Along the Elevated: Photographs of the Orange Line
Clockwise from top left: Washington Street, Roxbury from a moving elevated train; Along the El; Elevated subway supports, Jamaica Plain; Chinese jump rope, Chinatown, Boston. All images from Along the Elevated: Photographs from the Orange Line at the Boston Public Library. From 1901 to 1987, the MBTA’s elevated Orange Line ran between Chinatown, the South
The Florence Johnson Herbarium: Interview with Sharon Hawkes
Jean Maguire, member of Digital Commonwealth’s Outreach & Education Committee, recently interviewed Sharon Hawkes, Director of the Nahant Public Library about the Florence Johnson Herbarium Collection. Could you please tell us a little about the history, acquisition, and contents of the Florence Johnson Herbarium collection? Florence “Miss Flossie” Johnson was a school teacher here in Nahant
New Collections Added in November
Of special and timely interest in November’s New Collections are photographs from an exhibit, A Seat at the Table, held in 2019 at the Edward M. Kennedy Institute. This colorful and compelling exhibit was inspired by the pioneering firebrand Shirley Chisholm’s call for greater involvement of women, people
New Collections Added in October
Boston Public Library Ellen F. O’Connor Collection (1,904 items)* Ellen F. O’Connor was an art teacher in the Boston Public Schools system, teaching at the Prince School and later West Roxbury High School. In addition to her work as an educator, she was a passionate participant in
New Collections Added in September
Boston Public Library Boston Pictorial Archive (225 items)* Medieval and Early Renaissance Manuscripts (3 items)* Colonial and Revolutionary America (6 items)* Scottish Rite Masonic Museum (6 new collections; 345 new items)* Southeast Asian Digital Archive (1 new collection, 3 new items)*
New Collections Added to Digitial Commonwealth in August
Digital Commonwealth had a busy August with some new collections and additions to existing collections. Of the new offerings, Nahant Public Library’s Florence Johnson Herbarium collection brings the specimens collected and painstakingly mounted by Miss Flossie Johnson and her grade school students over her long career (1881-1927). Most notable are the specimens stamped “Mass Horticultural