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New Collections Added to Digital Commonwealth in May
Boston Public Library Tichnor Brothers Postcard Collection (1,162 items)* The Tichnor Brothers Collection contains approximately 25,000 office proofs of postcards of the United States published by the Boston firm Tichnor Brothers Inc. These are color postcards with a linen texture dated ca. 1930-1945. The concentration is on American vacation places. National Archives of Boston Tallulah…
New Collections added to Digital Commonwealth in March
Before COVID-19 changed life and work as we know it, lots of new content was added to Digital Commonwealth including the voluminous photo archive of Dennis Brearley which chronicles the life of the City of Boston from the 1920s to 1970s. From parades to protests, it’s all there providing the rich historical context that photographs…
The Remarkable Photography of Leon Abdalian
Originally scheduled to take place Sunday, April 4, a program on the Remarkable Photography of Leon Abdalian at the Jamaica Plain Branch Library has been postponed due to the COVID-19 crisis. While that talk will be re-scheduled at a future time, in the meantime we encourage you to visit Leon’s large body of work accessible via Digital…