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Born in 1886, Jones graduated from the Farm & Trade School on Thompson Island.
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Leslie Jones
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His photographs document both the usual and the unusual in the daily life of Boston. 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.
