Digital AAS

Digital Resources, A-Z

The American Antiquarian Society provides access on its campus to the digital collections, databases, and indexes listed below. Remote access for these resources is not available unless otherwise noted.

Books | Children's Literature | Graphic Arts | Manuscripts | Newspapers and Periodicals

Resource	Remote Access	About
19th Century American Children’s Book Trade Directory	✓	about
AAS General Catalog	✓	about
Abigail Kelley Foster Papers Finding Aid	✓	about
Adverts 250 Project	✓	about
African American Newspapers, 1827-1998		about
African American Newspapers, Series 2		about
African American Resources at the American Antiquarian Society	✓	about
African History and Culture, 1540-1921		about
African Newspapers		about
Afro-Americana Imprints, 1535-1922		about
Almanac: The newsletter of the American Antiquarian Society	✓	about
Amateur Newspapers from AAS		about
Ambrotypes Collection Inventory	✓	about
America's GenealogyBank		about
America's Historical Imprints		about
America's Historical Newspapers		about
American Ancestors		about
American Antiquarian Society, 1812-2012: A View at the Bicentennial	✓	about
American Archives		about
American Broadsides and Ephemera		about
American Broadsides & Ephemera Before 1800	✓	about
American Children's Books, 1654-1819		about
American Civil War Collection, 1860-1922: From AAS		about
American Civil War Newspapers, 1840-1877		about
American Crime and Criminal Justice, 1664-1819		about
American Fiction, 1774-1920		about
American Historical Periodicals		about
American History Through the News		about
American Judaica, 1841-1876	✓	about
American Pamphlets, Series 1, 1820-1922: From N-YHS		about
American Science and Technology, 1663-1819		about
American Sermons, 1652-1819		about
American Slavery Collection, 1820-1922: From AAS		about
American Stage to 1819		about
American State Papers, 1789-1838		about
American Underworld: The Flash Press		about
American Vernacular Music Manuscripts, ca. 1730-1910	✓	about
Ancestry		about
Architectural Resources at the American Antiquarian Society	✓	about
Archive of Americana		about
Archives Unbound		about
Archives Unbound - 19th Century English-Language Journals from the Far East		about
Archives Unbound - Overland Journeys: Travels in the West, 1800-1880		about
Artists in the Archive: Twenty-Five Years of Creative and Performing Artists and Writers Fellowships	✓
Atlas of Historical County Boundaries	✓	about
Atlas of the Rhode Island Book Trade in the 18th Century	✓	about
Audubon's Birds of America: An AAS Illustrated Inventory	✓	about
Beauties of America: The Staffordshire Pottery of John and William Ridgway	✓	about
Beauty, Virtue and Vice: Images of Women in 19c American Prints	✓	about
Beyond Midnight: Paul Revere	✓	about
Beyond Midnight: Paul Revere Educational Resources	✓	about
Big Business: Food Production, Processing & Distribution in the North, 1850-1900	✓	about
Black Authors, 1556-1922		about
Black Life in America		about
Black Self-Publishing	✓	about
Borderlands Archives Cartography	✓	about
Bridgeman Images	✓	about
Caribbean History and Culture, 1535-1920		about
Caribbean Newspapers, 1718-1876		about
Caribbeana Project at AAS	✓	about
Catalogue of American Engravings	✓	about
Charles Peirce Collection Illustrated Box List	✓	about
Chat with a Curator - Halloween	✓	about
Children's Literature and Culture		about
Chronicling America, 1777-1963	✓	about
Civil War Broadsides and Ephemera		about
The Civil War: Antebellum Period to Reconstruction		about
Clarence: Newspaper Holdings of the American Antiquarian Society	✓	about
Clerk and the City	✓	about
Collecting the Jacksonian Era: How Books Become Library Collections at AAS	✓	about
