Happy 4th of July week, everyone! Here’s the latest new materials on DigitalCommonwealth.org:

Hosted collections added:

Boston Public Library:

• Boston Herald (1,181 items; issues of the daily newspaper from 1919-1922)
• The Boston Herald (3,009 items; issues of the daily newspaper from 1909-1917)
• Boston Herald and Boston Journal (433 items; issues of the daily newspaper from 1917-1918)
• Medieval and Early Renaissance Manuscripts (5 items; liturgical manuscripts from 15th- and 16th-century)
• WHDH Collection (128 items; film segments from the former local Boston TV station from the 1960s and 1970s)

Total hosted items:  712,753

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