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Dorchester Illustration of the Day no. 2016 Morgan Brothers, 238 Bowdoin Street. Scan of illustration in Official Program Dorchester Day, Saturday June 5, 1915. The building was on the corner of Bowdoin Street and Bowdoin Park.  The land is now … Continue reading →

Dorchester Illustration of the Day no. 2015 Statue of Edward Everett in Richardson Park. Postcard. Caption on front: Edward Everett Monument, Everett Sq., Dorchester, Mass. Postally unused.  Caption on verso: Published by German Novelty Co., Boston, Mass.  Ca. 1920 The … Continue reading →

Dorchester Illustration of the Day no. 2014 Among the Dorchester Historical Society’s collections is a board game by the name of The Mansion of Happiness. The following is from the internet: The Mansion of Happiness: An Instructive Moral and Entertaining … Continue reading →

Dorchester Illustration of the Day no. 2013 Scan of photograph of Louis A. Caulfield of 37 Belfort Street, Dorchester, delivering a heavy typewriter about a half mile.  Shown at 16 years of age, he worked for the Model Typewriter Inspection … Continue reading →

Dorchester Illustration of the Day no. 2012 Scan of photograph of 26 Thetford Avenue circa 1900 contrasted with a photograph taken yesterday. The scan of the old photograph came to the Dorchester Historical Society last week from a family in … Continue reading →

Dorchester Illustration of the Day no. 2011 Scan of photograph in Dorchester Old and New, 1630-1930 published 1930.  The first playing card manufactory in the country was run by Benjamin Crehore and Jabaz Ford on the Neponset River. ____ The … Continue reading →

Dorchester Illustration of the Day no. 2010 Mayor White was a proponent of placing a as stadium for the Patriots in Dorchester. Today we have a photograph by Frank Kelly of a sketch of a proposed stadium for Neponset.  Photograph … Continue reading →

Dorchester Illustration of the Day no. 2009 C. B. Lovewell Company. Scan of illustration in Blue Book of Roxbury and Dorchester 1915.  The shop was located on the west side of Washington Street north of Codman Square between Southern Avenue … Continue reading →

Dorchester Illustration of the Day no. 2008 Candlestick on tray made by Roswell Gleason pewter manufacturing company on Washington Street about 1840. The following is from American Series of Popular Biographies.MassachusettsEdition.  This Volume Contains Biographical Sketches of Representative Citizens of … Continue reading →

Dorchester Illustration of the Day no. 2007 Postcard. Caption on front: All aboard and away we go for Dorchester, a real live town. Postmarked Dorchester, Oct. 3, 1913. ____ The Dorchester Illustration of the Day (DIOTD) is sent weekdays. If … Continue reading →