书 & 小册子

的 Massachusetts Historical Society's collection of published materials is divided into several broad categories: 书 and 小册子 (described below), 猛烈抨击, 早期的痕迹, 地图, 报纸.

书

的 General 研究 Collection

的 books in the General 研究 Collection primarily address the history of Massachusetts from the time of European settlement to the present, although not exclusively. Materials about the early history of New England and the United States in general, especially from the colonial period through the Civil War, are also available.

的 MHS research collection also includes valuable primary and secondary published materials on Canadian history, 宗教, 19th-century popular literature, 音乐, 和教育, especially Boston imprints. Records for all books in the 研究 Collection are available in 阿比盖尔.

Family History Resources

的 MHS has strong collections of published biographical, 系谱, local history information that support research on its manuscript collections, but our holdings do not duplicate the exhaustive family and local history collections or services provided by 的 New England Historic Genealogical Society (www.AmericanAncestors.org). 研究ers working primarily on family history should consult the collections of the NEHGS first.

Special Libraries

多年来, the MHS has received collections of books from individual donors that have been kept intact and are referred to as "special libraries." 的se special libraries range from the private libraries of Henry Adams, 托马斯探寻水源, 罗伯特·C. 沃森, to organizational collections of the Massachusetts Society for Promoting Agriculture, subject-specific collections of collectors William Bentinck-Smith (U.S. history), Francis Russell Hart (Caribbeana), Russell Knight (Shakers).

Records for most of the Society's special libraries are available in 阿比盖尔. A few of our smaller special libraries are stored offsite and are available only in our internal card catalog; consult the reader services staff for more information.

小册子

的 MHS holds more than 30,000 pamphlets, arranged by date of publication, from 1820 to the present. 的 strength of the pamphlet collection lies in the diversity of subject content: almost every facet of 19th- and early-20th-century life in Massachusetts, to a lesser extent in New England, appears in contemporary pamphlet literature. 研究ers will find the collection especially strong for the last half of the 19th century. Records for the pamphlet collection are available in 阿比盖尔.