Spotlight On…Frank Cousins Collection of Glass Negatives
Written by Anne Berard, Reference & Outreach Services Librarian, Milford Town Library The Frank Cousins Glass Plate Photography Collection, containing over 2500 images, became accessible via the Digital Commonwealth in June. Simply put, it is incredible. Frank Cousins (1851-1925), a merchant and…
New Collections added to Digital Commonwealth in June
Digital Commonwealth uploaded several outstanding photograph collections in June. But it’s not all photos, there are maps from Phillips Academy in Andover and a painting from the Massachusetts Department of Conservation and Recreation. But the photos are this month’s find. Like the unusual Massachusetts Metropolitan District Water Supply Commission, Quabbin Reservoir, Photographs of Cemeteries, 1928-1945…
A Closer Look: Cape Verdean Beneficent Association, New Bedford
By Jodi Goodman, Head of Special Collections New Bedford Free Public Library This photo of the Cape Verdean Beneficent Association, New Bedford, is in the recently added Oliveira Photograph Collection (New Bedford Free Public Library), which highlights New Bedford’s Portuguese community in the early twentieth century. Established in 1916, the Cape Verdean Beneficent Association (Associação Beneficente Caboverdeana)…
Restoring the story: Granville Public Library’s local history collection, Part I
A year ago, I got the listing of new collections added to the Digital Commonwealth. I expect the Boston Public Library and UMass/Amherst to have extraordinary collections on Digital Commonwealth. I am much more impressed when a small institution, like the Granville Public Library (GPL), uploads a collection that is impressive in its depth and…
New Collections added to Digital Commonwealth in May
May is supposed to be the payoff for all those April showers. Only the showers kept coming in May. Digital Commonwealth was showered by harvested images from the American Archive of Public Broadcasting (17,335 items), Boston TV New Digital Library (1,632 items) and the University of Massachusetts/Lowell (6,825 items). Theophile Alexandre Steinlen is more than…