BPL - Special Collections Descriptions. ONLINE COLLECTIONS . Links to specific online collections are provided in the physical collection descriptions below.
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Special collections are held and maintained in a variety of departments of the Central Library. Please use the department links and phone numbers below to determine access restrictions and departmental hours. Online finding aids for certain collections are available through hyperlinked titles or by searching the Archival and Manuscript Finding Aid Database. Public Service in the Print Department will be suspended this summer in order to complete an inventory of the collection. All existing appointments will still be honored.
After his death, Abbe lectured widely on. Dwiggins and published two important books on him and his work.
Research, Writing, and Style Guides (MLA, APA, Chicago/Turabian, Harvard, CGOS, CBE).
She also widely. collected fine press book from other printers of her generation. Along with these works is. This. voluminous collection complements and completes the Dwiggins collection. Abbey Theatre. Collection (Print Department; Rare Books & Manuscripts)The history of the Irish National. Theatre from 1. 90. Abdalian, Leon. Collection (Print Department)Glass- plate and film negatives of.
Boston- area historical and architectural landmarks taken by Abdalian, a Boston based. Adams, Abigail Correspondence (Rare Books & Manuscripts)Of the twenty- two letters in this collection, twenty are addressed to John Thaxter, Jr. Other subjects include her management of the family farm, her husband’s absence, and her impressions of people such as General Burgoyne and events such as the siege of Newport. Adams, Bertram. E.
Collection (Rare Books & Manuscripts)Personal papers, monographs, and serials. Adams with a special focus on Harry Houdini. Adams, John. (1. 73. Library (Rare Books & Manuscripts)Deposited with the Boston Public Library in 1. John Adams Library includes thousands of volumes collected by the second president during his lifetime (1. One of the greatest private collections of its day, the Adams Library remains one of the largest original early American libraries still intact. This remarkable collection represents the intellectual tastes of an influential thinker, writer, and political philosopher who helped shape the Constitution of the United States and drafted the Massachusetts Constitution, the oldest functioning written constitution in the world.
John Adams’s library spans the fields of classics, literature, history, politics, government, philosophy, religion, law, science, mathematics, medicine, agriculture, language and linguistics, economics, and travel. The collection is of particular interest to scholars and historians because Adams recorded thousands of interpretive and critical manuscript annotations in the margins of hundreds of his books. Selected books have been digitized, transcribed, and made available online. Online access: The John Adams collection is accessible through the BPL’s online catalog and the John Adams Library website. A digitized catalog of the collection is available through Internet Archive.
Adams, John P. Adams Papers description has been replaced by the Boston Watchmakers Collection. Adlow, Elijah. Papers (Rare Books & Manuscripts)The collection contains approximately 1. Suffolk County and Massachusetts. The earliest records begin before the Revolution and include the Colonial Court Records, Supreme Judicial. Court records, writs of attachment and execution, criminal complaints, jail construction. L’Adunata. dei Refratteri Collection (Delivery Desk; Rare Books & Manuscripts)This voluminous collection is composed of the papers of L'Adunata dei Refrattteri, the longest running newspaper of the Italian- American anarchist movement, published in New York from 1. The correspondence of Max Sartin, Osvaldo Maraviglia, Pio Turroni and others who were associated with the newspaper comprise the majority of the collection.
For access to the newspaper, see the records in our online catalog: 1. Also known as the Fondo L'Adunata Collection. Allen, Fred. (1. 89. Collection (Rare Books & Manuscripts; Delivery Desk.
The work of the Boston bred comedian and. Although the subjects are.
American, 2. 4 of the 9. European. The. collection contains 5. Napoleon Sarony, the leading American photographer. American. Historical Prints (Print Department; Rare Books & Manuscripts)This 1. Benjamin Franklin; scenes, portraits, and maps.
American Revolution; a small group of prints focused on the War of 1. Americans; and a collection of caricature and graphic satire from.
American. Irish Pioneers Foundation (Rare Books & Manuscripts)This collection documents the proposed plan for establishing a settlement house in Dublin as a memorial to the Irish Pioneers who aided in the establishment and building of the United States. Americans. for Democratic Action Collection See: Brown, Larue. Ames, Ellis. (1. 80. Papers (Rare Books & Manuscripts)A collection of approximately 2,0. Massachusetts legal cases, land. Norfolk, Plymouth and Bristol Counties).
