The Paris Historical Society


 

Our Collections

In our collection you will find thousands of photographs, an incalculable number of documents, deeds, books, genealogy files, maps and artifacts.

Like many small historical society/archives we find ourselves being “neither fish nor fowl.” We certainly have enough to fill just an archive and we have a large and wonderful collection of fine art and artifacts of every description.

We have:

  • maps dating from 1847 to present day
  • Fire Insurance maps of Paris 1876, 1913 and 1924
  • copies of directories and gazateers
  • cemetery records
  • genealogy files
  • newspaper indexes from 1878 to last year
  • newspapers on microfilm – 1878 to last year
  • census from 1851 - 1911
  • Original Capron Letters and documents
  • Telephone books
  • over 3000 files on local businesses
  • oil, pastels and pencil sketches – the work of Paul Giovanni Wickson
  • Land Registry index books for Paris (1839 - 1970s)
For further information please contact us and we will be happy to assist.