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Boston, Massachusetts, site of Puritan colony and beginning of Revolutionary War; digital copy of slide. Complete indexed photo collection at WorldHistoryPics.com.
Boston, Massachusetts, site of Puritan colony and beginning of Revolutionary War; digital copy of slide. Complete indexed photo collection at WorldHistoryPics.com.
File name: 08_06_016134
Title: Boston Common, snowy corner at Tremont Park
Creator/Contributor: Jones, Leslie, 1886-1967 (photographer)
Date created: 1930 (approximate)
Physical description: 1 negative : glass, black & white ; 4 x 5 in.
Genre: Glass negatives
Subjects: Parks; Snow; Pedestrians
Notes: Title and date from information provided by Leslie Jones or the Boston Public Library on the negative or negative sleeve.
Collection: Leslie Jones Collection
Location: Boston Public Library, Print Department
Rights: Copyright © Leslie Jones.
Preferred credit: Courtesy of the Boston Public Library, Leslie Jones Collection.
File name: 08_02_004461
Box label: Boston Public Library: Interiors: Special library floor (see also: events & exhibitions)
Title: Boston Public Library. Albert H. Wiggin Gallery. Exhibition. Contemporary American Printe [sic]. Organized for the museums in Israel
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Date created: 1953-01-05-1953-01-31 (approximate)
Physical description: 1 photographic print : gelatin silver ; 8 x 10 in.
Genre: Gelatin silver prints
Subjects: Boston Public Library; Public libraries; Exhibitions; Galleries (Display spaces);
Exhibition facilities; Employees
Notes: Additional information on item indicates that image includes Paul B. Swenson, assistant (left), Arthur W. Heintzelman, keeper of prints (center), and Muriel C. Robinson, first assistant (right)
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Location: Boston Public Library, Print Department
Rights: Rights status not evaluated.
File name: 08_06_016269
Title: Boston Common in front of State House, in the snow
Creator/Contributor: Jones, Leslie, 1886-1967 (photographer)
Date created: 1928-02-19
Physical description: 1 negative : glass, black & white ; 4 x 5 in.
Genre: Glass negatives
Subjects: Massachusetts State House (Boston, Mass.); Parks; Snow; Capitols
Notes: Title and date from information provided by Leslie Jones or the Boston Public Library on the negative or negative sleeve.
Collection: Leslie Jones Collection
Location: Boston Public Library, Print Department
Rights: Copyright © Leslie Jones.
Preferred credit: Courtesy of the Boston Public Library, Leslie Jones Collection.
Stained Glass Window
16 - Fragments including head.
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Welcome to Boston Guildhall Museum and Tourist Information Centre.
Built in the 1390’s this building is a testament to the wealth and influence of the Guild of St Mary at a time when Boston’s power as a centre of trade was second only to London. This wonderfully preserved building, with a wealth of original features, has survived the centuries and is to be enjoyed as one of Boston’s finest visitor attractions.
A wealth of stories, secrets and experiences are told and shared throughout the building including the history of the Guild of St Mary, international trade with the Hanseatic League, the foundation of the Corporation of Boston and the very famous trial and imprisonment of the Pilgrims.
Boston Guildhall Museum is free to visit and our opening hours are Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday 10:30am – 3:30pm, last admission to the museum is 3pm.
www.mybostonuk.com/bostonguildhall/
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Boston’s wealth was due to the activities of the Guildsmen of St Mary – an internationally significant religious fraternity in one of the most important ports of medieval England who were able to communicate directly with the pope.
The merchant’s Guild of St Mary was a religious guild founded in 1260. For a gold coin fee and annual subscription, men, and unusually for the time, women, could be members and they maintained the Lady Chapel in Boston Stump for the purposes of “get out of purgatory” prayer. They also made provision for support of the poor of the parish.
The merchants made their fortunes trading mainly in wool – the backbone and driving force of medieval English economy. Boston’s Guildsmen worked hard and played hard. They recruited paupers of the town, giving them board, lodging and pay, to be beadsmen. The Beadsmen, so named because of the rosary beads they used during prayer, were paid by the merchants to help save their souls from the torture of eternal damnation. They believed that they could carry on living sinful and debauched lives so long as they continued to pay the Beadsmen to say prayers to reduce the time they would have to spend in the limbo of purgatory where their souls would be purified from sin.
