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UMD Archives and the Open Content Alliance
For Open Access Week, I’d like to highlight a current project which makes many of our rare and fragile pre-1923 texts readily available online. Since 2008 the Claire T. Carney Library Archives and Special Collections has sent selected older monographs … Continue reading
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September 11 Memorial Preserved in the Archives
In 2001, at the September 20 AHA night in downtown New Bedford, College of Visual and Performing Arts (CVPA) students and faculty invited the public to join them in the creation of a three-week public memorial to the victims of … Continue reading
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AZOREAN GENEALOGY MICROFILMS FROM 1541 TO 1898 NOW AVAILABLE AT THE FERREIRA-MENDES PORTUGUESE AMERICAN ARCHIVES
Baptismal record from Achadinha (S. Miguel), 1893 The Ferreira-Mendes Portuguese American Archives at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth is pleased to announce the availability of a collection of microfilmed reproductions of thousands of original … Continue reading
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Tagged Azorean geneaology, baptisms, deaths, Ferreira-Mendes Portuguese-American Archives, marriages, Portuguese Archives, Portuguese Genealogy, UMass Dartmouth
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Portuguese Bread-Making in Hawaii
Portuguese immigrants to Hawaii were known for their great bread making, specifically the knowledge they brought with them on how to build the stone ovens in which they baked the bread. “32 loaves at a time are inserted into the … Continue reading
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Save SMU Rally 32 Years Ago This Week
On March 25, 1982 between 2,500 and 3,000 SMU students and faculty (UMass Dartmouth was known as Southeastern Massachusetts University from 1969 to 1991) marched on the State House in Boston in support of appropriate funding for their school. On … Continue reading
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Lily Dumont Mindus, Concert Pianist
To celebrate International Women’s Day (March 8th), I would like to highlight the story of an extraordinarily successful woman whose legacy is preserved in the Archives and Special Collections. Lily Dumont Mindus was born in Berlin, Germany on July 12, … Continue reading
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Holocaust Remembrance Day
Dr. and Mrs. Julius Picard and Sons To escape persecution by the Nazis, in 1938 Dr. Julius Picard emigrated from Mainz, Germany to Massachusetts with his wife and two sons. The day after their arrival in the port of Boston, … Continue reading
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Torch Index Available for Research
Since 1997 the Claire T. Carney Library Archives and Special Collections staff have been gradually compiling a key word index to the UMD student newspaper, the Torch, and other university publications. The publication years covered by the index are 1965 … Continue reading
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Portuguese-American Newspapers at Christmas
By Sonia Pacheco Throughout the years the Christmas editions of Portuguese-language newspapers have set themselves apart. They were often printed with color and contained elaborate graphics on the front page, a rare occurrence during the calendar year; devoted substantial space … Continue reading
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First UMD Web Page Unveiled in 1995
1995 doesn’t really seem that far away! I started working here in the UMD Archives and Special Collections in January of 1996. At my previous job, in the MIT Libraries, the World Wide Web, as used by academia, as opposed … Continue reading
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