New Online Collection Items- Crosby's Acton and Maynard Directory - 1926 May 23, 2013
- Massachusetts State Department of Health - 1917 Third Annual Report May 23, 2013
- Massachusetts State Department of Health - 1918 Fourth Annual Report May 23, 2013
- Final Inspection of Fabrics - c. Early 1900 American Woolen Company May 22, 2013
- The Dressing Room Employees - c. 1900 American Woolen Mill May 22, 2013
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Happy New Year
We are ringing in 2013 with some updates to our online collection. We are now running a new version of the Omeka software that we use to manage our digital archives. What this means to you is that searching … Continue reading
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Our online collection is back…
We were offline for a few hours this morning, but we’ve successfully upgraded our Omeka software that runs the online collection archives. We’re still testing things out, but overall it looks good. We also made a few changes … Continue reading
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Parker Street Hall Curtain
One of the truly rewarding aspects of our work here at the Historical Society, and in particular for the team that is working to catalog and put our collection online, is the connections that we are helping others make – … Continue reading
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Preservation requires Preparation
Like a number of small local historical collections ours has known some moments when circumstances combined to create a situation where some portion of the collection was put at risk. While stored the lower level of Maynard Town Hall for … Continue reading
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Our online collection passes a major milestone
This soul-crushing winter has had one bright spot: we have been making phenomenal progress on the society’s online catalog (collection.maynardhistory.org). We recently passed 500 publicly viewable items and we have another 800 other items in the database that we … Continue reading
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Update: 1921 History of Maynard now searchable
We were so happy with how the automatic text recognition worked on the 1971 history book I went back and did a pass over the 1921 Gutteridge book. It, also, worked pretty well and I have uploaded the book with … Continue reading
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Seeking historically significant videotapes
We’ve just completed the digitization of nearly 40 video tapes in our collection. The majority of these are recordings of various Society programs, but some document interesting events from our town’s history. If you have a videotape of historically … Continue reading
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Carpet Loom Assembled
If any of our readers had visited the Society in the past 10 years or so while we were still in the lower level of Maynard Town Hall you might have noticed some fairly large wooden structures tucked in the … Continue reading
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Help support local history: Vote at Maynard’s Special Town Meeting
Maynard residents can directly help support the preservation of local history by voting in favor of Article 7 (Community Preservation Funds Appropriation) at the Special Town Meeting on May 19th. There are 3 historical preservation projects included in this article. … Continue reading
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Several large items moved from Town Hall
Today we moved a number of large items that were still at Town Hall. A painted fence, a wall-sized photograph of a 1966 “Digits” little league team, some 3×6 blow-up panels of old Mill scenes (from Digital in Marlborough), and … Continue reading
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