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 929.3 PAS | Passengers to America : a consolidation of ship passenger lists from the New England historical and genealogical register / | 1977 | 31330002738023 | |
| ANDOVER ROOM R 385 CLA | Papers, pamphlets and reports pertaining to the early history of the Boston and Maine, and Maine Central railroads : also, pamphlets on the Northwest and Northern Pacific Railroad / | Clark, George T. | 1893 | 31330001342041 |
| ANDOVER ROOM R 917.445 MER / 1986-1987 | Overall economic development program. | Merrimack Valley Planning Commission. | 1986 | 31330005419001 |
| ANDOVER ROOM R 613.69 MIN | Outward Bound U.S.A. : learning through experience in adventure-based education / | Miner, Joshua L. | 1981 | 31330008145652 |
| ANDOVER ROOM R DVD 373.7445 OUR | Our stories : Andover High School independent film 2014 / | 2014 | 31330008756078 | |
| ANDOVER ROOMDVD 974.45 OUR | Our immigrant heritage : remembrances and reflections / | 2006 | 31330006025070 | |
| ANDOVER ROOM R 940.3 OUR / POSTER | Our greatest mother - join! / | Hicks, Cornelius, | 1917 | POSTER13 |
| ANDOVER ROOM R 974.45 ABB | Our company increases apace : history, language, and social identity in early Colonial Andover, Massachusetts / | Abbot, Elinor. | 2006 | 31330009035795 |
| ANDOVER ROOM R 973.77 HOL | Our army nurses : Interesting sketches, addresses, and photographs of nearly one hundred of the noble women who served in hospitals and on battlefields during our civil war / | Holland, Mary Gardner. | 1895 | 31330006819282 |
| ANDOVER ROOM R 371.9 OPP (BOX E) | Opportunities available to a retarded child from Andover, Massachusetts : Local current agenda study item: 1963-1965 / | 1965 | 31330008948592 | |
| ANDOVER ROOM R 285.7445 BIG (VF) | Opening recital of the new organ : Free Christian Church, Andover, Massachusetts, Wednesday evening, October 15, 1941, at 8 o'clock / | 1941 | 31330009145511 | |
| ANDOVER ROOM R 917.445 CEN | Open space study / | 1970 | 31330007725777 | |
| ANDOVER ROOM R 371.2912 AND (BOX A) | One-hundred thirteenth commencement exercises : June 9, 1972 / | Andover High School (Andover, Mass.) | 1972 | 31330008983136 |
| ANDOVER ROOM R 285.8 WES | One hundred and thirty years of church and parish history, 1826-1956 / | West Parish Church (Andover, Mass.) | 1956 | 31330001337850 |
| ANDOVER ROOM R 973.74 BUR | One gallant rush : Robert Gould Shaw and his brave Black Regiment. --. | Burchard, Peter. | 1965 | 31330001733744 |
| ANDOVER ROOM R 373 ON (PAMPHLET BOX 3) | On Andover Hill; life today in an old New England school / | Phillips Academy. | 1938 | 31330001339096 |
| ANDOVER ROOM R 796.522 STO | On and off the trail : seventy years with the Appalachian Mountain Club / | Stott, Fred | 2004 | 31330005570407 |
| ANDOVER ROOMFIC S | Old maids, and Burglars in paradise / | Phelps, Elizabeth Stuart, | 1885 | 31330001617269 |
| ANDOVER ROOM R 917.445 ROB | Old Andover days : memories of a Puritan childhood. | Robbins, Sarah (Stuart), | 1908 | 31330001338106 |