Category: Spotlight
BPL Photographer Rose’s Favorite Format!
Hello statewide friends! This month, we have a post from one of our illustrious staff photographers. Rose Ingerman is our Digital Imaging Production Assistant, and photographs the majority of statewide materials that come into the BPL through the program. Seeing as she has seen as much of the materials that come through our doors as…
A Conversation with BPL & Digital Commonwealth Education Fellow Lara DeRose
For this post, we’d like to revisit a collaboration between Boston Public Library and the Digital Commonwealth Inc. nonprofit. In 2022, BPL and DC Inc. applied for and received grant funding to hire an Education Fellow, with the goal of increasing usage of DigitalCommonwealth.org resources in the classroom. Lara DeRose worked with local educators, agencies,…
A Changing World: Photography by Verner Reed
Verner Reed and Historic New England In 2002, Verner and Deborah Reed gave Historic New England 26,000 negatives encompassing Reed’s work as a freelance photographer in the third quarter of the twentieth century. His photographs include “portraits, landscapes, and images capturing special moments and current events, document[ing] urban and rural life in New England from…