Winthrop Beach, MA 1933 Snow Storm #1 - and 36 similar items

Original, Authentic Photo by Boston Herald-Traveler staff photographer Leslie R. Jones. Writing on the back reads, "King Winter Architecture - Northeast storm in zero weather at Winthrop Beach." Winthrop Beach is the main beach of Winthrop, Massachusetts. It is located east of Boston along Winthrop Shore Drive, spanning the roadway. The beach begins off Crest Avenue at an area known as the "Green Bars", named for the green railings along the seawall. The Boston Public Library print archives has preserved several of the images taken by Mr. Jones of the Boston Common scenes from the snow storm aftermath and dated them March, 1933. Measures approximately 8 x 10 including white border. Condition: This is an original photograph, not a copy or reproduction. It is in very good condition, with bend in upper left corner. Comments: Leslie Jones (1886-1967), was a Boston, Massachusetts photographer who worked for Boston Herald-Traveler newspaper for 39 years from 1917 to 1956. His photographs document both the usual and the unusual in the daily life of Boston. Born in 1886, Jones graduated from the Farm Trade School on Thompson Island. Although interested in photography from his school days, Jones first worked as a pattern-maker. He freelanced as a photographer for several years while working in a Boston factory, but after losing two fingers to the machinery he joined the Herald-Traveler staff full-time. In his 39 years at the newspaper, Jones covered everything from a fox stuck in a tree on the Boston Common, to Charles Lindbergh's United States tour after the aviator crossed the Atlantic Ocean. Jones died in 1967. A collection of almost 40,000 of his negatives is stored in the Boston Public Library. A digital library dedicated to the collection was independently developed.