Hi everyone, and happy belated Labor Day! Here are your monthly DigitalCommonwealth.org statistics for the month of August:
Hosted collections added:
Boston Public Library:
- Boston Herald (936 items; issues of the daily newspaper from 1927-1930)
- Medieval and Early Renaissance Manuscripts (Collection of Distinction) (8 items; prayer books and other liturgical texts from the 15th and 16th centuries)
- Norman B. Leventhal Map & Education Center Collection (140 items; miscellaneous maps from 1575-1984)
- Photograph Album of Teachers of the New England Freedman’s & Union Commission (86 items; photographs of teachers and students of the New England Branch of the American Freedman’s Union Commission from 1866-1869)
- U.S. Government Documents Maps Collection (362 items; aeronautical charts and airport plans from 1900-1999)
- Women and Gender Issues Press Photography Collection (5,382 items; photographs from 1922-1991 featuring women in criminal and legal cases, sports, politics, and social activism, collected from major Boston newspapers and other sources)
Crane Museum of Papermaking:
- Ledger Collection (34 items; ledgers and day books from Massachusetts paper mills from 1770-1949)
Housatonic Heritage Oral History Center at Berkshire Community College:
- NAACP-Berkshire Branch Oral History Project (10 items; oral history interviews with African American elders and leaders in the Pittsfield area conducted between 2016 and 2019)
Sturgis Library:
- Barnstable Patriot (3412 items; issues of the weekly newspaper from 1846-1879)
Total hosted items: 723,448