Category: New Collections

  • New Collections Added to Digital Commonwealth in January

        January was a busy month for Digital Commonwealth, in no small part due to the New Bedford Public Library adding 4 new collections and substantially increasing two existing collections.  All six include photographs that depict New Bedford’s varied history.  The photo of Frank Lewis with baleen bundles (left) from the Earl D. Wilson…

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  • New Collections Added to Digital Commonwealth in December

    Digital Commonwealth added a lot of new items to existing collections in December, but only Lincoln Public Library and the Massachusetts Archives added wholly new collections.  The Archives added a small collection of photographs of founders and commissioners of the Metropolitan Park Commission.  Lincoln uploaded the Isabelle Peirce Collection, which consists mainly of 19th century…

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  • New Collections Added to Digital Commonwealth in November

    This month we welcome AgitArte, an organization of working class artists and cultural organizers, who added the scroll, one of their community art projects, at left.  Almost unbelievably, the Medford Historical Society & Museum has added several hundred more Civil War photos and the Chicopee Public Library has allowed the harvest of two more collections.…

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