Research at the MHS

Official title: ABIGAIL Online Catalog

ABIGAIL is the Massachusetts Historical Society's online catalog and contains records for manuscript collections, books and other printed materials, photograph collections and works of art. ABIGAIL (which stands for Automated Bibliographic Information Gateway And Internet Link) will eventually provide access to all of the MHS's collections, but it is a work in progress.

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Official title: Finding Aids

Browse or search narrative descriptions of the context, arrangement, and contents of many manuscript and photograph collections. More of these guides (also called finding aids) are continually being created as collections are fully processed. Finding aids not yet accessible online are available in the Society's Reading Room.

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Information about the more than forty volumes in four series published by the Adams Papers editorial project. These volumes are available from the Harvard University Press.

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