When the Crown gave approval for guilds to possess assets, Boston’s fantastically rich merchants almost immediately built the Guildhall, making it one of the first in the country. The Guildhall was built from a new material not readily available in the 13th Century. The clay to mike its red bricks was dug out locally, and even Flemish brick makers were employed when it would have been much easier and cheaper to build out of more traditional materials such as stone or timber.
Their Beadsmen now had a home from which to pray for doomed souls – and the merchants celebrations went on, much of it actually in the new Guildhall’s banqueting hall. Many of these celebrations or festivities centred around religious dates on the calendar – feast and saints’ days – but there would always be food galore and mead and wine on these occasions.
They believed that in order to further to reduce their time in purgatory, gifts of property and land were given to the guild in return for salvation, calculated on a “pay” scale, ranging from 100 days remission from penance all the way up to 500 years of absolution. Over the centuries the guild acquired many sacred relics including a silver and gilt case containing an image of the Virgin and Child and, most fantastically, a sample of the Virgins breast milk. These items, along with others, recorded on an inventory on display in the Council Chamber. Were such alleged artefacts to still exist today Boston would be a world centre for pilgrimage to rival Lourdes and Turin. Along with a silver and gilt case containing part of the stone of Calvary, Boston Guildhall’s treasures have been long lost, claimed by King Henry VIII when he broke his ties with the pope and renounced religious guilds, taking land and property from them.
The Guildhall’s use as a religious building ended with the dissolution of the guilds and the founding of the new Corporation in 1545.
www.mybostonuk.com/bostonguildhall/museum/
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Boston Guildhall is a former municipal building in Boston, Lincolnshire. It currently serves as a local museum and also as a venue for civil ceremonies and private functions. It is a Grade I listed building.
Boston is a walking-town. It is soooo true. Everyone it seems walk alot in Boston, even in heavy rain. I was very impressed.
Of course the central part of the city was built well before cars, so in addition to the density, Boston has pretty good pedestrian-design going for it too.
I would love to compare the health indicators for people living in central Boston, Manhatten, and central Washington with people living in the suburbs. People living centrally and able to walk places are probably in much better health - I didn't see as many heavy people as I had expected to.
(Boston, MA 7/26/21) Mayor Kim Janey greets seniors taking a harbor cruise with Age Strong and City Cruises. (Mayor’s Office Photo by John Wilcox)
A shot of some of the muralwork along the bikepath that parallels the Mattapan-Ashmont High Speed Trolley Line. 7/17/08. © 2009 Peter Ehrlich
File name: 08_06_027875
Title: Boston Braves
Creator/Contributor: Jones, Leslie, 1886-1967 (photographer)
Date created: 1942
Physical description: 1 negative : film, black & white ; 4 x 5 in.
Summary: (l to r:) Boston Braves Jim Tobin and Tom Earley sitting on the dugout steps at Braves Field.
Genre: Film negatives
Subjects: Boston Braves (Baseball team); Braves Field (Boston, Mass.); Baseball players
Notes: Original data provided by Leslie Jones or the Boston Public Library on the negative or negative sleeve: Baseball, n.d.; Corrected title and date based on research by the Society for American Baseball Research, 2010-2011.; Summary provided by the Society for American Baseball Research, 2010-2011.
Collection: Leslie Jones Collection
Location: Boston Public Library, Print Department
Rights: Copyright © Leslie Jones.
Preferred citation: Courtesy of the Boston Public Library, Leslie Jones Collection.
File name: 08_06_016054
Title: Boston Common - cloud effect of solders and sailors monument
Creator/Contributor: Jones, Leslie, 1886-1967 (photographer)
Date created: 1917 - 1934 (approximate)
Physical description: 1 negative : glass, black & white ; 4 x 5 in.
Genre: Glass negatives
Subjects: Parks; Monuments & memorials
Notes: Title from information provided by Leslie Jones or the Boston Public Library on the negative or negative sleeve.; Date supplied by cataloger.
Collection: Leslie Jones Collection
Location: Boston Public Library, Print Department
Rights: Copyright © Leslie Jones.
Preferred credit: Courtesy of the Boston Public Library, Leslie Jones Collection.