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Dorchester Illustration of the Day no. 2119 Ulysses S. Grant by William F. Cogswell from United States Senate website The following is from: Personal Memoirs of U.S. Grant, 1885 Ancestry-birth-boyhood My family is American, and has been for generations, in … Continue reading →

Dorchester Illustration of the Day no. 2118 Postcard. Caption on front: Upham’s Corner.  Postmarked Sep. 4.  On verso: No. 370. Pub. by Boston Post-Card Co., 12 Pearl St. Note Winthrop Hall on the left and the Baker Memorial Methodist Church … Continue reading →

Dorchester Illustration of the Day no. 2117 View of Boston from Mount Bowdoin, Dorchester. Scan of wood engraving Boston, From Mount Bowdoin published in Picturesque America by William Cullen Bryant. New York: D. Appleton & Co., 1872-74. ____ The Dorchester … Continue reading →

Dorchester Illustration of the Day no. 2116 Postcard. Postally unused.  Depicts Anchor Laundry Co. cart drawn by horse.  Ca. 1920. Anchor Laundry of the charter members o the Mass. State Laundrymen’s Association. The 1925 City Directory shows that Anchor Laundry … Continue reading →

Dorchester Illustration of the Day no. 2115 Pin from the Hydro-Palm Soap Co., Neponset, Mass. Does anyone know more about this company? ____ The Dorchester Illustration of the Day (DIOTD) is sent weekdays. If you receive this e-mail by mistake, … Continue reading →

Dorchester Illustration of the Day no. 2114 The Dorchester Historical Society barn is on Boston.com.  Check out: http://www.boston.com/yourtown/news/dorchester/2013/09/hold_dorchester_historical_society_progresses_with_clapp_fam.html Get ready for winter with a wooden snow shovel – see attached photo of snow shovels in Dorchester Historical Society barn. And … Continue reading →

Dorchester Illustration of the Day no. 2113 Baker Chocolate trade card from the early 20th century. ____ The Dorchester Illustration of the Day (DIOTD) is sent weekdays. If you receive this e-mail by mistake, please reply to be taken off … Continue reading →

Dorchester Illustration of the Day no. 2112 Greetings from Dorchester. Mass.   Post card with raised floral bouquet.  The flowers are actually raised, creating hollow indentions on the back side of the card.  Postmarked May 11, 1908. ____ The Dorchester Illustration … Continue reading →

Dorchester Illustration of the Day no. 2111 St. Mary’s Church on Jones Hill, designed by Henry Vaughan in Jacobethan Revival style and built in 1888, is a prototype of modern gothic. Saint Mary’s was one of his earliest American commissions … Continue reading →

Dorchester Illustration of the Day no. 2110   The Milton Station car barn was located at approximately 2262 Dorchester, where a Boston Housing Authority high-rise now stands near Lower Mills. Postcard. Caption on front: Milton Station Car Barn, Dorchester, Mass.  … Continue reading →