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
The David Claypoole Johnston Collection is among the online
exhibitions on view
Digital Collections
Links to AAS digital collections as well as links to a variety of other digital collections available at AASRights 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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