This is the first installment of a new series on Book Patrol. In the Stacks. A series dedicated to exploring the digital archives of the leading libraries, institutions and organizations of the known universeFirst up is the Boston Public Library who recently released over 15,000 images from their archive through Flickr.1895 advertising poster for Houghton Mifflin’s holiday booksGot to love this shot of kids learning "the right use of books"South Boston's class in the right use of booksBPL is the home of a tremendous collection of books designed by Sarah Wyman Whitman, the first major American professional book designer.Dorchester Branch, Summer...
Sacco & Vanzetti: Jazz Age Terrorists?
Criminals or Patsies? Bartolomeo Vanzetti (left), Handcuffed to Nicola Sacco. Dedham, MA Superior Court, 1923.(Courtesy Boston Public Library)It was a crime so sensational that the label "crime of the century" was inevitable. What else would you call a case featuring anarchists, communists, socialists, terrorists, politicians, celebrity protesters, global crusaders, innocent victims, scapegoats, Jingoism, Xenophobia, a payroll heist, two murders, and executions in the electric chair? April 15, 2010 marks the 90th anniversary of the day of the events that set it all in motion. And the town where it happened, Braintree, Massachusetts, is remembering by holding a three-day event, "Sacco...