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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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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Place of Reading: Three Centuries of Reading in America | This exhibition uses images and objects from the AAS collections to illuminate the spaces where reading happened in early America. |
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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. |
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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. |
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Making Valentines: A Tradition in America | An online exhibition designed to show the evolution of the Valentine's Day card. |
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Louis Prang and Chromolithography | This exhibition tells the story of Prang during the height of his career in chromolithography during the second half of the nineteenth century. |
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James Fenimore Cooper: Shadow & Substance | This online exhibition explores Cooper's manuscript material at AAS, the American and foreign illustrations from Cooper's novels, and some of the books used to produce the Cooper Edition. |
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In Pursuit of a Vision: Two Centuries of Collecting at AAS | This exhibition celebrates the generosity and farsightedness of some of the many collectors, book dealers, and librarians who have, each in his or her own way, contributed to the greatness of AAS. |