Author: Outreach Committee
Along the Elevated: Photographs of the Orange Line
Clockwise from top left: Washington Street, Roxbury from a moving elevated train; Along the El; Elevated subway supports, Jamaica Plain; Chinese jump rope, Chinatown, Boston. All images from Along the Elevated: Photographs from the Orange Line at the Boston Public Library. From 1901 to 1987, the MBTA’s elevated Orange Line ran between Chinatown, the South…
The Florence Johnson Herbarium: Interview with Sharon Hawkes
Jean Maguire, member of Digital Commonwealth’s Outreach & Education Committee, recently interviewed Sharon Hawkes, Director of the Nahant Public Library about the Florence Johnson Herbarium Collection. Could you please tell us a little about the history, acquisition, and contents of the Florence Johnson Herbarium collection? Florence “Miss Flossie” Johnson was a school teacher here in Nahant…
New Collections Added in November
Of special and timely interest in November’s New Collections are photographs from an exhibit, A Seat at the Table, held in 2019 at the Edward M. Kennedy Institute. This colorful and compelling exhibit was inspired by the pioneering firebrand Shirley Chisholm’s call for greater involvement of women, people…