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These subjects represent
broad areas in which the Library has holdings in monographs, serials, government
documents, scores, microfilm, maps, manuscripts, photographs, prints, and sound recordings
as well as special collections. Patrons are urged to consult public service departments
for materials in their specific research topic. Click on the collection name for a description and
department location.
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Japan Paper Company Collection
Thompson, Benjamin and Jane
Collection of Bostoniana
Americana:
Barlow, Samuel L.M. (1826-1889) Collection
Lewis, John A. Library of Americana
Anarchism:
L’Adunata dei Refrattari
Collection
Anarchists and Radical Newspapers
from Il Fondo L’Adunata Collection
Felicani, Aldino (1891-1967)
Sacco-Vanzetti Collection
Anti-Slavery Movement:
Anti-Slavery Collection
Broadsides Collection
Parker, Theodore (1810-1860) Library
20th Regiment
Collection
Architecture:
Abdalian, Leon Collection
Blackall, Clarence (1857-1942)
Collection
Boston Architecture Reference File
Boston Picture File
Boston Postcard Collection
Boston Public Library Architectural
Drawings
Bulfinch, Charles (1763-1844)
Architectural Collection
Codman Collection
Coletti, Joseph Arthur (1898-1973)
Collection
Copley Square Collection
Cram, Ralph Adams (1863-1942) Collection
Cram, Goodhue and Ferguson/Cram and
Ferguson Collections
Evans, John and Company Collection
Goodhue, Bertram Grosvenor (1869-1924)
Collection
Haven and Hoyt Collection
Kattenberg, Burns Collection
Maginnis and Walsh Collection
Museum of Fine Arts Picture Collection
Peabody and Stearns Collection of
Architectural Drawings
Preston, William G. (1842-1910)
Collection
Strickland, Charles and Strickland,
Brigham, and Eldredge Collections
Art:
Boston Art Archives/New England Art
Information File
Archives of American Art
Microfilm Collection
Art in the Boston Public Library
Museum of Fine Arts Picture Collection
Biography:
Franklin, Benjamin (1706-1790)
Collection
Lewisson, Walter Updike Collection of
Washingtoniana
Sabatier, Paul (1858-1928) /
Franciscan Collection
Thayer, Eliza (d. 1876) Library
Trent/Defoe Collection
Whitman, Walt (1819-1892) Collection
Books Arts and Publishing:
Dwiggins, William Addison (1901-1986)
Collection
Everett, Louella (1883-1967)
Collection
Goldstein, Fanny (1888-1961)
Collection
Houghton Mifflin Trade Reference
Collection
Kleist, Herbert (1902-1986) Collection
Boston:
Aarons, Jules Collection
Abdalian, Leon Collection
Alioto, Kathleen Sullivan Collection
Allen, Fred (1894-1956) Collection
Anti-Slavery Collection
Art in the Boston Public Library
Bassett, Sarah Ware (b. 1872) Library
Boston Architecture Reference File
Boston Art Archives/New England Art
Information File
Boston Authors Club Library
Boston City Club Collection
Boston City Records
Boston Election Department
Scrapbooks, 1907-1927-1948
Boston Garden Collection
Boston Herald-Traveler
Photo Morgue
Boston Latin School Archives
Boston Pictorial Archive
Boston Picture File
Boston Police Strike Documents of
1919
Boston Postcard Collection
Boston Public Library. Special
Events Collection. Disaster Series
Boston Public Library Architectural
Drawings
Boston Public Library in Newspaper
Clippings, 1895-1934
Boston Redevelopment
Authority
Boston School Committee Archives
Boston Symphony Orchestra
Program Scrapbooks
Boston Theatre Archives
Boston Tradition in Sports
Boston 200 Archives
Bulfinch, Charles (1753-1844)
Architectural Collection
City Council Debates
City Directories
City Plans Index (1850-1895)
Coffin Family Papers (1830-1961)
Collins, John F. (1919-1995)
Collection
Copley Square Collection
Curley, James Michael (1874-1958)
Collection
Cushman, Charlotte S. (1816-1876)
Collection
Cutler Collection
Cutler, John Henry (1910- ) Collection
Dana, Edward (1886-1981) Collection
