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Take a look at the Jaynes Store at the corner of Hanover and Washington Streets, #onthisday in 1905!
November 12, 2025 at 3:03 PM
Take a look at the Jaynes Store at the corner of Hanover and Washington Streets, #onthisday in 1905!
Today, and everyday, we want to thank all veterans for their service! Hero Squares throughout the city honor the memory of service members who died in action. We recently digitized the documentation for Boston's Hero Squares. Learn more in our latest blogpost at: ow.ly/626w50XpFyX
#VeteransDay
#VeteransDay
Veterans' Heritage Grant: Digitizing Boston's Hero Squares
In January of 2024, the City of Boston Archives was notified that the project proposal we had submitted to the Veterans' Heritage Grant program through the Massachusetts State Historical Records…
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November 11, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Today, and everyday, we want to thank all veterans for their service! Hero Squares throughout the city honor the memory of service members who died in action. We recently digitized the documentation for Boston's Hero Squares. Learn more in our latest blogpost at: ow.ly/626w50XpFyX
#VeteransDay
#VeteransDay
Here's a new #mysteryphoto for you, Boston! Can you figure out when and where this photo was taken?
November 6, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Here's a new #mysteryphoto for you, Boston! Can you figure out when and where this photo was taken?
check out the Boston City Hospital Relief Station in Haymarket Square #onthisday in 1905!
November 5, 2025 at 3:05 PM
check out the Boston City Hospital Relief Station in Haymarket Square #onthisday in 1905!
Today is #NationalCandyDay! Take a look at the candy recipes in the textbook "A Course in Household Arts" from 1911!
November 4, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Today is #NationalCandyDay! Take a look at the candy recipes in the textbook "A Course in Household Arts" from 1911!
Happy #Halloween Boston! Check out this spooky poem from the 1924 edition of the Dorchester High School student magazine, The Item! Read the full issue at: ow.ly/kASR50XffQ
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October 31, 2025 at 2:06 PM
Happy #Halloween Boston! Check out this spooky poem from the 1924 edition of the Dorchester High School student magazine, The Item! Read the full issue at: ow.ly/kASR50XffQ
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@bostonschools.boston.gov
Here's a new #mysteryphoto for you, Boston! Can you figure out when and where this photo was taken?
October 30, 2025 at 2:05 PM
Here's a new #mysteryphoto for you, Boston! Can you figure out when and where this photo was taken?
Check out this view looking south towards Savin Hill Bridge, station and platform #onthisday in 1927!
October 29, 2025 at 2:05 PM
Check out this view looking south towards Savin Hill Bridge, station and platform #onthisday in 1927!
It's #UnitedNationsDay! In 1962, the Boy Scouts and Girl Scouts of America planted a tree in Boston Common in observance! Pictured are: Patricia A. Ryan, G.S.A.; Robert DeSimone; Chairman of the Mayor's committee Harold D. Hodgkinson; Park Commissioner Martin J. Walsh; and Kenneth E. George, B.S.A.
October 24, 2025 at 2:04 PM
It's #UnitedNationsDay! In 1962, the Boy Scouts and Girl Scouts of America planted a tree in Boston Common in observance! Pictured are: Patricia A. Ryan, G.S.A.; Robert DeSimone; Chairman of the Mayor's committee Harold D. Hodgkinson; Park Commissioner Martin J. Walsh; and Kenneth E. George, B.S.A.
Here's a new #mysteryphoto for you, Boston! Can you figure out when and where this photo was taken?
October 22, 2025 at 2:06 PM
Here's a new #mysteryphoto for you, Boston! Can you figure out when and where this photo was taken?
Check out this crowd of people waiting for the train #onthisday in 1929! What does your morning commute look like?
October 21, 2025 at 2:05 PM
Check out this crowd of people waiting for the train #onthisday in 1929! What does your morning commute look like?
Here is another #mysteryphoto for you, Boston! Do you know when and where this photo taken?
October 16, 2025 at 2:05 PM
Here is another #mysteryphoto for you, Boston! Do you know when and where this photo taken?
Boston Symphony Hall opened #onthisday in 1900! Take a look at this photo from 1965!
October 15, 2025 at 2:04 PM
Boston Symphony Hall opened #onthisday in 1900! Take a look at this photo from 1965!
In honor of #LatinxHeritageMonth, take a look at this 2016 City Council resolution that designated the Hyde-Jackson neighborhood of Jamaica Plain as Boston's Latin Quarter!
#HispanicHeritageMonth
#HispanicHeritageMonth
October 14, 2025 at 2:02 PM
In honor of #LatinxHeritageMonth, take a look at this 2016 City Council resolution that designated the Hyde-Jackson neighborhood of Jamaica Plain as Boston's Latin Quarter!
#HispanicHeritageMonth
#HispanicHeritageMonth
Happy Indigenous People's Day! In 2021 Mayor Kim Janey signed an executive order declaring every second Monday in October as Indigenous People's Day!
Image 1: Mayor Kim Janey signing the executive order.
Image 2: Mayor Kim Janey posing with unidentified individuals and the executive order.
Image 1: Mayor Kim Janey signing the executive order.
Image 2: Mayor Kim Janey posing with unidentified individuals and the executive order.
