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In 1985, Gov. John Sununu signed into law a bill making the Merrimack Valley College the sixth college of the University of New Hampshire. The University of New Hampshire at Manchester (UNHM) provides access to UNH associate, bachelor and graduate degree programs for people who live and work in central New Hampshire. UNH Manchester has the same admission, general education and graduation requirements as the main,…

This series contains postcards pertaining to the University of New Hampshire. The majority are campus buildings, but there are also some group photos. Most were never mailed.

Eugene H. Leaver graduated from UNH in 1944 with a degree in Architecture. He worked as the Assistant Director of Development and Planning at the Colorado School of Mines before returning to UNH in 1949 as the Assistant to the Superintendent of Properties. In 1966 he succeeded Harold Leavitt, who retired after 38 years, as Superintendent. Leaver (who was also Supervising Architect) served in that position until he…

The Publications Office produces pamphlets, brochures, maps, posters, and invitations for the University. This series contains a collection of their products.

The University Resources Task Force was created in February 1975 to study the use of the University's resources and to make recommendations to the President which would result in savings and reallocation of these resources. This series contains the files of Prof. Michael DePorte who was a member of the task force and chairman of the sub-committee on Academic Programs.

In 1963, the University System of New Hampshire (USNH) was created when the teacher's colleges at Plymouth and Keene were brought under the same Board of Trustees as the University. This collection contains various licenses. The series is divided into three series: Series 1: Licenses; Series 2: Plants; Series 3: Stills.

In 1963, the University System of New Hampshire (USNH) was created when the teacher’s colleges at Plymouth and Keene were brought under the same Board of Trustees as the University of New Hampshire. This collection contains the minutes of the meetings of the Administrative Board which deals with the management of the entire University System of New Hampshire.

The UROP Newsletter was published once each semester. Its purpose was to provide information about opportunities for undergraduate research both on and off campus.

Ursula Wolff (August 14, 1906-August 4, 1977) was born in Berlin, Germany. In 1928 - at the age of 22 - she established her own studio, Foto Wolff Lichtbildwerkstatt, and began working as a free-lance photographer. Her studies of the Bauhaus style won her important recognition among many of Germany's premier architects, including Karl Schneider, the man whom she subsequently married. Schneider's photo-journalism assignments were…

In 1963, the University System of New Hampshire (USNH) was created when the state colleges at Plymouth and Keene were brought under the same Board of Trustees as the University of New Hampshire in Durham. This series contains contracts and agreements made by the University with various agencies and individuals.

In 1963, the University System of New Hampshire (USNH) was created when the state colleges at Plymouth and Keene were brought under the same Board of Trustees as the University of New Hampshire in Durham. This collection consists of deeds and other documents relating to property owned or leased by the University System of New Hampshire.

Valerie Cunningham, award-winning historic preservationist and Portsmouth native, has spent more than forty years researching and writing about northern New England’s Black history. An energetic community activist, she is the founder of the Portsmouth Black Heritage Trail, Inc., and directs the African American Resource Center. Materials from 1984-2010 that show the activites Valerie was involved in: including Blues…

Ezra E. Adams, from Manchester, NH, graduated from the New Hampshire College of Agriculture and the Mechanic Arts in 1878. [scopecontent abstract]

The Van Ackeren family resided in Antwerp, Belgium; Francois Van Ackeren served as a soldier in World War I. The Van Ackeren family papers consist of approximately 50 letters written by Francois Van Ackeren and family to William McLain and family of Brookline, Massachusetts between the years 1917 and 1953. The letters, written in either French or English, fall predominantly during the years 1917-1918 …

Bob Van Antwerp (1920-2005) was an early and influential western style square dance caller, founding member of CALLERLAB, and released many square dance recordings. Van Antwerp’s papers consist of teaching notes, early CALLERLAB notes (1971-1985), and writings on dance and dance pedagogy.

The Office of Academic Affairs spearhead the university's progress in academic programming, faculty development, and student academic affairs. These files contain support materials for the 1983 University Accreditation process, minutes and reports from the General Education committee, Reports from the Master Planning Commission, correspondence with the undesignated gift fund and development of the University of New…

The Office of Academic Affairs spearhead the university's progress in academic programming, faculty development, and student academic affairs. These files contain support materials for the 1983 University Accreditation process, minutes and reports from the General Education committee, Reports from the Master Planning Commission, correspondence with the undesignated gift fund and development of the University of New…

"The Mission of Finance and Administration is to provide expert support to the President and to develop, implement, and continuously improve upon the best practices and highest quaility services for students, faculty, and staff that enable and enhance the teaching, research and public service mission of the University of New Hampshire." 35 cubic feet of files dated 1963-1998, in alphabetical order.

The Dean of Student Affairs position was reclassified in July of 1991 and made the Vice President for Student Affairs. This series contains the files of Student Affairs office under both the Dean of Student Affairs and the Vice President for Student Affairs. The office deals with all aspects of student life.

