The Jamaica Plain Press is a weekly newspaper published by Press Pub. Co. in Brookline, Massachusetts from 1939 to 1940.

Two black and white photographic postcards showing street scenes on Boylston St., ca. 1900.

The records and images in this collection begin with documents relating to the Jamaica Plain Tuesday Club's 1924 purchase of the historic Loring-Greenough House, which then became the meeting place and focal point for social and education programming for the club. In more recent decades,... more

Materials written by or pertaining to W.E.B. Du Bois, collected by James Aronson, who was executive editor of the "National Guardian" from 1948 to 1967. Includes correspondence, speeches by Du Bois in published form, articles by Du Bois, biographical sketches and tribute articles about Du... more

James Baker was a member of the Brotherhood of the Spirit commune (later the Renaissance Community) in the early 1970s, and a key contributor to the Free Spirit Press, the commune's publishing operation. Part promotion, information, and entertainment, the Free Spirit Press magazine ran... more

James Fergusson (1808-1886) was an amateur architectural historian and the publisher of important works on architectural history, particularly the history of Indian architecture. The photographs in this collection were part of Fergusson's personal reference library, amassed while living a... more

James Gillray (1756-1815), English caricaturist and printmaker, became one of the leading chroniclers of his country’s social habits and political struggles at the end of the 18th and the beginning of the 19th centuries.Born in London, Gillray was apprenticed to an engraver for whom he engraved... more

This collection consists of items from the James Jeffrey Roche letters collection hosted by Boston College. Information about the items has been provided by the holding institution so that they may be included in Digital Commonwealth.

James McBey (1883-1959) was a Scottish painter and etcher. Born in Newburgh, Aberdeenshire, he left school at age 15 to work as a bank clerk while attending evening classes at Gray’s School of Art and teaching himself how to etch.In 1910, McBey decided to pursue a full-time career as an artist... more

James Abbott McNeill Whistler (1834-1903) was an American painter and printmaker born in Lowell, Massachusetts.Whistler received his first training as an artist in St. Petersburg, Russia, while his father was working there as a railroad engineer. Whistler’s early interest in art was encouraged... more