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Crowd aboard the Jackie B. watching the Progress win the Fisherman’s race
Leslie Jones, 1929
Boston Public Library Print Department, Leslie Jones Collection
Accession # 08_06_013267

Crews and their boats, Squantum Yacht Club
Leslie Jones, 1933
Boston Public Library Print Department, Leslie Jones Collection
Accession # 08_06_013205

Crew hauls ice covered schooner Gov. Fuller into fish pier
Leslie Jones, 26 January 1930
Boston Public Library Print Department, Leslie Jones Collection
Accession # 08_06_007217

Commander Byrd’s South Pole ships (likely Bear of Oakland) at East Boston dry dock
Leslie Jones, 1933
Boston Public Library Print Department, Leslie Jones Collection
Accession # 08_06_002232

Columbia wins over Henry Ford off Gloucester in Fisherman’s race
Leslie Jones, 11-12 October 1929
Boston Public Library Print Department, Leslie Jones Collection
Accession # 08_06_013566

(That break was a little longer than planned, but summer’s now over.)

Drying sails at fish pier
Leslie Jones, circa 1930
Boston Public Library Print Department, Leslie Jones Collection
Accession # 08_06_006998

Dories iced-up on fishing schooner Herbert Parker
Leslie Jones, February 1923
Boston Public Library Print Department, Leslie Jones Collection
Accession # 08_06_007490

Cup defenders - VanitieandResolute
Leslie Jones, 1915 [1914?]
Boston Public Library Print Department, Leslie Jones Collection
Accession # 08_06_012693

Cup defender Rainbow under construction at Herreshoff Yard, Bristol, R.I.
Leslie Jones, March 1934
Boston Public Library Print Department, Leslie Jones Collection
Accession # 08_06_012968

Crowd to see grounded schooner Nancy at Nantasket beach
Leslie Jones, 1927
Boston Public Library Print Department, Leslie Jones Collection
Accession # 08_06_005737

Cup defender Defiance built and launched at Maine shipyards
Leslie Jones, 1914
Boston Public Library Print Department, Leslie Jones Collection
Accession # 08_06_013184

Crowd gathers around the schooner Nancy at Nantasket
Leslie Jones, 1927
Boston Public Library Print Department, Leslie Jones Collection
Accession # 08_06_006495

Livy Poulin.

On this day in 1873, Boston’s Common Council requested that the Boston Public Library open its reading rooms on Sundays from 2-9 pm. The Board of Aldermen and Mayor of Boston approved the order a few weeks later.

Boston’s Copley Square Library still opens on Sundays, but with slightly shorter hours. Thinking about visiting a Boston Public Library location this weekend? You can look at all branch locations and hours here

Request to open Boston Public Library Reading Rooms on Sundays, 1873 January 16, Docket 1873-0235-A1, City Council proceedings, (Collection 0100.001), Boston City Archives