Online Exhibitions

Curated digital displays that bring together a selection of documents, manuscripts, books, graphics, and other historical artifacts from the collection.

 

 


 

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.

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.

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.

Reclaiming Heritage: Digitizing Early Nipmuc Histories from Colonial Documents

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.

Radiant With Color & Art

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.

Portraits! Worcester Portraits in the AAS Collection

This exhibition features the images of thirty-one Worcester residents depicted in the Society's portrait paintings, miniatures, and sculpture collections.

Place of Reading: Three Centuries of Reading in America

This exhibitions uses images and objects from the AAS collections to illuminate the spaces where reading happened in early America.

Mill Girls in Nineteenth-Century Print

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.

Men in the Young Republic

This online exhibition explores images, roles, activities, and social expectations of men in the U. S. in the first half of the 19th century.

Making Valentines: A Tradition in America

An online exhibition designed to show the evolution of the Valentine's Day card.