Digital Collections
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Hawaiian Engravings | Hawaiiana at the American Antiquarian Society includes an assortment of more than thirty rare engravings produced by students at the Lahainaluna Seminary on the island of Maui. An intaglio press was introduced at this institution about 1834 and was used to teach students the skills of copperplate engraving and printing. The students produced maps, landscape views, portraits, and depictions of native floral. |
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Farber Gravestone Collection | Digital resource containing over 13,500 images documenting the sculpture on more than 9,000 gravestones, most of which were made prior to 1800, in the Northeastern part of the United States. |
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European Political Prints | This digital collection of over 200 graphic arts items dating from 1720 to 1843 represents a traditionally out of scope area of the Society’s major collections, but it remains a rich resource for those studying the cultural capital of the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. While the advent of American caricatures and cartoons is found with Paul Revere, William Charles and the comic popularity of David Claypoole Johnston, this collection traces the source of such artists to the Transatlantic world. |
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Drawings | Digital collection of 550 drawings in graphite, pen, ink and wash, chalk, watercolor and charcoal. The collection ranges from the late 1700s to the early 20th century. |
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David Claypoole Johnston Family Collection | David Claypoole Johnston (1799-1865) is a noted cartoonist and humorist. This inventory consists of 28 boxes of material dating from 1799 through the early 20th century. |
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Charles Peirce Collection | This digital collection consists of 65 British and American satirical prints published between 1796 and 1807. |
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Audubon's Birds of America | This digital collection provides access to the color plates inside lithographer Julius Bien’s rare edition of Audubon’s Birds of America, published in 1860 in New York. The Bien volume was produced entirely in America, unlike the famous 1838 engraved edition, which was printed in Scotland and England by W.H. Lizars and Robert Havell. |
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Watch Papers | AAS holds a collection of more than 400 American watch papers ranging in dates from the 1790s to 1910. These were inserted into a watch case to protect the delicate mechanisms from dust and debris. |
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Adverts 250 Project | A daily image of an advertisement published in a colonial newspaper 250 years ago that day. Brief commentary accompanies each advertisement. |
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Migration to New Worlds: The Century of Immigration | From the century of immigration, through to the modern era, Migration to New Worlds charts the emigration experience of millions across 200 years of turbulent history. Explore the rise and fall of the New Zealand Company, discover British, European and Asian migration and investigate unique primary source personal accounts, shipping logs, printed literature and organisational papers supplemented by carefully compiled teaching and research aids. |