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Kingsbury Machine Works was established in 1912, following the independent success of Albert Kingsbury’s design for a new type of mechanical thrust bearing. This year also marked the successful implementation of a Kingsbury bearing at McCall’s Ferry (Holtwood). Throughout World War I & II, and even today, U.S. Navy ships contain Kingsbury bearings. The collection consists primarily of the financial and …

Roger Deering (b. 1624 England d. 1718 Kittery, Territory of Maine). Son of Roger Deering and Joan Palmer. Spouse Mary____?. Ebenezer More (b. 1706 York, Territory of Maine, d. 1748 Territory of Maine). Son of John More and Sarah Cutts. Thomas Allen (b. 1700 Maryland, m. Mary Couch 1712 Kittery Point, d. 29 May 1733 Charles, Maryland). Son of John (Capt) Allen and Eleanor Lambert. A 1713 appeal by Roger Deering, Ebenezer More, and Thomas Allen to the “Superior Court of Judicature” arguing a…

This series contains the photographs of the University of New Hampshire Lacrosse team. Also available are press releases, rosters, schedules, programs, player and game statistics. These are filed under UA 16/1/1.

Men's lacrosse began as a varsity sport at UNH in 1931, women's in 1971. It was eliminated as a varsity sport at UNH in 1996. This series contains records of the University of New Hampshire Lacrosse teams compiled by the Sports Information Office. Included are press releases, rosters, schedules, programs, player and game statistics. Series 1 box 6 is oversize and contains official scorebooks.

The Beta Phi local fraternity was established at the New Hampshire College of Agriculture and the Mechanic Arts in 1906. This local fraternity was installed as the Alpha-Xi Zeta chapter of Lambda Chi Alpha national fraternity in 1918. This series contains files from the Greek Advisor's Office pertaining to the history and activities of the Lambda Chi Alpha fraternity at the University of New Hampshire.

Lance Hidy, freelance designer of posters and books and co-founder of the Godine Press, was born in Oregon in 1946. He studied art at Yale and has become known for his silk screen posters. Hidy lives in Newburyport, Massachusetts. This collection consists of the preliminary studies by Lance Hidy for his League of New Hampshire Craftsmen poster. It includes gouaches, cut paper, and drawings, plus 4 printed versions…

The Office of Woodlands and Natural Areas manages more than 4,000 acres of forested property throught New Hampshire. This series contains maps and tables of land use pattern, cover types, plantations established, and projects to be undertaken during the 1930's - 1940's at the University of New Hampshire.

Benjamin Thompson owned a large farm and estate in Durham, NH. In his will he bequeathed the entire estate to the State of N.H. for the purpose of creating an agricultural college. Thompson died on January 30, 1890. The State used the land and revenue from his estate to move the New Hampshire College of Agriculture and the Mechanic Arts from Hanover, NH to Durham. This series contains an 1890 printed copy of the will of Benjamin Thompson of Durham, NH.

Dudley Laufman (b. 1930) is a folk dance caller, band leader, musician, composer, author, and poet from Canterbury, NH. He was heavily influenced by the late caller Ralph Page, and was awarded a National Heritage Fellowship Award in 2009. Without Dudley's work during the contra dance revival of the 1960s-1970s and onwards, it is likely that the contra dance tradition as we know it would be gone forever. Contains…

A letter from Laura to Lucy Sweet of Lowell VT. in which she describes her work at the Industrial School in Manchester, N. H.

