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Digital Collections

Walter B. Wriston Archives
Walter B. Wriston (August 3, 1919 - January 19, 2005) was a banker and former chairman of Citicorp. An expert on commercial banking, Mr. Wriston wrote and spoke widely on topics relating to finance, banking, technology, and international business. The Walter B. Wriston Archives provides online access to hundreds of articles, speeches, photographs, and other resources from his prolific career.

Boston Streets : Mapping Directory Data
Contextualizes the people, places, and events that have shaped the city's history from the years before the American Civil War through 20th-century urban renewal. Funded in part by a National Leadership grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services. We invite you to visit Boston Streets and trace the growth and movement of Boston and Bostonians thorugh time and place.

The Edwin C. Bolles Collection : A Digital Archive of the History and Topography of London
Edwin C. Bolles, professor of English at Tufts College at the turn of the 20th century, assembled a substantial collection of materials on Victorian London. These materials include not only conventional print sources but many pieces that are unique or quite rare: folio descriptions of the city from limited print runs, contemporary 19th century maps in various shapes and formats, illustrations and prints from the 17th through the 19th century all of which that capture a precious (and now largely forgotten) record of how the British represented this city.

The MacJannet Legacy
Explore the history of the MacJannets and the concepts they embodied. Listen to the oral history provided by those who knew the MacJannets, or experienced one of the institutions they founded.

The Poet's Work : The John Holmes Collection
John Holmes (1904-62) was a poet and professor of English at Tufts University. His poems appeared in journals, magazines, and newspapers, and seven volumes of his work were published. Holmes devoted his career both to writing poetry and teaching his students about poetry.

Grant Projects

A New Nation Votes: American Election Returns, 1787 - 1825
Compiled by Philip J. Lampi over the past four decades, this collection is the richest and most complete set of early American election returns in existence. Lampi has collected varying amounts of presidential, congressional, gubernatorial, state executive, and state legislative election returns for all twenty-four states in the Union by 1825. Funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities, the American Antiquarian Society (AAS) together with the DCA are digitizing these materials so they can be freely accessed.

FEDORA and the Preservation of University Records
The NHPRC has awarded an 18 month Electronic Records Project grant to the DCA, in partnership with Manuscripts & Archives of Yale University, to support work to synthesize electronic records preservation research with digital library repository research in an effort to test the potential of Fedora to serve as the architecture for an electronic records preservation system.

Services for a Customizable Authority Linking Environment (SCALE)
The SCALE project will develop tools within the NSDL that will automatically recognize names from structured data, match them against an authorized list of names, and automatically link them from a document to supplementary information, such as glossaries and thesauri.

Exhibits

V-12 and NROTC at Tufts
The DCA presents a series of exhibits focusing on the two United States Navy programs, the V-12 and NROTC, that arrived on campus during World War II. These online exhibits were created in conjunction with exhibits on display in Tisch Library.

Women's Bodies Women's Property : 14th Century German Law Books
An electronic exhibition of an exhibit at the Slater Concourse of the Aidekman Gallery at Tufts University, November 18 - December 15, 1998.

Somerville/Cambridge Latino Community History Project
The Somerville/Cambridge Latino Community History Project documents the arrival and integration of the Latino community in Somerville and Cambridge, Massachusetts through interviews, recorded oral histories and field research.