MHS Collections in Subscription Databases
The Massachusetts Historical Society has contributed collections material to a number of subscription databases that may be available through other research libraries. Below we have provided a list of the databases containing digital facsimiles of manuscript collections and links to the MHS catalog record or collection guide for each collection included, in part or in whole, in the database.
Not included here are the Early American Imprints series I (Evans) and II (Shaw-Shoemaker).
Adam Matthew Digital: Age of Exploration
Unless otherwise noted, the full collection has been included in the AMD database. This database is available to researchers in the MHS research library.
- Accounts of the Sandwich Islands (Hawaii), 1784-1889.
- Joseph Barrell letterbook, 1792-1797.
- Francis Blake papers, 1804-1917. Vols. 1, 43-45 digitized.
- Thomas Greaves Cary journal, 1865-1866.
- Chauncey Fitch letters, 1839-1843.
- Albert Gallatin papers, 1790-1840.
- Francis Higginson journal, 1629.
- Manuscript history of the Pilgrims of Plymouth, 1620-1623.
- Narrative of a voyage to the northwest coast of America and China on trade and discoveries by John Hoskins performed in the ship Columbia Rediviva, 1787-1792.
- Charles Pickering journal, 1838-1841.
- Cyprian Southack letters, 1697-1705.
Adam Matthew Digital: China, America, and the Pacific: Trade and Cultural Exchange
Unless otherwise noted, the full collection has been included in the AMD database. This database is available to researchers in the MHS research library.
- John Boit journals, 1790-1830. Log of the ships Union and Columbia digitized.
- Samuel Cary papers, 1766-1870; bulk: 1766-1812. Log of the ship Levant digitized.
- John Richards Child papers, 1731-1895. Logbook of the ship America digitized.
- Columbia papers, 1787-1817; bulk: 1787-1792.
- Columbia papers II, 1790.
- Diary kept in Japan, 1877-1878.
- Dorr family papers, 1684-1887.
- Log of the ship Edith, 1877-1880.
- William P. Elting notebook, 1797-1803.
- Edward Horatio Faucon logbooks, 1829-1863.
- Forbes family papers, 1732-1931. The majority of the collection digitized.
- Houqua letterbook, 1840-1865.
- Edward King papers, 1835-1900.
- Lee family papers, 1535-1957. Logbook of the ship Logan digitized.
- Log of the ship Leonidas, 1825-1829.
- Bernard Magee journal and logbooks, 1790-1794.
- Midas (Steam schooner) papers, 1844-1845.
- Log of the ship Ocean Pearl, 1854-1856.
- Thomas Handasyd Perkins papers, 1783-1892. Travel diaries and Boxes 1 & 2, vols. 40-69 digitized.
- Log of the snow Polly, 1800-1802.
- George Henry Preble papers, 1729-1926; bulk: 1729-1884. Diary of a cruise to China and Japan. Ships logs, vols. 1 & 2 digitized.
- Samuel Shaw papers, 1775-1887; bulk: 1775-1794.
- Horace Cullen Story papers, 1842-1844. Log of the ship Probus digitized.
- William Sturgis papers, 1798-1845.
- Sultan (Ship) account book, 1815-1819.
- John Suter papers, 1804-1848.
- Two years before the mast: a personal narrative of life at sea, 1840 [manuscript].
- Voyage round the world onboard the ship Columbia-Rediviva and sloop Washington, 1787-1789.
- Voyage on discoveries in the ship Columbia Rediviva, 1791-1793.
Adam Matthew Digital: Frontier Life: Borderlands, Settlement & Colonial Encounters
Unless otherwise noted, the full collection has been included in the AMD database. This database is available to researchers in the MHS research library.
- An account of Nantucket, 1641-1792.
- Albany Congress minutes, 19 June-10 July 1754.
- David Cobb papers, 1708-1833.
- Land grant, 18 April 1688.
- Lincolnshire Company records, 1766-1824; bulk: 1766-1794.
- Manuscript map of Indian tribes in Rhode Island and Connecticut, 6 January 1759.
- Muscongus patent, 1629.
- Thomas Penn letters, 1750-1758.
- Report of the Dudley Indians, 1889.
- Winthrop Sargent papers, 1771-1948; bulk: 1785-1801.
- Samuel Waldo papers, 1744.
- Winslow family papers II, 1638-1760; bulk: 1638-1680.
Adam Matthew Digital: Leisure, Travel & Mass Culture: The History of Tourism
Unless otherwise noted, the full collection has been included in the AMD database. This database is available to researchers in the MHS research library.
- Ann Eliza Perkins Adams travel diary, ca. 1883-1884.
- Anonymous travel diary, 1821-1824
- Atkins family papers, 1845-1950; bulk: 1870-1926. Helen Atkins diary (1877) and Mary E.F. Atkins diary (1877) digitized.
