Happy new year to all of our colleagues and partners across the state! Here are the DigitalCommonwealth.org statistics for final month of 2025:
Hosted collections added:
Boston Public Library:
- Allen A. Brown Collection of Music (10 items; musical scores published in Boston from 1770-1881)
- Boston Herald (635 items; issues of the daily newspaper from 1932-1934)
- Boston Public Library Government Documents Collection (135 items; miscellaneous documents covering land use, housing, and transportation in the greater Boston area from 1800-1999)
- Incunabula (1 item; Catholic religious text from 1460)
- Selections from the Boston Public Library Rare Books and Manuscripts Department (1 item; ‘A narrative of the life and adventures of Venture, a native of Africa,’ from 1835)
Heritage Museums & Gardens:
- Peter K. Meier Cranberry Collection (570 items; images and documents related to the history of Massachusetts’s cranberry culture from 1830 to the 2000s)
St. Barnabas Episcopal Church:
- St. Barnabas Episcopal Church, Falmouth, MA, Collection (41 items; photographs and blueprints of the church from 1880-1900)
Sturgis Library:
- The Register (418 items; issues of the weekly Yarmouth newspaper from 1986-1993)
Truro Historical Society, Cobb Archive:
- Outer Cape Postcard Collection from the Truro Historical Society, 1915-1980 (2,775 items; postcards of Cape Cod locations and culture from 1915-1980)
Stats:
Total records: 1,447,348
Hosted items: 746,853