Tag: Dennis Brearley
New Collections Added to Digital Commonwealth in November
This month we welcome AgitArte, an organization of working class artists and cultural organizers, who added the scroll, one of their community art projects, at left. Almost unbelievably, the Medford Historical Society & Museum has added several hundred more Civil War photos and the Chicopee Public Library has allowed the harvest of two more collections.…
New Collections Added to Digital Commonwealth in September
This month’s total items added is 6,077. That includes a couple of substantial collections: The Boston Public Library’s Press Photography from the Brearley Collection at 1,138 items and the Historical Society of Old Newbury’s Snow Historical Photograph Collection at 1,279 items. Dennis Brearley collected the works of Boston photojournalists from the 1920s-1970s. A representative photo…