Commonplace: the journal of early American life	✓	about
Congregational Library & Archives: Digital Archive	✓	about
Connecticut Bibliography	✓	about
Crime, Punishment, and Popular Culture, 1790-1920		about
The Cross Family Collection	✓	about
Daguerreotypes Collection Inventory	✓	about
The David Claypoole Johnston Collection	✓	about
David Claypoole Johnston Family Illustrated Box List	✓	about
A Day In the Life of a Blacksmith	✓	about
A Day in the Life of a Schoolmarm	✓	about
Diaries at the American Antiquarian Society	✓	about
Digital Transgender Archive	✓	about
Drawings Collection Inventory	✓	about
Early American Imprints, Series I: Evans (1639-1800)		about
Early American Imprints, Series II. Shaw-Shoemaker (1801-1819)		about
Early American Newspapers, 1801-1900		about
Early American Sacred Music	✓	about
Eighteenth Century Collections Online		about
Emily Dickinson Archive	✓	about
European Political Print Collection Inventory	✓	about
Evans Text Creation Partnership	✓	about
Fake News and the Massachusetts Spy, 1775	✓	about
Family Photographs of Theodore C. Wohlbrück	✓	about
Farber Gravestone Collection	✓	about
From English to Algonquian: Early New England Translations	✓	about
Gale Databases		about
Gale Primary Sources		about
Gale's Literary Index		about
GIGI: The AAS Digital Image Archive	✓	about
Global Commodities: Trade, Exploration & Cultural Exchange		about
Grant-Burr Family Papers	✓	about
#hamildays: A Hamilton-Inspired Journey Through the Stacks	✓	about
HarpWeek		about
Hawaiian Engravings Collection Inventory	✓	about
Heritage Quest Online		about
Hispanic American Newspapers, 1808-1980		about
House and Senate Journals, Series I, 1789-1817		about
Humanities in Class Digital Library	✓	about
Images of the American Civil War: Photographs, Posters, and Ephemera		about
Images of Worcester	✓	about
Immigrant Records at the National Archives	✓	about
In Pursuit of a Vision: Two Centuries of Collecting at AAS	✓	about
Indigenous Peoples Resources at the American Antiquarian Society	✓	about
International Coalition on Newspapers	✓	about
An Invitation to Dance: A History of Social Dance in America	✓	about
Isaiah Thomas Broadside Ballads Project	✓	about
Isaiah Thomas' Library Catalog	✓
Isaiah Thomas’s Printing Press	✓	about
Isaiah's Indenture	✓	about
James Fenimore Cooper: Shadow & Substance	✓	about
The Journals of Edmund Quincy Sewall Jr. 1837-1840	✓	about
Judaic Resources at the American Antiquarian Society	✓	about
Just Teach One	✓	about
Just Teach One: Early African American Print	✓	about
Latin American Newspapers		about
The Letters of Abigail Adams: An AAS Illustrated Inventory	✓	about
Louis Prang and Chromolithography	✓	about
Making Valentines: A Tradition in America	✓	about
Manuscript Cookbooks Survey	✓
Manuscript Poems of Phillis Wheatley at AAS	✓	about
Manuscript Women's Letters and Diaries		about
Mapping Colonial Americas Publishing Project	✓
Mapping Early American Elections	✓	about
Mapping the Black Digital and Public Humanities	✓	about
Margaret Fuller Transnational Archive	✓
The Massachusetts Spy	✓	about
Mathew Carey Papers Database	✓	about
McLoughlin Bros. Catalogues, Price Lists, and Order Forms Inventory	✓
McLoughlin Bros. Collection	✓	about
Men in the Young Republic	✓	about
Migration to New Worlds: The Century of Immigration		about
Mill Girls in Nineteenth-Century Print	✓	about
Mills, Men and Machinery: A Bibliography of Papermaking in the United States During the Industrial Revolution to 1900	✓	about
Monographs on and by Women from the American Antiquarian Society		about
Morgan Bibliography of Ohio Imprints, 1796-1850	✓	about
Native American Indians, 1645-1819		about
