Category: New Collections

  • 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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  • 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…

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