Project Description
The American Antiquarian Society (AAS), located in Worcester, Massachusetts, is a national research library of American history and culture through 1876 which has been sharing American stories for more than two hundred years. Founded in 1812, the AAS library today houses the largest and most accessible collection of books, pamphlets, broadsides, newspapers, periodicals, children’s literature, music, and graphic arts material printed through 1876, as well as manuscripts and a substantial collection of secondary texts, bibliographies, and digital resources and reference works related to all aspects of American history and culture before the twentieth century.