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  • New Collections Added in April

                          Hosted Boston Public Library – Warren Favor Collection (756 items) City of Gloucester, Archives – City-Owned Cemeteries Advisory Committee (3 items) Jamaica Plain Historical Society – Knapp Family Financial Records (116 items) Jamaica Plain Historical Society – Jamaica Plain Historical Society Photo Gallery (34 items)*…

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  • Primary Source Sets for Educators

    The Outreach and Education Committee has created Primary Source Sets for educators to align with the National Council for the Social Studies curriculum themes. Drawing on the rich resources available within Digital Commonwealth, the Committee mined for the best examples to support a given theme. Teachers can supplement lesson plans with the use of photographs,…

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  • New Collections Added in March

    Boston Public Library Boston Pictorial Archive (Collection of Distinction) (111 items)* Mapping Inequality (18 items) Norman B. Leventhal Map Center Collection (100 items)* * items added to existing collection Harvested: University of Massachusetts Boston, Joseph P. Healey Library (3 new collections, 1,720 new items)* *reharvest

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