AAS Digital Collections
The Archive of Americana is available at AAS or
by subscription
- House and Senate Journals, Series I, 1789-1817
The original Journals of the Congress for the first 14 Congresses were
printed in small numbers by non-government printers on contract. In the
years after the burning of the Capitol by the British in the War of
1812, copies of those House and Senate Journals gradually became
increasingly rare.
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- U.S. Congressional Serial Set
The bound, sequentially numbered volumes of all the Reports, Documents,
and Journals of the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives constitutes a
rich source
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Available free-of-charge on the web
Available free-of-charge on the web
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The web-based Archive of Americana features fully
text-searchable fasimile images. The
Archive of Americana is available at AAS or by
subscription
Connect to the
Archive of Americana from
any AAS terminal
or
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library subscribing to the Archive of Americana near you
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America's Historical Newspapers
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Cover-to-cover reproductions of hundreds of rare newspapers and
millions of issues, America's Historical Newspapers is
fully text-searchable.
The digital series is based on the microfilm collection currently offered
by Readex.
Clarence Brigham's
History and Bibliography of American Newspapers, 1690-1820
provided
the foundation for the original filming project, the core of which
is formed by the AAS collection of colonial and early
national period newspapers.
Numerous other
institutions and historical societies have contributed to the collection
including: the Boston Athenaeum; the Connecticut Historical Society;
the Connecticut State Library;
the
Library Company of Philadelphia; the Library of Congress; the libraries of
universities such as Brown and Harvard; and private collections.
Early American Newspapers, Series 1:
Number of uniform newspaper titles available: 718
Number of issues available: 346,395
Number of pages available: 1,512,979
Number of images available: 564,627
Last update: March 31, 2006
Early American Newspapers, Series 2:
Number of uniform newspaper titles available: 244
Number of issues available: 172,126
Number of pages available: 978,020
Last update: Oct. 31, 2007
Early American Newspapers, Series 3:
Number of uniform newspaper titles available: 122
Number of issues available: 304,082
Number of pages available: 3,130,008
Last update: Oct. 31, 2007
Early American Newspapers, Series 4:
Number of uniform newspaper titles available: 72
Number of issues available: 50,066
Number of pages available: 335,898
Last update: Oct. 31, 2007
Early American Newspapers, Series 5:
Number of uniform newspaper titles available: 76
Number of issues available: 43,997
Number of pages available: 224,307
Last update: Oct. 31, 2007
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America's Historical Newspapers, 1690-1922 from
any AAS terminal
or
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American Broadsides and Ephemera, Series I
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Upon completion, American Broadsides and Ephemera will offer fully
searchable facsimile
images
of approximately 15,000 broadsides printed between 1820 and 1900 and
15,000 pieces of ephemera printed between 1760 and 1900. The remarkably
diverse subjects of these broadsides range from contemporary accounts of
the Civil War, unusual occurrences and natural disasters to official
government proclamations, tax bills and town meeting reports. Featuring
many rare items, the pieces of ephemera include clipper ship sailing
cards, early trade cards, bill heads, theater and music programs, stock
certificates, menus and invitations documenting civic, political and
private celebrations.
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American Broadsides and Ephemera from
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American State Papers, 1789-1838
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The American State Papers constitute rich primary source material on many
aspects of early American history from 1789 to 1838. A retrospective
republication of approximately 6280 numbered publications, largely
Congressional but also containing Executive Department materials, the
American State Paper volumes, issued from 1832-1861, were published in ten
classes in a total of 38 folio volumes.
The classes into which the publications were assembled and printed and the
number of volumes they occupy are: I: Foreign Relations in six volumes;
II: Indian Affairs in two volumes; III: Finance in five volumes; IV:
Commerce and Navigation in two volumes; V: Military Affairs in seven
volumes; VI: Naval Affairs in four volumes; VII: Post-office Department in
one volume; VIII: Public Lands in eight volumes; IX: Claims in one volume;
and X: Miscellaneous in two volumes.
Unlike the U.S. Congressional Serial Set, the publications in the American
State Papers are not divided into reports and documents and do not include
House and Senate journals. Approximately two-thirds of the publications
cover the first 14 Congresses (1789-1817), whereas the remaining third
chronologically overlap with the Serial Set from 1817-1838.
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American
State Papers from any AAS terminal
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Early American Imprints, Series I. Evans (1639-1800)
Evans Digital Edition
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Containing nearly every book, pamphlet and broadside published
in America from 1639 to 1800, Evans Digital Edition will, upon
completion, consist of more than 36,000 works and 2,400,000 images.