Anarchists. and Radical Newspapers from Il Fondo L’Adunata Collection (Research Services)Over 7. Argentina, Australia, Belgium, Brazil, Canada. Chile, China, Colombia, Cuba, France, Germany, India, Italy, New Zealand, Spain, Sweden.
Switzerland, Tunisia, the United Kingdom, Uruguay, Venezuela, and within the United States. Arizona, California, Florida, Illinois, Massachusetts, Michigan, New Jersey, New. York, Ohio, Texas, Vermont, and Wisconsin.
Call Numbers: HX8. A3. 43 1. 98. 9x, HX8. A4. 34. 1. 98. 9x.
Anti- Slavery. Collection (Rare Books & Manuscripts)The nucleus of this collection was presented to the Library in the late 1. William Lloyd Garrison and other individuals involved in the anti- slavery movement. The collection features artifacts, books, documents, letters, and pamphlets from Boston Reformer Wendell Phillips and 5. William Lloyd Garrison dating from the 1.
The collection also contains daguerreotypes of several abolitionists; the papers of the Boston Female Anti- Slavery Society; and the papers of Maria Weston Chapman and Deborah Weston, Amos Augustus Phelps, Lydia Maria Child, Samuel Joseph May, and John Bishop Estlin. Other items include the account books of the abolitionist newspaper The Liberator; records of the American, New England, and Massachusetts Anti- Slavery societies; scrapbooks concerning Anthony Burns and John Brown; and the files of Ziba B. Oakes, a slave broker from Charleston, South Carolina. Note: The papers of the Weston sisters are on microfilm, together with the finding aid.
The library also has extensive holdings of printed material relating to the anti- slavery movement. The libraries of William Lloyd Garrison, Wendell Phillips, and Theodore Parker are here, all rich in relevant pamphlets and broadsides. The Hunt Collection on the West Indies is another fine resource from a different perspective, as is the E. A. Phelps British Anti- Slavery Society Papers. In addition, an 8. The Liberty Bell is available in the Rare Books Department. Online access: The Anti- Slavery Manuscripts collection is accessible through the BPL's online catalog, in the library's online collections and directly through Internet Archive.
Archives. of American Art Microfilm Collection(Arts Department)This is a Smithsonian Institution. Collection on deposit in the Boston Public Library which documents visual arts in the. United States (artists, dealers, critics, museum personnel, collectors, etc.) through. The. catalog can be accessed at the Smithsonian web site: www.
Armstrong. Collection See: Wheeler, Leeds Armstrong Collection. Art in the. Boston Public Library (Arts Department)A card index by artist, subject and. Library’s collection. This file does. not inventory Print Department Collections. The Artz (Victorine T.) Collection of Literature See: Longfellow Memorial Collection.
Barlow, Samuel L. M. Barlow, an important collector of Americana, who himself had acquired the earlier collection of Colonel Thomas Aspinwall. This collection of Americana contains. Latin edition of the Columbus Letter; the first edition of Richard. Hakluyt’s Principal navigation. It also includes a manuscript Copie of the Court booke of the Governor and. Society of the Massachusetts Bay in New England dating from 1.
A list of the Library's purchases may be found in its Bulletin, vol. IX (1. 89. 0, p. 3. Barton, Thomas. Pennant (1. Collection (Rare Books & Manuscripts)Barton was a prominent and well- to- do. Philadelphian, who began his book collecting in Paris where he served from 1. Ministry to France for President Jackson. Barton was the earliest American collector of Shakespeare; this collection was acquired in 1.
Barton's widow. A literary collection particularly strong in English and Continental literature. The Shakespeariana material is the first in. United States to include four folios of the collected works and some 4. The collection. also contains many translations and commentaries; Shakespeare’s 1. Boydell’s Shakespeare, with the autographs of George III and Queen Charlotte.
John Britton and Halliwell- Phillipps; many other Shakespeare autograph. David Garrick; and an early version of the music to Macbeth. Richard Leveridge. The collection also contains volumes from the. Barton’s father, naturalist Benjamin Smith Barton, and his.
Edward Livingston (a Congressman, Secretary of State, and Minister to. France), the sixteen- volume set of De. Bry’s Voyages; hundreds of pamphlets from the French Revolution; works on jurisprudence and criminal law; and American public. Many of the volumes contain notes and memoranda of. Barton. Background information on Barton and his library may be found in the Catalogue of the Miscellaneous Portion of the Collection (1.
Boston Public Library. Bulletin, 4th series, v. Online access: A digitized catalog for this collection is available through Internet Archive.