AAS has been creating online exhibitions using digitized collection materials for over 20 years.
These exhibitions serve several purposes: they showcase highlights from the AAS collection; explore specific topics and themes; represent traveling exhibitions; and generally, they provide digital representations of collection materials.
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Northern Visions of Race, Region, & Reform | This online resource documents conflicting representations of African-Americans, white Southerners, and reformers during and and immediately after the Civil War. In particular, it looks at the stereotypes popularized in the northern press, and the ways that these depictions were countered--or in some cases, reinforced--in the letters written for northern readers by freedmen's teachers and freedmen themselves. |
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Women and the World of Dime Novels | Full of romance and adventure, dime novels were a variety of melodramatic fiction that was popular in the United States from about 1860 until the early 1900s. Published as cheap paperbacks (most cost only ten cents), they were generally regarded as low-quality fiction. Women, more often than not, were major characters in these novels. This exhibition explores these women. |
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Woman's Work is Never Done | 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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With a French Accent: American Lithography to 1860 | This online exhibition explores the connections between American and French lithography in the early days of this printing technology. |
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Visions of Christmas | Online exhibition showing an array of Christmas images from the Society's collections. |
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Victorian Valentines: Intimacy in the Industrial Age | This exhibition focuses on the traditions and myths of Valentine's Day by examining handmade and commercially produced love tokens from the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, held at the American Antiquarian Society. From the intimate appeal of reading a beloved’s handwriting to the sheer delight of quickly sending and receiving anonymous messages through the mail, the celebration of what was originally a minor saint’s day connected lovers, friends, and enemies both close and far. |
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The David Claypoole Johnston Collection | Online exhibition of lithographs, watercolors, and drawings of artist David Claypoole Johnston. |
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Summer Vacationing in New England | 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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Shakespeare in the Parlor | 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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Revisiting Rebellion: Nat Turner in the American Imagination | Using print and manuscript collections at the American Antiquarian Society and the New York Public Library’s Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, this exhibition explores portrayals of Turner in both the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Depictions often reveal less about who Turner was and more about the zeitgeist in which a given Turner was created. |