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Library Collections from Under Its Generous Dome By the staff of the Society Edited by Joanne D. Chaison, John B. Hench, and Caroline W. Stoffel Included with the descriptions of AAS collections, are links to current cataloging status of collections, finding aids, inventories, and illustrated sidebars. General Collections Dated Books and Dated Pamphlets Broadsides Almanacs The Reserve Collection Bindings Miniature Books Miscellaneous Pamphlets Topical Collections The Book Arts Bibliographies Printing and Publishing History Publishers' Series Book Salesman's Samples Booksellers' and Auction Catalogs Library Catalogs Bookplates and Booksellers' Labels The United States American History and Culture Architectural Resources Government Documents Local, County, and State Histories Western Americana Hawaiian Collection Biography Genealogy Directories Yearbooks Maps and Atlases American Institutions General Institutions Canals and Railroads Educational Institutions Learned Societies Canadiana Latin Americana Foreign History and Travel Theology and Religion Religion The Mather Family Library The Mather Family Collection Devotional Literature Tracts Literature American Fiction Dime Novels First Editions English and European Authors Literary Annuals Plays and Librettos Theater Resources Children's Literature and School Books Graphic Arts Engravings and Lithographs American Portrait Prints Worcester Portrait Prints Thomas and Eno Collection United States Historic Scenes Ephemera Billheads Calendars Civil War Envelopes Christmas and Holiday Cards Clipper Ship Cards Election Ballots Invitations Lottery Tickets Menus Ream Wrappers Rewards of Merit Textile Printing Trade Cards Games Photographs Ambrotypes Cartes-de-visite Daguerreotypes Stereographs Tintypes Photographs arranged by subject: Photographs of Actors and Actresses Photographs of Native Americans Photographs of Sculpture on American Gravestones Photographs of Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century Structures in Massachusetts taken 1887-1945 by Harriette Merrifield Forbes Portraits and Artifacts Postcards Secondary Works in the Arts Silhouettes United States Views Music Hymnals Sheet Music Secular Music Songsters Sound Recordings Cookbooks Albums Encyclopedias Trade Catalogs Newspapers and Periodicals Newspapers Amateur Newspapers Periodicals Online Journals Manuscripts and Archives Manuscripts Archives Microforms Women's Studies Resources   Use the collection access chart to determine which library collections are included in the online catalog.   Albums Almanacs Amateur Newspapers Ambrotypes American Fiction American History and Culture American Portrait Prints Annuals Architectural Resources Archives Artifacts Atlases Auction Catalogs Bibles Bibliographies Billheads Bindings Biography Book Salesman's Samples Bookplates and Booksellers' Labels Booksellers' Catalogs Broadsides Calendars Canadiana Canals Cartes-de-visite Children's Literature Christmas and Holiday Cards Civil War Cartoons Civil War Envelopes Clipper Ship Cards Cookbooks Daguerreotypes Dated Books Dated Pamphlets Devotional Literature Dime Novels Directories Educational Institutions Election Ballots Encyclopedias English and European Authors Ephemera Engravings First Editions Foreign History and Travel Games Genealogy General Institutions Government Documents Graphic Arts Gravestones, Photographs of Sculpture on Hawaiian Collection Hymnals Invitations Journals, Online Latin Americana Learned Societies Library Catalogs Librettos Lithographs Local, County and State Histories Lottery Tickets Manuscripts Maps Mather Family Collection Mather Family Library Menus Microforms Miniature Books Miscellaneous Pamphlets Newspapers Online Journals Periodicals Photographs Photographs of Actors and Actresses Photographs of Native Americans Photographs of Sculpture on American Gravestones Photographs of Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century Structures in Massachusetts taken 1887-1945 by Harriette Merrifield Forbes Plays Portrait Prints, American Portraits Postcards Printing and Publishing History Publishers' Series Railroads Ream Wrappers Religion Research Reserve Collection Rewards of Merit School Books Secondary Works in the Arts Secular Music Sheet Music Silhouettes Songsters Sound Recordings Stereographs Textile Printing Theater Resources Thomas and Eno Collection Tintypes Tracts Trade Cards Trade Catalogs United States Historic Scenes United States Views Western Americana Women's Studies Resources Worcester Portrait Prints Yearbooks   American Antiquarian Society 185 Salisbury Street Worcester, Massachusetts 01609-1634 Tel.: 508-755-5221 Fax: 508-753-3311 e-mail the library Contact Us Staff Directory Site Map Site Index Last updated June 11, 2008 This site and all contents © 2008 American Antiquarian Society