Tuesday, December 18, 2007

Local History Online @ Your Library

Want to see some nice photos of western Mass. "back in the day"? Check out Digital Commonwealth, a free search engine & repository of manuscripts, images, historical documents, and sound recordings from over 100 Mass. instutitions, including CWMars, UMass, and Simmons College.

How about this photo of the A&P in Holyoke, c1931?


Governor Calvin Coolidge and his son Calvin Coolidge, Jr. building a Kart at their home at 21 Massasoit Street, Northampton, MA. July 1920.


And this Biology Lab at the College of Our Lady of the Elms in Chicopee, c1920s.


All of these and more, for free @ your library.

1 comment:

Tundra2 said...

Great link, though I may be biased...