American Antiquarian Society

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Contact Information
E-mail: [mailto:Library@americanantiquarian.org Library@americanantiquarian.org]

Address:


 * 185 Salisbury Street Worcester, Massachusetts 01609-1634

Telephone: 508-755-5221 Fax:  508-753-3311

Hours and holidays: Monday: 9 a.m. - 5 p.m.;Tuesday: 9 a.m. - 5 p.m.;Wednesday: 10 a.m. - 8 p.m. Thursday: 9 a.m. - 5 p.m.; Friday: 9 a.m. - 5 p.m. Closed on legal holidays.

Directions, maps, and public transportation: Click here.

Internet sites and databases:


 * American Antiquarian Society (Internet site) including library collections, programs, and events.
 * Search the Catalog. AAS Online Catalog by Keyword, Exact, Subject, and Name searches.
 * Clarence newspaper holdings of the AAS.
 * GIGI AAS digital image archives.

Collection Description
A national research library of American history, literature, and culture through 1876. The American Antiquarian Society (AAS) library houses the largest and most accessible collection of printed materials from first contact through 1876 in what is now the United States, the West Indies and parts of Canada. This repository is best known for its premier newspaper collection, over 18,000 bound volumes 1704-1820 in the United States alone. About 75 percent of all printed American documents for the first 200 years are found here. Subject categories include American history, literature and bibliography, newspapers, periodicals and imprints to 1820, biography, genealogy, local history, almanacs, history, directories, federal, state and municipal documents including New England town reports, schools, patriotic publications, literature of the Revolution, the War of 1812, and the westward movement, negro literature, slavery, Civil War and Reconstruction, early maps, photos, portraits, and manuscripts.

Tips

 * Using the Library who may use it, planing your visit, arriving and exiting, what is and is not allowed in the reading room, and policies.

Guides

 * AAS collection descriptions alphabetical by topic.

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