Collections
The library contains more than three million books, pamphlets, graphic arts, newspapers, periodicals, and manuscripts. AAS collects not only rare or unique items, but since our founding in 1812, we have amassed great quantities of materials that reflect the "stuff" of everyday life--works that describe all aspects of American history, literature and culture, and the ways we have lived as individuals and as communities.
Library Collections
Descriptions for 100 distinct collections at AAS, from "Albums" to "Yearbooks." Links to the current cataloging status of each collection, finding aids, inventories, and illustrated sidebars are included more ...Online Exhibitions and Resources
Beauty, Virtue and Vice: Images of Women in Nineteenth-Century American Prints is the most recent of the online exhibitions and resources 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.
Electronic Resources
Links to AAS electronic resources (online databases, digital collections, and indexes) available in the reading room at AAS.Illustrated Inventories
Illustrated inventories of selected AAS materials have been digitized and made available online.AAS Digital Partnerships
In order to make its unparalleled collections widely available to the public, AAS has formed digital partnerships.Rights and Reproductions
The American Antiquarian Society offers reproduction services as an aid to scholarly research in accordance with its mission to provide access to materials while preserving them for the use of future generations more ...
Recent acquisitions to the collections
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