Digital resources
Many collections from the American Antiquarian Society are available digitally via digital collections, inventories, online exhibitions, project, and specialized catalogs. Digital collections include both resources that are freely available as well as subscription-only resources (these are clearly indicated in the chart below). Subscription digital collections can be freely accessed by readers who are on-site in the library. Inventories, which are all freely available, will include a mix of information including simple lists of objects or names, image files of individual pieces in a collection, descriptions of objects, or a combination of all of these. Online exhibitions are freely available and include descriptive and historical content about a collection as well as images and related resources. Specialized catalogs provide information not included in the general catalog.
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American Antiquarian Society, 1812-2012: A View at the Bicentennial | From American Antiquarian Society This exhibition supplements The American Antiquarian Society, 1812-2012: A Bicentennial History by Philip F. Gura. |
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An Invitation to Dance: A History of Social Dance in America | From American Antiquarian Society A showcase of the unique print culture items on the subject of dance within the Society's holdings. |
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Architectural Resources at the American Antiquarian Society | From American Antiquarian Society Architectural resources in the collection include design books, drawings, lithographs, engravings, periodicals, and photographs. |
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Beauties of America: The Staffordshire Pottery of John and William Ridgway | From American Antiquarian Society 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. |
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Beauty, Virtue and Vice: Images of Women in 19c American Prints | From American Antiquarian Society 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. |
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Beyond Midnight: Paul Revere | From American Antiquarian Society 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. |
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Big Business: Food Production, Processing & Distribution in the North, 1850-1900 | From American Antiquarian Society 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. |
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Caribbeana Project at AAS | From American Antiquarian Society 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. |
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Collecting the Jacksonian Era: How Books Become Library Collections at AAS | From American Antiquarian Society 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. |
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From English to Algonquian: Early New England Translations | From American Antiquarian Society This exhibition explores the contributions of those who labored in translating and printing works in the Algonquian family of native languages. |
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In Pursuit of a Vision: Two Centuries of Collecting at AAS | From American Antiquarian Society 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. |
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James Fenimore Cooper: Shadow & Substance | From American Antiquarian Society 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. |
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Louis Prang and Chromolithography | From American Antiquarian Society This exhibition tells the story of Prang during the height of his career in chromolithography during the second half of the nineteenth century. |
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Making Valentines: A Tradition in America | From American Antiquarian Society An online exhibition designed to show the evolution of the Valentine's Day card. |
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Men in the Young Republic | From American Antiquarian Society This online exhibition explores images, roles, activities, and social expectations of men in the U. S. in the first half of the 19th century. |
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Mill Girls in Nineteenth-Century Print | From American Antiquarian Society 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. |
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Northern Visions of Race, Region, & Reform | From American Antiquarian Society This online resource documents conflicting representations of African-Americans, white Southerners, and reformers during and and immediately after the Civil War. |
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Place of Reading: Three Centuries of Reading in America | From American Antiquarian Society This exhibitions uses images and objects from the AAS collections to illuminate the spaces where reading happened in early America. |
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Portraits! Worcester Portraits in the AAS Collection | From American Antiquarian Society This exhibition features the images of thirty-one Worcester residents depicted in the Society's portrait paintings, miniatures, and sculpture collections. |
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Radiant With Color & Art | From American Antiquarian Society 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. |
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Reclaiming Heritage: Digitizing Early Nipmuc Histories from Colonial Documents | From American Antiquarian Society 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. |
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Revisiting Rebellion: Nat Turner in the American Imagination | From American Antiquarian Society This exhibition explores portrayals of Turner in both the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. |
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Shakespeare in the Parlor | From American Antiquarian Society 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. |
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Summer Vacationing in New England | From American Antiquarian Society 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. |
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The David Claypoole Johnston Collection | From American Antiquarian Society Online exhibition of lithographs, watercolors, and drawings of artist David Claypoole Johnston. |
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The News Media and the Making of America, 1730-1865 | From American Antiquarian Society 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. |
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Victorian Valentines: Intimacy in the Industrial Age | From American Antiquarian Society As this exhibition shows, the practice of exchanging valentines was a distinctly modern tradition, first popularized in the U.S. in the 1840s. |
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Visions of Christmas | From American Antiquarian Society Online exhibition showing an array of Christmas images from the Society's collections. |
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With a French Accent: American Lithography to 1860 | From American Antiquarian Society This online exhibition explores the connections between American and French lithography in the early days of this printing technology. |
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Woman's Work is Never Done | From American Antiquarian Society A look at women's work, from before the American Revolution through the Industrial Revolution, using selected images from the Society's collection. |
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Women and the World of Dime Novels | From American Antiquarian Society 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. |
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