Use Permission

The MHS welcomes use of materials from our collection in publications, exhibitions, presentations, film and video projects, websites, and other works. The library offers two types of use permission:

Permission to cite and quote from unpublished materials -- service details

Permission to reproduce images of materials -- service details and fee scale

All requests should be made through Portal1791. Use ABIGAIL, the collection guides, or online resources to locate the item or items you wish to license and submit a separate request for each item. Contact the reference librarian if you have further questions.

Upcoming Events
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Susie King Taylor: A Legacy of Black Womanhood and Historic Preservation

26Jun 12:00PM 2019

Susie King Taylor was not Sojourner Truth or Harriet Tubman. Although she does not have the notoriety of those two women, her story is no less important. As the first ...

The Peculiar Institution: Abigail Adams and Slavery

26Jun 6:00PM 2019
Registration for this program is now closed.

Edith Gelles, a senior scholar with the Clayman Institute for Gender Research at Stanford University, is an award-winning historian and author of Abigail & John: ...

Abigail Adams: Nature and Nurture, Pop-up Display and Talk

28Jun 2:00PM 2019
The Pop-up Display will be on view from April ...

“The Earth is putting on a new Suit,” Abigail Adams wrote, savoring the arrival of spring amid the tumult of national politics in 1800. Tending her kitchen ...
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This Week @MHS

Join us for a program this week! Here is a look at what is going on: - Tuesday, 29 January, 5:15 PM: Better Teaching through Technology, 1945-1969, with Victoria Cain, Northeastern ...

Founder to Founder

Like so many good stories here at the Historical Society, it began with a reference question. Jeremy Belknap, hunting through his sources, asked Vice President John Adams for some help. Belknap, the ...

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