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Professor of Fine Arts at Reading University and biographer of English Art Critic John Ruskin. Letter written Sept. 20, 1911 to Alfred E. Richards by Collingwood in which he describes his general health, and criticizes those “people who give their opinions on Ruskin,” so soon after his death. Also includes a sketch attributed to John Ruskin.

William Gibbs was born in Winchester, Illinois in 1869. He received his BS and MS degrees from the Agricultural College of the University of Illinois. He then worked for the U.S. Department of Agriculture and later taught at Ohio State. In 1902, he became a professor of agriculture at NHC, then left for a professorship at Texas A & M. He was chosen in 1903 to return to NHC and become its second president. Inactive files that were once stored in the attic of Thompson Hall were ruined when a…

On Nov. 28, 1863, in Nashua, N.H., 20 year old William B. Green enlisted as a private in Company G (New Hampshire), Second Regiment, United States Volunteer Sharpshooters. Near Petersburg, Va. William deserted on July 9, 1864. From Brady Station, Va, William wrote a four page letter to his mother Susan B. Green, Raymond, NH., Dec. 17, 1863. Green tells his mother about his recent arrest for desertion, his return to duty, and his desire to be assigned to the Invalid Corps. He also describes…

William Greenleaf (July 1, 1917-December 17, 1975) was born in New York, graduated from City College, New York and served in the U.S. Army from 1943-46. He earned his masters degree from Columbia in 1948 and his Ph.D, in 1955. He became a consultant for the Ford Foundation and a researcher for the Ford Motor Company History Project at Columbia. He was an Assistant Professor at Colorado State from 1956 until 1958,…

William Helmuth Heyen was born in Brooklyn, New York, in 1940 and was educated at SUNY Brockport and Ohio University. He taught American literature and creative writing at SUNY Brockport for over thirty years before his retirement in 2000. Ewert published many of William Heyen's poems. The manuscript versions of the poems can be found here in the William Heyen Papers, along with correspondence from…

William L. Hill was born on October 17, 1855 in Auburn, Iowa. He served in the United States Navy from 1873 until his death. The papers contain an unusual record of turn-of-the-century American Naval history, including first-hand reports of “The Battle of Santiago,” the decisive battle of the Spanish-American War, the Schley Court of Inquiry (1901), and a series of photographs of the Portsmouth Navy Yard …

William Loeb III (1905-1981) was born on December 26, 1905. He purchased controlling interest in the Manchester Union Leader (New Hampshire) in 1949. Professionally Loeb was known as a provocative, conservative newspaper editor. New Hampshire’s position as the “first in the nation” primary and Loeb’s control over local publishing interests via the Manchester Union Leader made him a significant force in shaping state…

William P. Mason, of Canterbury, N.H., enlisted in Company F of the New Hampshire Twelfth Regiment on August 15, 1862 and mustered in as a Private the following month. After seeing action at the battles of Fredericksburg and Chancellorsville, he was promoted to the rank of Corporal on May 1, 1865, seven weeks before being mustered out. He was born in Alton, N.H. in 1842 and died, aged only 25, in St. Charles,…

Dunkin' Donuts founder William Rosenberg (1916-2002) was born in Dorchester, Massachusetts. The bulk of the William Rosenberg Collection contains newspaper and magazine clippings and photographs collected by him, business associates and family members. The highlight of the collection is an original draft of the IFA's by-laws with hand-written notes and comments by William Rosenberg.

William H. Small (1854-1909) lived in Newmarket, N.H. and served in the fire department as the chief fire engineer. Two letters and a notebook kept by William H. Small. One letter, dated 1865, is from Small’s parents, while the other is from Cyrus A. Sulloway of the N.H. House of Representatives thanking Small for his efforts at the state primary. The notebook, kept by Small for the Newmarket Club of Newmarket, N.H., commemorates the Club’s yachting trip along the Maine coast in 1906.

