Category: New Collections

  • Knapp Family Financial Records

    by Anne Berard, Reference & Outreach Librarian, Milford Town Library, member Digital Commonwealth Education & Outreach Committee When I first saw the name of the recently added collection, Knapp Family Financial Records from the Jamaica Plain Historical Society, I must admit I was expecting something else altogether.  I thought I might find wills, codicils, estate…

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  • New Collections Added in April

                          Hosted Boston Public Library – Warren Favor Collection (756 items) City of Gloucester, Archives – City-Owned Cemeteries Advisory Committee (3 items) Jamaica Plain Historical Society – Knapp Family Financial Records (116 items) Jamaica Plain Historical Society – Jamaica Plain Historical Society Photo Gallery (34 items)*…

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  • New Collections Added in February

    Just a few of the treasures from the Barnstable Patriot Photograph Collection Boston Public Library Giovanni Battista Piranesi (1720-1778). Etchings (195 items)* Tichnor Brothers Postcard Collection (1 item)* Travel Photography (46 items) Cape Cod Community College Barnstable Patriot Photograph Collection, 1931-1978 (1,223 items)* Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court Archives Commonwealth v. Sacco and Vanzetti (763 items)…

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