Digital Commonwealth: June 2026 New Collections

Hello DigitalCommonwealth.org users, and happy Fourth of July! Here are the latest new collections in the repository:

Hosted collections added:

• Janet Acopian Yegumians Collection: 2500th Anniversary Celebration of the Founding of the Persian Empire, October 1971, Iran (10 items; documents related to the 2500th Anniversary Celebration of the Persian Empire, held at Persepolis in October 1971)

• Boston Herald (245 items; issues of the daily newspaper from 1937)
• Boston Public Library Publications, Catalogs, and Administrative Records (24 items; bound volumes of BPL’s Dictionary Catalog of the Music Collection from 1972-1977)
• The Longmeadow News (1,567 items; issues of the weekly newspaper from 1969-2020)
• Norman B. Leventhal Map & Education Center Collection (255 items; U.S. government maps of aeronautical routes and airport obstruction charts from the 1990s)

• American Revolution Collection (10 items; Revolutionary War-era and related letters, orders, and official records from 1650-1820)
• Caleb Strong Collection (113 items; manuscripts and correspondence from 1650-1820, associated with the Honorable Caleb Strong of Northampton (1745-1819))
• Forbes Library Manuscript Collection (162 items; manuscripts, documents, ephemera, correspondence, and photographs related to Northampton and Hampshire County individuals, families, and organizations from 1629-1841)
• Jonathan Judd Family Diaries Collection (5 items; diaries from 1742-1794, including detailed descriptions of the events of Shays’ Rebellion and reactions to significant Revolutionary War battles)
• Joseph Hawley I, II, III Collection (6 items; account books belonging to Joseph Hawley I, II, and III from 1655-1764)
• Seth Pomeroy Collection (73 items; manuscripts and documents relating to Seth Pomeroy (1706-1777), an American gunsmith and soldier from Northampton from 1668-1885)

• GCC Photographs (1,613 items; photographs, ephemera, and prints from the college’s Marketing & Communications Department from 1930-1999)

• Lawrence, Mass. Engineering Department (7 items; maps, photographs, manuscripts, correspondence, and drawings from 1900-2003
• Lawrence, Mass. Engineering Department. City Streets (1 item; )
• Lawrence, Mass. Engineering Department. Plans and associated papers (2 items; drawings, maps, manuscripts, ephemera, and correspondence from 1951-1960)
• Lawrence, Mass., Water Department (1 item; )
• Lawrence Public Library Posters and Ephemera Collection (27 items; documents, prints, posters, drawings, and photographs from 1903-2018)
• Semana Hispana Poster Collection (8 items; festival posters from 1982-2014)