Flashback Photos
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25.8K82When Downtown Department Stores Spelled Christmas
Generations of New Englanders remember fondly the glorious downtown department stores at Christmas. Those great retail palaces brought magic to the holidays...
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8.1K3Edie Sedgwick, Poor Little Rich Girl
In 1965, Edie Sedgwick appeared in one of Andy Warhol’s underground films in 1965 and said, “I’ve never been anywhere where I...
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4.7K5Flashback Photos: The Carnegie Libraries of New England
Shortly after the turn of the 20th century, the mayor of Worcester, Mass., was so eager for a Carnegie library in his...
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11.2K3The Great Boston Fire of 1872
In 1871, a Boston fire department engineer name John Damrell traveled to Chicago to examine the smoking ruins of the Great Chicago...
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7.3K1Fanny Bullock Workman Shows Rich Brits What an American Woman Can Do
In 1898, a 39-year-old American woman named Fanny Bullock Workman did something that shocked the tiny clique of wealthy British men who...
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