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American Antiquarian Society

View of Antiquarian Hall from the corner of Salisbury St. and Park Ave The American Antiquarian Society (AAS), located in Worcester, Massachusetts, is both a learned society and a national research library of pre-twentieth-century American history and culture. Founded in 1812, it is the oldest historical society in the United States with a national focus. Its main building, known as Antiquarian Hall, is a U.S. National Historic Landmark in recognition of this legacy. The mission of the AAS is to collect, preserve and make available for study all printed records of what is now known as the United States of America. This includes materials from the first European settlement through the year 1876.

The AAS offers programs on a wide variety of subjects including but not limited to Environmental History, Indigenous Peoples Studies, and American Religion for professional scholars, pre-collegiate, undergraduate and graduate students, educators, professional artists, writers, genealogists, and the general public.

The collections of the AAS contain over four million books, pamphlets, newspapers, periodicals, graphic arts materials and manuscripts. The Society is estimated to hold copies of two-thirds of the total books known to have been printed in what is now the United States from the establishment of the first press in 1640 through the year 1820; many of these volumes are exceedingly rare and a number of them are unique. Historic materials from all fifty U.S. states, most of Canada and the British West Indies are included in the AAS repository. One of the more famous volumes held by the Society is a copy of the first book printed in America, the Bay Psalm Book. AAS has one of the largest collections of newspapers printed in America through 1876, with more than two million issues in its collection. Its collections contain the first American women's magazine edited by a woman, ''The Humming Bird, or Herald of Taste.'' The collection also contains over 60,000 pieces of sheet music, over 300 games (including puzzles, board games, and cards), a large historical pottery collection, extensive New England diaries and personal papers, a diverse collection of photographs dating from the 1830s to the 1920s, and children's literature dating back to the 1650s. Provided by Wikipedia
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    Monetary unification / by Toppan, Robert Noxon, 1836-1901

    Published 1888
    “…American Antiquarian Society…”
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    American women's diaries (New England)

    Published 1983
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    Microfilm Book
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    Early American bookbindings from the collection of Michael Papantonio.

    Published 1985
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    Book
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    Bookbinding in early America : seven essays on masters and methods / by French, Hannah D. (Hannah Dustin), 1907-

    Published 1986
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    Book
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    English verse and literary prose published in America before 1776 : a bibliography / by Lathem, Edward Connery

    Published 2002
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    Thesis Book
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    Under its generous dome : the collections and programs of the American Antiquarian Society /

    Published 1992
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    Early American imprints, 1639-1800

    Published 1981
    “…American Antiquarian Society…”
    Microfilm Book
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    Printing and society in early America /

    Published 1983
    “…American Antiquarian Society…”
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    National index of American imprints through 1800; the short-title Evans by Shipton, Clifford Kenyon, 1902-

    Published 1969
    “…American Antiquarian Society…”
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    Catalogue of the manuscript collections of the American Antiquarian Society.

    Published 1979
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    Troy and Homer. Remarks on the discoveries of Dr. Heinrich Schliemann in the Troad ... by Salisbury, Stephen, Jr., 1835-1905

    Published 1875
    “…American Antiquarian Society…”
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    A history of the book in America.

    Published 2009
    “…American Antiquarian Society…”
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    David Claypool Johnston, American graphic humorist : 1798-1865; [catalog. by Johnson, Malcolm, 1939-

    Published 1970
    “…American Antiquarian Society…”
    Book
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