Harvard Square Magnets

Harvard Square Snowfall Cambridge MA

The Dunster House through the John Weeks Bridge Harvard Square

C. 1905 print depicting Harvard Square in Brookline, Massachusetts. The print depicting horse drawn carriage, a street trolley, a knife grinder, shops and pedestrians.

Snowy Bicycles Harvard Square Cambridge MA

Boston, MA

John Weeks Bridge Charles River Harvard Square Cambridge MA

This is a based on 1930s advertising from the S.S. Pierce Company. S. S. Pierce & Co. In 1831, Pierce and his partner, Eldad Worcester, "started out by wholesaling provisions to the ships that crowded what was then a very busy Boston Harbor, but soon enough Pierce was bartering with ship captains, often exchanging his provisions for the delicacies they would bring to Boston from faraway ports."Pierce said, "I may not make money, but I shall make a reputation." The grocery business thrived, due in part to "celebrity customers ... John Quincy Adams, Daniel Webster," and Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. who said: "I was brought up on S.S. Pierce's groceries and I don't dare change." The 1886 catalog for S. S. Pierce & Co., Importers and Grocers lists