State Library of Massachusetts

Before human beings could carry camera with them as they travelled, and definitely before those cameras became embedded in our phones, trave...

Although the State Library’s physical location may be closed temporarily, we librarians have been hard at work these past few months on vari...

The “Gerry-Mander”: a famous political cartoon by Elkanah Tisdale that was originally published in the March 26, 1812 issue of the Boston Ga...

This July our virtual display case features an 1891 photograph of the State House, part of our Special Collections holdings. The photograph ...

The State Library of Massachusetts has a number of collections, each containing a wealth of information. Many of these collections are so bi...

The Robert Gould Shaw and 54th Massachusetts Regiment Memorial is one of the first stops for many Boston tourists, prominently placed on the...