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 Online exhibitions are freely available and include descriptive and historical content about a collection as well as images and related resources.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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| Student, Teacher, and Trustee Database Project, 1800-1900 | From American Antiquarian Society This database contains over 1 million entries of students, teachers, and trustees whose names appear in the catalogues from 1800-1900 of the American Antiquarian Society's School and College Collection. |
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Black Self-Publishing | From American Antiquarian Society Black Self-Publishing is an ongoing collaborative research project based on a working list of books that are known to have been or may have been self-published by people of African descent who resided in North America and either were born before 1851 or first published before 1877. |
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Taught By Literature | From Taught by Literature Taught by Literature is a collaborative project honoring Black author and activist Alice Dunbar-Nelson’s lifelong commitment to education. Taught by Literature celebrates Dunbar-Nelson’s legacy by recentering Black women writers, beginning with Dunbar-Nelson herself and extending to other Black women from the Harlem Renaissance and earlier. |
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Adverts 250 Project | From Carl Keyes A daily image of an advertisement published in a colonial newspaper 250 years ago that day. Brief commentary accompanies each advertisement. |
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