Online Archival Exhibitions

Unfolding Histories: Cape Ann Before 1900

The Museum is thrilled to announce the launch of its first online archival exhibition! Explore topics ranging from Native American life to the first European settlers in the 1640s, the temperance movement, African American history and civil rights, women’s history, the advent of railroad and mass transportation as well as work, literary, and cultural life during Cape Ann’s early years.  

Users can search the exhibition thematically or browse it through a number of different categories, as well as learn more about the nine local histories collections that contributed archival material represented in the exhibition. Built in-house with the open-source Omeka platform, this exhibition showcases historical and archival material, and is intended to be the first of many online exhibitions that the Museum will offer.

→ Start exploring here!

We are grateful to the Tadler Family for their support of this initiative through the Tadler Internship Program.

 

 
Image credits, left to right: Logbook from the Schooner Lark, 1799, Cape Ann Museum; Daguerreotype of Abigail Trask and her friend, late 1840s, Manchester Historical Museum; Old Farmer's Almanac, 1839, Sandy Bay Historical Society and Museums; Certificate from teacher for Amanda Babson, January 1823, Cape Ann Museum.