No. 5164 Painting of the Thaddeus Mason Harris House on the face of a brick from the house Edward A. Huebener, a former Board member of the Dorchester Historical Society, was a collector of materials relating to Dorchester history including a very large collection of...
No. 21952 Colton’s 1855 map showing the sweeping arc of the railroad line in Boston Harbor and its path through the South Bay toward Dorchester. At that time, it was called the Boston and New York Central. The track for this railroad line leaves Boston and travels to...
No. 8480 William T. Carlton Painter William Tolman Carlton was born in Boston in 1816 and moved to Dorchester in his adult life, dying there in 1888.Perhaps his most well-known painting hangs over Lincoln’s desk in the White House at Washington, DC. Watch...
Maria Cummins, 1827-1866 No. 14972 by Maria Cummins Books by Maria Cummins include: The Lamplighter. (1854) Mabel Vaughan. (1857) El Fureidis. (1860) A Talk About Guides. (1864) Haunted Hearts. (1864) Around Mull. (1865) Born in Salem in 1827 to a family of some...
No. 565 Postcard. Caption on front: Consumptives Home, Quincy St., Dorchester, Mass. Photo by J.V. Hartman. Posted with one-cent stamp. On verso: Pub. by J.V. Hartman & Co., Boston, Mass. Series 64. The Free Home for Consumptives was located on the north side of...
