West Point Cadets at Harvard Stadium #2 - and 50 similar items

Original, Authentic Photo by Boston Herald-Traveler staff photographer Leslie R. Jones. Image depicts the West Point Cadets at Harvard Stadium in Boston. An identical copy exists in the Boston Public Library print archives and estimates the date to be circa 1917-1934, and the location as Harvard Stadium in Boston. 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. 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.