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Dorchester Illustration of the Day no. 2123 Advertisement from Putnam Nail Company, the premiere maker of horseshoe nails located on Port Norfolk. ____ The Dorchester Illustration of the Day (DIOTD) is sent weekdays. If you receive this e-mail by mistake, … Continue reading →

Phips Expedition New France dreamed of taking New York and formed a plan 1688-89 to do just that.  New York and the English colonies had dreams of taking Quebec – the economic and political capital of New France. Both sides … Continue reading →

Dorchester Illustration of the Day no. 2121 Mural at Florian Hall. ____ The Dorchester Illustration of the Day (DIOTD) is sent weekdays. If you receive this e-mail by mistake, please reply to be taken off the e-mail list. If you … Continue reading →

Dorchester Illustration of the Day no. 2120 Looking east at the intersection of Norfolk and Nelson Streets, ca. 1930. ____ The Dorchester Illustration of the Day (DIOTD) is sent weekdays. If you receive this e-mail by mistake, please reply to … Continue reading →

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 →