October 13, 2025 at 2:04 PM
Happy Indigenous People's Day! In 2021 Mayor Kim Janey signed an executive order declaring every second Monday in October as Indigenous People's Day!
Image 1: Mayor Kim Janey signing the executive order.
Image 2: Mayor Kim Janey posing with unidentified individuals and the executive order.
Image 1: Mayor Kim Janey signing the executive order.
Image 2: Mayor Kim Janey posing with unidentified individuals and the executive order.
Colonel Robert Gould Shaw, commander of the Massachusetts 54th Regiment, was born #onthisday in 1837!
Image: Shaw and Massachusetts 54th Regiment Memorial from "Exercises at the dedication of the monument to Colonel Robert Gould Shaw and the Fifty-fourth Regiment of Massachusetts Infantry", 1897.
Image: Shaw and Massachusetts 54th Regiment Memorial from "Exercises at the dedication of the monument to Colonel Robert Gould Shaw and the Fifty-fourth Regiment of Massachusetts Infantry", 1897.
October 10, 2025 at 2:04 PM
Colonel Robert Gould Shaw, commander of the Massachusetts 54th Regiment, was born #onthisday in 1837!
Image: Shaw and Massachusetts 54th Regiment Memorial from "Exercises at the dedication of the monument to Colonel Robert Gould Shaw and the Fifty-fourth Regiment of Massachusetts Infantry", 1897.
Image: Shaw and Massachusetts 54th Regiment Memorial from "Exercises at the dedication of the monument to Colonel Robert Gould Shaw and the Fifty-fourth Regiment of Massachusetts Infantry", 1897.
It's time for another #mysteryphoto! Can you figure out where and when this photo was taken?
October 8, 2025 at 2:05 PM
It's time for another #mysteryphoto! Can you figure out where and when this photo was taken?
Check out the 1983 Puerto Rican Festival on City Hall Plaza! #LatinxHeritageMonth #HispanicHeritageMonth
Image 1: Flag raising at the 1983 Puerto Rican Festival
Image 2: A speaker at the Puerto Rican Festival
Image 3: A band at the Puerto Rican Festival
Image 4: Dancers at the Puerto Rican Festival
Image 1: Flag raising at the 1983 Puerto Rican Festival
Image 2: A speaker at the Puerto Rican Festival
Image 3: A band at the Puerto Rican Festival
Image 4: Dancers at the Puerto Rican Festival
October 7, 2025 at 2:03 PM
Check out the 1983 Puerto Rican Festival on City Hall Plaza! #LatinxHeritageMonth #HispanicHeritageMonth
Image 1: Flag raising at the 1983 Puerto Rican Festival
Image 2: A speaker at the Puerto Rican Festival
Image 3: A band at the Puerto Rican Festival
Image 4: Dancers at the Puerto Rican Festival
Image 1: Flag raising at the 1983 Puerto Rican Festival
Image 2: A speaker at the Puerto Rican Festival
Image 3: A band at the Puerto Rican Festival
Image 4: Dancers at the Puerto Rican Festival
Take a look at the view of Boylston Street from the Hotel Lenox, #onthisday in 1912!
October 3, 2025 at 2:05 PM
Take a look at the view of Boylston Street from the Hotel Lenox, #onthisday in 1912!
It's #mysteryphoto time! Do you know where and when this photo was taken?
October 1, 2025 at 2:05 PM
It's #mysteryphoto time! Do you know where and when this photo was taken?
We are sharing longtime community activist Jorge "Chico" Munoz! He co-founded Boston's annual Puerto Rican Festival and The Spanish Action Center and was the first Latino trustee of the City of Boston Board of Health and Hospitals. #LatinxHeritageMonth #HispanicHeritageMonth
September 30, 2025 at 2:03 PM
We are sharing longtime community activist Jorge "Chico" Munoz! He co-founded Boston's annual Puerto Rican Festival and The Spanish Action Center and was the first Latino trustee of the City of Boston Board of Health and Hospitals. #LatinxHeritageMonth #HispanicHeritageMonth
Take a look at 238-280 State Street, photographed #onthisday in 1912!
September 26, 2025 at 2:03 PM
Take a look at 238-280 State Street, photographed #onthisday in 1912!
Happy Birthday former Boston Mayor Kevin H. White!
September 25, 2025 at 2:04 PM
Happy Birthday former Boston Mayor Kevin H. White!
Here's a new #mysteryphoto for you, Boston! Do you know where and when this photo was taken?
September 24, 2025 at 2:08 PM
Here's a new #mysteryphoto for you, Boston! Do you know where and when this photo was taken?
September 15th - October 15th is Latinx Heritage Month! Take a look at Mayor Walsh at a Hispanic heritage celebration in East Boston in 2018!
#LatinxHeritageMonth #HispanicHeritageMonth
#LatinxHeritageMonth #HispanicHeritageMonth
September 23, 2025 at 2:03 PM
September 15th - October 15th is Latinx Heritage Month! Take a look at Mayor Walsh at a Hispanic heritage celebration in East Boston in 2018!
#LatinxHeritageMonth #HispanicHeritageMonth
#LatinxHeritageMonth #HispanicHeritageMonth