Digital resources

Digitized correspondence of Abigail Kelley Foster (1811-1887), noted antislavery partisan and women’s rights advocate.

Name list for a reference collection of over 5,000 portrait prints of Americans. Contains images removed from newspapers, periodicals, books, letterheads, and ephemera.

This resource provides access to the color plates inside lithographer Julius Bien’s rare edition of Audubon’s Birds of America, published in 1860 in New York.

An inventory, including location, dates, notes, of the personal bookplates collection is available as an Excel sheet. The institutional name list is in process.

A name list for the booksellers' and bookbinders' labels collection is available

Box level inventories for the calling cards and sentiment cards collections.

This illustrated inventory consists of 65 British and American satirical prints published between 1796 and 1807.

The inventory listed in this site consists of 29 boxes and 8 oversized folders of material dating from the late 18th through the early 20th centuries with the bulk of the collection falling between 1870 and 1890.

Currency is a Reserve collection with restricted access. 

David Claypoole Johnston (1799-1865) is a noted cartoonist and humorist. This inventory consists of 28 boxes of material dating from 1799 through the early 20th century.

Over 550 drawings in graphite, pen, ink and wash, chalk, watercolor and charcoal. The collection ranges from the late 1700s to the early 20th century.

Inventory of over 950 election ballots. The entire collection has been digitized. 

Over 200 Eurpean prints dating from 1720 to 1843.

Thirty-three engravings produced by students at the Lahainaluna School on the island of Maui. A mission press was introduced at this institution about 1828.

This collection of 180 glass plate negatives document the city of Worcester, Massachusetts, as it looked from about 1905 to 1910.

The Society's collection of 10,000 maps focuses primarily on the United States, although there are maps representing all parts of the world. 

The catalogs, prices lists, and order forms from the McLoughlin Bros. Collection are available as pdf files.

 Inventory for the undigitized collectinon of over 320 hand-lettered, engraved or relief printed certificates of membership dating from 1785 to 1946.

This inventory illustrates over 160 of the Society's painted portraits, miniatures and sculpted portrait busts. Use the thumbnail gallery with reduced-sized images to browse the collection.

Inventory of a collection of Paul Revere's (1735-1818) separately published prints, currency, receipts and bookplates, illustrations and plates, and political pieces.

164 glass plate negatives taken by the photographer Theodore C. Wohlbrück (1879–1936).

Inventory of the undigitized collection of cabinet cards of actors and performers. The collection includes portraits of opera singers, actors, psychics, and musicians.

From 1887 to 1945, Harriette Merrifield Forbes (1856-1951) photographed seventeenth and eighteenth century structures throughout central and eastern Massachusetts. Her images, preserved as 853 negatives (mostly glass plate negatives), have been digitized and cataloged.

This illustrated inventory highlights a small collection of 19th century photographs Indigenous peoples of North America.

Glass plate negatives taken by Benjamin Thomas Hill (1863-1927), at the Worcester County Agricultural Society's fairgrounds in the early decades of the 20th century.

Fifty-six photographs depicting life in and around Tuskegee Institute, in Tuskegee, Alabama, ca. 1890-1915, taken by an unknown photographer.

This illustrated inventory includes over 170 badges ranging in date from 1824 to 1900.

The majority of the collection is accessed through a title index card file in the reading room.

Ilustrated inventory of 209 silhouettes.

Over 800 stereographs with Civil War content have been digitized and are also available through the Society's digital image archive. A complete box and subject list for this collection is available.

Inventory arranged by size and by type, with tickets for transportation separated out from all others.

Illustrated inventory of more than 400 American watch papers ranging in dates from the 1790s to 1910. These were inserted into a watch case to protect the delicate mechanisms from dust and debris.

A name list for this collection is available.