American Antiquarian Society
| 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. Explored are artistic depictions of the standard of beauty, ideal beauty, women as objects, variations on the standard, true womanhood, women at home, American slavery, women in public life, women as performers, use of women as advertising strategies and more. |
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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 potter using maps, photographs, source prints and rich descriptions of the objects. |
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| Artists in the Archive: Twenty-Five Years of Creative and Performing Artists and Writers Fellowships | In 1995, AAS welcomed its first class of Creative and Performing Artists and Writers Fellows. Visual artists, fiction writers, non-fiction writers, poets, playwrights, performance artists, musicians and composers, as well as film and media makers came to the society seeking to create original works based on American history to present to non-academic audiences and readers. |
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| Architectural Resources at the American Antiquarian Society | Architectural resources in the collection include design books, drawings, lithographs, engravings, periodicals, and photographs. |
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| American Antiquarian Society, 1812-2012: A View at the Bicentennial | In the Spring of 2012, AAS published The American Antiquarian Society, 1812-2012: A Bicentennial History by Philip F. Gura. To supplement this publication, the Society digitized and made available in high-resolution the images and descriptions from the text. |
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Historic Children's Voices | Historic Children's Voices provides an important window into how young writers in the nineteenth century chronicled their daily lives, wrote stories and poetry, expressed their beliefs and values, and commented on cultural changes of the time. Researchers can view the digital library of diaries, newspapers, and books as well as discover additional research tools and recordings of past programs to explore children's lives more deeply. Teachers will find a variety of guides and lesson plans to help bring the past to life for their students. |
| Freemasonry, Anti-Masonry and Illuminism in the United States, 1734-1850: A Bibliography | ||
| History and Annotated Bibliography of American Religious Periodicals and Newspapers Established from 1730 through 1830 | ||
| American Religious Newspapers and Periodicals, 1730-1830 |