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The liberator. v.11:no.28(1841:July 9)
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Johnson School, Tremont Street
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Josiah Johnson Hawes - Classroom in the Emerson School for Girls
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Thurbers' fruit preserves and jellies / Forbes Co., Boston & N.Y.
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Minute representation of American Line of battleship, with explanation...
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Treasury Office-- city of Boston. Ward No. [blank] Your tax for the ye...
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Boston, Massachusetts. Old Corner Bookstore
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Park Street, Boston Massachusetts
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Reading lesson in a grammar class.
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Large Boston Public Garden Sketchbook: Three girls sitting on the gras...
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Maurice Brazil Prendergast (American, St. John’s, Newfoundland 1858–1924 New York)
Boston Athenaeum, Boston Massachusetts
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Charlestown High School (girls exercising on bars against the wall)
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Daniel Webster Statue, State House grounds, Boston, Mass.
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Boston Public Library. Bates Hall
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[Charles Park, half-length portrait, facing slightly left, about 1902]...
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Count Reginald Ward, portrait bust, copyright: J.E. Purdy, Boston / J....
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Emmeline Pankhurst Defends Militant Methods; page 2
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Pupil, Teachers of the Steamer Class in the Washington School. Locatio...
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Immigrants in night school. Location: Boston, Massachusetts.
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Boston Elevated Railway. Equipment. Cambridge subway car
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[25-ton door, safe deposit vault, main office, Old Colony Trust Compan...
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[Suffragist Margaret Foley distributing the Woman's Journal and Suffra...
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[Hank Gowdy, Lefty Tyler, Joey Connolly, Boston NL (baseball)]
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[Gavvy Cravath, Philadelphia NL & Tris Speaker, Boston AL (baseball)]
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American Red Cross - Groups - Personnel of American Red Cross Mission ...
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Interior
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Old South Church, Boston, Mass.
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Miami skyline at night as seen from MacArthur Causeway, Miami, Florida
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The Ohio Bank Bldg., Toledo, Ohio
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Temple Square, Salt Lake City, Utah
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Greetings from Nashville, Tennessee
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Main Street, Roxboro, N. C.
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Massachusetts. California. Washington. Arkansas
State capitol in Boston. State capitol in Sacramento. State capitol in Olympia. State capitol in Little Rock . Courtesy of Boston Public Library
You don't know beans until you come to Boston
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Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Mass.
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Mass. The Museum of Fine Arts occupies the unique position of being one of the few museums in the world, created and supported by private citizens. Its collections of Chinese, Japan... More
Greetings from Delaware -- state capitol in Dover, state flower the pe...
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Point Park, and Gateway Center, Pittsburgh, Pa.
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Greetings from Detroit, Michigan
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Greetings from Ybor City, Florida
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The Philadelphia Inquirer Building, Philadelphia, Pa.
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Pike's Alley & Middle Alley, West End
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Booth at Hotel Statler, May 4, 1932
The prohibition of the sale and consumption of alcohol did little to change behavior and resulted in increased criminality to meet the continued demand. Within five years of its passage, a new national campaign... More
WPA exhibition A. Arapoff, D. Greason, Elliot, Orr.
Poster for Federal Art Project exhibition at the Federal Art Gallery, 77 Newbury Street, Boston, Mass., showing brushes and still life painting of flowers in a pot.
Lucy Stone
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Portland
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Boston and Maine railroad shops at Billerica, Massachusetts. Tremendou...
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Irving Fine, Aaron Copland, Nadia Boulanger, Walter Piston at the Old ...
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Joan Daly, winner of the Boston Press Photographers Association's Phot...
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Dr. Albert B. Sabin (right) shakes hands with Leo Dunphy, chapter chai...
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Rev. Virgil A. Wood entering crowded elevator in Boston School Committ...
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Crowds lined up waiting to enter War Memorial Auditorium
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Protesters against the Boston Redevelopment Authority and the eviction...
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Howard Thurman receiving his degree for Doctor of Divinity at BU Comme...
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Boy hugging woman at Winterfest
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Howard Thurman receives his degree for Doctor of Divinity
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Pediatrician Dr. Benjamin Spock, Harvard graduate student Michael Ferb...
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The 61st American Baptist Convention attendees at the War Memorial Aud...
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View of exterior of Boston University administration building
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Students blocking a fire truck at Brighton High School during demonstr...
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Crowd outside Alexander's bar in Allston
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Paul Revere statue, North Square
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William Warnock, Irish Ambassador to the U.S., (second left) met membe...
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Bill Baird at demonstration for liberalization of Massachusetts aborti...
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Anti-war protest at Boston Army Base
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Anti-war protest at the Massachusetts State House
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Anti-war protest at the Massachusetts State House
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Demonstration of Boston Mayor Kevin White's natural gas car in City Ha...
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Sarah Adler, Meghan Adler, and an unidentified boy collect donations f...
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Demonstration by Boston high school students outside offices of Boston...
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Demonstration by Boston high school students outside offices of Boston...
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California-bound adults and children wait out nor'easter, Bostonians c...
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Mary Stack, Once of East Boston, (Logan Airport Area) Now Lives Some 1...
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