During normal tour seasons, we pass copies of historic photos around for the group to look at. In an effort to avoid contact - we are offering these electronic images to accompany the tour instead.
Images for Sumner Hill Tour
View of Monument square about 1905
Greenough Avenue in 1912, from a glass plate negative in the JPHS collections.
The 2 men on the right of this image of Centre Street are unloading a wagon in front of Keazer’s Store
Susan Walker Fitzgerald (far left) at a Suffrage Parade 1913 (image courtesy Library of Congress)
General William Hyslop Sumner
Photographic postcard. Possibly the John R. Alley house that stood at 3 Revere Street on the corner with Elm Street.
Articles to learn more about this area of Jamaica Plain:
Revere Street after the Hurricane of 1938. From the Ellen O’Connor collection on Digital Commonwealth.