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Here is a selection of images from this month focused on the continuing immigration issue. The image of Bobby Orr flying through the air after scoring the game-winning goal in the Stanley Cup Finals at Boston Garden is indelibly imprinted into the minds of Boston sports fans.

It has taken on renewed significance as the Bruins will face off once more against the St. In celebration of Earth Day, a look at photographs depicting the beautiful transformation of spring landscapes all over the globe.

An estimated 30, runners compete in the rd Boston Marathon. The event was inspired by youth activist Greta Thunberg, who began holding solitary demonstrations outside the Swedish parliament last year. In a world where the smartphone is now ubiquitous, photographers capture daily life in which the personal device is part of the moment.

To hear some of the photographers speak about their images, click here. Bush, remembering Pearl Harbor, and high school football championships. Something was very wrong. She had noticed a hard lump in her left breast about a year before but kept the discovery to herself. She literally could not afford to be sick.

Photographs from July to December on a range of topics from around the world. See images from Part I 38 photos total. Photographs from January to June on a range of topics from around the world. See images from Part II 34 photos total. Through the New England countryside, riders take part in an adventure at once ancient and modern: A formal fox hunt, no fox necessary.

A peaceful march devolved into unrest when US agents fired tear gas to stop hundreds of migrants attempting to storm a border fence separating Mexico from the United States. Over 5, Central American migrants have been camping out at a sports complex in Tijuana. Over 10, structures were destroyed. The search for hundreds of people still missing continues.

Sunday Nov. Its bloody battlegrounds, the Somme, Verdun, the Marne, and others, still epitomize apparently pointless human sacrifice. Those who survived the trenches of the Western Front believed civilization could never again sink so low. The Red Sox once again for the fourth time this century rolled through the city in triumph after winning the World Series.

The Sox won Game 4, The Red Sox fell to the Dodgers, , in Game 3, a 7-hourminute game, the longest in postseason history. The Red Sox hold a series lead. Red Sox win and lead series The Sox won Game 1, Days after an earthquake and tsunami severely damaged parts of an Indonesian island, the confirmed death toll has exceeded 1, dead with hundreds severely injured and still more trapped in debris.

Deb was still new to this high school in Peabody. The series is arranged into three sub-series: A. Daily Assignments; and C. The bulk of the negatives are found within the Daily Assignments sub-series. In each sub-series the negatives remain in the original order in which they were received and are not necessarily in chronological order. Unfortunately, the exact date and times have not been recorded on the assignment envelopes, so no order or subject matter is immediately apparent.

Most topics are Boston-centric, as they were taken by Boston Globe staff photographers, although some national news is covered as well. Negatives that were published in the Globe are marked by holes punched in the perforated area of the photographic negative strip. Each date can potentially have hundreds of negatives, covering all the topics of the day, as well as general images of the Greater Boston area.

Sports consists of photographs of the Beanpot Tournament, the Boston Celtics, and the Red Sox. No other boxes of material of this type have been located, so the original filing intent is unknown at present. Some additional sports events from local high schools to professional leagues can be found in Sub-Series B.

Daily Assignments. The sub-series is arranged alphabetically by team and then chronologically. Despite nearly years of publication, the newspaper endured a rocky start. Within three weeks of his arrival, Globe circulation rose from 8, to 30, He added illustrations to articles, ran full-page advertisements, and installed machinery for folding and trimming the newspaper. In , Taylor launched the Boston Sunday Globe, and by the Globe reached , in daily and Sunday circulation.

In , he introduced an afternoon edition called the Evening Globe, which continued until Taylor remained publisher of the Globe until his death in , and his heirs retained management of the newspaper through three generations. William O. Taylor published the paper from , William Davis Taylor from , and finally Benjamin B.

Taylor from More recent publishers have included Richard H. Gilman , P. Henry present. The paper achieved its national prominence under editor Thomas Winship, who led the newsroom for two decades from The paper won its first Pulitzer Prize in for an investigation into the professional qualifications of Judge Francis X.

Morrissey, a Kennedy family friend and nominee for an appointment in the federal judiciary. The Globe won another Pulitzer in for its coverage of the Boston school busing crisis, and over the last fifty-two years has garnered 26 more Pulitzers for photography, commentary, and coverage of local, national, and international news stories. That year, the paper relocated to its iconic plant on Morrissey Boulevard in Dorchester.

In , the former Globe building on Washington Street was demolished. In the Globe moved back to State Street, just one block from its original location. The first librarian, Edson W. White, oversaw the filing of clippings and images, and the gathering of additional reference materials to support the research and information needs of the Globe newsroom. Welch, and Edward W. Quill, who implemented and supervised the transition to microfilm and implementation of weeding strategies.

Lisa Tuite, who first joined the library in the early s, served as the head librarian until Many of the Globe head librarians were active in and became leaders of the Newspaper Group of the Special Libraries Association. Countless articles written by Globe staff include lines of thanks and credit to Globe librarians across many topics, and library staff actively produced articles and timelines over the years as well. Beyond maintaining the growing reference and photographic collections and working directly with Globe writers, artists, and other staff members, Globe librarians also answered community reference requests, fielding queries from genealogists, research questions from doctoral students, and court subpoenas.

The column also offered advice on using the collections and making requests. On occasion, however, the library staff welcomed occasional tours, especially for those in the library field interested in the special filing system and photo morgue collection and management practices maintained by the librarians. By April the library contained volumes of reference works, about , subject files containing 1,, clippings, , photographs, and 60, photographic metal half-cuts.

When the Boston Post closed in , the Globe purchased its photograph archives, adding these to the collection. The library further collected materials that came in through the Associated Press, a wire service to which the paper has had access since , and library staff-maintained images and articles from the Associated Press as part of the reference materials in the collection.

By , the collection was believed to have about 4 million newspaper clippings, , photographs, and 35, metal photographic cuts; as of the cuts were contained in one electromechanical unit called a Kard-Veyer, and the photographs were kept in electromechanical file units called Lektrievers. In addition to the physical collections, the Globe was the first American newspaper to create a searchable electronic cache of public stories in , and in the Globe digitized microfilm of the paper from to , making all published articles available digitally.

The Globe also started digitizing daily photographs in Though resources were weeded, and materials streamlined with the advance of technology, by the move to State Street the Globe library included more than 5 million photographic negatives, 1. The Globe library continues today, though with a reduced physical space and staff.

The majority of the historic collections were transferred to Northeastern University during the move, where they are now accessible not only to Globe staff, but the general public as well.

Carlton, and Dr. Henry E. All of these men, as well as Eben Jordan and Cyrus Wakefield who were not present that night, are the original incorporators of the Globe Publishing Company. It costs four cents. Taylor is invited to replace him. City editor Clarence Wason becomes managing editor. Taylor begins his work at the Globe as the paper continues to lose money and debts increase. Taylor is elected director of the company and two weeks after that is elected clerk of the corporation.

Taylor signs contract as general manager. Edwin Munroe Bacon is appointed as the new editor. The Globe Library is founded. Taylor replaces Charles H. Taylor as publisher. William Davis Taylor becomes publisher upon the death of his father, William O. Morrissey to the federal bench. Taylor II becomes publisher of the Globe. Taylor, William O. Gilman, takes over as publisher and is the first person outside the Taylor family to hold that role. Globe announces split of digital news into Boston.

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