Lawrence Wallace Henderson (1921-2003) was born in Yankton, South Dakota and grew up in Tacoma, Washington. He graduated from the College of Puget Sound with a major in History and received a graduate degree in Theology from Yale Divinity School as well as a M.A. in Anthropology from Hartford Seminary, Hartford, CT. He then spent a career as a Minister of the United Church of Christ and as a missionary in Angola and…

This scrapbook was created by Lawrence Melbern True from Hampton, NH, Class of 1923. His activities included Phi Mu Delta and the Students Army Training Corps. In 1927 he married Marion Dunlap Williams who was also a member of the Class of 1923. They moved to Cleveland, OH where he worked as a mechanical engineer. While in Ohio, he became a member of the University Club. This scrapbook is comprised of items dating from the time Lawrence Melbern True spent at the University of New Hampshire. It…

This series contains the address delivered by Charles H. Burns in favor of the Leach Bill. The Bill proposed that a two-year course in practical and theoretical agriculture, a department of horticulture, and a system of practical instruction and manual training be added to the curriculum at the New Hampshire College of Agriculture and the Mechanic Arts.

Joseph A. Leach was a Keene, New Hampshire teacher. He was born in April of 1836 in Vermont and married Stella Eliza Ranney in 1866. Joseph A. Leach ran a school for the children of prominent people in Keene, New Hampshire. In these letters he tells General Henry Goddard Thomas about the progress of Thomas’s son’s education and also about his own work at the school.

Leander Harris (1833-1912) was born in Fairlee township, Vermont. He married Emily S. Hunt and they had two daughters: Annie M. in June 1857, and Clara Josephine in September 1858. At the beginning of the Civil War he enlisted as a private in Company I of the Fourth New Hampshire Volunteer Infantry Regiment. Leander’s usual position was an aid at the military base hospital, though he later served as mail messenger…

Leander G. Randall was born to Leander and Grace Randall in 1906 in Macwahoc, Maine. As a child, he grew up in Gorham, Coos County, New Hampshire, where he worked in a paper mill in his twenties. For a short time between about 1931 and 1935, he lived in Detroit, Michigan, but had returned to New Hampshire by 1936, when he married Eva Rosalie Jenning of Nashua on April 18 in Gorham. By 1940, he was living in Saco,…

Leon W. Batchelder was the son of Lyman Batchelder who was in charge of construction at the New Hampshire College of Agriculture and the Mechanic Arts from 1915-1919. During World War I, the college housed and trained men in the Student's Army Training Detachment. The men worked on many construction projects on the campus as part of their training. This series contains correspondence concerning…

Leon A. Colby (1870-1945) was born on December 18, 1870 in Whitefield, New Hampshire, the son of Charles and Hattie Colby. He worked as a farm hand on his parents’ farm and later inherited the farm when they died. For some time, he worked in the wood mill at Zealand (Carroll), New Hampshire and in 1905 he began to work at the Riverton Electric Company in Lancaster, NH. In 1902 he married Grace Howard. The couple…

Leon W. Hitchcock taught Electrical Engineering at the University of New Hampshire between 1910 and 1956. This collection consists of files kept by Leon W. Hitchcock during his career at the University of New Hampshire, the bulk of which concerns student war training during World Wars I and II.

Lesley Frost Ballantine was the second child of Robert and Elinor Frost. She served as the first chairman of the Robert Frost Foundation and oversaw the restoration of the Frost farm in Derry, New Hampshire. The Lesley Frost Ballantine Collection is organized in two major series: materials from LFB and materials related to Robert Frost.

University of New Hampshire graduate (1942) and elementary school teacher. Twelve-page story written by Teresa Foley of Dover, N.H. about some of her childhood school experiences which appeared in Harper's, Dec. 1956

This series contains the newsletter "Letter from Durham" published by the Office of University Development at the University of New Hampshire. The newsletter provided information concerning the University's finances and how their affect on the University community.

