American Antiquarian Society

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

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

This exhibition tells the story of Prang during the height of his career in chromolithography during the second half of the nineteenth century. 

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.

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.

This exhibition explores the contributions of those who labored in translating and printing works in the Algonquian family of native languages.

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.

A union catalogue, the Catalogue of American Engravings describes engravings issued as separate publications or as illustrations in books and periodicals from the early eighteenth century through the year 1820. Included are portraits, views, political cartoons, and illustrations covering many subjects and genres. Excluded are maps and ephemera, such as bookplates, billheads, trade cards, and currency. Approximately 85 percent of the holdings are at the American Antiquarian Society.

This exhibition examines and emphasizes the close relationship between early British North America or the United States and the Caribbean World in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.

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.