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AAS Digital Partnerships
In order to make its unparalleled collections widely available to the public, AAS has partnered with the following organizations:-
Cartography Associates, David Rumsey
www.davidrumsey.comProduct produced:
- The Farber Gravestone Collection
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EBSCO
www.ebsco.com
Product produced:
- AAS Historical Periodicals Collection
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Gale
www.gale.cengage.com
Product produced:
- Sabin Americana 1500-1926
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Readex, a division of Newsbank
www.readex.com
Product produced:
- Archive of Americana
- America's Historical Newspapers
- American Broadsides and Ephemera, Series I
- American History Through the News
- American State Papers, 1789-1838
- The Civil War: Antebellum Period to Reconstruction
- Early American Imprints, Series I. Evans (1639-1800)
- Early American Imprints, Series II. Shaw-Shoemaker (1801-1819)
- U.S. Congressional Serial Set
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Tufts University Digital Collections and Archives
dca.tufts.edu
Product produced:
- A New Nation Votes
Product Descriptions
EBSCO partners with the American Antiquarian Society to provide digital access to the most comprehensive collection of American periodicals published between 1691 and 1877.
This collection includes digitized images of American magazines and journals never before available outside the walls of the AAS, and is not available for acquisition in digital form from any other source. More than 6,500 periodicals comprised of more than twelve million pages will be available, eclipsing all other online resources in this area.
The series 1,
series 2,
series 3, and
series 4
coverage lists give the place of publication and the year range for each title.
For online help, click the help icon found throughout the database.
Connect to
AAS Historical Periodicals Collection, 1691-1820, Series 1 from any AAS terminal
Connect to
AAS Historical Periodicals Collection, 1821-1837, Series 2 from any AAS terminal
Connect to
AAS Historical Periodicals Collection, 1838-1852, Series 3 from any AAS terminal
Connect to
AAS Historical Periodicals Collection, 1853-1865, Series 4 from any AAS terminal
The web-based Archive of Americana features fully
text-searchable facsimile images. The
Archive of Americana is available at AAS or by
subscription
Connect to the
Archive of Americana from
any AAS terminal
or
Locate a
library subscribing to the Archive of Americana near you
Read more about the Archive of Americana on the Readex
website
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America's Historical Newspapers
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:
Early American Newspapers, Series 2:
Early American Newspapers, Series 3:
Early American Newspapers, Series 4:
Early American Newspapers, Series 5:
Early American Newspapers, Series 6:
Early American Newspapers, Series 7:
Early American Newspapers: 1801-1900:
African American Newspapers, 1827-1998:
The Civil War: Antebellum Period to Reconstruction, 1840-1877:
Hispanic American Newspapers:
20th-Century American Newspapers, Series 1:
20th-Century American Newspapers, Series 2:
20th-Century American Newspapers, Series 3:
Connect to America's Historical Newspapers, 1690-1922 from any AAS terminal or Locate a library subscribing to the Archive of Americana near you Read more about the series on the Readex website |
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American Broadsides and Ephemera, Series I
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.
Connect to American Broadsides and Ephemera from any AAS terminal or Locate a library subscribing to the Archive of Americana near you Read more about the series on the Readex website |
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American History Through the News
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This digital series has been designed for the use of K-12 educators.
Connect to American History Through the News from any AAS terminal or Locate a library subscribing to the Archive of Americana near you Read more about the series on the Readex website |
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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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The Civil War: Antebellum Period to Reconstruction
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Featuring newspapers, government documents and rare printed materials,
this collection from the Readex Archive of Americana covers politics,
society and daily life during the American Civil War period: 1840-1877.
Connect to The Civil War: Antebellum Period to Reconstruction from any AAS terminal or Locate a library subscribing to the Archive of Americana near you Read more about the series on the Readex website |
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Early American Imprints, Series I. Evans (1639-1800)
Evans Digital Edition
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.
Connect to Evans Digital Edition from any AAS terminal or Locate a library subscribing to the Archive of Americana near you Read more about the series on the Readex website |
Early American Imprints, Series II. Shaw-Shoemaker (1801-1819)
Shaw-Shoemaker Digital Edition
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.
Connect to Shaw-Shoemaker Digital Edition from any AAS terminal or Locate a library subscribing to the Archive of Americana near you Read more about the series on the Readex website |
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 |
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The University of Michigan, NewsBank/Readex Co., and the American
Antiquarian Society are cooperating in a Text Creation Partnership to
create 6,000 accurately keyed and fully searchable SGML/XML text
editions from among the 40,000 titles available in the Evans Early
American Imprints Collection. Evans is the most significant collection
of titles relating to the history of seventeenth and eighteenth century
America, and the Text creation partnership seeks to create enduring
digital text editions of the most frequently studied works.
NewsBank/Readex is producing digital page images and searchable OCR
(Optical Character Recognition) for the overall collection. The
standards-based editions created and owned by Text Creation Partnership
will link directly to the corresponding Newsbank/Readex page images and
will provide a research and instructional tool of enduring scholarly and
instructional value. Information on
becoming a partner is available on the Evans TCP website.
Connect to Evans Text Creation Partnership from any AAS terminal.
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
Images of the American Civil War: Photographs, Posters, and Ephemera
Images of the American Civil War: Photographs, Posters, and Ephemera presents 50,000 contemporaneous photographs, including nearly 30,000 wartime recruiting posters, envelopes, and ephemera. These dramatic images present a historical account of the war.and a view of nineteenth-century America more broadly.from social, military, and political perspectives.
Search results appear as thumbnail photo displays, with one click to the larger image and rich bibliographic details. An interactive chronology lets you move along a timeline of historical events and click for a detailed description. Both portraiture and landscape styles are well represented, as well as action and posed photos.
Connect to Images of the American Civil War: Photographs, Posters, and Ephemera from any
AAS terminal
Manuscript Women's Letters and Diaries from the American Antiquarian Society, 1750-1950
brings together 100,000 pages of the personal writings of women of the 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries, displayed as high-quality images of the original manuscripts, semantically indexed and online for the first time. The collection is drawn entirely from the extensive holdings
of the American Antiquarian Society. It currently contains over 15,000 pages.
Connect
to Manuscript Women's Letters and Diaries from the American Antiquarian Society, 1750-1950
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.
Connect
to A New Nation Votes
Joseph Sabin's Bibliotheca Americana: A Dictionary of Books Relating to America from Its Discovery to the Present Time has been heralded as a cornerstone in the study of the history of the Western Hemisphere. Gale's Sabin Americana, 1500-1926 takes the works currently captured from that bibliography and makes them available online.
Connect to Sabin
Americana 1500-1926
from any AAS terminal
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