The CAM Library & Archives is home to many digital resources, including online finding aids, the CAM Video Vault and corresponding lecture transcripts and finding aids, CAM Lectures on Vimeo, online archival exhibitions, Cape Ann ARTWaves, the Maud / Olson Library, and more.

Finding Aids

Browse a list of finding aids for larger collections in the CAM Archives. This list represents a fraction of the material available in the Library & Archives and is being added to continuously as collections are processed.

CAM Video Vault

Dating to the 1980's, watch video lectures about stories and subjects related to the rich history of Cape Ann. 

Fitz Henry Lane Online

Fitz Henry Lane Online is a freely-accessible interactive and interdisciplinary online resource created by the Cape Ann Museum. The website is organized around a catalog of the paintings, drawings, and lithographs of nineteenth-century American painter Fitz Henry Lane (1804–1865).

BIPOC Research

Explore digital resources at the CAM Library & Archives related to Black, Indigenous, and People of Color on Cape Ann, including recorded lectures, online newsletters, digital exhibitions, and more.

CAM Connects

CAM Connects is an ongoing virtual programming series highlighting important stories and content areas from the Museum's collections.

The Maud/Olson Library

The Maud/Olson Library is a non-circulating collection that reflects Olson’s deep devotion to Gloucester and New England and ultimately to the planet as a whole. In 2021, the Writers Center gifted the collection to the Cape Ann Museum Library & Archives. It resides within the Janet & William Ellery James Center at the Cape Ann Museum Green.

Indexes and Bibliographies

Browse indexes and bibliographies in the CAM Archives.

Unfolding Histories: Cape Ann Before 1900

Unfolding Histories: Cape Ann Before 1900 illuminates the area’s wideranging stories from Native American life to the first European settlers in the 1640s, the temperance movement, African American history and civil rights, women’s history, the advent of railroad and mass transportation as well as work, literary, and cultural life during Cape Ann’s early years.

Gloucester Daily Times Online

Browse scanned issues of Gloucester Daily Times and Gloucester Daily Times And Cape Ann Advertiser from 1888-1981.  Via Sawyer Free Library.

Stories from the Stacks

The Cape Ann Museum Library & Archives houses a seemingly endless collection of unique and rich manuscripts, photographs, books, maps, and other archival documents from the region’s impressive 400+ year history. This series explores some of the stories from the CAM Library & Archives stacks.

Cape Ann Museum Portuguese American Photograph Collection, 1882-1970

Compiled by researchers at UMass Lowell, this collection of photographs from the CAM Library & Archives highlights the seafaring lifestyle of the Portuguese community in Gloucester, MA. 

Cape Ann ARTWaves

Initially conceived to keep the arts front and center during the Pandemic, the final episode aired January 30, 2023 marking almost three years of interviews by co-producers/co-hosts Kristine Fisher and Jacqueline Ganim-DeFalco with over 75 artists, makers, curators, and gallerists.

Archived Websites

Our Internet Archive site contains archived pages of the Cape Ann Museum, various Cape Ann art galleries, the Sawyer Free Library, and several Cape Ann historical societies. 

Gloucester City Directories 1860-1993

Sponsored by the Boston Public Library and made possible by the Sawyer Free Library and the Gloucester Lyceum, the Cape Ann Museum's collection of Gloucester City Directories from 1860-1993 was digitized in 2018. The digital collection is hosted on Internet Archive.

Online Archival Exhibitions

View ditigal exhibitions of CAM Archival material