The Alumnae Council at the University of New Hampshire sent out letters to fifty "Interesting Alumnae" to gather information about their lives since graduation. Of the fifty women on the list, 31 responded. As a result of the letters, the Alumnae Council compiled the information and produced the booklet Who's Who Among Alumnae of the University of New Hampshire. This series contains the letters written by 31 alumnae in response to the Alumnae Council's request for information about their lives…

Charles Holmes Pettee served the University of New Hampshire for 62 years in various capacities. Pettee started teaching at the New Hampshire College of Agriculture and the Mechanic Arts (NHC) in 1876 when it was still located in Hanover, NH. He was a professor of mathematics from 1877-1917. He was appointed treasurer and auditor for the college in 1884 and Dean of Faculty in 1888. He was also acting president three times: 1891-1893, 1912, 1917. This book is a compilation of letters written to…

Clarence W. Scott was hired as an Instructor in History at the New Hampshire College of Agriculture and the Mechanic Arts in 1876. He was promoted to Professor in 1881 in which position he continued until 1929. During that time he also taught Political Science. This book is a compilation of letters written to Clarence W. Scott on the occasion of his fifty-first year at the University of New Hampshire. A letter was sent out to faculty, alumni and friends of UNH asking for letters to Prof. Scott…

Dr. Levi Bartlett, Esq. (3 September 1763 – 30 January 1828) was a doctor, judge, politician, and post master from Kingston, NH. He was a son of Dr. Josiah Bartlett (1729-1795) of Kingston, signer of the Declaration of Independence and New Hampshire’s first governor. Levi Bartlett practiced extensively in medicine and law, as well as being active in politics, the New Hampshire Militia, and a post master. The Levi…

Levi Bartlett (1793-1885) was a tanner and farmer of Warner, New Hampshire. In the 1830s, Bartlett sold off his tannery and struggled to cultivate his family’s farm. From his experience in reclaiming this nutrient-exhausted land, Bartlett became a proponent of scientific farming and began writing occasional columns for agricultural magazines. He was especially interested in geology and chemistry as it related to…

Levi Woodbury (1789-1851) was born in Francestown, NH. He was was Secretary of the U.S. Treasury 1834-1841. His political career included: Governor of NH 1823-24, Speaker of the NH House of Representatives 1825, U.S. Senator 1825-31, U.S. Secretary of Navy 1831-34, Secretary of the U.S. Treasury 1834-1841, Senator from New Hampshire, 1841-45; and Justice of the US Supreme Court, 1845-51. This letter, signed by Levi Woodbury Jan. 24, 1835, was sent to Rufus McIntire regarding a claim relative to…

Lewis Gaylord Clark (1808-1873), editor and publisher of the Knickerbocker magazine. Two letters written by Lewis Gaylord Clark of the Knickerbocker magazine to M.S. Beach inquiring about the possibility of publishing some accounts of the life of the notorious criminal Stephen Burroughs. The June 29 and July 2 1857 letters describe public reaction to Burrough’s book and brief biographical notes about his life and…

Lewis Stark (1908-2004) began collecting bookplates as an undergraduate at UNH in the late 1920s and later used this collection as the basis for his master’s thesis, “English Literature as Reflected in Bookplate Design.” The collection contains more than 4,000 bookplates (most dating from the late 1800s and early 1900s), 150 books, pamphlets and periodicals relating to bookplates, Lewis Stark’s thesis, and a small…

Located ten miles off the coast of Maine and New Hampshire, the group of nine islands known as the Isles of Shoals has had an impact on New England history and culture that is vast in proportion to the mere physical size of the islands. One of the very first settlements in America and the most important fishing and trading center of northern New England in the 1600s, the Isles of Shoals became a popular Victorian…

This series contains 3 issues of The Liberal, the monthly publication of the Liberal Club at the University of New Hampshire. The Club and its publication were against United States involvement in the Second World War.

The University of New Hampshire Library was housed in Hamilton Smith Library from 1907 until 1958 when Dimond Library was built. This series contains newsletters produced by various departments of the Library to provide the campus with information about new developments and policies within the department.

This series consists of "Library Fax", which was a publication produced by a committee within Dimond Library.

This series contains the newsletter "The Library Lantern" published for the Hamilton Smith Library at the University of New Hampshire from 1925-1942. The newsletter consists mostly of book reviews for newly acquired books as well as general information about the library.

The Library Staff Council consisted of Operating Staff representives from each of the departments within the library. The Council brought the concerns of the staff to the Administration office. This series contains the files of the Library Staff Council.

