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• Ticket prices
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• Hours of operation for other Historic Sites
• Hours of operation for Research Library
• Hours of operation for Museum Store
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Research Library

• Hours of operation
• Policies for reading room use
• Manuscript collections
• List of Manuscript collections
• Book collections
• Photograph collections
• Use of photographs
• Copyright
• Digitization program
• Oral history collections
• Oral history guidelines for the Nantucket Community
• Databases
• Search all the databases
• Manuscript database
• Image database
• Book & AV material database (including oral histories)
• Cemetery inscription database
• Barney Genealogical Record
• Genealogical Research
• Where to start
• The Barney Genealogical Record
• Barney Record Online Database
• Guide to Historical Records and Genealogical Resources of Nantucket, Massachusetts
• Minority genealogy pathfinder
• Isabel Kaldenbach's Inventory of Black Nantucketers
• Cemetery inscription project
• Whitney Gallery
• Verney Fellowship

Historic Sites

• NHA Historic Properties List
• Whaling Museum
• Harbor cam - view from the whaling museum roof
• Hadwen House
• Oldest House
• Old Mill
• Old Gaol
• Quaker Meetinghouse
• Hose Cart House

Museum Shop

• Purchase Historic Photographs
• Purchase Nantucket Books
• Purchase Merchandise

Exhibits & Collections

• Current Exhibitions
• Artifact Collections
• Making a Donation
• Digital Exhibitions
• Scallop Season
• Susan Boardman's Embroidered Narratives: Nine Nantucket Women
• Nantucket Roots: The Vine and Heart Family Registers
• Jag! Cape Verdean History on Nantucket
• Tony Sarg's Sea Serpent

Explore Nantucket History

• Historic Nantucket Magazine
• The Other Islanders by Frances Karttunen

• Keeping History column

  • Daguerreotypes : First Photographs
  • Drying Wet Books
  • The More Things Change: Diary of Charles Dyer
  • Preserving Your Family Papers
  • Taking Care of Your Family Photographs
  • Processing History
  • Records Management for Your Club or Small Organization
  • Researching your Nantucket House History
  • Where You Can Always Find a "Turkish Bazarre" : Sanborn Maps
  • Ship's Logs and Journals at the NHA Research Library
  • "So you say your great-great-great grandfather is Tristam Coffin":
    Using the Barney Genealogical Record
• Whaling Knowledge Quiz
• Frequently Asked Questions
  
  • How do I donate material?
    
  • How do I know if my scrimshaw is authentic?
    
  • What are Nantucket Lightship Baskets?
    What is a swift?
    
  • What are daguerreotypes?
    
  • Does the Nantucket Historical Association have any materials relating to the whaleship Essex?
    
  • Where can I see the Walter Folger clock and what makes it special?
    
  • How much is my antique or old book worth?
  What do I do if my books get wet
  • How do I preserve my family history papers?
    
  • How do I preserve my family photographs?
    
  • Can you repair a book for me?
    
  • Do you have a brief history of Nantucket?
    
  • Do you have more history of Nantucket?
    
  • Can you tell me about the history of the NHA?
  • What is the history of the Whaling Museum?
    
  • Can you tell me a little about the history of Quakers on Nantucket?
    
  • Did Nantucket have a railroad?
    
  • What is the Nantucket Girls Song?
    
  • How do I research my old house or other local building?
    
  • How do I research my family's history?
    
  • How do I find out about Nantucket's cemeteries?
    
  • Does the NHA offer resources for the study of Nantucket's material culture and decorative arts?
• Resources for Teachers
  
  • African-American Nantucketers in the Nineteenth Century: a Resource Guide for Black History Month
    

NHA Calendar & Events

• Event Highlights
• Children's Programs
• Lectures, Performances & Talks
• Special Events
• 1800 House Decorative Arts & Crafts Programs

About the NHA

• Mission Statement
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• Board of Trustees
• Staff Directory
• Employment & Volunteer Opportunities

Membership

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• Business Membership
• Capital Campaign
• Tribute Gifts & Annual Fund
• Planned Giving
• Join Online

Artifact pop-ups

• Lightship Baskets
• Folger Clock
• Family Registers
• Harpoon
• Fresnel Lens
• Peleg Workbook
• Swifts
• Absalom Boston
• Whale Skeleton

NHA News & Press Releases