Category Archives: UMass Dartmouth Archives and Special Collection
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
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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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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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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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Program Honoring WWII Portuguese-American Veterans
On Saturday, May 31, 2014, the Ferreira-Mendes Portuguese American Archives will be hosting a program honoring WWII Portuguese-American veterans. The event consists of an exhibit and short presentations featuring the stories of three servicemen who risked their lives for 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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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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