Archive of over 25 printed items documenting women’s classical education at Bradford Academy, 1876–1894, constitutes a substantial body of primary material illustrating the expansion of rigorous secondary education for women in post–Civil War New England. Bradford Academy, founded in 1801 in Vermont and operating in the nineteenth century as a......
[Civilian Conservation Corp][Labor][Great Depression] Identified Civilian Conservation Corps photo archive chronicling the service of enrollee Ernest Miller through the federally organized camp system from Fort Devens and Hinsdale, Massachusetts, to Moro, Oregon, and Waterbury, Vermont between 1935 and 1938, with direct documentation of CCC labor, transfer, and camp administration across.....
The Vermont Journal. November 16, 1849. Measures 23 x 17.5 inches. 4 pages. Advertisement on paper's back page reads "Daguerreotype Miniatures, Alonzo G. Amsden would inform his friends and the public that he has taken rooms over the New York Store where he is prepared to execute Daguerroeotype Likenesses set.....
Women's Education Movement. Goddard Seminary Catalog, 1877. Pamphlet Catalog for the 1877 class of Goddard Seminary, a coeducational school in Barre, VT. Including the names of students. Goddard College began in 1863 in Barre, Vermont, as the Green Mountain Central Institute and in 1870 was renamed Goddard Seminary. Founded by.....
Salinger, J.D. American author of Catcher in the Rye. Typed letter signed “JDS”. 1972. Written during his extended correspondence with Eileen Paddison, this two-page letter offers sustained reflection on Taoist philosophy as a lived discipline rather than abstract doctrine. Salinger frames himself as “a cluttered man...writer, parent, chauffeur, cook, snow-remover,”.....
Women Suffrage. Vermont Council of Censors. Journal of Council of Censors of the State of Vermont, at its Several Sessions Held in Montpelier, 1869. Monpelier: Freeman Steam Printing House and Binder, 1869. Proposal by a committee of three to pass women's suffrage in Vermont. 106 pages. This was trhe earliest.....
Timberyard and sawmill labor photo archive documenting postwar wood production in Ludlow, Vermont, showing how mill workers, yard hands, and mechanized cutting equipment operated within the regional lumber economy of the 1940s to 1950s. Images record both the industrial process and the workers themselves, depicting a sequence of interior milling.....
