Digital Collection
All images are free for non-commercial use under Creative Commons, Attribution-Non-Commercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0). By default, all images are available as 300 dpi jpeg files, though readers are encouraged to visit the following contributing archives and research libraries for additional download options:
- American Antiquarian Society
- American Philosophical Society
- Haverford College Quaker and Special Collections
- Historical Society of Pennsylvania
- Library Company of Philadelphia
- Moravian Archives of Bethlehem
- Philadelphia Museum of Art
- Presbyterian Historical Society
Finally, there are several tools you may use to search across the Digital Collection. You may perform a local search on the Index page. This page contains too many items for easy browsing; however, a local search will allow you to quickly filter items using keywords related to titles and descriptions. To search across metadata and transcriptions, use Scalar's global Search. By default, Scalar searches item names and descriptions; if you select all fields & metadata, Scalar will across the Digital Paxton corpus, which may require more time.
At any point you may return to this or any other path using the Table of Contents, accessible from the menu in the top left corner of the screen.