American Antiquarian Society

American Vernacular Music Manuscripts, ca. 1730-1910

This is a collaborative project between the Center for Popular Music and the American Antiquarian Society to inventory, catalog, digitize, and provide web-based public access to their extensive music manuscripts collections. It concerns manuscripts inscribed before 1910 that are mainly American in provenance, with contents that are preponderantly vernacular in style.

Morgan Bibliography of Ohio Imprints, 1796-1850

The Morgan Bibliography of Ohio Imprints, 1796-1850 describes books, pamphlets, and broadsides printed in Ohio, from the earliest in 1796 through 1850. The bibliography is compiled and maintained by Richard P. Morgan.

Ohio Name Index

This index includes 286,645 names of Ohio people, businesses and institutions whose names appear in the books, pamphlets and broadsides printed in Ohio from 1796 through 1850, and are listed in the Morgan Bibliography of Ohio Imprints, 1796-1850.

Just Teach One: Early African American Print

Scholarly transcriptions of African American literature, with basic editing and apparatus.  

Just Teach One
Student, Teacher, and Trustee Database Project, 1800-1900

This database contains over 1 million entries of students, teachers, and trustees whose names appear in the catalogues from 1800-1900 of the American Antiquarian Society's School and College Collection. 

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.

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.
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.
Cross Family Collection Box List

The inventory listed in this site consists of 29 boxes and 8 oversized folders of material dating from the late 18th through the early 20th centuries with the bulk of the collection falling between 1870 and 1890.