Adventures of Captain Gulliver	✓	Catalog record
Animals' Picnic	✓	Catalog record
Plush Train Car	✓	Catalog record
New England Historical and Genealogical Society databases		about
New England's Hidden Histories: Colonial-Era Church Records	✓	about
A New Nation Votes	✓	about
The News Media and the Making of America, 1730-1865	✓	about
NewsVault		about
Nineteenth Century Collections Online		about
Nineteenth Century Collections Online - Children's Literature and Childhood		about
Nineteenth Century Collections Online - Mapping the World: Maps & Travel Literature		about
Nineteenth Century U.S. Newspapers		about
Northern Visions of Race, Region & Reform	✓	about
Ohio Name Index, 1796-1850	✓	about
Painted Portraits, Miniatures and Sculpted Portrait Busts	✓	about
Pakachoag: Where the River Bends	✓	about
Past is Present: AAS blog	✓	about
Paul Revere and Isaiah Thomas	✓	about
Paul Revere Collection Inventory	✓	about
Personal Photographs of Theodore C. Wohlbrück	✓	about
Photographs 17th and 18th Century Structures in Massachusetts	✓	about
Photographs of North American Indians, 1850-1900: An AAS Illustrated Inventory	✓	about
Photographs of the New England Fair by B.T. Hill: An AAS Illustrated Inventory	✓	about
Photographs of Tuskegee Institute: An AAS Illustrated Inventory	✓	about
A Place of Reading: Three Centuries of Reading in America	✓	about
Portraits! Worcester Portraits in the AAS Collection	✓	about
Printed Ribbon Badges: An AAS Illustrated Inventory	✓	about
Printmaking in 18th-Century America	✓	about
Prints in the Parlor	✓	about
Proceedings of the American Antiquarian Society, 1880-2008	✓	about
Quantifying the American Tract Society	✓
Radiant With Color & Art	✓	about
Rare Book Hub		about
Rare Titles from the American Antiquarian Society, 1820-1922		about
Readex AllSearch		about
Reclaiming Heritage: Digitizing Early Nipmuc Histories from Colonial Documents	✓	about
Revisiting Rebellion: Nat Turner in the American Imagination	✓	about
Sabin Americana, 1500-1926		about
Satire in Circulation: James Russell Lowell's "LETTER FROM A VOLUNTEER IN SALTILLO"	✓
Senate Executive Journals, 1789-1866		about
Serial Set Maps		about
Sermon Notebooks Online	✓
Shakespeare in the Parlor	✓	about
Silhouettes: An AAS Illustrated Inventory	✓	about
Slavery and Anti-Slavery: A Transnational Archive		about
Social Networks and Archival Context	✓
Some Characteristics of Colonial American Newspapers	✓	about
Sources in U.S. History Online: The Civil War		about
Student, Teacher, and Trustee Database Project, 1800-1900	✓	about
Summer Vacationing in New England	✓	about
Taught By Literature		about
The Artifacts of Paul Revere’s Ride	✓	about
The Format of Colonial American Newspapers video	✓	about
The Patriot Printer: Isaiah Thomas	✓	about
The When and Where of American Print Culture in the 1700s	✓	about
The Who and What of American Print Culture in the 1700s	✓	about
Tintype Collection Inventory	✓	about
U.S. Congressional Serial Set		about
Victorian Valentines: Intimacy in the Industrial Age	✓	about
The Beginnings of the American Revolution in Art and Literature	✓
K-12 Educational Programs at the American Antiquarian Society	✓
Paul Revere and Isaiah Thomas	✓
Revere and the Masons	✓
Visions of Christmas	✓	about
Watch Papers: An AAS Illustrated Inventory	✓	about
William Brown- A Moment in Worcester Black History	✓	about
With a French Accent: American Lithography to 1860	✓	about
A Woman's Work is Never Done	✓	about
Women and the World of Dime Novels	✓	about
Women's Studies Archive		about
Worcester Women's History Project	✓	about
World Newspaper Archive		about
Wright American Fiction	✓	about

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