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Honestly?
By Don't Panic
Mon, 11/16/2020 - 10:48am
No idea.
Thanks for chiming in. I have
By Plen-T-Pak
Mon, 11/16/2020 - 8:15pm
Thanks for chiming in. I have nothing to add either. Let's start a club. You like Doritos? How bout cantaloupe? Me too, me too...
Wild Guess
By The Fox 915
Mon, 11/16/2020 - 10:54am
Boston Farm and Trade School, Thompson Island, Boston Harbor
Methinks it is at the
By brianjdamico
Mon, 11/16/2020 - 11:15am
Methinks it is at the Elizabeth Peabody House in the old West End. Mid to late 1930's. If not physically there, it is related to the science program there. Chemical Man lead me to this conclusion. Hyman Gordon is the creator of Chemical Man.
Haven't found anything on the hydroponics experiment though.
The Times was on it! https://www.nytimes.com/1936/01/06/archives/robot-...
If you told me the images were taken somewhere outside of greater Boston, I'd guess the 1939 World's Fair in NY, as the science club participated in that. The lab coats might match the ones from our mystery photos. https://thewestendmuseum.org/article/chemical-man-...
This was a fun little exercise, I should play this game more often.
Was the West End?
By Don't Panic
Mon, 11/16/2020 - 12:56pm
Boston or Cambridge?
I swear they tried to invade us across the river...
Replicating the secret formula
By Turalura Lipschitz
Mon, 11/16/2020 - 11:23am
for Brylcreem. (A little dab'll do ya, as it were.)
young donny trump
By bostnkid
Mon, 11/16/2020 - 11:46am
pouring bleach into a skeleton?
The Science Fair
By Anon
Mon, 11/16/2020 - 12:05pm
No idea where though.
Science Park
By Don't Panic
Mon, 11/16/2020 - 4:41pm
n/t
A young Timothy Leary?
By anon
Mon, 11/16/2020 - 3:02pm
A young Timothy Leary?
It's Walter White
By Turalura Lipschitz
Mon, 11/16/2020 - 4:36pm
(before he became follicly-challenged, obv.)
MOS
By Not Possible
Mon, 11/16/2020 - 9:27pm
Was it the annual sleepover at the Museum of Science?
The Answer
By Boston City Archives
Tue, 11/17/2020 - 10:33am
Thanks for playing, folks! This photo shows a student associated with the West End's Elizabeth Peabody House at the 1939-1940 Worlds Fair in New York. The Peabody House had an active science club. A Simmons University history fieldwork class put together a great exhibit called "Learned from Our Neighbors" about the Peabody House. There's a section about the science programs here: https://archives86.wixsite.com/fridayswitheva/science
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Is there an answer?
By anon
Tue, 11/17/2020 - 1:51pm
Is there an answer?
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