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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From English to Algonquian: Early New England Translations | This exhibition explores the contributions of those who labored in translating and printing works in the Algonquian family of native languages. |
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Collecting the Jacksonian Era: How Books Become Library Collections at AAS | This online exhibition follows books, donated with the William C. Cook Jacksonian Era Collection, through the process of being integrated into the Society's collection. |
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Big Business: Food Production, Processing & Distribution in the North, 1850-1900 | This exhibition features lithographs, chromolithographs, trade catalogues, trade cards, and product labels that show the way Americans in the North produced and sold their food in the second half of the 19th century. |
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Beyond Midnight: Paul Revere | This online exhibition examines Revere’s many skills as a craftsman who stood at the intersection of social, economic, and political life during the formation of the new nation. |
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Beauty, Virtue and Vice: Images of Women in 19c American Prints | Most of the prints in this exhibit were designed simply to please the eye, but they are also useful to historians who would like to understand how 19th century Americans thought about the world in which they lived. |
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Beauties of America: The Staffordshire Pottery of John and William Ridgway | This online resource both catalogs and contextualizes the twenty-two pieces of the Ridgway dinner service “Beauties of America” – a subset of the Society' collection of Staffordshire. |
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Artists in the Archive: 25 Years of Creative and Performing Artists and Writers Fellowships | Coming soon |
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Architectural Resources at the American Antiquarian Society | Architectural resources in this online exhibition include design books, drawings, lithographs, engravings, periodicals, and photographs. |
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An Invitation to Dance: A History of Social Dance in America | The illustrations and objects depicted in this exhibition provide a brief glimpse into the history of social dance. The abundance of artwork and social artifacts available attest to dance's importance throughout American history. Featured is not only its origin, fashion and forms, but also the unspoken language of dance. Always moving, always changing, dancing has never failed to enchant American society. |
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American Antiquarian Society, 1812-2012: A View at the Bicentennial | This online exhibition supplements the publication The American Antiquarian Society, 1812-2012: A Bicentennial History by Philip F. Gura. |