Phillips Library Digital Collections

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Welcome to the Phillips Library's growing collection of digitized manuscripts, pamphlets, broadsides, maps, photographs, and more. Our scope is global and encyclopedic, reflecting more than 220 years of collecting activity.

View our Collections page, search, or browse to explore more content. Here are three of our newest or most popular collections:

Edward S. Morse Collection

Documents and photographs from the library's two Morse collections, as well as transcripts of the diaries he kept on his trips to Japan, and additional content.

Hawthorne Collection

Documents related to Sophia and Nathaniel Hawthorne from various collections held by the Phillips Library.

The Salem Witch Trials

Several types of content make up this collection: original documents from 1692, items related to PEM exhibtions about the witch trials, and more.

Click the Tips and Tricks thumbnail to find instructions for creating an account, searching the catalog, and requesting materials for research or duplication. Also get started on a variety of topics with our research guides that point to select topical materials within our collections. Or, simply browse all collections currently online.

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Digital Commonwealth, the digital repository for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, digitizes and hosts Phillips Library photographic collections.

 

Our Internet Archive site contains digitized bound materials, including ships' logbooks and publications issued by PEM and our ancestor institutions.

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