Hi folks – with apologies for being a week late, here are our May 2025 statistics:

Hosted collections added:

Boston Public Library:

• The Boston Herald (4837 items; issues of the daily newspaper from 1878-1909)
• In Lieu of Flowers: Photographs by Caleb Cole (6 items; memorial portraits of trans people murdered in the United States and Puerto Rico from 2024)
• Leslie Jones Collection (2507 items; photographs from the former Boston-based news photographer from 1917-1934)
• Medieval and Early Renaissance Manuscripts (4 items; breviaries, psalters, and other manuscripts from the 14th-16th centuries)

Ipswich Public Library:

• Ipswich Middle School Grease cast photo, 1989 (1 item)

Spinner Publications:

• The Photography of E. Milton Silvia (850 items; photographs of New Bedford from 1966 from a photographer for the New Bedford Standard-Times)

Harvested collections added:

Springfield College Archives and Special Collections – 6 collections, 5,621 new items

Total hosted items: 707,997

Happy Monday, everyone, and here is our April 2025 collections update!

Hosted collections added:

Boston Public Library:

• The Boston Herald (2,450 items; issues of the daily newspaper from 1858-1877) 
• The Boston Traveler (2,341 items; issues of the daily newspaper from 1931-1946)

Massachusetts Archives:

• Accounts of Guardians of the Dudley Indians, 1801-1857 (bulk 1801-1846)(46 items; financial accounts from 1799-1857 of government oversight of members of the Nipmuc tribe residing in Dudley)
• Report of the commissioner appointed under the act concerning the Indians, 1763-1861 (bulk 1859-1861)(41 items; census reports from 1763-1861 on Native Americans living in Massachusetts)

Noble & Cooley Center for Historic Preservation:

• Noble & Cooley Catalog Collection (1 item; 19th century catalog produced by the Granville-based drum manufacturer)

Wayland Free Public Library:

• History of Wayland Free Public Library (12 items; scrapbooks of news clippings about the library from 1944-2005)

Total hosted items: 697,459

Going forward, and with thanks to the Repository team here at BPL, we’ll be sharing some statistics on new collections being shared for the first time on DigitalCommonwealth.org. Below is our first update, for March 2025.

Hosted collections added:

Boston Public Library:

• The Boston Traveler (1,776 items; issues of the daily newspaper from 1925-1931)
• Joseph Connolly Courtroom Sketches (286 items; courtroom sketches by a Massachusetts artist from 1975-1999)
• Medieval and Early Renaissance Manuscripts (1 item; illuminated prayer book from the late 15th century)
• Our Bodies Ourselves (6 items; early editions of the groundbreaking women’s health publication from 1971-1973)

Heritage Museum and Gardens:

• Peter K. Meier Cranberry Collection (184 items; cranberry barrel stencils and labels from the late 1800s and early 1900s)

Ipswich Public Library:

• Streets of Old Ipswich, 1634 (1 item; history of properties in 17th-century Ipswich with hand-drawn maps)

Millicent Library:

• The Fairhaven Star (4,540 items; issues of the weekly newspaper from 1880-1967)
• The Star (49 items; issues of the weekly newspaper from 1879-1880)

Harvested collections added:

Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute Library – 137 new items

Total hosted items: 692,890