Richard Mather School

Richard Mather School

No. 708 Mather School, photograph from Annual Report of the School House Department from Feb. 1, 1905 to February 1, 1906. Postcard. Mather School, postmarked October 8, 1909. No. 12043 Edward Southworth School, formerly the Richard Mather School, photograph from...
Edward Everett School

Edward Everett School

Edward Everett School Edward Everett (1794-1865), a U.S. Senator from Massachusetts, a distinguished orator and writer, was born in Dorchester. He held public office as U.S. Representative, as governor and U.S. Senator. Everett received appointments as Secretary of...
Harring & Teele, Druggists

Harring & Teele, Druggists

No. 15412 Postcard. Harrington & Teele druggists, 1 Harvard Street at corner of Washington Street.   No. 363 Postcard showing Washington and Harvard Streets, circa 1910. Harring & Teele were located at Four Corners in the rounded building. The building at...
Fred W. Archer, pharmacy, Lower Mills

Fred W. Archer, pharmacy, Lower Mills

Fred W. Archer, pharmacy, Lower Mills 20443 Fred W. Archer from The Pharmaceutical Era, February, 1919 No. 5501 Postcsard view circa 1910 of store in Lower Mills with the Fred W. Archer store on the southern corner of the intersection of Dorhester Avenue and...
Frost Coal

Frost Coal

    George H. Frost was born in 1824.  He married Olive C. Pond in 1845. Their son George E. Frost was born in 1850.  Olive died in 1855, and George H. married her sister, Susan M. Pond, later that year.   In the late 1860s, George H. Frost bought out the coal...