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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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  • Snow

    Every year there is a first substantial snow of the year.  As I type this, snow has just started falling in Boston.  Over the course of the Thanksgiving weekend, the prediction has gone from “up to 12 inches” to 6-12″, to 4-6″ to “wintry mix”.  I have no idea how much snow we’ll get in…

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