Author: Outreach Committee

  • New Collections Added in October

                    Boston Public Library Ellen F. O’Connor Collection (1,904 items)* Ellen F. O’Connor was an art teacher in the Boston Public Schools system, teaching at the Prince School and later West Roxbury High School. In addition to her work as an educator, she was a passionate participant in…

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  • New Collections Added in September

    Boston Public Library Boston Pictorial Archive (225 items)* Medieval and Early Renaissance Manuscripts (3 items)*  Colonial and Revolutionary America (6 items)* Scottish Rite Masonic Museum (6 new collections; 345 new items)*   Southeast Asian Digital Archive (1 new collection, 3 new items)*    

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  • New Collections Added to Digitial Commonwealth in August

    Digital Commonwealth had a busy August with some new collections and additions to existing collections. Of the new offerings, Nahant Public Library’s Florence Johnson Herbarium  collection brings the specimens collected and painstakingly mounted by Miss Flossie Johnson and her grade school students over her long career (1881-1927). Most notable are the specimens stamped “Mass Horticultural…

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