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Historic Neighborhood Photo: Ice Cart Kids

Posted on Author Lauren MilioneComment(1)
Photo courtesy of the Boston Public Library, Leslie Jones Collection.

Right in time for the warm weather we are finally having, this week’s photo is of some neighborhood children cooling off at an ice cart in approximately 1930. They appear to be playing on Copp’s Hill.

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