The collections listed below may have a handful items with records in the General Catalog. Please consult AAS staff for help identifying and requesting these collections.
Book Collections
NOTE: Approximately 10-15% of AAS's books and pamphlets are not listed in the General Catalog. Most of these "uncataloged" items were published after 1840 and have some alternative form of access. Please consult with the curator of books or readers' services staff to locate all material from the following collections.
- Bibles, Prayer Books & Hymnals after 1840
- Booksellers & Auction Catalogs after 1840
- Directories after 1840
- Dictionaries & Encyclopedias after 1840
- Governmental Publications after 1840 and non-U.S.
- Libraries & Learned Societies after 1840
- Foreign Libraries (as pdf)
- Music Books after 1840 - card catalog in reading room
- Railway Albums after 1876 – inventory of all railway albums
- Worcester Institutions ephemera after 1840 and most after 1876
- List of Worcester institutions (as pdf)
- List of Worcester churches (as pdf)
Archives
Graphic Arts
Finding aids have been created for the following collections.
- American Portrait Prints
- Bookplates
- Booksellers' and Binders' Labels
- Calling and Sentiment Cards
- Currency
- David Claypoole Johnston Family Collection (illustrated)
- Drawings (illustrated)
- Election Ballots (illustrated)
- European Political Prints (illustrated)
- George Dubois Family Collection
- Hawaiian Engraving Collection (illustrated)
- Louis Maurer Collection (illustrated)
- Membership Certificates
- Photographs Actors and Performers
- Photographs of Indigenous Peoples, 1850-1900 (illustrated)
- Portraits (illustrated, includes paintings, miniatures, and sculpted portrait busts)
- Silhouettes (illustrated)
- Stereographs (as pdf)
- Worcester Portrait Photographs