This collection consists of items from the Locke-Ober Cafe collection (CC008) collection hosted by Historic New England. Information about the items has been provided by the holding institution so that they may be included in Digital Commonwealth.

This collection consists of items from the Locupletissimi Rerum Naturalium Thesauri Accurata Descriptio, et Iconibus Artificiosissimis Expressio, Per Universam Physices Historiam collection hosted by Northeastern University Library. Information about the items has been provided by the holding... more

In 1902, a group of residents of Holyoke, Mass., secured a charter for the Holyoke Home for Aged People, wishing to do “something of permanent good for their city” and provide a “blessing to the homeless.” Opened in March 1911 on two acres of land donated by William Loomis, the... more

Lou Jones is a Boston-based artist who started his career as a photographer in 1971. Originally pursuing a career as a physicist, studying at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and working one summer at NASA as a literal rocket scientist, Jones pivoted to photography as a way to meld his love of... more

The Pictou family were prominent members of the Bear River Band of the Mi'kmaq nation in Nova Scotia during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Notably, Chief Benjamin Pictou (1830-1931) lived for over a century, witnessing the evolution of the Mi'kmaq economy from hunting, fishing,... more

Boston Public Library’s Louis Prang & Company collection includes more than 1,500 chromolithographs, dozens of sample books of greeting cards, and related documents produced by the firm between its establishment in Boston in 1860 and its merger with the Taber Art Company in 1897. Acquired... more

This collection consists of items from the Louis Woodbury photographic collection, ca. 1890s-1900s (PC052) collection hosted by Historic New England. Information about the items has been provided by the holding institution so that they may be included in Digital Commonwealth.

This collection consists of items from the Louise Day Hicks collection hosted by Boston City Archives. Information about the items has been provided by the holding institution so that they may be included in Digital Commonwealth.

A life-long resident of Lake Pleasant, Massachusetts, and a third-generation Spiritualist, Louise Shattuck was an artist, teacher, and noted breeder of English cocker spaniels.Shattuck’s work as a teacher, writer, artist, and dog breeder are documented in this collection through decades of... more