Merry Christmas from the City Archives! check out this Christmas celebration at Boston City Hospital in 1912!

Take a look at Atlantic avenue, looking northerly from the Cove Street Bridge #onthisday in 1910!

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Check out this snowy scene at Forest Hills Station #onthisday in 1919!

252 years ago today, the Sons of Liberty threw crates of tea into Boston Harbor in protest of the Tea Act of 1773. Check out these photos of the Boston Tea Party Museum taken by Peter Dreyer in 1975! Image 1: The Brig Beaver near the Boston Tea Party Museum Image 2: An actor aboard the Brig Beaver

Happy Hanukkah from the City Archives! Here is Mayor Walsh lighting the menorah at City Hall in 2019!

#onthisday in 1875 George Lewis Ruffin became the first Black man elected to the Boston Common Council. He went on to serve in the Massachusetts State Legislature and was appointed a judge for the Municipal Court. Take a look at his personal record!

Check out 110-116 Dorchester Avenue in South Boston, #onthisday in 1914!

Today is William Lloyd Garrison's birthday! He was born December 10, 1805 in Newburyport, MA. Garrison was a journalist, abolitionist, and supporter of women's suffrage. He co-founded the anti-slavery newspaper The Liberator, which he published in Boston from 1831-1865.

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#onthisday in 1941 Japan attacked Pearl Harbor. Here is Mayor Tobin's address at a city-wide meeting after the attack. Image 1: Mayor Tobin's address after the attack on Pearl Harbor printed in the City Record. Image 2: Page 2 of Mayor Tobin's address printed in the City Record.

Take a look at Dudley Street Station #onthisday in 1910!

The Annual Boston Common Tree Lighting Celebration is tonight! Every year, the tree is gifted to Boston from Nova Scotia. Learn why at: ow.ly/PTT050Xxcfo Image 1: Mayor Walsh and others at the 2015 Boston Common Tree Lighting Celebration Image 2: The Christmas tree on the Boston Common in 2015

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Happy #Thanksgiving Boston! Here is Mayor Menino serving dinner at the Morgan Memorial Goodwill Thanksgiving Dinner in 2007! #gobblegobble Image 1: Mayor Menino serving dinner Image 2: Mayor Menino serving dinner Image 3: Mayor Menino speaking at the Morgan Memorial Goodwill Thanksgiving Dinner

It's #NationalCakeDay! Take a look at the towering cake celebrating the Statler Hilton hotel's 35th anniversary, circa 1960-1968!

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Check out 573-563 Dorchester Avenue #onthisday in 1911!

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Boston Garden opened 97 years ago today! Check out this medal from the Beanpot Hockey Tournament held at Boston Garden, circa 1960-1969!

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Take a look at the Jaynes Store at the corner of Hanover and Washington Streets, #onthisday in 1905!

Today, and everyday, we want to thank all veterans for their service! Hero Squares throughout the city honor the memory of service members who died in action. We recently digitized the documentation for Boston's Hero Squares. Learn more in our latest blogpost at: ow.ly/626w50XpFyX #VeteransDay

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check out the Boston City Hospital Relief Station in Haymarket Square #onthisday in 1905!

Today is #NationalCandyDay! Take a look at the candy recipes in the textbook "A Course in Household Arts" from 1911!

Happy #Halloween Boston! Check out this spooky poem from the 1924 edition of the Dorchester High School student magazine, The Item! Read the full issue at: ow.ly/kASR50XffQ @bostonschools.boston.gov

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Check out this view looking south towards Savin Hill Bridge, station and platform #onthisday in 1927!

It's #UnitedNationsDay! In 1962, the Boy Scouts and Girl Scouts of America planted a tree in Boston Common in observance! Pictured are: Patricia A. Ryan, G.S.A.; Robert DeSimone; Chairman of the Mayor's committee Harold D. Hodgkinson; Park Commissioner Martin J. Walsh; and Kenneth E. George, B.S.A.

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Check out this crowd of people waiting for the train #onthisday in 1929! What does your morning commute look like?

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Boston Symphony Hall opened #onthisday in 1900! Take a look at this photo from 1965!

In honor of #LatinxHeritageMonth, take a look at this 2016 City Council resolution that designated the Hyde-Jackson neighborhood of Jamaica Plain as Boston's Latin Quarter! #HispanicHeritageMonth

Happy Indigenous People's Day! In 2021 Mayor Kim Janey signed an executive order declaring every second Monday in October as Indigenous People's Day! Image 1: Mayor Kim Janey signing the executive order. Image 2: Mayor Kim Janey posing with unidentified individuals and the executive order.

Colonel Robert Gould Shaw, commander of the Massachusetts 54th Regiment, was born #onthisday in 1837! Image: Shaw and Massachusetts 54th Regiment Memorial from "Exercises at the dedication of the monument to Colonel Robert Gould Shaw and the Fifty-fourth Regiment of Massachusetts Infantry", 1897.

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Check out the 1983 Puerto Rican Festival on City Hall Plaza! #LatinxHeritageMonth #HispanicHeritageMonth Image 1: Flag raising at the 1983 Puerto Rican Festival Image 2: A speaker at the Puerto Rican Festival Image 3: A band at the Puerto Rican Festival Image 4: Dancers at the Puerto Rican Festival

Take a look at the view of Boylston Street from the Hotel Lenox, #onthisday in 1912!

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We are sharing longtime community activist Jorge "Chico" Munoz! He co-founded Boston's annual Puerto Rican Festival and The Spanish Action Center and was the first Latino trustee of the City of Boston Board of Health and Hospitals. #LatinxHeritageMonth #HispanicHeritageMonth

Take a look at 238-280 State Street, photographed #onthisday in 1912!

Happy Birthday former Boston Mayor Kevin H. White!

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September 15th - October 15th is Latinx Heritage Month! Take a look at Mayor Walsh at a Hispanic heritage celebration in East Boston in 2018! #LatinxHeritageMonth #HispanicHeritageMonth

Happy first day of Fall, Boston! #Fall #Autumn Image: The Muddy River, taken October 1965 by Peter H. Dreyer.

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The Town of Boston was founded #onthisday in 1630! Check out all the ways the city celebrated in this program from the 300th anniversary celebration! Happy Birthday Boston!