AMERICAN ANTIQUARIAN SOCIETY

The 'American Antiquarian Society' (AAS), located in Worcester, Massachusetts, is both a learned society and national research library of pre-twentieth century American History and culture. AAS was founded in 1812 as the third oldest historical society and the first to be national in scope.

Contents

Mission

Learned society programs

Library collection

External links

Mission

★ To collect, preserve and make available for study all printed records of what is now known as the United States of America
This includes printed records from first European settlement through the year 1876.

Learned society programs

★ For professional scholars, pre-collegiate, undergraduate and graduate students, educators, professional artists, writers, genealogists, and the general public.

Library collection

★ Three million plus books, pamphlets, newspapers, periodicals, graphic arts materials and manuscripts

★ Two of the three books 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 to 1820.

★ Books from all fifty U.S. states, most of Canada and the British West Indies are included in their preeminent repository.

External links

★ American Antiquarian Society Homepage