A Closer Look: Pageant at Glendale, 150th anniversary of Wilbraham
by Mary Bell, Assistant Director Wilbraham Public Library This unassuming photograph of a couple in a horse-drawn carriage and two men standing outside is the best proof I have of Wilbraham’s involvement in the Underground Railroad. Handwriting on the photograph describes this scene as part of a pageant during Wilbraham’s 150th anniversary in 1913, and…
Spotlight on…The Glendale Collection at the Wilbraham Public Library
by Mary Bell, Assistant Director Wilbraham Public Library The Glendale Collection is a treasure-trove of local history and genealogy, and is the newest in the Wilbraham Public Library’s collections in the Digital Commonwealth. The collection was in an unlabeled box of miscellaneous photographs found among our uncatalogued collections. We gave it the name Glendale Collection…
New Collections Added to Digital Commonwealth in August
It’s the quirky collections that will delight you if you give them a chance. Not that there isn’t incredible value in six collections added by the New England Historic Genealogical Society, Canton Public Library’s Canton Historical Commission Photos or the Boston Public Library’s Thaxter/Fields correspondence. Some people will be so pleased yet more nautical charts…
New Collections Added to Digital Commonwealth in July
Although summer slips away too quickly for some of us, those of us who wilt in the heat and humidity are happy to see the end of July. If you’re not, don’t fret. August is promising more of the same. The Boston Public Library was busy this month, adding to the Leslie Jones Collection as…
Spotlight on…The Aldino Felicani Sacco-Vanzetti Collection 1915-1977
This post was written by Anne Berard, Reference & Outreach Librarian, Milford Town Library Say the names of the infamous duo, Clyde Barrow and Bonnie Parker and most people immediately think of the bank-robbing couple and their fatal shootout with police. Their guilt…
New Collections Added to Digital Commonwealth in June
The Boston Public Library continues to add to existing collections, although a brand new collection – 32 items from John Sullivan Dwight’s correspondence regarding Brook Farm – snuck in while no one was looking. Needham Free Public Library added more than 3,500 items to its historical house collection as well. The largest addition was from…