De Mar, Clarence (1888-1958) Collection
East Boston Community News
Erskine School Collection
Federal Street Theatre Collection
Felicani, Aldino (1891-1967)
Sacco-Vanzetti Collection
Fiedler, Arthur (1894-1979)
Filene’s Marketing Archives
Ford Hall Forum Collection
Gilbert, John Gibbs (1810-1889)
Collection
Goldstein, Fanny (1888-1961)
Collection
Gulesian, Grace Warner (1884-1984)
Collection
Hale, Philip (1854-1934) Collection
Handel & Haydn Society Archives
(1770-1964)
Haven and Hoyt Collection
Hirshberg, Al (1909-1973) Collection
Houghton Mifflin Trade Reference
Collection
Humphrey, Robert Laning (1896-1988)
Journalistic Archives
Hynes, John B. (1898-1970) Collection
Impressions Workshop Collection
Innes, Charles H. (1870-1939)
Collection
Innes, Charles J. (1901-1971)
Collection
Jackson, William Theater Collection
Japan Paper Company Collection
Jones, Leslie Collection
Jordan, Alice M. (1870-1960) Collection
Kaese, Harold (1909-1975) Collection
Kattenberg, Burns Collection
Kelley, John A. (1907- ) Collection
Kessler, Minuetta Collection
Kneeland, Eileen Collection
Koussevitzky, Serge (1875-1951)
Collection
Lambert, Michael Collection
Lang, Benjamin J. (1837-1909) Scrapbooks
Lang, Frances M. Collection
Lang, Margaret Ruthven (1867-1972)
Collection
Lewis, George Edward "Duffy"
(1888-1979) Collection
Loeffler, Herman (1896-1968)
Collection
Longarini, Graziano N. (1895-1985)
Collection
McCarthy, Denis A. (1870-1931)
Collection
McClosky, David Blair (1902-1988)
McCord, David (1897-1997) Collection
McGreevey, Michael T. "Nuf
Ced" Collection
Malaney, Jack Collection
Mansfield, Frederick W. (1877-1958)
Collection
Manuscript Club of Boston
Marchard Orchestra Collection
Merrill, Richard Collection
Mokray, William George "Bill"
(1907-1974) Collection
Moloney, Francis X. (1911-1979)
Collection
Murphy, John R. (1856-1932) Collection
Museum of Fine Arts Picture Collection
Music Program Collection
Nazarro, Tommaso (1895-1977)
Collection
New England Round Table of
Children’s Librarians Archives
Nichols, Malcolm E. (1876-1951)
Collection
Norton, Clement (1894-1979) Collection
O’Connor, Edwin (1918-1968)
Papers
O’Meara, Stephen (1854-1918)
Papers
O’Reilly, John Boyle (1844-1890)
Collection
O’Reilly, Mary Boyle (1873-1939)
Collection
Parkman, Henry (1894-1958) Collection
Peters, Andrew J. (1872-1938)
Collection
Pro Arte Chamber Orchestra of Boston
Archive
Reilly, William A. (1903-1969)
Collection
Sanromá, John B. (1900-1997)
Collection
Shaw, Mary (1854-1929) Collection
Silverman, Sam (1913-1977)
Collection
Snyder, Leo (1918-1984) Collection
Society of Arts and Crafts Boston
Archives
South End Project Area Committee
(SEPAC)
Strickland, Charles and Strickland,
Brigham, and Eldredge Collections
Thompson, Benjamin and Jane
Collection of Bostoniana
Tobin, Maurice J. (1901-1953) Collection
Tremont Theatre Archives
Triangle Theater Collection
WHDH Film Collection
Wood, Joe "Smoky Joe"
(1889-1985) Collection
Children’s Literature:
Bassett, Sarah Ware (b. 1872) Library
Drawings for Children’s Books
Heins, Paul (1909-1996) and Ethel L.
(1918-1997) Collection
Jordan, Alice M. (1870-1960) Collection
Juvenile Collection
Kneeland, Eileen Collection
National Council of Teachers of
English/NCTE Award for Excellence in Poetry for Children Collection
New England Round Table of
Children’s Librarians Archives
Decorative Arts:
Connick, Charles J. and Associates
Archives
Museum of Fine Arts Picture Collection
Society of Arts and Crafts Boston
Archives
Education:
Adult Education Association
Alioto, Kathleen Sullivan Collection
Bentley, Harry C. (1877- ) Collection
Boston Latin School Archives
Boston School Committee Archives
Erskine School Collection
Genealogy:
Genealogy and Family History
Collections
Massachusetts Newspapers
Works Progress Administration. Card
Index to the Genealogical Columns of the Boston Evening Transcript, 1915-1935.
