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Dorchester Illustration of the Day no. 2020 Murrays Shoe Shop.  Advertising card for Kalistenik Shoes from Murray’s Shoe Shop, 316 Harvard Street, Brookline, Mass. and 1108A Blue Hill Avenue, Dorchester, Mass. Does anyone know the approximate date? ____ The Dorchester … Continue reading →

Dorchester Illustration of the Day no. 2019 Postcard. Caption on front: Savin Hill Playground, Dorchester, Mass.  Postmarked Sep 17, 1912 at Dorchester Center Station with one-cent stamp.  On verso: The Royal Blue card. This seems to be the area known … Continue reading →

Dorchester Illustration of the Day no. 2018 Scan from General Catalogue no. 60 Mason Regulating Appliances. Dorchester Center: Mason Regulator Company, 1913. The Mason Regulator Company building is used today as Standish Village, an assisted living facility in Lower Mills.  … Continue reading →

Dorchester Illustration of the Day no. 2017 Hobart Homestead Mattapan. Scan of photograph in Living in Dorchester published in the 1970s. ____ The Dorchester Illustration of the Day (DIOTD) is sent weekdays. If you receive this e-mail by mistake, please … Continue reading →

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 →