Tag: American Antiquarian Society

  • Valentines in the American Antiquarian Society’s Collection

    Valentines in the American Antiquarian Society’s Collection There are over 230 institutions that have contributed historical materials to Digital Commonwealth’s online collections. These institutions have selected materials that they have determined would be appropriate to enhance the whole of what is available on the Digital Commonwealth website. But in many cases, the collection or collections…

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  • Paul Revere’s Engraving

    Paul Revere’s engraving, “The Bloody Massacre,” is part of Boston Public Library’s “Colonial and Revolutionary Boston”, one of Digital Commonwealth’s “Collections of Distinction”. Scholars agree that Revere copied the arresting image in “The Bloody Massacre” from an engraving by Henry Pelham entitled “Fruits of Arbitrary Power, or the Bloody Massacre” (1770).  Pelham wrote to Paul…

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  • New Collections Added to Digital Commonwealth in December

    Been dying to know what’s new in Digital Commonwealth? Well here’s a list of the newest collections!   American Antiquarian Society American Antiquarian Society Collection – 138 items   Boston Athenaeum Boston Athenaeum, Cartographic Collection – 10 items added to an existing collection   Boston Public Library Leslie Jones Collection – 66 items added to…

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