Massachusetts Past & Present

Boston Metro Collection
From Home or the Library
Provides access to an extensive full-text collection of news published in and around Boston. Updated daily, this one-stop resource includes fully searchable archives of nearly 200 daily and weekly news sources, including The Braintree Forum.

Boston Public Library Resources
From Home or the Library
In its role as Library for the Commonwealth, the Boston Public Library provides services to all Massachusetts residents and supplements library resources found in communities statewide. A Boston Public Library card gets you free access to hundreds of online platforms, apps, and databases. If you don’t already have a card, register for an eCard online to gain access to these resources.

Braintree High School Yearbooks and Town Reports
From Home or the Library
Braintree High School yearbooks from 1935 to 2016 are now digitized and available to browse online. Browse through any year or download as many as you like to search for friends and relatives! Braintree Town Reports from 1640 to 2006 are also digitized and available online. The Town Reports include births, deaths, and marriages from 1640 to 1946.

Braintree Digitized Newspapers
From Home  From the Library
Search Braintree newspapers digitized from the library’s microfilm collection, which includes local papers dating back to 1881, as well as Braintree Directories from 1916 to 1935.  Remote access is limited to publication dates up to and including 1966.  Library access includes all dates after 1966 until December 31, 2020, the last publication date of The Braintree Forum.

Enterprise Collection
From Home or the Library
Search news from Brockton and vicinity from the year 2000 to today with The Enterprise Collection. Explore current and archived issues of The Enterprise with full-color newspaper pages and individual articles, as well as content only published online. Funded by The Old Colony Library Network.