Flashback Photos
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9.1K2Boston Holds a Water Celebration in 1848
On Oct. 25, 1848, a stream of water gushed from a fountain before 100,000 people assembled on Boston Common for the city’s...
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10.9KMaurice Prendergast Paints New England at Play
The much-loved American artist Maurice Prendergast once wrote in his notebook, Art is the great stimulus of life -I find it year...
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10.3K2Flashback Photos: Charles Hoyt, the Sad New Hampshire Man Who Made Broadway Laugh
When Charles Hoyt was a boy, his father dreamed he would become a country lawyer. Instead, he invented the Broadway musical. He...
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15.9K10Thomas Edison Tries To Go Camping in New Hampshire
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9.8KFlashback Photo: Lefty Grove Is Traded for a Fence
Lefty Grove was a coal miner’s son who threw a fastball like a rifle shot and tantrums like a spoiled two-year-old, but...
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10.3K3Fred Marriott Sets the Speed Record in a Steam Race Car
Fred Marriott was the chief mechanic at the Stanley Steam Carriage Co., when the company owners asked him to race a steam...
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