Digital Collections
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American Ancestors | Online repository for more than 1.4 billion searchable names from America and beyond. |
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Abigail Adams Letters | Over 200 digitized letters written by Abigail Adams (1744-1818) , the wife of John Adams (1735-1826), the second president of the United States. |
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Isaiah Thomas Broadside Ballads Project | Digital library of over 800 broadside ballads. Supplemented with 300 mini-essays, offering a unique and comprehensive view of the broadsides that Isaiah Thomas (1749-1831) collected in early nineteenth-century Boston. |
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Books for Cooks: Highlights from the AAS Cookbook Collection | Cookbooks in this collection provide historians and researchers with a close-up view of domestic life in America. Some resemble cookbooks as we know them today, with recipes (then called “receipts”) that include ingredients and instructions. |
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Ancestry Institution | Ancestry provides access to census, military, birth, marriage and death records. |
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Grant-Burr Family Papers | The collection of Grant-Burr Family Papers contains over five hundred letters written between 1827 and 1892. Central to the collection is the correspondence between Daniel Grant (1818-1892) and his wife Caroline Burr Grant (1820-1892). The letters of these articulate and well-educated New England families discuss their experiences in westward expansion, early female seminaries, courtship, marriage, childrearing, missionary activity, the California Gold Rush, and the Civil War. |
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Abigail Kelley Foster Papers | Abigail Kelley Foster (1811-1887), noted antislavery partisan and women’s rights advocate, was an active correspondent and lecturer on behalf of reform movements in the middle of the nineteenth century. She was married to Stephen Symonds Foster (1809-1881). |
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Silhouettes | The American Antiquarian Society collection of portraits contains 209 silhouettes. Silhouettes are profile portraits made of paper that became popular in the mid-eighteenth century in Europe. Generally the profile of the sitter is cut out of white paper and the resulting shape is then mounted on glossy black paper or black fabric. These portraits became very popular in the United States during the early nineteenth century. |
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Printed Ribbon Badges | The Society’s collection of printed ribbons featured in this digital collection includes over 170 badges ranging in date from 1824 to 1900 and includes ribbons worn to welcome Lafayette during his 1825-26 visit to the United States, mourning badges sold during the funeral of John Quincy Adams, and celebratory ribbons worn during the dedication of the Bunker Hill Monument. In the nineteenth century, ribbon badges were engraved, lithographed, or run through relief letterpress presses. |
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Photographs of Tuskegee Institute | The American Antiquarian Society has a collection of fifty-six photographs depicting life in and around Tuskegee Institute, in Tuskegee, Alabama, ca. 1890-1915, taken by an unknown photographer. The campus, now known as Tuskegee University, is depicted here during the tenure of the school’s first president Booker T. Washington. Under Washington's leadership, students learned trades while also constructing the school's buildings brick by brick. |