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Author Archives: Special Collections
First Fall Presentation: Breaking the Deckle*
Please join us on October 11 at 5:30 pm for “Breaking the Deckle: Using the Paper Arts for Social Justice,” a presentation by Peace Paper Project’s Drew Matott. Matott is a master papermaker with an expertise using traditional papermaking as … Continue reading
Posted in Artists' Books, Events
Tagged hand papermaking, Peace Paper Project
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Arbor Day Proclamations
It’s the first Friday in May, so that means it’s Arbor Day in Vermont. For 130 years, Vermonters have joined the nation-wide effort to plant trees. Special Collections intern Perri Moreno looks at the history of Arbor Day in Vermont using … Continue reading
Posted in Vermontiana
Tagged Arbor Day, Proclamations, Vermont
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Vermont Statehood: A Dissenting Opinion from the Allen Family
Vermont celebrates 225 years of statehood in 2016, having formally entered the Union as the fourteenth state on March 4, 1791. There was a great deal of popular support for joining the United States at the time, but it was … Continue reading
Posted in Manuscript Collection, Vermontiana
Tagged Allen Family Papers, Ethan Allen, Levi Allen, Vermont statehood
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Spring 2016 Programs–March 1 and 17
MARCH 1, 5:30 In and Out of Print On March 1 at 5:30, Special Collections will host UVM art professor Steven Kostell for a discussion of his work investigating forms of mediation, production and collaboration through explorations in art, design and … Continue reading
Posted in Events
Tagged Book Arts, Memory, University of Vermont, War and Commemoration
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Burlington’s First City Market
Since 2002, shoppers have been buying groceries at Onion River Co-op’s City Market on South Winooski Avenue in Burlington, Vermont. The store is very successful, with over 11,000 members/owners and thousands of shoppers every day. Prompted by a photo in … Continue reading
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Tagged Burlington City Market, Burlington VT, College Street, Main Street, South Winooski Avenue
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Views of Saint Helena
While preparing for a presentation on book illustrations this summer, we came across a rare volume of prints in our Rare Book collection that has special historical significance today (October 15). George Hutchins Bellasis’s Views of Saint Helena (London: printed … Continue reading
Posted in Rare Books
Tagged aquatints, George H. Bellasis, Napoleon, Saint Helena
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Our Fall Lecture Series
We are pleased to announce our fall lecture series, which will feature presentations on historical landscapes. Robert McCullough will talk about tracing bicycle history on the land, and Jeffrey Marshall will look at Burlington’s once prominent ravine. Good Roads and … Continue reading
Posted in Events, News
Tagged bicycle history, bicycle paths, bicycle tourism, Burlington VT ravine, roads
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Vermonter Henry Stevens, Jr., Joins Yale’s “Skull & Bones” Secret Society
Bookseller Henry Stevens, Jr. (1819-1886) achieved distinction as a builder of library collections in a career that took him from his home in Barnet, Vermont, to London, where he spent most of his life after graduating from Yale in 1843. … Continue reading
Posted in Manuscript Collection
Tagged David Alan Richards, Henry Stevens Jr., Skull and Bones Society
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Touring Old Mill With Local School Children
I recently had the opportunity to lead a group of six Edmunds Elementary second graders on a tour of Old Mill. The students were from the classrooms of Mrs. Bellevance and Ms. McMorris, and were visiting as part of a … Continue reading
Posted in Events, University Archives, Vermontiana
Tagged Architecture, Edmunds Elementary, Old Mill, University of Vermont
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Before Bernie Sanders Made History, He Sold It
Since Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders announced his candidacy for the Democratic presidential nomination, UVM Special Collections librarians have become much better acquainted with the diverse resources in our Vermont research collection that document Sanders’ life and political career. After receiving … Continue reading
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Tagged American People's Historical Society, Bernie Sanders, Eugene V. Debs, filmstrips, Vermont, Vermont history
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