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Places From Worcester's Past


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This is a collection of pictures, most from sources believed to be from non-copyrighted (or expired copyrighted) works such as turn of the century postcards and even a yearbook or two.

I've broken it down by subject, each page is devoted to one topic. Old postcards are definitely pretty cool, since you see what the city looked like about 100 years ago in COLOR. If possible, I will try and get present day shots of some of the public places for comparison.

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There are 113 pages about past in this section. Select an index page to see the list of pages available.

Indexes: [Latest] [A][B][C][D][E][F][G][H][I][J][K][L][M][N][O][P][R][S][T][U][W][Y]

ImgsMsgsName
16The Aged Men's Home
411Airport
129Allen & Thurber Firearms
34American Steel
22The Antiquarian Society
41Arial Shots of Worcester
14The Armory
26Art Museum
16Assumption College
1071Asylum For the Insane
313Bancroft Hotel
11The Bancroft School
326Bancroft Tower
11Baptist Church
1Bay State House
1429The Blizzard of 1978
130Boys Trade
12Bus Depot
15The Causeway
55City Hall
32City Hospital
510Clark University
1Corner Lunch
11The Coronado Hotel
42The Courthouse
213Crompton and Knowles Loom Works
110Davis Tower
11Edgemere Diner
1020Elm Park
25Elm Street
1Exchange Hotel
109Fire Stations and Other Fire Stuff
15First Church of Christ
14Franklin Square Theater
621Front Street
17Geo H Ward Post Memorial Building
831Greenhill Park
114Greenwood Park
210Harrington & Richardson
15Higgins Armory
12Highland Military Academy
316High Schools
98Holy Cross
1Hotel Standish
46Hurricane of 1938
611Institute Park
122Jail
14The Jordan Roads
32Kenmore Diner
121Lake Crompton Park
186Lake Quinsigamond
34Laurel St. Church
1The Lido
110Lincoln Memorial Auditorium
38Lincoln Park
1Lincoln Square
221The Lincoln Square Boys Club
322Loews Theater
1217Main Street
14Masonic Temple
2Mechanics Hall
23Memorial Hospital
11Miscellanous Houses
38The New England Fair
21Normal School
18North Park
312Nortons
24Notre Dame Church
25Nurses Home, Worcester State Hospital
23Odd Fellows Home
13Oilzum
1Old City Hall
21Old South Church
13The Oval
13Pearl Street
26Pinehurst Park
118Pleasant Street
132Post 201 Explorers
15Post Office
24Presidental Visits
22Prime Value Mart
46Public Library
18Putnam Restaurant
13Richard Healy Furriers
113The Sowers Monument
11Spags
1St. Anne's Church
725St. Ann Orphanage
8St. Patrick's Day parade, March 17, 1985
18St. Paul's Cathedral
34St. Vincent's
11Synder the Florist
14Telephone Building
16The Thule Building
159Tornado of 1953
14Union Church
1517Union Station
1Unitarian Church
47University Park
1Waldo House
14The Warren
744White City
18Women's Club
121Woolworth's
113The Worcester Academy
13Worcester City Hospital
314Worcester Commons
1Worcester County Institution for Savings
110Worcester Market
16Worcester Theater
64WPI
12Y.D. Club
16Young Women's Christian Association


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Tornado of 1953, Comment by Jay on May 13, 2008 - Report this comment
Many thanks to Dick Bolt for listing the dead and injured of the 1953 tornado. We knew that members of our family had been killed in this tornado through doing family tree research, but it really brings it home to see their names in black and white!
Holy Cross, Comment by Tom Rooney,Sr on May 12, 2008 - Report this comment
Tobias F. "Tobey" Boland was the contractor and contributor for the first Holy Cross building. He constucted the school and also a building for the faculty His efforts have been forgotten in the founding of the college. A plaque should be placed on Fenwick Hall in his memory.


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