This series contains issues of the newsletter produced in-house by the staff at the University of New Hampshire's Dimond Library. The newsletter reports on the internal news of the library as well as university events and information which effect library employees. The name of the newsletter has changed a number of times. It has been called the "Listening Post"; "Library Heat"; "The Dimond Exchange" and "Shelf Life". In 2004, the staff began producing the "Library Exchange", which was available…

This folder contains information on the development of an experimental program called Life Studies. The Progam was designed as an alternative path to general education in the first two years of the student's college career. The program was dropped after two years.

Lillian F. Curtis served the University of New Hampshire for almost two and half decades, largely in secretarial work in the upper echelons of the University's leadership. This collection contains the files Lilliam F. Curtis kept while employed at the University of New Hampshire.

Alfred Linn Bogle (1931-2012) was professor of plant biology at the University of New Hampshire. The A. Linn Bogle Papers (1950-1992) consist of Bogle's graduate and post-graduate research materials, particularly into the petasite (coltsfoot) genus and hamamelidaceae (witch-hazel) family.

Lloyd W. Quimby, from Claremont NH, graduated from the UNH in 1939. During his freshman year, he was involved with the cross country and baseball teams. This scrapbook contains newspaper clippings concerning UNH events which took place during Lloyd Quimby's college career. The bulk of the articles concern sports teams. Also included are articles on the Mask and Dagger, yacht club, humorous campus antics and photographs of campus queens.

Logos is the undergraduate journal of UNH's Humanities Department.

Lois Greene Stone is an American writer and poet. The Lois Greene Stone collection consists of 139 individual pieces of sheet music, 14 sheet music books, 10 playbills and 2 programs, and includes popular songs, songs from Broadway musicals and Hollywood movies, classical music, and five dance books. Several of the playbills are autographed by cast members and include original ticket stubs. There is one original…

This series contains the meeting reports of the Board of Trustees' Long-Range Capital Planning Subcommittee.

Lora Ella Sleeper from Concord, NH graduated from the New Hampshire College of Agriculture and the Mechanic Arts with a degree in Home Economics in 1922. She participated in the Young Women's Christian Association (Y.W.C.A.), the Glee Club, the Dramatic Club and was a delegate to Camp Maqua in Maine. The College was founded in Hanover, NH in 1866. It moved to Durham, NH in 1893 and became the University of New…

Drs. Lorus and Margery Milne were an eminent husband-and-wife team, who worked together as biologists, teachers, writers, lecturers, and experts on ecology. This collection has been roughly sorted by subject.

The photographer Johanna Alexandra Jacobi Reiss, affectionately known as Lotte, studied film at the University of Munich, while simultaneously attending the Bavarian State Academy of Photography. The Lotte Jacobi Collection consists of correspondence spanning the years 1924-1986, personal files, daybooks, account books, exhibition information, scrapbooks, biographical information, inscribed works given to Lotte by …

Louis Bell (1837-1865) was a lawyer born in Chester, NH. His wife was Mary Anne "Mollie" Persis Bouton of Concord, NH. He served as Lieutenant Colonel of the 4th New Hampshire Volunteer Regiment, and was killed in action at Fort Fisher, North Carolina. This collection consists of extensive letters between Louis and Mollie Bell as well as detailed papers relating to the 4th New Hampshire Volunteer Regiment (1861-1865…

Louis V. Ledoux, author and poet, was born in New York City in 1880. He wrote several books of poetry and prose and was a recognized authority on Japanese prints. Ledoux died in New York in 1948. Letter written Jan. 27, 1911 by Louis Ledoux which both recommends and praises Edwin Arlington Robinson’s book The Town Down the River.

The Luella Pettee Fund was established during 1939-40 as a memorial to Mrs. Charles H. (Luella) Pettee. The fund generates small gifts to needy and worthy women undergraduates of the University of New Hampshire. This series contains the records of the Luella Pettee Fund Committee. Included are committee minutes and correspondence from donors.