Author Archives: Special Collections

A Tale of Two Burlington Women’s Clubs

Posted on August 21, 2023 by Special Collections

During the 2023 spring semester, Special Collections intern and History graduate student Brooke Talbott processed the records of two Burlington, Vermont women’s clubs. Drawing on correspondence, reports, minutes, scrapbooks, account books, ephemera and publications in the collections, Brooke tells the … Continue reading →

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Trans Visibility in Out in the Mountains

Posted on March 31, 2023 by Special Collections

Special Collections intern and History graduate student Juniper Oxford contributed this blog post for the 2023 International Transgender Day of Visibility. She relied on the UVM Libraries’ digital version of Out in The Mountains to do her research.  For two … Continue reading →

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Unusual Materials

Posted on March 8, 2023 by Special Collections

This spring, Erika White’s ARTS 196 class, Making Artist Books, includes four sessions in Silver Special Collections. During the first session, librarian Prudence Doherty introduced students to a selection of artists’ books. During the second session, students explored accordion book … Continue reading →

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Black Caterer Managed UVM’s Hash House

Posted on February 20, 2023 by Special Collections

The 1900 federal census recorded approximately 115 Black residents in Burlington, Vermont. Almon J. Clark, listed as colored in the 1900 census, lived with his wife Anna (54), his daughters Mary (24) and Ellen (22) and his sons John (19) … Continue reading →

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Christmas Cards from the Studio of Katherine Crockett

Posted on December 22, 2022 by Special Collections

In January 1966, T. D. Seymour Bassett, the curator of the UVM Wilbur Collection, sent a letter to Katherine Crockett in Pittsford, Vermont. Bassett wrote that he had received two of her attractive Christmas cards from friends in St. Louis … Continue reading →

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High License, Local Option, and the 1902 Election

Posted on November 8, 2022 by Special Collections

As the 2022 election season draws to a close, we offer an article by graduate student Juniper Oxford about the 1902 election, when prohibition in Vermont was the central contentious issue. Juniper conducted research for the article in Special Collections … Continue reading →

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Rah for UVM!

Posted on October 19, 2022 by Special Collections

When a researcher came upon this faded pennant in the papers of alumnus Richard U. Cogswell (class of 1925) last week, he noted that the 100th anniversary of a UVM football victory was at hand. On October 21, 1922, the … Continue reading →

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Tons of Honey: The Forbes Apiary

Posted on October 2, 2022 by Special Collections

When Bill Mares and Ross Conrad were doing research for their 2018 book, The Land of Milk and Honey: A History of Beekeeping in Vermont, they discovered a number of helpful resources in Silver Special Collections. Unfortunately, we found few … Continue reading →

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UVM’s Dairy School: Short and Intense Practical Training

Posted on June 6, 2022 by Special Collections

For National Dairy Month, Silver Special Collections student assistant Michael Maloney (UVM 2022) writes about the UVM Dairy School, which began in 1891. His research was prompted by two early twentieth-century photos of Dairy School students that were recently donated … Continue reading →

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Diaries of a Vermonter Teaching in China

Posted on May 13, 2022 by Special Collections

UVM History students Sarah McAtee and Rhone Allison worked with Professor Erik Esselstrom and Chris Burns, Hannah Johnson, Dorothy Dye and Erin Doyle from Special Collections to transcribe four diaries from the Henry C. Brownell Papers. In this blog post, … Continue reading →

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