Digital resources

This exhibition supplements The American Antiquarian Society, 1812-2012: A Bicentennial History by Philip F. Gura.

A showcase of the unique print culture items on the subject of dance within the Society's holdings.

Architectural resources in the collection include design books, drawings, lithographs, engravings, periodicals, and photographs.

This online resource both catalogs and contextualizes the twenty-two pieces of the Ridgway dinner service “Beauties of America” – a subset of the Society' collection of Staffordshire.

Most of the prints in this exhibit were designed simply to please the eye, but they are also useful to historians who would like to understand how 19th century Americans thought about the world in which they lived.

This online exhibition examines Revere’s many skills as a craftsman who stood at the intersection of social, economic, and political life during the formation of the new nation.

Lithographs, chromolithographs, trade catalogues, trade cards, and product labels that show the way Americans in the North produced and sold their food in the second half of the 19th century.

This exhibition examines and emphasizes the close relationship between early British North America or the United States and the Caribbean World in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.

This online exhibition follows books, donated with the William C. Cook Jacksonian Era Collection, through the process of being integrated into the Society's collection.

Digital resource containing over 13,500 images documenting the sculpture on more than 9,000 gravestones, most of which were made prior to 1800, in the Northeastern part of the United States.

This exhibition explores the contributions of those who labored in translating and printing works in the Algonquian family of native languages.

The online collection of Grant-Burr Family Papers contains over five hundred letters written between 1827 and 1892. Central to the collection is the correspondence between Daniel Grant (1818-1892) and his wife Caroline Burr Grant (1820-1892). 

This exhibition celebrates the generosity and farsightedness of some of the many collectors, book dealers, and librarians who have, each in his or her own way, contributed to the greatness of AAS.

This online exhibition explores Cooper's manuscript material at AAS, the American and foreign illustrations from Cooper's novels, and some of the books used to produce the Cooper Edition.

This exhibition tells the story of Prang during the height of his career in chromolithography during the second half of the nineteenth century.

An online exhibition designed to show the evolution of the Valentine's Day card.

This online exhibition explores images, roles, activities, and social expectations of men in the U. S. in the first half of the 19th century.

This online exhibition highlights the culture and working conditions of the mills and the actions the women took to better their lives through self-advocacy from approximately 1834 to 1870.

This online resource documents conflicting representations of African-Americans, white Southerners, and reformers during and and immediately after the Civil War. 

This exhibitions uses images and objects from the AAS collections to illuminate the spaces where reading happened in early America.

This exhibition features the images of thirty-one Worcester residents depicted in the Society's portrait paintings, miniatures, and sculpture collections.

This exhibition documents the working practice of McLoughlin Brothers by associating its products with many of the tools used during the production process, such as printing blocks, designer mock-ups, and watercolor illustration art.

This online exhibition effectively creates a digital archive of several Algonquian-language printed books and pamphlets, or wussukwhonk as they are called in the Nipmuc language. The manuscript collections featured here include town records, land deeds, and account books.

This exhibition explores portrayals of Turner in both the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

This online exhibition considers the ways William Shakespeare's (1564-1616) characters were pictured inside the covers of literary annuals and gift books in the 19th century.

This exhibition brings together a selection of images from the Society's collections that illustrate the most popular and most beautiful New England destinations for summertime visitors.

Online exhibition of lithographs, watercolors, and drawings of artist David Claypoole Johnston.

This resource broadly explores the interconnectedness of American news media, in all its formats, with changes in technology, business, politics, society, and community from 1730 to 1865.

As this exhibition shows, the practice of exchanging valentines was a distinctly modern tradition, first popularized in the U.S. in the 1840s.

Online exhibition showing an array of Christmas images from the Society's collections.

This online exhibition explores the connections between American and French lithography in the early days of this printing technology.

A look at women's work, from before the American Revolution through the Industrial Revolution, using selected images from the Society's collection.

This online exhibition explores the AAS collection of dime novels, of melodramatic fiction (most paperbacks cost only ten cents) popular in the U.S. from about 1860 until the early 1900s.