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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)*
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…
Spotlight On…Transgender Digital Archive
by Anne Berard Reference & Outreach Services Librarian, Milford Town Library The Digital Commonwealth mostly archives materials relating to Massachusetts, harvesting and hosting content related to its residents, communities and institutions. Some collections, however, have a wider scope. The hosted Digital Transgender Archive (DTA) is one such repository. Bringing together photographs, publications, clippings & ephemera…