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Exterior View of Antiquarian Hall
The American Antiquarian Society, located in Worcester,
Massachusetts, is both a library and a learned society whose mission is to
collect, preserve, and make available the printed record of what is now
the United States from 1640 through 1876. Founded in 1812 by Revolutionary
War patriot and printer Isaiah Thomas, the American Antiquarian Society is
the third oldest historical society in the United States and the first to
be national in the scope of its collections.
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Fellow at the American Antiquarian Society
The American Antiquarian Society conducts an extensive fellowship program
for scholars, artists, and writers studying pre-twentieth century America.
Readers come from all over the world to study these materials housed at
the Society in Worcester, Massachusetts.
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Stacks of the American Antiquarian Society
The American Antiquarian Society's library contains 20 miles of shelves
that hold over three million items including: books, pamphlets,
broadsides, newspapers, periodicals, sheet music, and graphic materials.
The collection contains two out of three of the total books known to have
been printed in what is now the United States from the establishment of
the first press in 1640 to 1820.
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Curator assists a reader
Russell L. Martin, former Curator of Newspaper and Periodicals at the
American
Antiquarian Society, assists a researcher in the reading room. The
Society's collection of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century American
newspapers contains more than two million issues published throughout the
United States, Canada, and the West Indies. This premier collection, which
takes up some seven miles of shelves, includes many complete runs of
newspapers.
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Curator assists a reader
Georgia Barnhill, the Andrew W. Mellon Curator of Graphic Arts at the
American Antiquarian Society, assists a reader in the main reading room of
Antiquarian Hall. The graphic arts collection of the Society includes
political cartoons, maps, lithographs, portraits, photographs, and
paintings. In addition, the department contains a strong collection of
ephemera including such diverse items as menus, currency, valentines, and
games. The American Antiquarian Society contains all but two of the
engravings of Paul Revere.
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Curator assists a reader
In addition to printed materials, the American Antiquarian Society's
holdings also contain a substantial and diverse manuscript collection. The
AAS manuscript collections. principal strengths are in four areas:
American book publishing and collecting; New England diaries; papers of
prominent early New Englanders; and papers and records of eighteenth- and
nineteenth-century central Massachusetts families, voluntary associations,
and businesses.
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Reading Room of the American Antiquarian Society
The American Antiquarian Society is both a learned society and a major
independent research library. The Library houses the largest and most
accessible collection of books, pamphlets, broadsides, newspapers,
periodicals, sheet music and graphic arts materials printed through 1876
in what is now the United States, as well as manuscripts and a substantial
collection of secondary works, bibliographies, and other reference works
related to all aspects of American history and culture before the
twentieth century.
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Reading Room of the American Antiquarian Society
The Society sponsors a broad range of programs . visiting research
fellowships, research, education, publications, lectures, and concerts .
for constituencies ranging from school children and their teachers,
through undergraduate and graduate students, postdoctoral scholars,
creative and performing artists and writers, and the general public. The
Society is committed to enhancing the quality of education in grades K-12
by sponsoring teacher training workshops and seminars, and creating
educational programs that make available for classroom use facsimiles of
historic materials from the AAS collections.
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Books in the collection
The American Antiquarian Society library contains approximately 60,000
books and pamphlets printed before 1821. Scholars and other interested
persons come from all over the world to study these materials. Their
interests range from American history, art, and literature to the
processes by which books were created and distributed in pre-twentieth
century America.
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September 20, 2007
American Antiquarian Society is a 2007 AASLH Award Winner
June 20, 2006
Burkett & Hench to retire; Council votes honors
January 18, 2006
Mellon Foundation Challenge
contact:
James David Moran
American Antiquarian Society
185 Salisbury Street
Worcester, Massachusetts 01609-1634
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