Selected References About AAS
American Antiquarian Society. Catalogue of the Manuscript
Collections of
the American Antiquarian Society. 4 vols. Boston: G.K. Hall
& Co., 1979.
_______. A Dictionary Catalogue of American Books Pertaining to the
17th
Through 19th Centuries. 20 vols. Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood
Publishing
Corp., 1971.
_______. A Society's Chief Joys. Worcester: American
Antiquarian Society,
1969.
_______. Under Its Generous Dome: The Collections and Programs of
the
American Antiquarian
Society. Ed. Nancy H. Burkett and John B. Hench. Worcester: American
Antiquarian
Society, 1992. View online or order from Oak
Knoll Books, 310 Delaware Street, New
Castle,
DE 19720 (302) 328-7274. oakknoll@oakknoll.com.
Barnhill, Georgia B. "Political Cartoons at the American
Antiquarian Society,"
Inks (February 1995): 33-36.
_______. "Print Collection Resources of the American Antiquarian
Society."
Imprint 3 (April 1978): 3-4.
Brigham, Clarence S. Fifty Years of Collecting Americana for the
Library
of the American Antiquarian Society, 1908-1958. Worcester: Privately
printed,
1958.
Chaison, Joanne D. "`Everything Old Is New Again': Research Collections at
the American Antiquarian Society," Library Trends 52 (Summer
2003): 14-29.
Golden, Vincent "Hot Off the Press: Vincent Golden Discusses an
Ongoing Project to Save Old Newspapers as a Vital Historical Tool"
Rare Book Review10 (June 2004): 26-28.
_______. "North American Imprints before 1877 at the
American
Antiquarian Society," Journalism History 30 (Fall 2004): 150-57.
Hench, John B. "American Antiquarian Society," in David H. Stam, ed.,
International
Dictionary of Library Histories (2 vols., Chicago and London: Fitzroy
Dearborn Publishers, 2001), 1: 191-94.
_______. "American Antiquarian Society, Worcester, Mass., USA," in
Wayne A. Wiegand and Donald S. Davis, Jr., eds., Encyclopedia of
Library
History (New York and London: Garland Publishing, Inc., 1994).
_______. "Toward a History of the Book in
America," Publishing
Research Quarterly 10 (Fall 1994): 8-21.
_______. "'Under the Generous Dome': Early American History at the
American
Antiquarian Society," Uncommon Sense: A Newsletter Published by
the
Institute of Early American History and Culture, No. 101 (Summer
1995):
11 ff.
McCorison, Marcus A. "Medical Collections at the American Antiquarian
Society." Rhode Island Medical Journal 54 (April 1971): 213-14, 231.
_______. "The Nature of Humanistic Societies in Early
America."
In The Pursuit of Knowledge in the Early American Republic.
Edited by
Alexandra Oleson and Sanborn Brown. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins
University
Press, 1976. 248-60.
Major, Kathleen A. "Appendix describing AAS manuscript holdings relating
to colonial
Massachusetts law." In Law in Colonial Massachusetts. Edited by
Daniel
S. Coquillette. Boston: Colonial Society of Massachusetts, 1983.
Moore, Anne C. "The Cook's Oracle: Cookbooks at the American
Antiquarian
Society." Journal of Gastronomy 5 (Winter
1989/90): 18-31.
Shipton, Clifford K. "The American Antiquarian Society." William and
Mary
Quarterly, 3d ser., 2 (April 1945): 164-72.
_______. "The Museum of the American Antiquarian
Society."
In Whitfield J. Bell, Jr., et al., A Cabinet of Curiosities: Five
Episodes
in the Evolution of American Museums. Charlottesville: University
Press
of Virginia, 1967. 35-48.
Tracy, Joyce Ann. "Newspaper Collections at the American
Antiquarian Society."
In Library of Congress, Newspaper and Gazette Report 1
(1976): 3-5
Whitehill, Walter Muir. Independent Historical Societies.
Boston: Boston
Athenaeum, 1962. Chap. 3.
The Society's journal, Proceedings of the American Antiquarian
Society,
frequently includes articles about the Society and its collections,
which may
be consulted in the issue in which they originally appeared or be
purchased
separately directly from AAS. Among these are:
- Barnhill, Georgia. B. "The Catalogue of American Engravings: A
Manual
for Users." Vol. 108 (April 1998): 113-247.
- Dunlap, Ellen, et al. "A Quarter Century of Visiting
Fellowships at
the American Antiquarian Society, 1972-97." Vol. 107 (October
1997):
245-300.
- Hench, John B. (ed.) "Serendipity and Synergy: Collection
Development,
Access, and Research Opportunities at the American Antiquarian Society
in
the McCorison Era." Vol. 102 (October 1992): 291-351.
Hewes, Lauren B. "Portraits in the Collection of the American Antiquarian
Society." Vol. 111 (April 2001): 1-408.
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- Joyce, William L. "Antiquarians and Archaeologists: The American
Antiquarian Society, 1812-1912." Vol. 91 (October 1981): 301-17.
- _______. "The Manuscript Collections of the American
Antiquarian
Society." Vol. 89 (April 1979): 123-52.
- McCorison, Marcus A. "Isaiah Thomas, the American Antiquarian
Society,
and the Future." Vol. 91 (April 1981): 27-31.
- Reese, William S. "The Printers' First Fruits: An Exhibition of
American
Imprints, 1640-1742, from the Collections of the American Antiquarian
Society."
Vol. 99 (April 1989): 41-88.
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