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Images about Boston

33 images from works
  • Brown's Bronchial Troches, for the aleviation of bronchitis, hoarseness, coughs, asthma, colds, catarrh, and all disorders of the breath and lungs.
  • The gigantic giraffe or camelopard, the gensbok, or ibex of the Egyptians, the bontibok, and the gazelle : neither of which were ever before brought to the continent of America, and but barely seen in any part of the civilized world ...
  • Laxina : see other side.
  • Stickney & Poor's mustards, spices and extracts are the best : if your grocer does not keep the send to us direct ... / Stickney & Poor.
  • Boston city centre, Boston, Massachusetts: elevated view. Photograph by Francis Frith, ca. 1880.
  • Boston, Massachusetts: Commonwealth Avenue: elevated view. Photograph, ca. 1880.
  • The Brunswick Hotel, Boston, Massachusetts. Photograph, ca. 1880.
  • The gigantic giraffe or camelopard, the gensbok, or ibex of the Egyptians, the bontibok, and the gazelle : neither of which were ever before brought to the continent of America, and but barely seen in any part of the civilized world ...
  • Patient being carried to Boston General hospital on a stretcher. Coloured line engraving by Fenner Sears & Co., 1831, after R. Goodarce.
  • Museum of Fine Arts, Copley Square, Boston, Massachusetts. Photograph, ca. 1880.

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    Proceedings at the dedication of the Ether Monument : 1868.

    Boston (Mass.) | Date: [1868]
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    The by-laws and orders of the town of Boston, passed at several legal town meetings, and duly approved by the Court of Sessions : together with rules and orders passed by the selectmen, the rules and regulations of the Board of Health. Also, sundry laws of the Commonwealth, and other important information relating to the town of Boston / published under the direction of the selectmen.

    Boston (Mass.) | Date: 1818

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Hospitals, Special
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Massachusetts School for the Feeble-Minded
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Hospital Administration
History, 18th Century
History, 19th Century

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