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Historic Photos of Haymarket and Parcel 9

An 1852 drawing of 51-53 Blackstone Street, on the current site of Parcel 9, from the collection of the Boston Athenaeum.

Detail from an 1873 Currier and Ives lithograph, The City of Boston, in the Library of Congress

A 1923 aerial photo of the North End shows dense commercial development on the site of Parcel 9 before construction of the Central Artery in the 1950s. Photo from Campanella, Cities from the Sky

A 1950s view from the Custom House, after demolition for the Central Artery had begun.
Photo by Leslie Jones from Jane Holtz Kay, Lost Boston

Looking north on Blackstone Street from North Street in the 1950s. The tall buildings at right are on what is now Parcel 9. The tall building at the corner housed Batchelder and Snyder, a meat distributor. Photo from Anthony Mitchell Sammarco, Boston’s North End

A pushcart vendor on Hanover Street in the early 1900s, from an old postcard.

 

Historic images of Haymarket from the MIT Library

Haymarket today