The Nantucket Historical Association Research Library is a special collections repository of primary resources focusing on Nantucket history. Our collections contain more than 5,000 volumes and 50,000 photographs, as well as archival documents such as ship’s logs, account books, family papers, and scrapbooks. The NHA also preserves extensive art and artifact collections relating to all […]
The Collections of the Needham Historical Society are used to promote and disseminate information about the Town and its history. The collections are also a public resource for individuals doing their own historic or genealogical research. Collections are made available for study by appointment with the Executive Director or Archivist. Please call 781-455-8860 or email […]
The library holdings consist of 18,000 published titles in ten languages documenting American and international whaling history, voyages and travels, exploration, natural history, the local history of the Old Dartmouth regions including New Bedford, Fairhaven, Acushnet, Dartmouth and Westport, Massachusetts and New England regional history. Included are incunabula, rare books and pamphlets, newspapers dating to […]