Digital Collections
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Drawings | The American Antiquarian Society’s drawings collection consists of over 550 drawings in graphite, pen, ink and wash, chalk, watercolor and charcoal ranging in size from items used as bookmarks to large landscapes intended for display in the home; there are also over a dozen sketchbooks. The collection ranges from the late 1700s to the early twentieth century, with the bulk dating from the mid-nineteenth century. |
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David Claypoole Johnston Family Collection | David Claypoole Johnston (1799-1865) is a noted cartoonist and humorist. This inventory consists of 28 boxes of material dating from 1799 through the early 20th century. |
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Charles Peirce Collection | This digital collection consists of 65 British and American satirical prints published between 1796 and 1807. |
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Audubon's Birds of America | This digital collection provides access to the color plates inside lithographer Julius Bien’s rare edition of Audubon’s Birds of America, published in 1860 in New York. The Bien volume was produced entirely in America, unlike the famous 1838 engraved edition, which was printed in Scotland and England by W.H. Lizars and Robert Havell. |
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Watch Papers | AAS holds a collection of more than 400 American watch papers ranging in dates from the 1790s to 1910. These were inserted into a watch case to protect the delicate mechanisms from dust and debris. |
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Adverts 250 Project | A daily image of an advertisement published in a colonial newspaper 250 years ago that day. Brief commentary accompanies each advertisement. |
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Migration to New Worlds: The Century of Immigration | From the century of immigration, through to the modern era, Migration to New Worlds charts the emigration experience of millions across 200 years of turbulent history. Explore the rise and fall of the New Zealand Company, discover British, European and Asian migration and investigate unique primary source personal accounts, shipping logs, printed literature and organisational papers supplemented by carefully compiled teaching and research aids. |
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Global Commodities: Trade, Exploration & Cultural Exchange | This resource brings together manuscript, printed and visual primary source materials for the study of global commodities in world history. The commodities featured in this resource have been transported, exchanged and consumed around the world for hundreds of years. They helped transform societies, global trading operations, habits of consumption and social practices. |
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Women's Studies Archive | |
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Slavery and Anti-Slavery: A Transnational Archive |