History/Boston from The Personal Navigator

Boston, MA: Boston Chamber of Commerce, 1927. 14 x 23 cm. Metropolitan Boston is a city of 1,808, 845. Between 1915 and 1925 city has witnessed practically uninterrupted growth. Total value of manufactured goods produced in 1925 was $1,256,000,000. Shoe and Leather center of the world. Headquarters of cotton manufacturing. Greatest wool market of the United States. New England… Read more about this item

Boston, MA: John H. Eastburn, City Printer, 1835. 13 x 21 cm. Report by Mayor on the state of the city of Boston; debt, new construction, Deaths 1554, many deaths by consumption, but health of population better than 10 years before; only 4 deaths from smallpox; 249 persons committed in 1834 to House of Correction, of these 165 were… Read more about this item

Boston, MA: Boston Transcript Company, 1881. 46 x 60 cm. Secret conclave of Irishmen meeting at Palmer House in Chicago, includes John Warren of Lowell, Mass., a strong friend of Ben Butler. These men are the ""Dynamite Crowd."" Bulletin: The President (Garfield) passes the day comfortably… discharge of pus is satisfactory. Talk of heat wave in Boston. Fifth Regimental… Read more about this item