Hello! Here are the new collections on DigitalCommonwealth.org from September:
Hosted collections added:
Boston Public Library:
- Boston Herald (273 items; issues of the daily newspaper from 1937-1938)
- Boston Pictorial Archive (657 items; photographs of various Boston-area locations taken for the Boston Redevelopment Authority from the 1960s-1980s)
- Incunabula (7 items; early printed theological texts in Latin from 1470-1497)
- Selections from the Boston Public Library Rare Books and Manuscripts Department (4 items; miscellaneous texts published from 1508-1863, including the Emancipation Proclamation)
- Thomas Prince Library and Collection of the Old South Church (1 item; second edition of Eliot’s Massachuset translation of the Bible, from 1685)
- Medieval and Early Renaissance Manuscripts (1 item; 15th century French volume containing brief biographies of and sayings attributed to philosophers)
Boston Symphony Orchestra Archives:
- Boston Symphony Orchestra Historical Score Collection (ca. 1881-1980s) (163 items; musical scores used by BSO conductors from 1881 through the 1980s)
Chelsea Historical Commission:
- Arnold Jarmak Collection (431 items; photographs from a staff photographer of the Chelsea Record from 1963-1998)
Jamaica Plain Historical Society:
- Jamaica Plain Historical Society (42 items; photographs and maps depicting the Boston neighborhood from 1833-1981)
Levi Heywood Memorial Library:
- Heywood-Wakefield Company (Gardner, MA) (2 items; documents and films related to the furniture manufacturer from the mid-1900s)
Revere Society for Cultural & Historical Preservation/Revere History Museum:
- Peter McCauley/Robert F. Upton Jr. Collection (305 items; photographs and ephemera related to Revere Beach from the 1850s to the mid-20th century)
Sturgis Library:
- Yarmouth Register (3,620 items; issues of the weekly newspaper from 1889-1958)
Harvested collections added:
- Suffolk University, Moakley Archive & Institute (3 new collections, 784 new records)