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 974.4 HUD | Lower Merrimack : the valley and its peoples, an illustrated history / | Hudon, Paul, | 2004 | 31330005508274 |
| ANDOVER ROOM R 974.4 DUB | Lowell : the story of an industrial city : a guide to Lowell National Historical Park and Lowell Heritage State Park, Lowell, Massachusetts / | Dublin, Thomas, | 1992 | 31330003386517 |
| ANDOVER ROOM R 974.45 OSG (PAMPHLET BOX | Looking back. | Osgood, Mary Ellen | 1981 | 31330000211197 |
| ANDOVER ROOM R 779.9974 LOO | Looking back : images of New England, 1860-1930 / | 1982 | 31330001015589 | |
| ANDOVER ROOM R 917.445 DAL | Local touch / | Dalton, Bill. | 1985 | 31330002123457 |
| ANDOVER ROOM R 917.445 DAL | Local touch / | Dalton, Bill. | 1985 | 31330007492675 |
| ANDOVER ROOM R 362.19699 COL | Living with breast cancer : Thirty-nine women and one man speak candidly about surviving breast cancer / | Colmore, Perry. | 1997 | 31330003886532 |
| ANDOVER ROOM R 974.44 MRO | Living on the Boott : historical archaeology at the Boott Mills Boardinghouses, Lowell, Massachusetts / | Mrozowski, Stephen A. | 1996 | 31330003835489 |
| ANDOVER ROOM R 974.44 MRO | Living on the Boott : historical archaeology at the Boott Mills Boardinghouses, Lowell, Massachusetts / | Mrozowski, Stephen A. | 1996 | 31330003848078 |
| ANDOVER ROOM R 372.6 AND | Listening objectives : grades 3, 6 and 8 | Town of Andover. Department of Public Schools. | 1981 | 31330007545357 |
| ANDOVER ROOM R 929.1 LIS | List of titles of genealogical articles in American periodicals and kindred works : giving the name, residence, and earliest date of the first settler of each family, and adding deficiencies in brackets; designed as a companion volume to our ... | 1899 | 31330001336084 | |
| ANDOVER ROOM R 929.4 MAS | List of persons whose names have been changed in Massachusetts. 1780-1892 / | Massachusetts. Office of the Secretary of State. | 1893 | 31330001337173 |
| ANDOVER ROOM R 027.4744 MEM | List of accessions. | Memorial Hall Library (Andover, Mass.) | 1897 | 31330006577070 |
| ANDOVER ROOM R 929.2 BOWEN | Lineage of the Bowens of Woodstock, Connecticut / | Bowen, Edward Augustus, | 1897 | 31330001336654 |
| ANDOVER ROOM R BIOGRAPHY STOWE, HA. | Life of Harriet Beecher Stowe : comp. from her letters and journals / | Stowe, Harriet Beecher, | 1889 | 31330001101942 |
| ANDOVER ROOM R B LAWRENCE, AM. | Life of Amos A. Lawrence / | Lawrence, Willam, | 1888 | 31330001780745 |
| ANDOVER ROOM R 974.45 LIF (PAMPHLET BOX | Life and times in immigrant city : memories of a textile town ; a booklet commemorating the second Massachusetts History Workshop, Lawrence, Massachusetts, October 12, 1980. | 1980 | 31330001337488 | |
| ANDOVER ROOM R 929.2 HEWES | Lieutenant Joshua Hewes : a New England pioneer, and some of his descendants, with materials for a genealogical history of other families of the name, and a sketch of Joseph Hewes, the signer / | 1913 | 31330001336829 | |
| ANDOVER ROOM R B GORIANSKY, LE. (PAMPHLE | Lev Vladimir Goriansky : early life, 1894 through 1936 / | Goriansky, Carola Eliot | 1978 | 31330003271545 |