General Information

By the staff of the Society
Edited by Joanne D. Chaison, John B. Hench, and Caroline W. Stoffel

Included are descriptions of AAS collections and programs, along with links to current cataloging status of collections, finding aids, inventories, and illustrated sidebars.

Table of Contents Foreword A Brief History of the Society THE LIBRARY Collecting Policies Catalogs and Arrangement of Collections Cataloging Programs Conservation GUIDE TO THE COLLECTIONS General Collections Dated Books and Dated Pamphlets Broadsides Almanacs The Reserve Collection Bindings Miniature Books Miscellaneous Pamphlets Topical Collections The Book Arts Bibliographies Printing and Publishing History Publishers' Series Book Salesman's Samples Booksellers' and Auction Catalogs Library Catalogs Bookplates and Booksellers' Labels The United States American History and Culture Government Documents Local, County, and State Histories Western Americana Hawaiian Collection Biography Genealogy Directories Maps and Atlases American Institutions General Institutions Canals and Railroads Educational Institutions Learned Societies Canadiana Latin Americana Foreign History and Travel Theology and Religion Religion The Mather Family Library The Mather Family Collection Devotional Literature Tracts Literature American Fiction Dime Novels First Editions English and European Authors Literary Annuals Plays and Librettos Children's Literature and School Books Graphic Arts Engravings and Lithographs Ephemera Games Portraits and Artifacts American Portrait Prints Photographs Stereographs and Postcards Photographs of Sculpture on American Gravestones Secondary Works in the Arts Music Hymnals Sheet Music Secular Music Songsters Sound Recordings Cookbooks Albums Encyclopedias Trade Catalogs Newspapers and Periodicals Newspapers Periodicals Amateur Newspapers Manuscripts and Archives Manuscripts Archives Microforms PROGRAMS OF THE SOCIETY Department of Research and Publication Publications Fellowships Education Research First Democratization Project History of the Book in American Culture Outreach Department Public Programs Pre-collegiate Educational Programs Development and Public Relations Development Annual Giving Buildings and Grounds Antiquarian Hall Other Properties

Alphabetical Table of Contents Albums Almanacs Amateur Newspapers American Fiction American History and Culture American Portrait Prints Annual Giving Annuals Antiquarian Hall Archives Arrangement of Collections Artifacts Atlases Auction Catalogs Bibles Bibliographies Bindings Biography Book Salesman's Samples Bookplates and Booksellers' Labels Booksellers' Catalogs Broadsides Canadiana Canals Children's Literature Catalogs and Arrangement of Collections Cataloging Programs Collecting Policies Conservation Cookbooks Dated Books Dated Pamphlets Development Department Devotional Literature Dime Novels Directories Education Educational Institutions Encyclopedias English and European Authors Ephemera Engravings First Democratization Project First Editions Foreign History and Travel Foreword Games Genealogy General Institutions Government Documents Gravestones Hawaiian Collection History of the Book in American Culture Hymnals Latin Americana Learned Societies Library Catalogs Librettos Lithographs Local, County and State Histories Manuscripts Maps Mather Family Collection Mather Family Library Microforms Miniature Books Miscellaneous Pamphlets Newspapers Other Properties Periodicals Photographs Plays Portrait Prints, American Portraits Postcards Pre-collegiate Educational Programs Printing and Publishing History Public Programs Publishers' Series Railroads Religion Research Reserve Collection School Books Secondary Works in the Arts Secular Music Sheet Music Songsters Sound Recordings Stereographs Tracts Trade Catalogs Western Americana