Cultural Heritage: Digitized Items From the Boston Public Library’s Toulouse-Lautrec, Mary Cassatt, and Walt Whitman Collections Added to Digital Commonwealth Database

From the Digital Commonwealth New Collections Update (Items Added April 2018)

All those April showers (rain and snow alike) brought over 3,300 new items to the Digital Commonwealth.

The largest donation came from the National Archives at Boston with its Watertown Arsenal Photographs collection.  The photos of bright shining new armaments contrast sharply with the Franklin Historical Museum’s riveting Images of World War I Battlefields collection. On balance, the Noble & Cooley Center for Historic Preservation and Jacob Edwards Library (Southbridge) have added images of everyday life in small town Massachusetts.

The Boston Public Library enhances the everyday with the artistic and, happily, the humorous.  In this case, most of us might associate running and bulls with Ernest Hemingway and Pamplona.  For Henri Toulouse-Lautrec, the association becomes running from bulls – and there is nothing macho about it.

Direct Links

• Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (1864-1901). Prints and Drawings – 351 items

• Mary Cassatt (1844-1926). Prints and Drawings – 8 items

• Walt Whitman Collection (1819-1892) – 1 item

Links to All Collections Added to Digital Commonwealth During April 2018