Happy almost-autumn, DigitalCommonwealth.org users. Here are the latest collections added to the repository in August:
Hosted collections added:
Armenian Business Network:
- Janet Acopian Yegumians Collection: 2500th Anniversary Celebration of the Founding of the Persian Empire, October 1971, Iran (6 items; publications related to the 2500th Anniversary Celebration of the Persian Empire, held at Persepolis in October 1971)
Ashby Free Public Library:
- Ashby Free Public Library Media Collection (14 items; miscellaneous historical documentary films and interviews with Ashby residents from 1967-2004)
Beverly Public Library:
- WPA Tree Census Beverly, Massachusetts Map Collection (240 items; maps and documents related to a WPA-funded tree census from 1938)
Boston Public Library:
- Allen A. Brown Collection of Music (37 items; piano sonatas and other musical scores from 1833-1903)
- Incunabula (10 items; printed texts published between 1469-1500, including liturgical texts in Latin, and Dante’s Divine Comedy)
- The Leather District and Fort Point Channel Photographic Survey (99 items; photographs of Boston’s Leather District and Fort Point neighborhoods from 1980-1981)
- Selections from the Boston Public Library Rare Books and Manuscripts Department (3 items; two volumes of Walt Whitman’s Leaves of Grass from 1855, and a Latin astronomy text from 1609)
- Thomas Prince Library and Collection of the Old South Church (2 items; the Bay Psalm Book, and a first edition of a Massachuset translation of the Old and New Testament, both from the mid-1600s)
Center for the History of Medicine (Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine):
- Boston Surgical Society Records (21 items; society documents, correspondence, photographs, and other ephemera from 1951-2010)
Community Art Center, Inc.:
- Community Art Center, Inc. Archives (916 items; photographs of Cambridge-area locations, street life, and residents from 1970-2023)
South Hadley Public Library:
- Early South Hadley (114 items; deeds, tax receipts, correspondence, and other documents related to residents of South Hadley from 1743-1842)
Sturgis Library:
- The Dennis-Yarmouth Register (326 items; issues of the weekly newspaper from 1959-1967)
- The Dennis Yarmouth Barnstable Register (37 items; issues of the weekly newspaper from 1967)
- The Sandwich Observer (104 items; issues of the weekly newspaper from 1910-1911)
- Yarmouth Register (1,667 items; issues of the weekly newspaper from 1847-1879)
- Yarmouth Register, & Barnstable County Weekly Advertiser (456 items; issues of the weekly newspaper from 1839-1847)
- Yarmouth Register, and Barnstable County Advertiser (107 items; issues of the weekly newspaper from 1837-1839)