Irish Studies:
Abbey Theatre Collection
Allen, Fred (1894-1956) Collection
Byrne, Donn (1889-1928) Collection
Collins, John F. (1919-1995)
Collection
Curley, James Michael (1874-1958)
Collection
Easter Rebellion Collection
Heaney, Seamus Collection
Ireland: Union to Free State
Collection
Irish Legal History Collection
Jordan, Alice M. (1870-1960) Collection
Literary Dublin Collection
McCarthy, Denis A. (1870-1931)
Collection
Modern Irish History Collection
Northern Ireland Collection
Norton, Clement (1894-1979) Collection
O’Connor, Edwin (1918-1968)
Papers
O’Meara, Stephen (1854-1918)
Papers
O’Reilly, John Boyle (1844-1890)
Collection
O’Reilly, Mary Boyle (1873-1939)
Collection
Print Department’s Collection of
Irish Material
1798 Collection
Triangle Collection
Librarianship:
New England Round Table of
Children’s Librarians Archives
Massachusetts Library Association Archives
Literature: (Collections under
this heading deal with literary topics or contain primarily works of literature)
Adams, John (1735-1826) Library
Barton, Thomas Pennant (1803-1869)
Collection
Bassett, Sarah Ware (b. 1872) Library
Beaulieu, Wilfred (1900-1979)
Collection
Boston Authors Club Library
Boston Browning Society
Collection
Byrne, Donn (1889-1928) Collection
Chamberlain, Mellen (1821-1900)
Connolly, James Brandan (1868-1957)
Collection
Everett, Louella (1883-1967)
Collection
Field, Kate (1839-1896) Papers
Folsom, Charles Correspondence
Franco-American Collections
Galatea Collection
Goldstein, Fanny (1888-1961)
Collection
Gould, Elizabeth Porter (1848-1906)
Library
Griswold, Rufus (1815-1857) Papers
Hale, Edward Everett (1822-1909) Papers
Harris, Charlotte Collection
Heaney, Seamus Collection
Heins, Paul (1909-1996) and Ethel L.
(1918-1997) Collection
Houghton Mifflin Trade Reference
Collection
Jordan, Alice M. (1870-1960) Collection
Juvenile Collection
Kleist, Herbert (1902-1986) Collection
Kneeland, Eileen Collection
Literary Dublin Collection
Longfellow Memorial Collection
McCarthy, Denis A. (1870-1931)
Collection
McCord, David (1897-1997) Collection
Manuscript Club of Boston
Montgomery Sears / Freiligrath
Collection
Munn, James Buell Collection
Munsterberg, Hugo Collection
National Council of Teachers of
English/NCTE Award for Excellence in Poetry for Children Collection
New England Round Table of
Children’s Librarians Archives
O’Connor, Edwin (1918-1968)
Papers
O’Reilly, Mary Boyle (1873-1939)
Collection
Parker, Theodore (1810-1869) Library
Prince, Thomas Library of the Old South
Church
Ticknor, George (1791-1871) Library
of Spanish and Portuguese Literature
Trent/Defoe Collection
20th Regiment
Collection
Whitman, Walt (1819-1892) Collection
Massachusetts:
Adlow, Elijah Papers
Adult Education Association
Allen, Frank G. (1874-1950)
Collection
Ames, Ellis (1809-1884) Papers
Anti-Slavery Collection
Bentley, Harry C. (1877- ) Collection
Brown, LaRue (1883-1969) Collection
Chelsea Collection
Coffin Family Papers (1830-1961)
Curley, James Michael (1874-1958)
Collection
Currier, Thomas Florian (1837- )
Papers
Cutler, Leslie B. (890-1971) Collection
Delano, Benjamin (1807-1882) Papers
Dolan, Chester A., Jr. (1906-1994)
Collection
Dwiggins, William Addison (1901-1986)
Collection
Ely, Joseph B. (1881-1956) Collection
Folsom, Crosby Collection
Furcolo, Foster J. (1911-1995)
Collection
Grossman, Jerome Collection
Grossman, Maxwell (1897-1963)
Collection
Hine, Lewis Collection
Howard, Charles P. (1887-1966)
