View of Kelleher Rose Garden and Museum of Fine Arts. Cars suggest the photo was taken in the 1920s.

Longwood Avenue, looking toward Brookline. Gardner Museum Northeastern University-Huntington Ave. The large vacant space in the center of the photo appears to be the site of the first Beth Israel buildings. Aerial view taken from above Brookline looking toward the Fenway, probably from the early 1920s. The Mission Hill Fenway Neighborhood Trust underwrote their digitization and the creation of this gallery, which we present as a tribute to Bernie and the fascinating window on the Fenway’s history that he created. The Kramer children-Roz, Mimi, and Phil-generously allowed The Fenway News to digitize Bernie’s slides. The show presented an entertaining look at the Fenway’s evolution from the 1890s through urban renewal in the 1960s.

He ultimately turned them into a slide show, which he gave publicly multiple times in the 1980s and 1990s. And they loved collecting, from a passion for American art pottery, in which they became renowned experts to paper bags with calligraphy, which my Dad particularly loved (and now belong to the Newark Art Museum’s collection of 20th-century ephemera) to post-Civil War objects that he used to illustrate Jim Crow attitudes in lectures on the role racism played in mental health issues.”Īdopting the Fenway as another collecting passion, Bernie amassed a collection of historic images of the neighborhood and environs, primarily drawn from postcards found at flea markets and yard sales.

A pioneer in the community mental health movement in the U.S., Bernie taught social psychology over a career of 40 years at Harvard, Tufts, and UMass Boston.īernie and Barbara’s daughter Roz recalls that her “parents loved living in the Fenway. Bernie Kramer and Barbara Maysles Kramer lived in the East Fens for more than 25 years.

Bernie night at the roxbury