NHA Exhibition and Collections Publications


BOOKS | DIGITAL PUBLICATIONS | ARTICLES

Books

The ’Sconset Actors Colony: Broadway Offshore, 1895–1925, by Betsy Tyler (July 2011)

Available for purchase.

Island Treasures: Gifts of the Friends of the NHA, 1986 - 2011, by Benjamin Simons (July 2011)

Available for purchase.

A Passion for People: Forty Years of Portrait Photography, by Beverly Hall (2010)
"Sometimes think of me": Notable Nantucket Women through the Centuries, by Betsy Tyler (2010)

Available for purchase.

'Sconset: A History, by Betsy Tyler (2007)

Available for purchase.
Greater Light: A House History

A history of Hanna & Gertrude Monaghan's house, now owned by the Nantucket Historical Association, by Betsy Tyler.

New England Museum Association Publications Award Winner - Books Category. Available for purchase.

The Nantucket Art Colony: 1920 - 45, by Benjamin Simons (2007)


Available for purchase.
Signs of the Times, by Benjamin Simons (2006)

New England Museum Association Publications Award Winner - Exhibition Catalogs Category.

 

 

Digital Publications


The Other Islanders

Frances Karttunen documents the diversity of Nantucket's population through the centuries. Beginning with the people already resident when English settlement began in 1659, Karttunen chronicles survivals, arrivals, and changes. Available here online.

 

Articles


In the summer of 2004, Georgen Gilliam Charnes wrote a column for a local newspaper, The Inquirer and Mirror. Some of the articles are reproduced here.


"Identify this" Column

Every week a photograph that needs identifying is featured in the local newspaper, the Inquirer & Mirror, selected by NHA staff member Georgen Charnes.