City Readers Digital Historic Collections at the New York Society Library

The American Bible Society (ABS) is an interconfessional, non-denominational, nonprofit organization, founded on May 11, 1816 in New York City, which publishes, distributes and translates the Bible and provides study aids and other tools to help people engage with the Bible. It is probably best known for its Good News Translation of the Bible, with its contemporary vernacular. They also publish the Contemporary English Version.

ABS's headquarters building at 1865 Broadway, near Columbus Circle in New York City, houses an extensive museum of religious art and a 45,000 volume collection of Scriptures, making it the largest Bible museum in the western hemisphere and second largest in the world behind the Vatican. In 2015, the society announced that it was leaving New York City and moving its headquarters to Philadelphia in the summer.