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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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  • New Collections Added in February

    Just a few of the treasures from the Barnstable Patriot Photograph Collection Boston Public Library Giovanni Battista Piranesi (1720-1778). Etchings (195 items)* Tichnor Brothers Postcard Collection (1 item)* Travel Photography (46 items) Cape Cod Community College Barnstable Patriot Photograph Collection, 1931-1978 (1,223 items)* Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court Archives Commonwealth v. Sacco and Vanzetti (763 items)…

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