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Boston Public Library Digital

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Member since 2024
Last upload was
6 November
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Boston Public Library joined the Flickr Commons in 2024 in order to encourage public access, use, description, and sharing of our image collections. Our images within The Commons have no known copyright restrictions. This means that this institution is not aware of any current copyright restrictions on the images, usually because the term of copyright might have expired without being renewed, or because no evidence has been found that copyright restrictions apply.

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The last upload was 6 November.

Loring-Greenough House, Jamaica Plain uploaded 6 November
Before and after the Great Fire of 1872, Washington St. uploaded 6 November
Christ Church uploaded 6 November
View of Boston. From Telegraph Hill, S. Boston uploaded 6 November
Boston Public Library, main staircase with lions uploaded 6 November
Massachusetts. Boston. Birdseye view towards Navy Yard, 1856 uploaded 6 November
Boston, Emmanuel Church, interior, Lindsey Memorial Chapel, altar and seat uploaded 6 November
Boston Public Library, Copley Sq. Corner stone uploaded 6 November
Dorchester, Massachusetts. Old house on Calder Hill, Blue Hill Avenue and Harvard St. uploaded 6 November
Massachusetts Avenue uploaded 6 November
Photographs related to marines stationed at Charlestown Navy Yard uploaded 6 November
First graduating class. uploaded 6 November
Boston Public Library. Copley Square. Construction. Front wall uploaded 6 November
Massachusetts. Boston. 2 Lynde Street. Harrison Gray Otis House. (1793) Balustrade and Palladian window, second floor, rear uploaded 6 November
Exchange Building, State St. uploaded 6 November

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New John Hancock with old John Hancock reflected

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jessamyn west said:
Oh gosh I remember when this was happening and you couldn't walk on the streets around the tower because pieces of glass might fall out!
Boston Public Library Digital said:
Those were crazy times! When I walk by, I still wonder if it could happen again.

Milestone

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Flickr Foundation said:
So "M to B" is miles to Boston? Or something else?
Boston Public Library Digital said:
Good question! As far as we know, this item is from Boston's Dorchester neighborhood, which became part of Boston in 1870. This milestone likely predates its annexation. So maybe miles to Boston from Dorchester?