Leslie Jones

Fans cover up at rainy Fenway Park, Boston

 

 Female fans leaning over the railing at Fenway Park, Boston

  

Flood in Haverhill, Massachusetts, January 1937

  

 Flooding, January 1937

  

 Four alarm fire in Chelsea

  

 G.A.R. vets P.R. Barker and John Houder from Fitzgerald, Georgia, 

tell war stories to kids on historic Boston Common, August 1924

  

Girls with tubas, 1941-45

  

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 Couples ride in Checker livery service carriage, near Suffolk Downs

  

Crab cart, Blackstone Street Market, June 29, 1956

  

 Crowd watches old-fashioned bicycle race

  

 Demonstration at Navy Yard, Boston, ca. 1937

  

Double dose of chorus girls reflected in ceiling glass

  

 Drying out clothes after Hurricane of 1938

  

Fall River fire

 

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Leslie Jones

 Camp Alice, Wilmington, Massachusetts, 1911

  

 Casey Stengel instructs one of his players on the finer points of hitting, 1940-41

  

 Chelsea fire ruins: "show your pass," 1908

  

 Christmas shopping on Tremont Street, Boston, ca. 1954

  

 Clown and kids

  

Couple poles through flood waters on makeshift raft, 1936

 

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Kids

Group of children at a playground, 1937

  

Group of kids on a street

  

 Hotdog stand in North End, corner of Hanover 

and Blackstone Street, Boston, 1937

  

 Little cowgirls, ca. 1954

  

North End children cool off with ice cart on Copp's Hill, Boston, ca. 1930

 

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Winter

 Auto buried in snow, ca. 1939

  

Auto freezes to road at Winthrop Beach, ca. 1930

  

Cavalry training, Ft. Ethan Allen

  

Fishing boat covered with ice in Boston Harbor, 1919

  

 Fishing schooner Ruth Margaret

  

Fun makers in snow shoe race up in New Hampshire, 1936

 

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Leslie Jones

 Albert Einstein at Harvard graduation, 1935

  

 Big surf raises havoc along Beachmont shore, November 1932

  

 Boston Red Sox manager Joe Cronin, Jimmie Foxx, and Ted Williams (all in civvies) surrounded by a crowd as Williams and woman in Esso gasoline uniform get acquainted, 1939-42

  

Boy chases chariot at Charles River Speedway

  

 Boys picking tomatoes

  

Braintree High School cheerleaders, ca. 1953

  

Brave Coastguardsmen from Manomet crew taken off USS Paulding to be rushed to Chelsea Marine hospital after they were injured during SS Robert E. Lee rescue, March 10, 1928

 

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Kids

Boy in pie eating contest

 

Boys driving horse drawn mower

  

Children's home

  

Cop joins baseball peekers at the fence, ca. 1930

  

Dyan and Robert at 80 Dakota Street, Dorchester, April 1959

 
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Leslie Jones

 Acrobats in tropical costumes perform at Carter Hotels event at Hotel Avery, 1945

  

Admiral Byrd and wife in auto parade through Boston, 1930

  

 All-time pitching greats at Old-Timers' Game at Fenway. 

L-R, Joe Wood, Cy Young, Lefty Grove and Walter Johnson, 1946

[that is some serious baseball royalty there]

  

 Bicycle trailer arrangement allows Mrs. Oscar Rubillard of North Cambridge 

to take her children, Phillip, 1, and Rene, 2, with her when she goes 

shopping or for a spin. The youngsters love it. June 26, 1942

  

 Beach scene, 1934-56

  

Bees players with women, possibly their wives, at Braves Field, 1939

[the "Boston Bees" was the name briefly given to the Boston Braves]

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Antique autos

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