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Category Archives: Manuscript Collection
Diaries of a Vermonter Teaching in China
UVM History students Sarah McAtee and Rhone Allison worked with Professor Erik Esselstrom and Chris Burns, Hannah Johnson and Erin Doyle from Special Collections to transcribe four diaries from the Henry C. Brownell Papers. In this blog post, Sarah shares … Continue reading
Special Collections Honors Women’s History Month With New Digital Collection
In celebration of Women’s History Month, we are pleased to announce the launch of our latest digital collection, Diaries. The collection provides access to more than thirty digitized and transcribed diaries from the late eighteenth to early twentieth century, with … Continue reading
Consuelo Northrop Bailey, UVM ’21: A Political Trailblazer
Consuelo Northrop Bailey helped paved the way for Vermont women in politics. Her list of political firsts is impressive. Here we outline her long career and bring it to life with photographs from UVM’s Consuelo Northrop Bailey Papers. Born in … Continue reading
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Tagged election, politician, Republican
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Pullin’ in the New Year!
Ingrid Bower continues our cookbook series with a post about making molasses taffy. December is generally known as a time to gather and celebrate with friends and family. It is a time when even mageirocophobes (those with a fear of … Continue reading
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Tagged candy pull, Genieve Lamson, taffy, Vermont cookbooks
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Traveling with Caroline Crane Marsh
Although our transcription team has been working from home, they simultaneously have been traveling in Italy with Caroline Crane Marsh. Team members Ingrid Bower, Chris Burns, Erin Doyle, Hannah Johnson and Sharon Thayer are transcribing the diaries Caroline kept from … Continue reading
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Tagged Caroline Crane Marsh, diaries, George Perkins Marsh, Monte Rosa, Pegli, Piobesi, Turin
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President Eisenhower at the Vermont Dairy Festival
The summer of 1955 was an especially busy time for Vermonters engaged in dairy farming. June was declared Dairy Month and a series of public events, including a parade, square dance displays, and dairy exhibits, culminated in President Dwight D. … Continue reading
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Tagged cows, Dairy, Dwight D. Eisenhower, milk, Vermont Dairy Month
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Haven in the Mountains: The Lake Mansfield Trout Club
This post was contributed by Erin Clauss, who has been working as a processing archivist in Special Collections since August 2016. Erin graduated from UVM in 2016 with a degree in history and classical civilization. In September, she will start … Continue reading
Posted in Manuscript Collection, Vermontiana
Tagged Lake Mansfield Trout Club, Stowe VT, trout fishing
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Literary Archives at UVM: Kinsey, Mosher, and Budbill
Vermont lost three literary giants in the last year: Leland Kinsey, Howard Frank Mosher, and David Budbill. Special Collections is fortunate to house the papers of all three of these authors, and their collections serve as a rich source for … Continue reading
UVM Experiments with Rubber Plant
I’ve been on the lookout for photos of local World War II victory gardens, so this image caught my eye as I was searching through a carton of publicity photographs that Special Collections received from UVM’s Extension Service. It is … Continue reading
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
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Tagged Allen Family Papers, Ethan Allen, Levi Allen, Vermont statehood
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