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Category Archives: Vermontiana
College Memory Books, for Keepers of Keepsakes
On October 22, 1921, UVM student Dorothy Mayo Harvey typed a long letter to “family adorable, and adored.” She reported on her campus activities and included a paragraph about her search for a college memory book. I have a new … Continue reading
Posted in Archives, University Archives, Vermontiana
Tagged college memories, memory books, student life, University of Vermont
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A Tale of Two Burlington Women’s Clubs
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
Trans Visibility in Out in the Mountains
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
Black Caterer Managed UVM’s Hash House
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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Tagged Black history, college dining, Commons Hall, Hash House, University of Vermont
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Christmas Cards from the Studio of Katherine Crockett
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
High License, Local Option, and the 1902 Election
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
Rah for UVM!
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
Tons of Honey: The Forbes Apiary
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
Posted in New Aquisition, Vermontiana
Tagged apiary, beekeeper, honey, West Haven VT
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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