Gallery: 25 Vintage Photos of Car Accidents

Great photography from the '20s and '30s.

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There's nothing cool about automotive accidents or cars meeting unfortunate fates in junk yards, but there's something incredibly fascinating about these old black and white photographs taken in the '20s and '30s of wrecked automobiles. Leslie Jones, who passed away in 1967, captured tons of car crashes, leaving you to reimagine the sad tales of what really happened to the contorted heaps of metal. Flavorwire and A Continuous Lean tipped us off to the Leslie Jones Collection that is housed in the Boston Public Library. We searched through every one and picked out the very best. The titles you see below the pictures were found on the actual negatives or negative sleeves. Click on to see 25 Vintage Photos of Car Accidents

Source: Boston Public Library, Leslie Jones Collection

Auto goes into trench in Peabody Square

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Colonial gas truck accident: Somerville

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Demolished auto loaded onto Boston & Maine Car

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West Roxbury

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Daniel Barry of South Boston was killed on Old Colony Ave.

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Trolley hits car - Boston

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Truck wrecked by bus - Charles St.

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Truck crashes through garage several stories up East Cambridge

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Auto plunges into Fore River drowning 3. Fireboat pulls auto out.

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Car crushed by trolley - North Hampton and Washington Sts.

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Car stolen by kids crashes into lawyer's car, killing him.

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Auto destroyed by fire after accident

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Waltham: Byron W. Harwood, Head Harwood Counter Co. of Lynn/Byron E. Grover of Sprague-Hoague Box Co. of Lynn, severely injured - recovering at Waltham Hospital.

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Auto meets tree, Norumbega Park, Auburndale

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Truck hangs off bridge by one wheel

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Truck and El Bus collide in South Boston

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Car in stairwell

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Car hits utility pole in Cambridge

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Car cut in half by pole

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Phillip Lewitzky of 21 County Rd. Chelsea, drowns when his auto went off Lynn Boulevard into Point of Pines and Revere Creek

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Daniel V. Barry was killed while campaigning in South Boston. Car hit hydrant on Old Colony Ave - Columbia Rd.

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Car hits lamp post

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Auto burns after crash. Readville, MA.

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