Hello DC users — here are the latest collections in the repository over the last month:
Hosted collections added:
Boston Public Library:
- Boston Herald (243 items; issues of the daily newspaper from 1936-1937)
- Cabinet Card Collection (1 item; portrait of an indigenous person ca. 1880–1920)
- Carte de Visite Collection (1 item; rare portrait of African American barber, abolitionist, civil rights activist, and politician John J. Smith of Boston, ca. 1870)
- Lou Jones Collection (59 items; photographs of jazz and blues icons from 1972-2003)
- Revolution! 250 Years of Art & Activism in Boston (7 items; images displayed in the BPL exhibition Revolution! 250 Years of Art and Activism in Boston)
Chelsea Historical Commission:
- Arnold Jarmak Collection (423 items; photographs from a staff photographer of the Chelsea Record from 1963-1998)
Lewis H. Latimer Society & Museum:
- Lewis H. Latimer Society Chelsea (126 items; documents and materials related to Lewis Howard Latimer, an African American inventor, draftsperson, and engineer)
Sturgis Library:
- The Hyannis Patriot (1,261 items; issues of the weekly newspaper from 1894-1942)
Westhampton Museum and Blacksmith Shop:
- “The Way I See it…” by Roland E. Spencer (73 items; drawings of Westhampton life and townspeople from 2000-2016)