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  • New Collections Added in November

                    Of special and timely interest in November’s New Collections are photographs from an exhibit, A Seat at the Table, held in 2019 at the Edward M. Kennedy Institute. This colorful and compelling exhibit was inspired by the pioneering firebrand Shirley Chisholm’s call for greater involvement of women, people…

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  • New Collections Added in September

    Boston Public Library Boston Pictorial Archive (225 items)* Medieval and Early Renaissance Manuscripts (3 items)*  Colonial and Revolutionary America (6 items)* Scottish Rite Masonic Museum (6 new collections; 345 new items)*   Southeast Asian Digital Archive (1 new collection, 3 new items)*    

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  • New Collections Added to Digitial Commonwealth in August

    Digital Commonwealth had a busy August with some new collections and additions to existing collections. Of the new offerings, Nahant Public Library’s Florence Johnson Herbarium  collection brings the specimens collected and painstakingly mounted by Miss Flossie Johnson and her grade school students over her long career (1881-1927). Most notable are the specimens stamped “Mass Horticultural…

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