Author: BPL Statewide

  • BPL Photographer Rose’s Favorite Format!

    Hello statewide friends! This month, we have a post from one of our illustrious staff photographers. Rose Ingerman is our Digital Imaging Production Assistant, and photographs the majority of statewide materials that come into the BPL through the program. Seeing as she has seen as much of the materials that come through our doors as…

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  • Digital Commonwealth May 2025 Statistics

    Hi folks – with apologies for being a week late, here are our May 2025 statistics: Hosted collections added: Boston Public Library: The Boston Herald (4837 items; issues of the daily newspaper from 1878-1909) In Lieu of Flowers: Photographs by Caleb Cole (6 items; memorial portraits of trans people murdered in the United States and Puerto Rico…

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  • Digital Commonwealth April 2025 Statistics

    Happy Monday, everyone, and here is our April 2025 collections update! Hosted collections added: Boston Public Library: The Boston Herald (2,450 items; issues of the daily newspaper from 1858-1877)  The Boston Traveler (2,341 items; issues of the daily newspaper from 1931-1946) Massachusetts Archives: Accounts of Guardians of the Dudley Indians, 1801-1857 (bulk 1801-1846)(46 items; financial accounts from…

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