William Yale, an authority on the Middle East, was born in Dobbs Ferry, N.Y., August 6, 1887. In 1907 he served as a civil engineer with the Isthmian Canal Commission in Panama. He began his career in the Middle East in 1913, when he was sent to Constantinople by Standard Oil Company of New York to explore for oil. He later worked in Cairo and in Palestine. In 1919, Yale was technical advisor to the King-Crane…

The Willis family took root in New England when Job Willis emigrated from England and settled in Massachusetts. Individuals in this collection include Nellie Willis, her husband Eugene Willis, their daughter Lela Willis, Clarence Willis, Daniel Willis, Marinda Willis, Sylvia B. (Hazelton) Davis, Sylvia's sister Mrs. Daniel Willis (Marinda Hazelton). The collection consists of 45 personal letters written between…

The Wilson family of Maine and New Hampshire bought and sold land during the 1850s-1910s, usually in the area of Berlin, Coos County, N.H. Members included: Mary Elizabeth Shaw Wilson (1814-1872), James B. Wilson (1840-?), George Shaw Wilson (1846-?), Julia Wilson (1849-1922), William Melville Wilson (1844-1891), Ina Crockett Wilson (1825-1863), Hallie Elizabeth Wilson (1873-1937), and Channing Weston Wilson (1874-1940). This collection consists of approximately 20 deeds and descriptions of…

Anonymous author. Hand-stitched pamphlet: “An Elegy upon the fall of 53 men, at Wilton, [N.H.,] September 1773" is an anonymous ballad recounting the occurrence in 1773 of the collapse, during the raising of its frame, of the meetinghouse in Wilton, New Hampshire, the death of five workers, and the injury of another forty-eight. Two colored prints are also included, showing the pamphlet’s condition “before” and “after” conservation. For the story behind the ballad, see Charles E. Clark, The…

Southern New Hampshire town located in Rockingham County. The population was 753 in 1870. 1869 tax report from district 7 in Windham, New Hampshire that specifically mentions tax dollars spent to pay for the services of a teacher.

Winn L. Taplin of Stowe, Vermont was a former CIA agent and member of the Board of the New England Chapter of the Association of Former Intelligence Officers (AFIO/NE). The Winn L. Taplin Archive of CIA Recruiting Materials includes booklets, brochures, pamphlets, and information sheets used in the CIA’S recruiting program.

Winston Churchill (1871-1947) was an American novelist who moved to Canaan, New Hampshire in 1899. Churchill's early novels were historical but his later works were set in contemporary America. He often sought to include his political ideas into his novels. Churchill wrote in the naturalist style of literature, and some have called him the most influential of the American naturalists. Twenty-three letters written by Winston Churchill between 1899-1951. The letters are both business and personal…

Louise Winston (1917-1996) of Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts, was a teacher and caller of square and contra dances. She was a co-founder of Country Dance Society-Boston Centre, and heavily involved in the New England Folk Festival (NEFFA) and camps across New England such as Pinewoods and Maine Folk Dance Camp. She is notable as one of the first prominent woman callers in New England, and was a close friend of George…

This series contains the photographs for University of New Hampshire winter sports, primarily the Ski teams, used for sports media purposes.

This series contains the records of the University of New Hampshire Winter Sports.

The Sports Information Office is responsible for the gathering and dissemination of all UNH sports information through-out the nation. This includes preparation of press releases related to athletics, recreational sports and/or individual athletes for the media, preparing informational materials such as brochures and programs, compiling statistics and arranging photographic coverage of sporting events. This…

The Women's Center originated in 1973 to fulfill the need for woman space: a place to congregate, share resources, support, and ideas. In the fall of 1976, the Women's Center received funding from the Student Activity Tax. This series contains the records of the Women's Center, 1973-1986. Also included are items relating to the Women's Commission dating back to 1972.

This series contains a photocopy of a scrapbook composed predominately of newspaper articles covering the UNH Women's Hockey team from 1976-80. It was compiled by the mother of player Gail Griffith.

This series contains photographs of New Hampshire's Women's Softball Team.

This series contains the records of the University of New Hampshire Women's Softball team.

