“The goal of the collection is to interpret, to the best of its ability, the social, economic,
cultural, and political history of the residents of the Loring-Greenough House and the Jamaica
Plain Tuesday Club.” – LGH Collections Management Policy
Did you know that we have the Annual Meeting Minutes and other documents from 1896 to the present in our archives? So many interesting things have happened over the years, including debates on suffrage, discussions on which Post-World War II charities to support, and the awarding of early scholarships for women going to college. Want to help preserve this history? If you have a computer and WiFi, you can transcribe these records from home on From The Page!
Once the meeting minutes are transcribed, we will be able to make them available in our Online Collections Database. Having archival records digitized and transcribed will make the content of our records searchable. For example, a scholar researching the home front during World War I could search for “war”, “servicemen”, or “red cross” and locate relevant entries. We expect this searchability of archival material to advance scholarship at the Loring Greenough House. Know a potential researcher? Let them know about our efforts! Not all of our meeting minutes are digitized yet, so if you want to volunteer with the Collections Committee you could be the one to digitize these records and more! The Collections Committee welcomes any potential volunteers—particularly if you are interested in history, material culture, collections management, or museum studies. Email us to join!
If you have already contributed to our 100 for the 100 th campaign through donations of time or money, THANK YOU! Collectively, you have transcribed over 100 pages. Your donations of $19.24 and $100 have gone to maintaining the vital technology we use to crowdsource the transcription of our archival material. If you have not yet contributed, there is still time!