A film festival that sets out to show how Salem is way more than witches-- Click the link to read the preview in the Museum section of Picture This Post-
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Yes, New England has had COLD winters before ... 🧊❄️🥶
Map: U.S. Geological Survey, "Mean monthly average temperature" (1986): buff.ly/rEUu47f
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Sometimes, a globe is the only kind of travel you need 🌎
Gilman Joslin, “Joslin’s hand-book to the terrestrial and celestial globes: how to use a globe,” (1885): bit.ly/3Igkhw0
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Time Capsule: Dec. 19, 1945. Image of a traincar near a set of snow-covered rails.
Newspaper clippings. "SNOW. Wednesday -- Possibly snow. Thursday -- Cold, high winds." "Boston Digs Out of 12-Inch Snowfall". Old images of two women in the snow, a group of carollers.
Picture of elevated train station with text: "On Dec. 19, 1945, the snowstorm arrived! At elevated train stations like this one, heavy snow caused closures and delays.
Welcome December 19 in our time capsule series, where we jump 80 years into the past to watch a big snowstorm blow over Boston, day-by-day.
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Time Capsule: Dec. 18, 1945. Image of a snowy park landscape, with a church spire in the distance.
Newspaper clippings about cold weather "Tuesday -- Cold. Wednesday -- Some snow." "Frigid Christmas Looms as Cold Spell Lengthens." One day before the snowstorm, only freezing temperatures and "some snow" were predicted.
Welcome back to our time capsule series, where we jump 80 years into the past to watch a big snowstorm blow over Boston, day-by-day.
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Time Capsule: Dec. 17, 1945. Image of train coming into South Station
"Sub Zero Blast Brings N.E. Toll of Accidents, Exposures." "BRRR-rrrr! (We're Not the Only Ones!)." Headlines focused on accidents, transportation delays, and storm intensity ... "Snow, Heavy Winds Buffet Shipping, Delay Trains; Cold to Last 2 Days"
... but there were also positives to the chill. "Only scattered snow flurries are expected during the two-day cold spell. Skating, already made possible in suburban communities by the freezing weather of the past week, will be improved by the zero temperature." Image of woman in a warm coat. Snowy street scene with a clock tower, houses, and people walking.
Welcome to our time capsule series, where we jump 80 years into the past to follow a Boston snowstorm as it played out, day by day.
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We Bostonians are lucky to have a relatively clean river! But the Charles wasn’t always like that…
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Did you know there's a room in Boston City Hall where you can see the entire city ✨in miniature?✨
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❗Join us this Friday, Nov 14 for our next map collection showing❗
In this installment of From the Vault, we’ll look at maps that demonstrate historic and contemporary shifts to place names.
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❗Join us November 13 for a conversation in the Brown Seminar Series on women property holders of Boston’s waterfront in the late 1700s with professor Katy Lasdow❗
Use the link in our bio to register for the event.
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If you’re ever booking a flight to Boston, make sure you’re going to the right one! Wouldn’t wanna accidentally end up in Australia 🫠
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❗Join us this Friday, Sep 19, for a Map Collections Showing as we explore different ways to view the world through map projections❗
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❗Join us this Friday, Sep 5, for a Map Collections Showing as we ask the question: What truly is the best state around?❗
It’s not uncommon to be proud of the place you live… but these maps take it to another level!
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Are you really a Bostonian if you don’t pronounce harbor like “haah-buh”?
We just wouldn’t be Boston without our harbor 💕
Map: New chart of Boston Harbor (1860)
Images: Digital Commonwealth
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✍🏽Want to become a map maker in 1895? Great, all you need is skills in cartography, some artistic talent, and… perfect penmanship?
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🥲🪢Boston and its ropewalks are a case study in "you don't know what you got til it's gone"
Maps: The town of Boston in New England [1723–1733], Flirtation walk schematic planting plan Charlestown Navy Yard (1990)
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🦎♎🗺️ What do lizards, libras, and our exhibit on the Revolutionary War have in common? Scales!
#AmRev #americanrevoulution #Mass250 #MA250 #revwar #bpl #LMEC #maps #bostonmaps #localhistory #bostonhistory #bostonmuseum #thingstodoinboston #bostontourism
🔍Did you know that Fenway Park is technically named after a patch of mucky marshland? Boston sure draws name inspiration from some interesting places🥴
#bpl #LMEC #maps #bostonmaps #localhistory #bostonhistory #bostonmuseum #thingstodoinboston #bostontourism #backbay #fenway #fens
Check out the maps from each of the events in the roundup articles on our website (link in bio).
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📣Extra, extra! Research guides here! 📣
Did you know the Leventhal Map & Education Center has dedicated research guides to help access information and sources in our collections?
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They want to turn the old Harvard T tunnel into a music venue!?👩🎤🚉
Source: The Boston Globe
Map: T system map (1982)
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Students have been using map worksheets for a long time. Just ask David!🧑🏽🎓
Map: History 2 (1914)
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Which of these tourist maps makes you want to visit someplace new?
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BRB, on our way to Fenway… 🧦❤️
Maps: Atlas of the City of Boston: Roxbury (1906), Atlas of the City of Boston: Boston proper and Back Bay (1938)
Images: Digital Commonwealth
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In 1829, Massachusetts really said “let’s make the new state map a #groupproject 🤓☝🏽”
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Rain, rain, please leave Boston alone 🥲
Map: Rainfall-chart of the United States (1880)
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🔎It’s always fun to stumble upon something a bit unexpected! 🔍
Map: [Map of New England, 31st] [1870-1890]
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You can walk across this pond in Framingham! 🏞️
Map: South Framingham, Massachusetts (1898)
Image: Digital Commonwealth, CBS News
Source: CBS News
#bpl #LMEC #maps #bostonmaps #localhistory #bostonhistory #bostonmuseum #thingstodoinboston #bostontourism #farmpond #framingham
Boston’s jazz scene was nurtured by the legacy of this jazz club 🎷🎼
Map: Atlas of the City of Boston: Boston proper and Back Bay (1938)
#bpl #LMEC #maps #bostonmaps #localhistory #bostonhistory #bostonmuseum #thingstodoinboston #bostontourism
🪽I'm like a bird, I'll only fly away (to the White Mountains)🪽
Map: Bird's-eye map of the White Mountains reached by Boston & Maine R.R. (1896)
Images: Digital Commonwealth
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