Category: New Collections

  • 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 December

    Written by Patricia Feeley The holiday season was celebrated at Digital Commonwealth by adding some interesting collections.  Our biggest contributors, Boston Public Library and the University of Massachusetts/Amherst, of course, did their bit.  But let’s highlight our other two contributors. The Jamaica Plain Historical Society performed a good deed for all Bostonians by sponsoring the…

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  • New Collections added to Digital Commonwealth in November

    Let us give thanks for November’s new collections.  And additions to existing collections.  But I was most taken with two of our new collections: Boston Children’s Museum Lantern Slides and the Washington Historical Commission Collection. Many of the lantern slides are hand-colored, giving unnaturally rosy cheeks to all captured in the image.   I never knew…

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