Monthly Archives: April 2013

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 →

Dorchester Illustration of the Day no. 2006 Williams Motor Co., used car company whose business card says they are  located at 815 Gallivan Boulevard at Neponset Circle about where the parking lot for Staples is today.  The photo above seems … Continue reading →

Dorchester Illustration of the Day no. 2005 Photograph of 10 Radford Lane looking up at the backs of houses on Carruth Street. The house at the very left is 33 Carruth Street at the corner of Carruth and Radford Lane.  … Continue reading →

Dorchester Illustration of the Day no. 2004 Photograph of the yard of the Nathan Carruth House, formerly at the top of the hill between Beaumont and Elmer Streets. ____ The Dorchester Illustration of the Day (DIOTD) is sent weekdays. If … Continue reading →