There’s nothing like a set of old photographs to pull you back into the past. Check out these incredible shots from the 1930s that illustrate the lives that our parents and grandparents once lived.
- A second-hand plumbing supply store in Brockton.
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- Commuters waiting for the bus home in Lowell.
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- Headlines posted in a street corner window of a local newspaper office in Brockton.
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- Children gathered outside the tenement district in Brockton.
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- A farming woman displaying homemade jelly for sale near Northampton.
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- Locals watching a tourist boat arrive from Boston in Provincetown.
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- Salvaging onions after a hurricane in Hadley.
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- Two older gentlemen taking a rest outside of a shop in Provincetown.
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- Heading to the beach is a cheap and fun reprieve from the toil of daily life. Bathers relax on the shores of Provincetown.
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- These are just five out of a total of 11 children who lived in a small, cramped house in Quincy.
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- Officer William Green, of Raynham lived on a farm with his mother and fifteen cows. Mr. Green had six children and worked as a policeman at nearby Camp Edwards.
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- The Forgetta family were Italian vegetable farmers in Andover. The oldest daughter (at the piano) and Mr. Forgetta also worked in a nearby textile mill when they could.
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- A store going out of business in Lowell. Note the “Out We Go” signs.
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- The New Bedford waterfront area.
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- A roadside market in Greenfield.
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- Children playing in the housing projects in Holyoke.
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- A father reading to his children in Williamstown.
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- Picnicking on the Mohawk Trail and reading the Sunday paper.
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- Writing cards home to the folks while vacationing in the Mohawk Trail region.
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- Odds and ends for sale in a small wayside shop in the Berkshires.
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Does anyone in your family have stories or pictures from this era?
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