and Albany Streets, July 27, 1956

 

Two bathing girls at Revere Beach, 1919

 

Two horses - "Who are you?" ca. 1935

 

Two men and uniformed woman riding bikes, 1940s

 

Two men passed out on park bench, 1948

 

Two women perform in TV studio, probably 1950s

 

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Back with new posts. I am close to winding this up, probably in a week or so.

Public playground, Boston area, 1917-34

  

Rum runner Mary seized with $175,000 in liquor in 

Dorchester Bay, brought in to Boston Waterfront, 1932

 

Second party at Bill Marr's, Milton, April 1942

 

Shirley Temple at child birthday party, July 1938

 

Showgirls backstage

 

Singers at the Apple Blossom Festival, Groton, ca. 1940

 

Soldiers and their ladies in the front row. Probably World War II era

 

Stars who will appear in the United Nations benefit show at the Boston Garden. 

Left to right, Anne Miller, Jinx Falkenburg, and Evelyn Keyes, ca. 1942

 

Tea room

 

Team of horses plow snow on Tremont Street Mall, ca. 1930

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Odd auto, 1917-34

  

Odd way of advertising in Boston

 

Picnicking at College Pond, Myles Standish Forest, 

South Carver, Massachusetts, July 8, 1956

 

Pigeons and dobbins eat together, 1917-34

 

Policeman finds two lost kids in Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1931

 

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Making parachutes

  

Malibu Beach, Dorchester, Massachusetts

 

Mary Pickford backstage in Boston wearing 

$2.98 dress and $1.00 hat, January 1934

 

Mexican cossacks here in Boston - the girl getting off the 

cycle is Miss Jerry Lach of North Cambridge. March 27, 1929

 

Mowing contest, New Hampshire, 1917-34

 

Nana and Pop courting, 1910-15

 

New England flood, Montpelier, VT. Flood raised 

havoc on State Street, November 1927

 

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Group pushing auto, New Hampshire

  

Hat check girls with Navy hats, WWII

 

Huge crowd outside Braves Field to see 

Red Sox and Phillies in 1915 World Series

 

Hunting for drowned bodies in pond, December 1934

  

Injured woman being pulled from auto, 1938

 

Italian fishermen mending nets

 

Ladies at ticket window, Fenway Park, 1940s

 

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Vintage Winter

Horse & dog pals – winter time

 

Ice floes on river, ca. 1930

 

Ice sailing, ca. 1936

 

L Street Brownies play checkers in snow 

and zero weather, South Boston, 1930

 

One-horse sleigh driving through snow, 1940s

 

Winter scene, 1940

 

Courtesy of the Boston Public Library, Leslie Jones Collection