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  • New Collections added to Digital Commonwealth in January

    Digital Commonwealth ushered the new decade in with new collections from the Massachusetts Archives relating to the Quabbin Reservoir and the Swift River Valley, Boston Children’s Museum Scrapbooks as well as some additional items to existing collections. Engineers and geologists will be fascinated by the depth and breadth of the photographs of the Quabbin Reservoir…

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  • Spotlight On: Boston Children’s Museum Lantern Slides

    Having been established in 1913 by the Science Teacher’s Bureau, the Boston Children’s Museum has grown in size, stature, and influence in those 107 years. What’s remained the same, however, is the mission to educate children about the world through exposure, interaction and observation. In November of 2019, hundreds of lantern slides were added to…

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  • New Collections added to Digital Commonwealth in November

    Let us give thanks for November’s new collections.  And additions to existing collections.  But I was most taken with two of our new collections: Boston Children’s Museum Lantern Slides and the Washington Historical Commission Collection. Many of the lantern slides are hand-colored, giving unnaturally rosy cheeks to all captured in the image.   I never knew…

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