One of the core projects of the Society is organizing (by street, neighborhood, subject, or family name), and providing meta data for, the most meaningful available historical photographs of Brookline. To this end we are curating our own core holdings with selections from other online sources and those donated by the descendants of past citizens of Brookline. We augment the catalog of our own images with direct links to the following sources:

• Digital Commonwealth
• Historic New England
• Smithsonian Instiution Research Information System
• Iowa State University, Warren Manning Collection
• Olmsted Archives, National Park Service, Frederick Law Olmsted National Historic Site

Do you have old photos?
We are interested in obtaining digital scans of any historic photos of Brookline that you might have, primarily those of locations and slice-of-life scenes before 1920. Please contact us to discuss your photos, scanning etc.