The Andover Room Collection consists of print and electronic books on Andover history and genealogy. Scrapbooks, pamphlets and ephemera on subjects such as Andover organizations, local government, churches, schools, companies and people are also in the collection. In addition, the room houses town government documents, yearbooks, street lists and maps. The Andover Townsman newspaper is available on microfilm and online.
Access to the collection is limited. A patron may request up to 5 items at one time to use within the library. A library card or license is held at the Reference Desk until all material is returned and inspected. Photocopying and photographing materials is allowed with some exceptions.
Andover Room material can be found by searching the Library Catalog and by searching or browsing the following list.
Contact Stephanie Aude, Local History Reference Librarian, at saude@mhl.org or 978-623-8430 for assistance.
The Andover Center for History & Culture has extensive historical and genealogical document and image collections and is located half a mile from the library.
| Call Number | Title | Author | Year | Barcode |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ANDOVER ROOM R 635.7 WIL (PAMPHLET BOX 5 | An eighteenth century New England herbal sampler / | Williams, Betsy. | 1977 | 31330005415538 |
| ANDOVER ROOM R 724 LE (PAMPHLET BOX 4) | An architectural monograph on early wooden architecture in Andover, Mass. / | Le Boutillier, Addison B., | 1917 | 31330002492076 |
| ANDOVER ROOM R 724 LE (PAMPHLET BOX 4) | An architectural monograph on early wooden architecture in Andover, Mass. / | Le Boutillier, Addison B., | 1917 | 31330002492084 |
| ANDOVER ROOM R 724 LE (PAMPHLET BOX 4) | An architectural monograph on early wooden architecture in Andover, Mass. / | Le Boutillier, Addison B., | 1917 | 31330002492092 |
| ANDOVER ROOM R 782.2 COL (VF) | An Andover tradition. | Collins, J. Everett, | 1961 | 31330008984134 |
| ANDOVER ROOM R 373 PHI (PAMPHLET BOX 3) | An Andover primer : Phillips Academy and its history, 1778-1928. | Phillips Academy. | 1928 | 31330001339104 |
| ANDOVER ROOM R 373 PHI (PAMPHLET BOX 3) | An Andover primer : Phillips Academy and its history, 1778-1925. | Phillips Academy | 1925 | 31330001339112 |
| ANDOVER ROOM R 027.4744 BRO | An address delivered May 30, 1873, at the dedication of the Memorial Hall, Andover, Massachusetts / | Brooks, Phillips, | 1873 | 31330007493327 |
| ANDOVER ROOM R 929 CON | An 1807 joiner's contract : the history of a family and its homestead, Andover and Tewksbury, Massachusetts ; including simplified gnealogies of the Baileys and Flemings, maps and pictures, corrections and additions and information on Samuel Bailey. | Conary, Eleanor B. | 1971 | 31330007998648 |
| ANDOVER ROOM R 929.2097 BRO | Americans of royal descent. | Browning, Charles Henry. | 1894 | 31330001337124 |
| ANDOVER ROOM R 786.9 AME (VF) | American Legion drum corps competition : Andover Playstead, Sunday afternoon, August 5th, 1934 at 2 o'clock / | 1934 | 31330009002035 | |
| ANDOVER ROOM R 709.73 AME | American abstraction at the Addison, April 18 through July 31, 1991 : an exhibition of selected works from the museum's permanent collection, including recent gifts to the Addison Art Drive / | 1991 | 31330002669707 | |
| ANDOVER ROOM R 373.7445 ALU (BOX C) | Alumni and civic testimonial to Mr. Nathan C. Hamblin (on his retirement). | 1941 | 31330008946240 | |
| ANDOVER ROOMFIC | All for Andover : the school life of Steve Fisher and his friends / | Fuess, Claude Moore, | 1925 | 31330003114950 |
| ANDOVER ROOM R 823.8 CAR | Alice's adventures under ground : being a facsimile of the original ms. book afterwards developed into "Alice's adventures in Wonderland" / | Carroll, Lewis, | 1932 | 31330006921021 |
| ANDOVER ROOM R B RIPLEY, AL. (PAMPHLET B | Alfred Lawrence Ripley. | 1943 | 31330003145095 | |
| ANDOVER ROOM R 929.2 OLV | Album of the descendants of Robert and Mary Jaffray Thomson : [1786-2002] / | 2003 | 31330006497717 | |
| ANDOVER ROOM R 618.92238 AIR | Air pollution and pediatric asthma in the Merrimack Valley / | 2008 | 31330006212413 | |
| ANDOVER ROOM R 340.071 HAG | Against the tide / | Hagan, Debbie. | 2004 | 31330006446052 |