Beginning in the 1880s, Rebecca Coffin began to summer regularly on Nantucket, painting brilliant genre scenes and portraits that capture the quaint and fading way of life of post-whaling Nantucket. More Read more from Paintings of Rebecca Coffin
With the waterfront painters, and the influx of many talented visiting artists, the Art Colony flourished, bringing about a rebirth of the waterfront and a transformation at the heart of the island’s identity from a whaling port dependent on the sea to a haven and harbor for the arts.More Read more from The Nantucket Art Colony 1920 – 1945
The entire journal of Eliza Spencer Brock (1810-1899) wife of Captain Peter C. Brock (1805-78), aboard the whaleship Lexington during a voyage from May 21, 1853, to June 25, 1856.More Read more from Eliza Brock’s Journal on the Ship Lexington
Richard C. Maloney created this series of editorial cartoons that appeared in the Inquirer and Mirror under the signature “Atropos”. It remains a mystery to this day whether the identity of “Atropos” was ever revealed in his lifetime.More Read more from Nantucket Nightmare
Commemorating the collision of the Italian luxury liner and the Swedish ship Stockholm, due south of Nantucket, the exhibition included articles from the disaster scene, including a life vest and suitcase. More Read more from Andrea Doria
The signs—from shops, markets, offices, ephemeral sites, the hospital, hotels, and restaurants—provide a collective memory of the Nantucket community and offer access to people and places half forgotten or never known.More Read more from Signs of the Times: Nantucket Signs
The Nantucket Historical Association's second exhibition of artwork by Susan Boardman. More Read more from Susan Boardman’s Embroidered Narratives of Notable Nantucket Women
Patrick and Benchley followed Nantucket’s scalloping community through 1999-2000. As the season unfolds it quickly becomes evident that almost everyone on the island has some connection to scalloping in their life, and the thread of community soon began to weave its own tale.More Read more from Scallop Season: A Nantucket Chronicle
Nantucket family registers form an important part of a folk cultural tradition that developed in New England in the mid-eighteenth century. Family members turned to illustrated registers most often to commemorate a marriage, or to memorialize a recent death in the family. More Read more from Nantucket Roots
An exhibition documenting the lives and history of Nantucket’s Cape Verdean community.More Read more from JAG! Cape Verdean Heritage on Nantucket
View a selection of landscape paintings from the NHA’s permanent collection on display in the Whitney Gallery at the Research Library.More Read more from Views from Town and Country from the NHA Collection
The Nantucket Historical Association preserves and interprets the history of Nantucket through its programs, collections, and properties, in order to promote the island’s significance and foster an appreciation of it among all audiences.