This series contains the records of the University of New Hampshire Volleyball Team.

James Edward Vose (1836-1887) was a school teacher and justice of the peace born in Antrim, New Hampshire. His parents were Edward Luke Vose (1806-1868) and Aurelia Wilson (1813-1889). He married first his teaching assistant Mary Neville (1847-1875) of Antrim and second Lois Elizabeth Stickney Rockwood (1845-1926) of Townsend MA. He had four sons and one daughter. The papers consist of an undated photograph of Lois Elizabeth Vose, several letters dated 1862-1926, a Justice of the Peace…

Marlys S. Waller is the co-author of the classic folk dance text Dance A While. Before this she helped found the early western square dance magazine Foot ‘n Fiddle in Texas during the 1940s. She later moved to Seattle, Washington. This collection consists of approximately 20 letters between author Marlys S. Waller and New Hampshire dance caller Ralph Page. They are mostly related to updates between the 3rd and 4th…

Walter H. James (1873-1965) married Ida Rachel Butterfield James (1875-1966) in 1899. Together with Ida's sister Lucy Ardena Butterfield (1871-1955) and Walter and Ida's children Ruth and Arthur, they traveled all around the White Mountains and NH/VT hiking, camping, and taking photographs. This collection consists of ca. 500 glass plate negatives dated 1898-1924 depicting James and Butterfield families' home life, towns and landscapes and farm scenes around New Hampshire, and camping trips…

Walter S. Jenkins was a music professor at Newcomb College, Louisiana, and a lifelong biographer of composer Amy Cheney Beach. The Walter S. Jenkins Amy Cheney Beach collection mostly includes correspondence, research notes, and miscellaneous materials. While the collection does include some original documents from Amy Cheney Beach, most items in her series are not primary-source.

Walter Kittredge was born in Merrimack, New Hampshire. He was a self-taught musician who wrote over 500 songs throughout his career. His most famous song was "Tenting on the Old Camp Ground," which was sung by both sides during the Civil War. From Reeds Ferry, N.H. Walter Kittredge writes a letter, Dec. 29, 1900, to Lizzie G. Dickinson in which Kittredge writes that he has no photos of himself, but notes that she can acquire one by purchasing his book "Tenting Illustrated", which includes both…

Walter Williams (1711-) was a mariner and owner of a coasting vessel from Hampton Falls, N.H. He married Mary Hilyard in 1747. This Subpoena was served to Walter Williams June 3, 1748 by Justice of the Peace John Paige that requires him to provide testimony.

The Army Reserve Training Program was created at UNH as part of the Morrill Act, and was taught as part of the curriculum from 1893 onwards. One large "Certitificate of Distinction" awarded to the University of New Hampshire for training of soldiers in the "Army Specialized Training Program during World War II." Signed by Secretary of War Robert Patterson, not dated.

Guest book for the New Hampshire's official state war memorial, located on the third floor of the Memorial Union Building at UNH.

One of the first things the college administrators needed to address when the college moved to Durham in 1893 was to secure an adequate supply of water for the college. A dam was built on Pettee Brook creating a reservoir that was used for boilers, irrigation and fire fighting. Drinking water was carried from springs until artesian wells were drilled in 1910. There was a typhoid fever outbreak in the winter of 1911…

The Weekly Letter was produced by the Office of the Recorder to keep the faculty informed on the academic status of students (warnings, withdrawals, name changes, etc.). It was also used to announce university deadlines, upcoming events, items for sale, and other general information. This series contains the Weekly Letter produced by the Office of the Recorder between 1946 and 1959 (excluding 1956).

Hanford Wentworth Eldredge (1909-1991) was a sociology professor at Dartmouth College who served as a counter-intelligence officer in the United States Army Airforce during World War II. This collection consists of a manuscript of his drafts for an autobiography.

The Western Collegiate Hockey Association (WCHA) is a college athletic conference which operates over a wide area of the Midwestern, Western, and Southeastern United States. It participates in the NCAA's Division I as an ice hockey-only conference.

Sixty-four images (28 copy negatives and 36 additional contact prints) copied from the original 4 x 5 glass negatives in the collection of the Whalley Masonic Museum in Portsmouth, N.H.. These include images of North Conway, the Seacoast, including Durham, Exeter, Hampton, the Isles of Shoals, Portsmouth and Halifax, Nova Scotia. Subjects include the circus, parades, boats, buildings, fishing, and logging.

The Special Collections Department received these photos as a gift from the Bailey Howe Library at the University of Vermont. Additional photos were transferred from UNH’s Media Services. The collection consists of 242 copy negatives and 106 prints of the White Mountains made for use in the 1980 Media Service’s film, “The White Mountains Cultural View.” Most of the images came from stereographs belonging to the New…

This series contains videotapes concerning Whittemore School of Business and Economics.

