Welcome to GIGI: The AAS Digital Image Archive

Browse the Image Archive

For the most robust searching, please use the AAS General Catalog (many records there will have links to images inside GIGI).
Images will download as JPGs.
If you would like an image file for reproduction/publication purposes, or you need a higher-resolution than is freely available via GIGI, please email the Society's Reproductions Department at reproductions [at] mwa [dot] org

GIGI includes over 266,000 image files of historic material from all of the Society’s collections.
See What's in GIGI for more detailed information.

The Society makes available, without charge, all of our existing medium resolution (up to 72 dpi) digital images that are in the public domain to be used for any purpose under the terms of a Creative Commons License.
You may freely download and use any of these images for your own research, for teaching and presentations, or for non-commercial projects. There is no fee for this service.
The Society requires attribution for any image used; its preferred credit line is:
"Courtesy, American Antiquarian Society"
See Obtaining Digital Images: A Step-by-Step Guide to Rights and Reproductions for information on using and citing images from GIGI.

GIGI, the American Antiquarian Society's digital asset database, is a storage and retrieval system for the Society's digitally-created collections and surrogates.
GIGI is an acronym for Graphic Interface of Gathered Images.
The system was first implemented in April of 2011, and was redesigned for 2021 with generous support from The Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation.
GIGI was named in honor of the Society’s Curator Emerita of Graphic Arts, Georgia "Gigi" Barnhill, who retired in 2012. Before digitization, whenever researchers needed a particular illustration or image to advance or augment their work, the phrase, “go ask Gigi” was offered as the solution!