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Winthrop C. Durfee Personal and Business Papers, 1890-1930
The Claire T. Carney Library Archives and Special Collections at UMass Dartmouth would like to announce a recently opened collection, MC 166, the Winthrop C. Durfee Personal and Business Papers, 1890-1930. This collection documents the history of Winthrop C. Durfee … Continue reading
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70th Anniversary of the Liberation of the Concentration Camps
Text by Cynthia Yoken; Layout by Judy Farrar Seventy years ago, while the Germans were in retreat, American soldiers liberated the Nazi concentration camps. It was April, 1945, one month before the end of the war in Europe. A number … Continue reading
Posted in Archives of the Center for Jewish Culture, New Bedford History, UMass Dartmouth Archives and Special Collection, World War II
Tagged Holocaust, Jewish history, liberators, oral history, World War II
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The Omer E. and Laurette M. Boivin Center for French Language and Culture Founded April 1985
Dr. Omer E. Boivin, a prominent Fall River physician, was a life-long student of the French language and culture. He believed that Southeastern Massachusetts University (now UMass Dartmouth) represented the best opportunity to keep the French language alive, and to … Continue reading
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Digital Archives Launched at UMass Dartmouth
The Claire T. Carney Library Archives and Special Collections and the Library Systems and Digital Services Divisions are pleased to announce the public availability of the new UMass Dartmouth Library Digital Archives. At this time the collections available are the … Continue reading
Posted in Ferreira-Mendes Portuguese-American Archives, Portuguese, Schooner Ernestina, Textile History, UMass Dartmouth Archives and Special Collection, UMass Dartmouth History, Uncategorized
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Chancellor Professor Naseer Aruri Memorial
Sunday, April 12, 2015 at 11 a.m. Woodland Commons University of Massachusetts Dartmouth 285 Old Westport Rd. Dartmouth, MA 02747 At left: Dr. Aruri in his office at UMD, 1985 Dr. Naseer Aruri was Chancellor Professor of Political Science at … Continue reading
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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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Archaeology Month: The Elihu Akin House, South Dartmouth
October is Archaeology Month in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Begun in 1992 as Archaeology Week, it is now a “month-long celebration of archaeology in Massachusetts and around the world. Museums, libraries, archaeologists, and many more people and institutions join Secretary … 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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World War I Remembered Through the Ferreira-Mendes Portuguese-American Archives
August 2014 marks the 100th anniversary of the outbreak of World War I, in 1914. The Ferreira-Mendes Portuguese-American Archives recently received a donation from Rosemary Pereira which includes documents related to World War I soldier Walter Goulart. There are photographs, … Continue reading
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Consolidation at Last! July 1, 1964
This summer, while UMass Dartmouth celebrates the 50th anniversary of the official groundbreaking for the North Dartmouth campus, which took place on June 14, 1964, another significant celebratory mark in our history came only two weeks later, on July 1, … Continue reading
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Tagged Endicott Peabody, Joseph Driscoll, Joseph Souza, Mary Fonseca, SMTI, UMass Dartmouth, UMD
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