American Antiquarian Society

ULAN ID for American Antiquarian Society (American repository, Worcester, contemporary): 500311788

ULAN ID for American Antiquarian Society (American society, contemporary): 500255819

LC name authority rec.: n50055207

LC Heading: American Antiquarian Society

From http://www.americanantiquarian.org/about.htm, accessed on 7/7/2017 by S. Salvaggio:

Founded in 1812 by Revolutionary War patriot and printer Isaiah Thomas, the American Antiquarian Society is both a learned society and a major independent research library. The AAS library today houses the largest and most accessible collection of books, pamphlets, broadsides, newspapers, periodicals, music, and graphic arts material printed through 1876 in what is now the United States, as well as manuscripts and a substantial collection of secondary texts, bibliographies, and digital resources and reference works related to all aspects of American history and culture before the twentieth century. AAS was presented with the 2013 National Humanities Medal by President Obama in a ceremony at the White House.