American Antiquarian Society
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Shakespeare in the Parlor | This online exhibition considers the ways William Shakespeare's (1564-1616) characters were pictured inside the covers of literary annuals and gift books in the 19th century. |
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Revisiting Rebellion: Nat Turner in the American Imagination | Using print and manuscript collections at the American Antiquarian Society and the New York Public Library’s Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, this exhibition explores portrayals of Turner in both the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Depictions often reveal less about who Turner was and more about the zeitgeist in which a given Turner was created. |
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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. |