Harold Stephen Bucklin was born in Pawtucket, Rhode Island on November 4, 1886. He earned an undergraduate degree from Brown University in 1910, a Master of Arts degree in 1915 from the New York School of Social Work, and his Ph.D. in 1918. He served as instructor and professor of sociology at... more

The City of Newton owns a wealth of historic materials that speak to the community's social, cultural, and governmental past. These materials reflect the civic life of and provide insight into Newton from the 19th through the early 20th century, a time when Newton was transforming from... more

The Bullard family were among the early settlers of New Salem, Massachusetts, a small, rural town incorporated in the western part of the state in 1753. Assembled by a member of the Bullard family at the turn of the twentieth century, this scrapbook contains an apparently complete set... more

The Bunker Hill Times is a weekly newspaper published by Times Pub. Co. in Charlestown, Massachusetts (a former town and current neighborhood of Boston) from 1873 to 1878.

The Bunker Hill Times is a weekly newspaper published in Charlestown, Massachusetts (a former town and current neighborhood of Boston) from 1892 to 1897.

The Bunker Hill Times Charlestown Advertiser is a weekly newspaper published by Henry Hunt & Co. in Charlestown, Massachusetts (a former town and current neighborhood of Boston) from 1878 to 1892.

Born in 1908 to Louis and Sarah Kessel Burgett, Katherine grew up on the family farm outside of Oquawka, Illinois. In 1924 her parents purchased their own farm in Monmouth, which they later lost due to the devastating impact of the Depression on agriculture, and it was there that she... more

The artist Burt Vernon Brooks was one of the outstanding chroniclers of daily life in the Swift River Valley before it was inundated to create the Quabbin Reservoir. Born in Brimfield, Mass., in 1849 and raised in Monson, Brooks moved to Greenwich with his family in the 1870s, where he... more

The City of Newton owns a wealth of historic materials that speak to the community's social, cultural, and governmental past. These materials reflect the civic life of and provide insight into Newton from the 19th through the early 20th century, a time when Newton was transforming from... more

The City of Newton owns a wealth of historic materials that speak to the community's social, cultural, and governmental past. These materials reflect the civic life of and provide insight into Newton from the 19th through the early 20th century, a time when Newton was transforming from... more

This collection consists of items from the Butler-O'Leary collection hosted by Arlington Historical Society. 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 Button collection hosted by Digital Transgender Archive. 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 C. G. Sargent's Sons collection (CC016) 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.

The cabinet card was a photographic format popular in the late 19th century. It consisted of a photograph mounted to a standard 4¼ x 6½ inch cardboard mount. The cabinet card was introduced in the early 1860s as a larger version of the original standard-mounted photograph -- the wildly popular... more

A legal scholar and pacifist, Caleb Foote was born in Cambridge, Mass., on March 26, 1917, the son of a Unitarian minister and Quaker mother. Earning degrees in history from Harvard (AB 1939) and economics from Columbia (MA 1941), Foote was hired by the Fellowship of Reconciliation to organize... more

During the summer of 1989, the Camara Family donated a collection of glass plate negatives to UMass Lowell Libraries Center for Lowell History. These negatives record life in the Portuguese Community of greater Lowell, circa 1920-1925. The identities of the people in the photographs remain a... more

This collection includes digitized issues of the Cambodian Mutual Assistance Association of Greater Lowell, Inc.’s bilingual magazines Khmer Lowell and CMAA Lowell Magazine. The collection is completely accessible on this site.View the collection finding aid for more information,... more

The Cambridge Anti-Slavery Society Records contains one item, the Constitution of the Cambridge Anti-Slavery Society, a handwritten copy of the original constitution dated 1836.For more information about this collection, please follow the link to the finding aid:... more

This collection contains one 11 x 5 inch account book inscribed inside with "Committee of Correspondence, 1776." The author is unknown. Within the book are handwritten entries regarding whose land was seized or forfeited by Loyalist Cambridge residents. On March 17, 1776, British soldiers set... more