Showing posts with label Leslie Jones Collection. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Leslie Jones Collection. Show all posts

Saturday, 19 August 2017

Leslie Jones

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
 
Courtesy of the Boston Public Library, Leslie Jones Collection

Sunday, 13 August 2017

Leslie Jones

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
 
Courtesy of the Boston Public Library, Leslie Jones Collection

Thursday, 27 July 2017

Leslie Jones

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

Courtesy of the Boston Public Library, Leslie Jones Collection

Thursday, 22 June 2017

Leslie Jones

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
 
Courtesy of the Boston Public Library, Leslie Jones Collection

Monday, 29 May 2017

Leslie Jones Collection

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
 
Courtesy of the Boston Public Library, Leslie Jones Collection

Tuesday, 2 May 2017

Leslie Jones

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
 
Courtesy of the Boston Public Library, Leslie Jones Collection

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