Massachusetts Archives and Libraries

Archives and Libraries provide large amounts of information for your research. The links below will provide you with some information and prepare you for a visit to a library.

Archives

• National Archives and Records Administration
• St. Louis
  • Civilian
  • Military
• Genealogy at the National Archives
  • Census Records
  • Military Records
  • Immigration Records (Ship Passenger Lists)
  • Naturalization Records
  • Land Records
  • Native American Records

Massachusetts Archives

• Massachusetts Archives (state archives)
• Archives Advisory Commission/Massachusetts Historical Records Advisory Board (affiliated with NHPRC)

Libraries

• Library of Congress
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Massachusetts Libraries

• State Library of Massachusetts

• Amherst College

  • Archives and Special Collections

• Babson College

  • Archives, Special Collections, and Museum

• Burlington Municipal Archives

• Boston College

• Burns Library

• Boston Public Library

  • Special Collections

• Boston University Mugar Memorial Library

  • Department of Special Collections

• Brandeis University Libraries

  • Special Collections

• Bridgewater State College Library

  • Special Collections/Archives

• Congregational Library in Boston

• Clark University

  • Archives and Special Collections

• College of the Holy Cross

  • Rare Book Room and Archives

  • Frances and Jacob Hiatt Collection of Holocaust Materials

• Emerson College Archives

• Framingham State College

  • Special Collections

• Hampshire College

  • Archives

• Harvard University

  • Andover-Harvard Theological Library (see “Manuscripts”)

  • Harvard University Archives

• Houghton Library

  • Manuscript Department

• Healey Library

  • Archives and Special Collections Department

• John Fitzgerald Kennedy Presidential Library

• Peabody Museum

  • Archival Collections

• Peabody Essex Museum

  • Phillips Library

• Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America

• Millicent Library (Fairhaven)

  • Archives

• Mount Holyoke College

  • Archives and Special Collections

• Northeastern University Libraries

  • Archives and Special Collections Department

• Phillips Academy

  • Archive and Special Collections

• The Plymouth Colony Archive Project at the University of Virginia

• Schumacher Center Archives

• Simmons College

• College Archives

• Simmons [student] Chapter of the Society of American Archivists

• Smith College

  • College Archives

  • Mortimer Rare Book Room

• Sophia Smith Collection (women’s history)

• Tufts

  • University Archives

• The Thoreau Institute

  • Henley Library

• University of Massachusetts Amherst

  • Special Collections and Archives

• University of Massachusetts Lowell

  • Center for Lowell History

• University of Massachusetts Dartmouth

  • Archives & Special Collections

• Wellesley College

  • Archives

  • Special Collections

• Wheaton College

  • Archives

• Williams College

  • Archives and Special Collections