It’s 1942 and the USA is fighting in World War 2. In Boston, Massachusetts, Leslie Jones, a Staff photographer for the Boston Herald-Traveler (1917 to 1956) is taking pictures of locals supporting the fight by collecting scrap metal, cloth, cooking fat, rubber and anything else that could help. Scrap metal drives became competitive, almost frenziedContinue reading “35 Vintage Photos Showing How Bostonians Recycled Scrap Metal To Win The War (1942)”
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Vintage Photographs of Men from Boston in the Mid-19th Century
via Boston Public Library
27 Vintage Photos Showing Life in Boston During the 1950s
Although he was born and raised in New York City, American space physicist Jules Aarons (1921-2008) spent the majority of his life in the Boston area. He was known for his study of radio-wave propagation, and a photographer known for his street photography in Boston. Aarons first became interested in photography as a youth, takingContinue reading “27 Vintage Photos Showing Life in Boston During the 1950s”
47 Vintage Photos Showing Boston’s Street Fashion during the Summer of 1973.
Born in Philadelphia, later a Bostonian and later still a “hall of fame”, fountain-designing Aspenite, Nicholas DeWolf (1928-2006) was a unique, inspiring, engaging and curious soul. Co-founder of Boston’s Teradyne Corporation, Nick was also a lifelong, extremely passionate and talented photographer who was ever ready and ever present, leaving behind many thousands of pre-digital images,Continue reading “47 Vintage Photos Showing Boston’s Street Fashion during the Summer of 1973.”
