32 Color Snapshots That Capture Daily Life Around Harvard Square in the 1970s

These beautiful photos were taken by photographer Anty Diluvian that show daily life around Harvard Square in the 1970s.

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The First Photographic Record of an Actual Live Medical Operation, 1847

The setting for this daguerreotype is the teaching amphitheater of Boston’s Massachusetts General Hospital. Dr. John Collins Warren, cofounder of the hospital and professor of anatomy, stands with his hands upon the patient’s thigh, explaining the proceedings to a student audience seated out of camera range.

(Photo by Josiah Johnson Hawes & Albert Southworthlate, via Getty Images)

Dr. Solomon Davis Townsend, who performed the operation, stands behind Warren with his left arm akimbo. An unidentified anesthetist holds a sponge soaked in ether near the head of the patient who, curiously enough, still wears his socks.

Warren had commissioned Albert Sands Southworth and Josiah Johnson Hawes to make the first photographic record of an actual live medical operation, which was also the retiring Dr. Warren’s last lecture. The doctors’ heads all moved during the long exposure, causing blurring and confirming the photograph's candid circumstances.

49 Amazing Aerial Pictures Show the Face of Boston, Massachusetts in the 1920s

These amazing aerial photographs from the Boston Pictorial Archive documenting Boston's landscape and city sections in the 1920s.

Allston and Brighton, Boston

Back Bay and West End, Boston

Back Bay, looking west from Public Garden, Boston

Beacon Hill and North End, Boston

Beacon Hill and West End

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The Weekend Jackie and JFK Got Engaged: Rarely Seen Candid Photographs of John F. Kennedy and Jacqueline Bouvier on Vacation at Hyannis Port, 1953

Jacqueline Lee Bouvier and then-U.S. Representative John Fitzgerald Kennedy belonged to the same social circle, and were formally introduced by a mutual friend, journalist Charles L. Bartlett, at a dinner party in May 1952. Bouvier was attracted to Kennedy's physical appearance, charm, wit and wealth. The two also shared similarities in both being Catholic and writers, enjoying reading and previously having lived abroad.

Kennedy was then busy running for the US Senate but after his election in November, the relationship grew more serious and he proposed marriage to her. Bouvier took some time to accept, due to having been assigned to cover the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II in London for The Washington Times-Herald. After a month in Europe, she accepted the proposal upon her return to the United States, and resigned from her position at the newspaper. Their engagement was officially announced on June 25, 1953.

That weekend, the happy couple took a trip to the Kennedy family home in Hyannis Port on Cape Cod, Massachusetts. According to Mashable, they were accompanied by a reporter and photographer for LIFE magazine, which published an issue on July 20 with the headline “Senator Kennedy Goes a-Courting."

Bouvier and Kennedy speak with a LIFE reporter.

Bouvier sits with Jean and Eunice Kennedy.

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Boston 60 Years Ago: 38 Incredible Kodakchrome Prints Show the Capital of Massachusetts in the 1950s

Boston is one of the oldest cities in the United States, it’s also the capital and largest city of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Let’s make a trip back to Boston in the 1950s.

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Wonderful Color Photos of Tower Views in Nantucket in the 1960s

Here is a wonderful color photo collection that shows tower views in Nantucket in 1968.

Tower view from the Unitarian church clock tower, showing the Summer Street Baptist Church, Quaker Meeting House and Fair Street Museum, and Rays Court

Tower view from the Unitarian Church steeple showing base of Straight Wharf

Tower view from the Unitarian Church steeple town clock showing Gardner's Court

Tower view from the Unitarian Church, showing the Summer Street Baptist Church

View from the Congregational Church tower, showing Brant Point and Children's Beach

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20 Vintage Photos Provide a Glimpse Into the Days of Prohibition in Boston, Massachusetts

Prohibition in the United States was a national ban on the sale, manufacture, and transportation of alcohol, in place from 1920 to 1933. These prohibition-era photos below provide a glimpse into prohibition era in Boston, Massachusetts during the 1920s and 1930s.

Casks Seized by Police – c. 1930.

Rum Chasers: Beagle and Cunningham – Jan. 23, 1927.

Ice Covered Rum Chaser – Jan. 20, 1926.

Superintendent Crowley Inspects a Speakeasy – 1930.

Commissioner and Superintendent at Police HQ – 1935.

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Strangers on the Streets of Boston, Massachusetts in October 1968

Nicholas DeWolf (1928 – 2006) was co-founder of Teradyne, a Boston, Massachusetts-based manufacturer of automatic test equipment. He founded the company in 1960 with Alex d’Arbeloff, a classmate at MIT. DeWolf was also a keen and prolific photographer. His son-in-law and archivist, Steve Lundeen, is scanning DeWolf's complete archive and making it available on Flickr.

Here are some of interesting black and white portraits of strange people on the streets of Boston taken by DeWolf in 1968 as a part of his archival project. These candid shots all together give us a flashback to the 1960s Boston.

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The Life at North High School in Worcester, Massachusetts in the 1940s

Andrew Love had been a student of North High School in Worcester, Massachusetts, also a member of the camera club at school or a school photographer who shot these amazing photos sometime during 1945-1947.

North High School, Worcester, Massachusetts, 1946

Students at North High School

1945 North High School girl's field hockey team

1945 North High School Grad. class

1946 North High School camera club, 1946

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Rare Photos of John F. Kennedy and Wife Jackie Vacationing With Friends in Cape Cod, 1961

Dozens of never-released photos show former President John F. Kennedy and his wife, Jackie, in their swimsuits enjoying a day at the beach on Cape Cod.

They were taken in August 1961 by Washington Post heiress Katharine Graham at the estate of Rachel “Bunny’’ Mellon and her banker husband, Paul.

John F. Kennedy and Listerine heiress Rachel 'Bunny' Mellon relaxing outside on the deck.

Jackie and her host, banker Paul Mellon, are pictured chatting on what appears to be the deck of the Cape Cod property.

Jackie Kennedy, who was known for her impeccable fashion taste, is pictured in many of the images looking incredibly casual and carefree.

John F. Kennedy can be seen swimming alongside a male companion

John F. Kennedy wearing his back brace, which was designed to help alleviate his chronic back pain - and which he is believed to have been wearing on the day of his death.

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Rare Vintage Photos of John and Jackie Kennedy Have Fun While Navigating a Tiny Boat in Hyannis Port, Massachusetts, 1959

Jack Kennedy loved the water. He was a superb swimmer, a fine sailor. Here, during the summer of 1959, John and Jackie have fun while navigating a tiny boat in Hyannis Port, Massachusetts.

Mall Series: 21 Photographs Capture Daily Life of People at Shopping Malls in the 1980s

From fashionable teenagers dressed in their finest clothes to an older woman simply sitting on a bench with her walking stick, this series of photographs capture what people looked like when they ventured out to the mall three decades ago.

The photo series called Mall Series, offers a glimpse of the teenagers, staff, and shoppers who were nicknamed 'Mall Rats,' and enjoyed nothing better than spending hours in the shopping centers in the 1980s.

In 1984, the photographer, who had just begun teaching at Clark University, lived only a short walk away from the bustling mall and was given exclusive access to photograph its inhabitants. Over the course of three years, he became as much fixture of the complex as the stores it housed, known universally by its security personnel, who he explains would often allow him to photograph young rowdy mall-goers before stepping in to control the situation. Limited only by the owners’ mandate that he not capture any obscene moments, DiRado amassed a collection of thousands of images featuring characters of all ages.

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