Putnam Diaries to be Microfilmed

By Jeremy Dibbell

The Sarah Gooll Putnam diaries (finding guide) will be unavailable from 8 April through approximately 1 May 2010; they are headed offsite to be microfilmed. In July 2009 the MHS received a $16,771 Library Services and Technology Act (LSTA) grant from the Massachusetts Board of Library Commissioners to conserve, microfilm and digitize portions of the diaries.

Putnam, a Boston portrait artist, began her diary on Thanksgiving Day in 1860 when she was nine years old and maintained it until her death in 1912, filling 27 volumes. The diaries are richly illustrated with approximately 400 watercolor paintings and chronicle Putnam’s career as an artist as well as her extensive travels throughout the United States and abroad.

 

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Obama to Visit MHS, Deliver Manuscript

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Upon learning that he was one of only three presidents for whom the MHS does not have manuscript holdings, Barack Obama announced this morning that he’ll be dropping by the Historical Society this evening (he’ll be in town for two DNC fundraisers) to personally deliver a handwritten draft copy of his 2004 Democratic convention keynote address, delivered here in Boston.

In a statement announcing the trip, Obama promised that he would ask his two immediate predecessors to follow his example.

 

 

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