Based on Charles Evans' comprehensive American
Bibliography
and enhanced by
Roger
Bristol's Supplement to Evans' American Bibliography, the
collection was
first published by Readex in cooperation
with AAS as a microform set.
Evans Digital Edition will include every item previously
produced on microform plus more than 1,200 additional works located,
cataloged and digitized since completion of the earlier effort.
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Evans Digital
Edition from any AAS terminal
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Early American Imprints, Series II. Shaw-Shoemaker
(1801-1819)
Shaw-Shoemaker Digital Edition
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The continuation of Evans Digital Edition, containing books,
pamphlets and
broadsides published in American between 1801 and 1819, this collection is
based on the noted American Bibliography, 1801-1819 by Ralph B.
Shaw and
Richard H. Shoemaker. Early American Imprints, Series II.
Shaw-Shoemaker
(1801-1819)
includes many
state
papers and early government materials which chronicle the political and
geographic growth of the developing American nation.
Covering every aspect of American life during the early decades of the
United States, this primary source collection provides full-text
access to over 36,000 American books, pamphlets and broadsides.
As of August 2004, the Shaw-Shoemaker Digital Edition is being
released in monthly segments over a three-year
period.
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to Shaw-Shoemaker Digital Edition
from any AAS terminal
or
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House and Senate Journals, Series I, 1789-1817
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The original Journals of the Congress for the first 14 Congresses were
printed in small numbers by non-government printers on contract. In the
years after the burning of the Capitol by the British in the War of
1812, copies of those House and Senate Journals gradually became
increasingly rare. So Congress authorized Gales & Seaton to reprint the
Senate Journals for the first 14 Congresses in five volumes in 1820 and
the House Journals in nine volumes in 1826.
The Readex digital House and Senate Journals, Series I of the first
fourteen Congresses reproduces the original texts of these important
works, not the reprints containing some textual differences, deliberate
or inadvertent, from the originals.
In answer to the question of why these journals are not in the U.S.
Congressional Serial Set or the American State Papers, it need only be
pointed out that they antedate the Serial Set, which begins in 1817, and
that they were not again reprinted in the American State Papers because
Congress had only relatively recently authorized their reprinting as
stated above.
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House and
Senate Journals, Series I, 1789-1817 from any AAS terminal
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Senate Executive Journals, Series I, 1789-1866
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The Executive Session Journal of the Senate is a record of its closed
session deliberations, mostly on two principal topics: treaties and
nominations.
The journals were transcribed and kept in manuscript form and published
many years after their creation.
The Executive Session Journals for the 1st through the 20th session,
covering May 25, 1789 through February 12, 1829, were published in three
volumes erroneously dated 1828. The next set of the Executive Session
Journals was published in 1887 and covers 4-14 for the date range 1829 -
1866.
Readex's digital collection Senate Executive Journals, Series I covers
the time period of 1789 - 1866. Subsequent series, parallel to the
material found in the full Congressional Serial Set, are to be issued
throughout the remaining course of our digitization of the Serial Set.
The original publications were printed in limited numbers. From 1948
onward, for example, only 50 copies were printed. The Readex collection
of the Senate Executive Journals is being digitized from the holdings of
the United States Senate Library.
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Senate
Executive Journals, Series I, 1789-1866
from any AAS terminal
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The bound, sequentially numbered volumes of all the Reports, Documents,
and Journals of the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives constitutes a
rich source of primary source material on all aspects of American history.
Upon completion, the digital version of the Serial Set will consist of
approximately 13,800 volumes and over 12 million pages.
Connect
to the U.S. Congressional
Serial Set from any
AAS terminal
or
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library subscribing to the Archive of Americana near you
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The Farber Gravestone Collection is an unusual resource containing over
13,500 images documenting the sculpture on more than 9,000 gravestones,
most of which were made prior to 1800, in the Northeastern part of the
United States. The late Daniel Farber of Worcester, Massachusetts, and his
wife, Jessie Lie Farber, were responsible for the largest portion of the
collection. This online version of the Farber Gravestone Collection is
sponsored by AAS. The website and online
image database have been created by David Rumsey and Cartography
Associates.
Connect to the Farber
Gravestone Collection
A New Nation Votes is a searchable collection of election returns from
the earliest years of American democracy. The data were compiled by
Philip Lampi. The American Antiquarian Society and Tufts University
Digital Collections and Archives have mounted it online for you with
funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities.
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to A New Nation Votes
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