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Digital Commonwealth, the digital repository for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, digitizes and hosts Phillips Library photographic collections.

Our Internet Archive site contains digitized bound materials, including ships' logbooks and publications issued by PEM and our ancestor institutions.