Boston Athenaeum
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10 1/2 Beacon Street
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Boston
MA
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Phone: |
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(617)227-0270
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FAX: |
(617)227-5266
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Institution Contact(s): |
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http://www.bostonathenaeum.org/collections/research-appointment
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Hours: |
M-F 9:00AM-5:30PM
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Online Catalog: |
Services for the Disabled: |
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Americans with Disabilities Act accessible
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Other Services: |
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Information on hotel/housing accommodations
Coat room/lockers
Gift shop
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Monographs: |
"Arthur J. Stone, 1847-1937: Designer and Silversmith", by
Elenita C. Chickering with Sarah Morgan Ross
"50 Books in the Collection of the Boston Athenaeum" with
an introductory essay by Michael Wentworth
"Courage and Conscience: Black & White Abolitionists in
Boston", edited by Donald M. Jacobs
"The Henry Rowe Schoolcraft Collection: A Catalogue of Books in
Native American Languages in the Library of the Boston
Athenaeum", by Robert Kruse
"Boston Lithography, 1825-1880: The Boston Athenaeum
Collection", by Sally Pierce and Catharina Slautterback
"Conger Metcalf: A Retrospective", with an introductory
essay by Michael Wentworth
"A Catalogue of Manuscripts in the Collection of the Boston
Athenaeum", by Stephen Nonack
"Ogden Codman and the Decoration of Houses", edited by
Pauline C. Metcalf
"A Reader's Guide to the Boston Athenaeum", Ann Wadsworth
"Whipple and Black: Commercial Photographers in Boston",
Sally Pierce
"John Mansfield: A Bibliographical Description of His First,
Limited, Signed and Special Editions", by Crocker Wight
"John Frazee (1790-1852). Sculptor", by Frederick S. Voss,
et al.
"Family Bindings: The Books of Hollis Hunnewell and Lisa
Hunnewell von Clemm", by Lisa Hunnewell von Clemm
"The Last Edwardians: An Illustrated History of Violet Trefusis
and Alice Keppel", by John Phillips, Peter Quennel and Lorna
Sage
"A Continental Eye: The Art and Architecture of Arthur
Rotch", by Harry L. Katz and Richard Chafee
"Pre-Twentieth Century American and European Painting and
Sculpture", by Jonathan P. Harding and Harry L. Katz
"French Illustrated Books of the Romantic Period", Peter
Arms Wick
"Granados and Goyescas", by Norman P. Tucker, Ann
Wadsworth, and Pamela Hoyle
"The Boston Ambiance", Pamela Hoyle
"Citizens in Conflict: Prints and Photographs of the American
Civil War", by Sally Pierce and Temple D. Smith
"A Climate for Art: The History of the Boston Athenaeum Gallery,
1827-1873", by Pamela Hoyle, Jonathan P. Harding and Rosemary
Booth
"Americans in Spain: Patriots, Expatriates and the Early
American Hipanists", by Norman P. Tucker
"The Boston Athenaeum Art Exhibition Index, 1827-1874",
edited by Robert F. Perkins, Jr., William J. Gavin III, and Mary
Margaret Shaughnessy
"The Development of Photography in Boston, 1840-1875", by
Pamela Hoyle
"Change and Continuity: A Pictorial History of the Boston
Athenaeum", by Jane S. Knowles
"Walter Muir Whitehill, Director and Librarian, Boston
Athenaeum, 1946-1973"
"The Letters of Hugh Whitney", foreword by Walter Muir
Whitehill
"K Equals X and Then Some: A Problem in Identification", by
James E. Belliveau
"Boston and the Civil War", by Walter Muir Whitehill
"Independent Historical Societies", by Walter Muir
Whitehill
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Journals: |
"Athenaeum Items" (Newsletter)
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Bibliographic Utility: |
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OCLC/NELINET
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SPECIAL COLLECTIONS
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Special Collection Contact(s): |
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http://www.bostonathenaeum.org/collections/research-appointment
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Hours: |
T-F 10:00AM-4:00PM (by appointment)
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Collections: |
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Formats: |
200 linear feet of manuscripts
200 linear feet of archives
100,000 volumes of monographs
500 volumes of newspapers
500 maps
25,000 photographs
3,000 pamphlets
100 linear feet of ephemera
5,000 prints
realia/artifacts
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Collections Description: |
-Confederate States Imprints
-Washington Collection (books collected by George Washington during
his lifetime)
-King's Chapel Collection
-Fine Arts Collection
-Print and Photograph Collection (includes New England topographical
items)
-Athenaeum Archives
-Gypsy Collection (items belonging to Francis Hindes Groome, an
eminent scholar of Gypsy life and culture)
-Manuscript Collection (Samuel Eliot, William Tudor, Commodore Isaac
Hull, Charles Bulfinch, Alexander Parris, George Minot Dexter,
Nathaniel Bradlee, John H. Sturgis, Ogden Codman, Richard Clipston
Sturgis, Amasa Hewins, Isas
-Author Collections (George Gordon, Lord Byron, John Masefield, T.S.
Eliot)
-Broadsides (1660's to mid-1960's)
-Boston Newspapers (Boston Daily Advertiser, 1821-1902; Boston Daily
Atlas, 1832-1861; Saturday Evening Gazette, 1822-1876; Boston
Journal, 1865-1903; Liberator, 1831-1865; Boston Post, 1831-1895;
Boston Daily Times, 1836-1857
-Fine Printing and the Book Arts
-Native American Language and Literature (items from the library of
Henry Rowe Schoolcraft, avid student of American Indian languages,
history and folklore including spelling books, primers, Bibles,
dictionaries, compilations
-Early United States Government Documents (based in part on the
collections of John Adams and John Quincy Adams; reports and
proceedings from the first fourteen congresses)
-18th and 19th Century Tracts (dealing with controversial religious,
historical, and scientific issues)
-General Henry Knox Collection
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Access: |
Collection(s) are available by appointment only
Access only in reading room, supervised
All or part of the collection(s) not accessible
Laptop computers and tape recorders allowed with staff approval
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Copying: |
Photocopying permitted at discretion of staff
Restrictions on scanners
Restrictions on cameras
Restrictions on tape recorders
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Loans: |
Loans for exhibits only
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Finding Guides Available: |
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Guides for manuscript collection
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Directions: |
Athenaeum is located near Boston Common and the State House.
The nearest "T" stop is Park Street Station.
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