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By adamg - 9/4/23 - 2:01 pm
Boston cops shove striking workers out of the way so East Boston gas trucks can make deliveries
In January, 1969, members of the Oil, Chemical and Atomic Workers went on strike across the country against large oil companies. In East Boston, a Herald-Traveler photographer snapped Boston cops pushing picketers out of the way so that drivers of gasoline tanker trucks could deliver the loads they'd picked up at Mobil Oil Corp.'s East Boston terminal. Read more.
By adamg - 8/29/23 - 11:05 am
The folks at the Boston City Archives wonder if you can place this scene. See it larger.
By adamg - 8/23/23 - 11:05 am
The folks at the Boston City Archives wonder if you can place this scene. See it larger.
By adamg - 8/8/23 - 11:18 am
The folks at the Boston City Archives wonder if you can place this scene. See it larger.
By adamg - 8/7/23 - 11:15 am
In August, 1951, Bryon Campbell, a photographer for the Boston Herald, photographed an unusual annual harvest on Willow Court, a short, narrow street behind what is now the South Bay mall: Read more.
By adamg - 8/4/23 - 2:46 pm
Contemporary newpaper photo. The A car was the lead car; C initially stayed, mangled, on the tracks, workers pushed it down to the street to remove it. See it larger.
Shortly after 1 a.m. on Aug. 4, 1910, Thomas Manning, a veteran motorman for the Boston Elevated Railway, widely known as a careful and sober driver, picked up a four-car train at Egleston Square from the crew that had just let off the last passengers of the night at Forest Hills to guide it into the Guild Street yard near Dudley station for several hours of cleaning and repairs. Read more.
By adamg - 8/1/23 - 10:41 am
On Sept. 13, 1950, a crew started moving a triple decker from 409 Frankfort St. in East Boston to 4 Milton St. (now 4 Horace St.), so the MTA could extend the subway from Maverick Square to Orient Heights. Read more.
By adamg - 7/31/23 - 12:23 pm
From the BPL collection, used under this Creative Commons license.
In 1935, the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad introduced its Comet service between Boston and Providence: A streamlined, diesel-powered three-car train to shuttle between the two cities without any need to turn around because it had engines at either end. Read more.
By adamg - 7/21/23 - 1:17 pm
MIT News details some of the work required to move decades worth of artifacts from the old MIT Museum to its new digs last fall - and some of the surprising things curators found:
Among the surprises was something that the collection database described simply as a brick. “I noticed it because I tried to move it and it was a lot heavier than I thought it would be,” says Pierri. She discovered that the “brick” was part of a graphite rod created for the world's first human-made self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction ...
By adamg - 7/17/23 - 12:30 pm
The folks at the Boston City Archives wonder if you can place this image. See it larger.
By adamg - 7/9/23 - 3:24 pm
The mural today. See it larger.
The Boston Ale House has painted over the part of its Hastings Street mural that long honored racist City Councilor Dapper O'Neil and his former employer James Michael Curley for a painting of Thomas Gunning Kelley, a longtime West Roxbury resident honored for his bravery in the Vietnam War. Read more.
By adamg - 7/4/23 - 3:58 pm
Matt Frank didn't let the gloomy skies keep him from Castle Island, where he watched and listened to the traditional July Fourth salute between the USS Constitution and Fort Independence.
By adamg - 7/4/23 - 11:17 am
Adam Castiglioni watched the USS Constitution leave the dock at the Charlestown Navy Yard for its annual turn-around cruise out to Castle Island.
By adamg - 7/1/23 - 11:48 am
The Library of Congress has this map by Oliver Herford, possibly dating to 1919, in its collection.
Of course, it's not the only map showing the Hub of the Universe's proper position. Read more.
By adamg - 6/29/23 - 10:12 am
The folks at the Boston City Archives wonder if you can place this scene. See it larger. Also note what appears to be a cop on a quadcycle: Read more.
By adamg - 6/20/23 - 2:29 pm
The folks at Boston City Archives wonder if you can place this scene. See it larger.
By adamg - 6/17/23 - 9:34 am
Beacon Broadside recounts how Beacon Press came to publish the first bound volume of the Pentagon Papers after Daniel Ellsberg leaked them and Sen. Mike Gravel tried to find a publisher for them, in 1971. Read more.
By adamg - 6/15/23 - 10:18 am
In addition to the newly revealed unpleasantries at Harvard Medical School, Harvard's Houghton Library has a 19th-century French book bound in human skin - Des destinées de l'ame (Destinies of the Soul). Read more.
By adamg - 6/7/23 - 2:12 pm
The folks at the Boston City Archives wonder if you can place this scene (a couple of signs that might make it a bit too easy blacked out). See it larger.
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