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Search the NHA collections databases for digitized images, art, artifacts, manuscripts, books, audiovisual media, and oral histories.More Read more from Search the Collections

Eliza Starbuck Barney

The Barney Genealogical Record

The Barney Record contains the most reliable genealogy for more than 40,000 Nantucketers of the seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth centuries.More Read more from The Barney Genealogical Record

Robert Hellman Whaling & Whalecraft Collection

In 2019, the Nantucket Historical Association was one of seven museums to acquire portions of the Robert Hellman Whalecraft Collection,...More Read more from Robert Hellman Whaling & Whalecraft Collection

Nancy S. Folger, Grave Marker, 1859, photographer Georgen Charnes

Nantucket Cemeteries

The NHA cemeteries project has documented location, epitaphs, images, and condition information about many of the markers on Nantucket. More Read more from Nantucket Cemeteries

Sanborn Map of Nantucket Index, July 1898. Sheet1

Sanborn Maps

Map dates: 1887 | 1892 | 1898 | 1904 | 1909 | 1923 | 1949 The Sanborn Map® Collection consists...More Read more from Sanborn Maps

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