All posts tagged "poverty"
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10.3K1Arts and LeisureEva Tanguay, The Lady Gaga of Vaudeville
As America started to throw off its Victorian propriety and embrace the Roaring Twenties, the bold, sexy Eva Tanguay showed them the...
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81.2K25Arts and LeisureHow Portuguese Immigrants Came to New England
In 1915, four Madeiran men organized a feast at the Church of the Immaculate Conception in New Bedford, Mass. They did it...
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5.4K9Crime and ScandalCharles Ponzi, The Financial Idiot Who Drove Boston Money Mad in 1920
Charles Ponzi in his office. Photo courtesy Boston Public Library, Leslie Jones Collection.Charles Ponzi sent Bostonians into such a frenzy over his...
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7.0K4Arts and LeisureEthel Reed, The Beautiful Poster Lady Who Disappeared
The beautiful Ethel Reed blazed like a meteor across Boston’s artistic firmament in the 1890s, but after a broken engagement she all...
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37.9K32MassachusettsThe Orphan Train and the Children Who Rode Them
In 1926, a four-year-old orphan named Lorraine Williams and 13 other children were scrubbed, dressed in new clothes and put onto an...
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14.7K8Business and LaborThe Pemberton Mill Disaster
On a wintry evening in 1860, textile workers in the huge Pemberton Mill in Lawrence, Mass., heard an odd rattle followed by...
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9.4K9Arts and LeisureMolly Spotted Elk, From Poverty in Old Town, Maine, to Fame in Paris — and Back
In the fall of 1931, 27-year-old Molly Spotted Elk was far from home and unsure about marrying her French journalist lover. She...
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4.1K2Business and LaborFlashback Photos: Farm Auction in Derby, Conn., 1940
These photos of a farm auction in Derby, Conn., were taken in September 1940 by Jack Delano. Delano worked for the Farm...
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9.9K4Business and LaborMilton Bradley and Life’s Checkered Past
In 1860, Milton Bradley decided America needed a new game, and so he created a modern blend of the old-fashioned morality games...
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4.9K3MassachusettsThe Boston Draft Riot of 1863
On a summer day in the middle of the Civil War, immigrants furious about conscription notices delivered to their homes instigated the...
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