- Maud Del Mar Blackwelder travel diaries, 1938-1957.
- Isaac Bradford papers, 1783-1949.
- S.G. Bulfinch diaries, 1827-1865.
- Frank D. Chase diary, 1875-1876.
- Ann Powell Clarke travel journal [manuscript copy], 1863-1870.
- Crehore family papers, 1669-1917. William Crehore diary (1807) digitized.
- Hetty Sullivan Lawrence Cunningham diaries, 1876-1911. Diary for 1881 digitized.
- Sophia Augusta May Edes diary, 1874-1876.
- John Hay Farnham journals, 1806-1832.
- Jeremiah Fitch journal, 1820.
- James Murray Forbes railroad travel diary, 26 Oct.-4 Dec. 1903.
- Rebecca Russell Lowell Gardner travel diaries, 1831.
- Frances Elizabeth Gray papers, 1810-1931. Materials for 1836 digitized.
- Mrs. John Heard diary, 1815.
- Eliza L. Lothrop Homans diaries, 1858-1912.
- Elizabeth Heath Howe diaries, 1791-1854.
- Mildred Cox Howes diaries, 1896-1973. Diaries for 1901, 1903, & 1910-1915 digitized.
- Frank Lowell Kennedy papers, 1899-1936. Automobile travel log (1909-1929) digitized.
- Mary Swift Lamson journal, 1868.
- Samuel May papers, 1825-1903.
- James H. Means papers, 1846-1939. James H. Means travel journal (1848-1868) digitized.
- James Morgan scrapbooks, 1896-1927.
- Harrison Gray Otis papers, 1660-1870. Harriet Otis diaries (1811-1814, 1817) and the Harrison Gray Otis travel diary (1806) digitized.
- Elise Charlotte Otte diary, 1843.
- Amelia Peabody photographs, ca. 1845-1960; bulk: 1890-1940. Postcard collection, vols. 29-30 digitized.
- Saltonstall-Brooks-Lewis family photographs, ca. 1840-1946. Vols. 11 & 31 digitized.
- Catherine Scollay travel journal, 1825.
- Sedgwick family papers, 1717-1946. Jane Minot Sedgwick travel diaries (1815-1853) and Theodore Sedwick travel diaries (1821-1855) digitized.
- Ernest Ripley Spaulding diary, 1929-1930.
- Charles Sumner diary, 1829.
- Webber family papers, 1837-1955; bulk: 1837-1877. Maria Webber diary (1837) digitized.
- Wigglesworth family papers, 1682-1966. Henrietta Wigglesworth diary of two journeys (1830, 1860) digitized.
Gale/Cengage: Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Religion, Spirituality, Reform and Society
These collections have all been included in full in the Gale/Cengage database. This subscription database is not available in the MHS research library.
- William Ellery Channing papers, 1791-1892.
- Caroline Wells Healey Dall papers, 1811-1917.
- Theodore Parker papers, 1826-1865.
- Catherine Maria Sedgwick papers, 1798-1908.
ProQuest: HistoryVault: Revolutionary War and Early America
Unless otherwise noted, the full collection has been included in the ProQuest database. The MHS provides access to the Society’s contributions to this resource in the research library.
- John A. Andrew papers, 1772-1895.
- Jonathan Belcher letterbooks, 1723-1755.
- Byles family papers, 1757-1915.
- Samuel Cabot papers, 1713-1858.
- French and Indian War orderly books, 1758-1760.
- Elbridge Gerry letterbook, 1797-1801.
- Elbridge Gerry papers, 1706-1895.
- Gerry-Knight papers, 1772-1936; bulk: 1772-1814.
- Microfilm edition of the Hancock family papers, 1728-1885; bulk: 1728-1815.
- Benjamin Lincoln papers, 1635-1964.
- William Livingston family collection, 1664-1839.
- Louisbourg Expedition records, 1744-1758.
- Mascarene family papers, 1687-1839.
- Massachusetts Charitable Fire Society records, 1792- . Records through 1973 digitized.
- Oliver family papers, 1658-1963.
- Robert Treat Paine papers, 1659-1916. All except reels 12-14, 17 digitized.
- Timothy Pickering papers, 1731-1927.
- Pre-Revolutionary diaries at the Massachusetts Historical Society, 1635-1790.
- Ezekiel Price papers, 1754-1785.
- Revere family papers microfilm, 1746-1964.
- Smith-Carter family papers, 1669-1880.
- Smith-Townsend family papers and papers II, 1670-1892.
- Caleb Strong papers, 1657-1818.
- John Thomas papers, 1609-1890; bulk: 1747-1776.
- Ward family papers, 1721-1953.
- Meshech Weare papers, 1775-1785.
- Israel Williams papers, 1728-1785.
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