Author: Outreach Committee

  • New Collections added to Digital Commonwealth in April

    Boston Children’s Museum Scrapbooks from the American History Collection (1 item)* Boston Public Library Norman B. Leventhal Map Center Collection (21 items)* Wendy Artin (1963-). Drawings and Paintings (64 items) Coast Guard Heritage Museum Coast Guard Heritage Museum General Collection (8 items)* The Di Rosario Collection (112 items) Historical Society of Old Yarmouth Archives and Local…

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  • New Collections added to Digital Commonwealth in March

    Before COVID-19 changed life and work as we know it, lots of new content was added to Digital Commonwealth including the voluminous photo archive of Dennis Brearley which chronicles the life of the City of Boston from the 1920s to 1970s.  From parades to protests, it’s all there providing the rich historical context that photographs…

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  • The Remarkable Photography of Leon Abdalian

    Originally scheduled to take place Sunday, April 4, a program on the Remarkable Photography of Leon Abdalian at the Jamaica Plain Branch Library has been postponed due to the COVID-19 crisis.  While that talk will be re-scheduled at a future time, in the meantime we encourage you to visit Leon’s large body of work accessible via Digital…

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