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Collection Areas

Explore the Society's rich holdings by clicking on a core collecting area below.
Engraving of Philadelphia

Early American History Collections

Detail of annotated map of interior Pacific Northwest

Indigenous Cultures, Anthropology, and Linguistics

19th-century laboratory

History of Science Collections

Portrait of Thomas Jefferson

Museum Collections