Ever wonder how school buses almost universally came to wear not just yellow but a specific shade of yellow ? Smithsonian Magazine dug up the answer, which has less to do with caprice and more to do ...
Date: circa 1984 Location: Snell Engineering Building, Northeastern University, Boston, Massachusetts Source: via Northeastern University Digital Libraries What do you see here?
Date: February 1986 Location: Boston, Massachusetts Source: Joshua Levine, via Northeastern University Libraries Digital Collections What do you see here?
Date: January 1969 Location: Government Center, Boston, Massachusetts Source: Boston Redevelopment Authority, via City of Boston Archives on Flickr What do you see here?
Date: late 1950s Location: Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Boston, Massachusetts Source: Nishan Bichajian, photographer; MIT-Libraries on Flickr What do you see here?
Date: late 1950s Location: Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Boston, Cambridge, Massachusetts Source: Nishan Bichajian, photographer; MIT-Libraries on Flickr What do you see here?
Based entirely on the license plates and the campaign posters for Gabriel Piemonte, we can say with certainty that these two photos which we came across on the Duke University Libraries Digital Colle...
While the Boston Public Library has these two Spencer Grant photos of Boston’s Central Artery dated to the mid-1970s, a quick scan shows that they’re at least from the following decade, which makes f...