The Wood family of Ossipee New Hampshire included parents William Wood son of John and Abigail (1804-1881), Mary Ann (Veasey or Avery) Wood daughter of Nathaniel and Sarah Twombly (1809-1864), and their children. Children included George W. Wood (ca. 1838-1920), Hannah A. Wood (1842-1858), Zachary/Zacharia Wood, and Elizabeth "Lizzie" Wood. The 11 letters are written from family members to George W. Wood, many by…

United States President Woodrow Wilson, 1913-1921 Two page letter written Oct. 22, 1915 by President Woodrow Wilson to Winston Churchill, New Hampshire writer, in which Wilson thanks Churchill for all his “generous courtesies” in connection with the leasing of a house in Cornish, N.H.

The New England Botanic Garden at Tower Hill has 171 acres of gardens and orchards and supports over 140,000 visitors per year. It was founded as the Worchester County Horticultural Society in 1842, providing exhibitions and programming throughout the summer. A library was founded by 1851 to support the educational work. In 1986 the organization moved to Tower Hill Farm in Boylston and became the Tower Hill Botanic…

The collection consists of a total of 61 posters, 57 of which date from World War II. Two posters, undated, were produced by the New York State W.P.A. Art Project, probably from the 1930s, and two posters date from after the end of the war and were produced by the United Nations Department of Public Information to support their cause. The collection includes six posters designed by Walt Disney and four by Norman…

The Works Project Administration (WPA) was created under President F. D. Roosevelt’s New Deal Program in 1935. Designed to provide relief for the Nation’s unemployed, the WPA provided jobs on public work projects. The photographers on the Federal Art Project served both the WPA itself and other units of government. They photographed everything from construction projects to materials for publicity handouts. They also…

The Historic American Buildings Survey of New Hampshire was one of the WPA’s many projects that compiled information of historical significance. Carried out between 1933 and 1939, it was supervised by Professor Eric T. Huddleston, Chairman of the Department of Architecture at the University of New Hampshire, and Eugene W. Clark, who was Deputy Officer (also referred to as “Historian, Region One”) for the National…

The Works Projects Administration (WPA) was created under President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s New Deal program in 1935. The Historical Records Survey of New Hampshire, established in 1936, was one of its public works projects. The University of New Hampshire assumed control of the project in 1939, when state sponsorship became mandatory, and was directed by Eric Huddleston until its termination in 1942. The Historical Records Survey…

This series contains photos of the University of New Hampshire Wrestling Team, individuals and action shots. Records and other files are also available, filed under UA 16/1/9.

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

The Writers' Conference of the University of New Hampshire was initiated in 1938 to promote undergraduate writing. It lasted until 1962. The collection contains letters, pamphlets, brochures, newspaper clippings, and photographs which relate to and document the history of the Writers' Conference.

The UNH undergraduate writing requirement was instituted in 1995. This collection contains the files of the Writing Across the Curriculum Program.

The University of New Hampshire was founded in 1866 by the state legislature as the New Hampshire College of Agriculture and the Mechanic Arts. First situated in Hanover in connection with Dartmouth College, the NHCAMA was removed to its Durham campus in 1893 after Benjamin Thompson, a prosperous farmer, bequeathed land and money to the state for educational use. In 1923, the state legislature granted it a new…

In 1930, a radio station was constructed on the third floor of Thompson Hall and students from the Speech and Drama Department formed the Mike and Dial Club, producing live dramatic plays and a variety of other shows. In 1952, a new transmitter allowed the campus to send radio signals through electrical lines on campus and WMDR was born. In 1962, the station applied for an FM license and began WUNH. This series contains files of the student run radio station at the University of New Hampshire.

The Yankee Conference was a collegiate sports conference in the eastern United States. It was formed in 1938 as the New England Conference and became the Yankee Conference in 1947. It once sponsored competition in many sports, but it dropped support of all sports except football in 1975. It existed until 1997, when NCAA legislation limiting the influence of single-sport conferences over policy became effective, and…

The University of New Hampshire branch of the student Y.M.C.A. club was first organized in the fall of 1899. Collection includes the University of New Hampshire branch of the Y.M.C.A. club for the years 1926-1933.

This series contains the only issue of Your Face Bothers Me which was ever published by Students for Satire.