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Henry Cabot Lodge Jr., Home Movies

The Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. Papers include five home movies that provide a peek into the United States around 1940. Scenes range from natural landscapes in California and Maine to a parade and baseball game in Florida. Closer to home, the footage captures classic locations across Boston.

While originally on 16mm film, these reels have been digitized and are viewable online.

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Digital and Audiovisual Content Now Available Online

The MHS Digital Archive provides access to digital and audiovisual content in our collections. Many twentieth and twenty-first century collections contain items such as PDFs, JPEGs, spreadsheets, VHS tapes, and cassette tapes. Thanks to the Digital Archive, the public can now access this content for the first time. Find these materials linked from our collection guides and ABIGAIL, the MHS library catalog.

You can learn more about the MHS Digital Archive in an introductory blog post.

Tuesday, 18 February, 9:00 AM: Boston to Guangzhou & Back: Perspectives & Legacy of the U.S.-China Trade, 1790–1850s at the Forbes House Museum, Milton, Mass. This is a teacher workshop.

Saturday, 22 February, 1:00 PM: Peter J. Gomes Memorial Book Prize Ceremony at the Charles River Museum of Industry & Innovation. This is a program.

Tuesday, 25 February, 5:00 PM: Archive Fever after Empire: Microfilm, American Archivists, and the Postcolonial Tropics in the Era of Global Decolonization with Boyd Ruamcharoen, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. This is a seminar.

See the full calendar.

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