Collection
Hurley, Charles F. (1893-1946)
Collection
Innes, Charles H. (1870-1939)
Collection
Innes, Charles J. (1901-1971)
Collection
Lang, Benjamin J. (1837-1909) Scrapbooks
League of Women Voters Collection
Leno, Harry W. Personal Papers Collection
Loeffler, Herman (1896-1968)
Collection
Longarini, Graziano N. (1895-1985)
Collection
Lyman, Arthur T. Collection
Massachusetts Library Association Archives
Massachusetts Newspapers
Massachusetts Peace Movement
Collection
Massachusetts Political Archive
Murphy, John R. (1856-1932) Collection
Murphy, Robert F. (1900-1976)
Collection
Parkman, Henry (1894-1958) Collection
Peters, Andrew J. (1872-1938)
Collection
Shattuck, Winfred A. Collection
Tobin, Maurice J. (1901-1953) Collection
20th Regiment
Collection
Music:
Boston Symphony Orchestra Program
Scrapbooks
Brown, Allen A. (1835-1916) Music
Collection
Fiedler, Arthur (1894-1979) Collection
Gallini, Natale Italian Libretto
Collection
Gulesian, Grace Warner (1884-1984)
Collection
Hale, Philip (1854-1934) Collection
Handel & Haydn Society Archives
(1770-1964)
Humphrey, Robert Laning (1896-1988)
Journalistic Archives
Italian Libretti and Ballet
Collections
Kessler, Minuetta Collection
Koudelka, Joseph (1773-1850)
Collection
Koussevitzky, Serge (1875-1951)
Collection
Lang, Benjamin J. (1837-1909) Scrapbooks
Lang, Frances M. Collection
Lang, Margaret Ruthven (1867-1972)
Collection
Libretti Collection
McClosky, David Blair (1902-1988)
Collection
McKinley, William Thomas (1938- )
Collection
Marchard Orchestra Collection
Music Program Collection
Piston, Walter (1894-1976) Collection
Pro Arte Chamber Orchestra of Boston
Archive
Rines, Joseph (1902- ) Collection
Sanromá, John B. (1900-1997)
Collection
Tree, Sir Herbert Beerbohm (1853-1917)
Theater Music Collection
Young, Victor (1900-1956) Collection
Newspapers:
Beaulieu, Wilfred (1900-1979) Collection
East Boston Community News
Fetridge, Arthur E. (1905-1970)
Collection
Franco-American Newspapers
Collection
Longarini, Graziano N. (1895-1985)
Collection
Massachusetts Newspapers
Performing Arts:
Abbey Theatre Collection
Adams, Bertram E. Collection
Allen, Fred (1894-1956) Collection
American Actors and Actresses,
1860-1910
Benny, Jack (1894-1974) Letters and
Clippings
Benois, Alexandre (1870-1960) Papers
Boston Symphony Orchestra
Program Scrapbooks
Boston Theatre Archives
Broadsides Collection
Brown, Allen A. Music Collection
Brown, Allen A. Theatre
Collection
Cushman, Charlotte S. (1816-1876)
Collection
Daumier, Honore Collection
Dwiggins, William Addison (1901-1986)
Collection
Ehrlich, Richard (1901-1981) and
Virginia Collection
Fantin-Latour, Henri (1836-1904)
Federal Street Theatre Collection
Fiedler, Arthur (1894-1979)
Collection
Gallini, Natale Italian Libretto
Collection
Gavarni, Guillaume (1804-1866)
Collection
Geiringer, Karl Collection
Gest, Morris (1881-1942) Collection
Gilbert, John Gibbs (1810-1889)
Collection
Gulesian, Grace Warner (1884-1984)
Collection
Hale, Philip (1854-1934) Collection
Handel & Haydn Society Archives
(1770-1964)
Hanlon Family Collection
Hobbs, Rebekah (1902-1982) Collection
Hollywood in Pictures
Humphrey, Robert Laning (1896-1988)
Journalistic Archives
Italian Libretti and Ballet
Collections
Jackson, William B., Jr. (1894-1977)
Theater Collection
Kavanagh Family Collection
Kessler, Minuetta Collection
Kotsilibas-Davis, James Collection
Koudelka, Joseph (1773-1850)
Collection
Koussevitzky, Serge (1875-1951)