Four certificates of felicitations on the dedication of the Whittemore School of Business and Economics.

Whittemore School Faculty Meetings

The New Hampshire College of Agriculture and the Mechanic Arts was founded in Hanover, NH in 1866. The College moved to Durham, NH in 1893 and became the University of New Hampshire in 1923. This manuscript, written by the Alumni Association Committee, argues for changing the name and status of the New Hampshire College of Agriculture and the Mechanic Arts to the University of New Hampshire. The arguments draw…

Wilfred Osgood, Class of 1914, was an active alumni and member of the UNH community. This series contains the files of Wilfred A. Osgood, concerning his position as Alumni Treasurer for Lambda Chi Alpha and chairman of the 40th reunion of the class of 1914.

American author best known for her depictions of frontier life on the Great Plains in such novels as O Pioneers, My Antonia and The Song of the Lark. A May 2, 1922 letter to George N. Whipple of Boston, MA, which describes some of Cather’s travels and views on lecturing.

W.S. Braithwaite (1878-1962) was a writer, poet and literary critic. From 1906 to 1931 he contributed to The Boston Evening Transcript, eventually becoming its literary editor. He also wrote articles, reviews and poetry for many other periodicals and journals, including Atlantic Monthly, the New York Times, and the New Republic. Letters sent by various N.H. poets to W.S. Braithwaite, 1921-1928. Primarily, the letters contain poems not accepted by Braithwaite for publication in any one of his…

William Badger (1823 or 1826-1897) was born in Gilmanton, NH, son of William Badger and Hannah Pearson (Cogswell) Badger. He mustered in Company D, of the Fourth Infantry Regiment of New Hampshire Volunteers on Sept. 18, 1861 as a captain. He was dismissed from service, but later exonerated and commissioned as a colonel of the regiment. However, there not being enough men he could not be mustered in. He later served…

William L. Bauhan Publishing was founded in NYC in 1929 as Ray Long and Richard R. Smith, Inc., primarily focusing on textbooks. It became the Richard R. Smith Publishing, Inc. in the mid-1930s, and was bought and moved to NH in 1959 by William L. Bauhan. The named changed to William L. Bauhan in 1965 and Bauhan Publishing in 2009. The firm focused on local New England writers after the move to NH. The William L. Bauhan Publishing Papers consists of two cubic feet of general history/royalty…

William H. L. Brackett was born August 27, 1892 in Greenland, NH. He graduated from UNH in 1914. While a student, served as president of his class for three years, as well as president of the Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity. He excelled in sports, playing football for four years, his fourth year as captain; baseball four years, captian his third and fourth year; and basketball one year. He enlisted in the Medical Reserve Corps at the outbreak of World War I and served for two years before being…

Rear Admiral William Branford Shubrick (1790-1874) was in the U.S. Navy from 1806-1861 when he retired. He seems to have been stationed at the Charlestown MA Naval Shipyard for most of the period of this collection. Other individuals mentioned in the collection include Capt. Charles Morris, Charles G. Ridgely Esq., George Washington Storer Esq., John Leighton Esq., and John Thomas Newton (commander of the Portsmouth…

William Bronk (1918-1999) was born in Fort Edward, New York. He entered Dartmouth College in 1934, where he studied under the critic and poet Sidney Cox and met Robert Frost. After graduation he studied at Harvard briefly and then left to write a study of Thoreau, Melville, and Whitman that was published 30 years later as “The Brother in Elysium: Ideas of Friendship and Society in the United States.” After Army…

Author and literary critic. Known for the Christmas story Christmas Every Day. Letter written by William Dean Howells that thanks Dr. Perkins for sending medicine and asks him to send more. Photograph included.

American philosopher, author of 22 books, resident of Madison, New Hampshire Two letters written by Ernest Hocking, on May 28, 1963 and Nov. 18, 1964 accompanied by an inscribed photo. In the first letter, written to Marshall Bean, Hocking expresses some of his basic philosophical beliefs, particularly noting the influence of Herbert Spencer’s First Principles and describing his interpretation of Christ’s crucifixion. In the second letter, Hocking promises to send an inscribed book to Mr…

William B. Ewert (1943-2001) earned his bachelor’s degree and master’s degree at the University of New Hampshire. In 1970 he became science consultant to the New Hampshire Department of Education, and eventually served as assistant to the commissioner. He was chair of the Friends of the UNH Library from 1975 to 1990, and again from 1998 until his death in October 2001. In 1999 he received the Granite State Award,…

William Fuller Fisk (1876-after 1941) was an entomologist who worked for the New Hampshire College of Agriculture and Mechanical Arts during the 1890s, later going on to work for the Georgia State Entomologist and USDA and heading the Gypsy Moth Laboratory in Melrose MA. His travels took him throughout the United States, western Europe, and into Uganda studying sleeping sickness during the early part of the 20th…