Collection
Lang, Benjamin J. (1837-1909) Scrapbooks
Lang, Frances M. Collection
Lang, Margaret Ruthven (1867-1972)
Collection
Libretti Collection
McClosky, David Blair (1902-1988)
Collection
McKinley, William Thomas (1938- )
Collection
Marchard Orchestra Collection
Music Program Collection
Nazarro, Tommaso (1895-1977)
Collection
Norton, Eliot (1903- ) Collection
Opera and Ballet Collections
Piston, Walter (1894-1976) Collection
Rines, Joseph (1902- ) Collection
Sanromá, John B. (1900-1997)
Collection
Shaw, Mary (1854-1929) Collection
Toulouse-Lautrec, Henri de
(1864-1901) Collection
Tree, Sir Herbert Beerbohm (1853-1917)
Theater Music Collection
Tremont Theatre Archives
Triangle Theater Collection
Whiting, Harriet S. Collection
Wyman, Lilla Viles Collection
Young, Victor (1900-1956) Collection
Politics and Government:
Adams, John (1735-1826) Library
Alioto, Kathleen Sullivan Collection
Allen, Frank G. (1874-1950)
Collection
Boston Election Department
Scrapbooks, 1907-1916, 1927-1948
Boston Police Strike Documents of
1919
Boston Redevelopment
Authority
Boston School Committee Archives
City Council Debates
Collins, John F. (1919-1995)
Collection
Curley, James Michael (1874-1958)
Collection
Cutler, Leslie B. (1890-1971)
Collection
Dana, Edward (1886-1981) Collection
Dolan, Chester A., Jr. (1905-1994)
Collection
Ely, Joseph B. (1881-1956) Collection
Forbes, Crosby Collection
Furcolo, Foster J. (1911-1995)
Collection
Grossman, Maxwell (1897-1963)
Collection
Howard, Charles P. (1887-1966)
Collection
Hurley, Charles F. (1893-1946)
Collection
Hynes, John B. (1898-1970)
Innes, Charles H. (1870-1939)
Collection
Innes, Charles J. (1901-1971)
Collection
League of Women Voters Collection
Loeffler, Herman (1896-1968)
Collection
Lyman, Arthur T. Collection
Mansfield, Frederick W. (1877-1958)
Collection
Massachusetts Political Archive
Murphy, John R. (1856-1932) Collection
Murphy, Robert F. (1900-1976)
Collection
Nichols, Malcolm E. (1876-1951)
Collection
Norton, Clement (1894-1979) Collection
Parkman, Henry (1894-1958) Collection
Peron Era Political Pamphlets and
Monographs Collection
Peters, Andrew J. (1872-1938)
Collection
Reilly, William A. (1903-1969)
Collection
Tobin, Maurice J. (1901-1953) Collection
Religion:
Benton, Josiah (1843-1917) Collection of
the Book of Common Prayer
Goldstein, Fanny (1888-1961)
Collection
Joan of Arc Collection
Nelson, J. Robert Collection
Prince, Thomas Library of the Old South
Church
Sabatier, Paul (1858-1928)/Franciscan
Collection
Santerre, Richard Collection
Trent/Defoe Collection
Retail:
Filene’s Marketing Archives
Social Action:
Anti-Slavery Collection
Brown, LaRue (1883-1969) Collection
East Boston Community News
Grossman, Jerome Collection
Hine, Lewis Collection
Lambert, Michael Collection
Leno, Harry W. Personal Papers Collection
Massachusetts Peace Movement
Collection
Parker, Theodore (1810-1860) Library
South End Project Area Committee
(SEPAC)
Sports:
Boston Tradition in Sports
Travel:
Blackall, Clarence (1857-1942)
Collection
Hunt, Benjamin P. (1808-1877)/ West
Indies Collection
Photographs of India
Photographs of the American West
Photographs of the Near East
Print Department’s Collection of
Irish Material
Schlesinger, Leonard and Charlotte
Travel Collection
Tupper Scrapbook Collection
Women’s Studies:
Galatea Collection
League of Women Voters Collection
Shaw, Mary (1854-1929) Collection
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