Special Collections
- Special CollectionsHarvard graduate (1746) and minister. Letter written by James Hobbs Nov. 11, 1751 accepting an invitation to settle as a minister in the town of Pelham, N.H.
- Special CollectionsTimothy H. Lewis operated a small pail factory in the Westport section of Swanzey, N.H. and had as many as eight employees under his supervision, most of whom were paid for light finishing work. He married Martha in 1867 and they had one son, Earl.…
- Special CollectionsWalter 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.
- Special CollectionsPresident Andrew Johnson was impeached by House of Representatives in February 1868. Ticket of admission to the proceedings for the impeachment of President Andrew Johnson.
- Special CollectionsSurry is a New Hampshire town in Cheshire county with a 15.9 square mile area, incorporated in 1769. Contains town meeting notices, highway tax lists, receipts, treasury reports, and school accounts.
- Special CollectionsReverend John Lowell, 1704-1767, was the first pastor of Newburyport, Mass. A one page letter from Reverend Lowell to Joshua Brackett of Portsmouth New Hampshire. In the letter of March 13, 1758 Reverend Lowell describes the late arrival of spring and rumors concerning British troop movements…
- Special CollectionsRoger 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…
- Special CollectionsWilliam 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…
- Special CollectionsThe 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…
- Special CollectionsIrving E. White (1894-1966) of Canaan, New Hampshire, entered boot camp at Camp Upton, New York in September of 1918 and was transferred to France in December of that same year, where he remained until June of 1919. The Irving E. White Collection…
- Special CollectionsSixty-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…
- Special CollectionsBrooks K. Webber was born in Webster (Boscawen), New Hampshire in 1837. He was educated at Colby Academy in New London and went on to study law in Newport and Woodstock, Vermont. Webber was admitted to the Bar in 1859. He was a veteran of the Civil…
- Special CollectionsJames Burns Wallace (1813-1853) was born in Salem, N.H. He eventually settled in Canaan, N.H., where he worked as a printer, merchant, teacher, and soldier. He described himself as a “reformist, an abolitionist, a pure Radical.” George Kimball (1787-…
- Special CollectionsThe 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…
- Special CollectionsR.T. (Terry) Risk, author and printer, began operating the Typographeum Press in Francestown, New Hampshire in 1974. He uses a 10 x 15 Chandler and Price treadle platen press. Hand-set and printed letterpress books of literary interest, including…
- Special CollectionsThe Trust for New Hampshire Lands (TNHL), a non-profit corporation, was initiated by the Society for the Protection of New Hampshire Forests to address the conservation of New Hampshire Lands. It immediately began fundraising to support its activities and lobbying for the passage of the Land…
- Special CollectionsEmil and Mary Tonieri were caretaker managers of The MacDowell Colony in Peterborough, New Hampshire for many years. The MacDowell Colony, the nation’s oldest and largest artists’ retreat, was founded in 1908. Over the hundred years of its existence, the Colony has gained national and international…
- Special CollectionsSamuel Swasey (1804-1887) was a New Hampshire politician of the 1840’s, associated with the radical or “locofoco” wing of the Democratic party. He served as Haverhill’s town selectman and moderator and worked ten years as register of probate for Grafton County. Swasey represented Haverhill in the…
- Special CollectionsLois 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…
- Special CollectionsThe Starks of Suncook and Pembroke, NH were the descendents of Revolutionary War Major-General John Stark. The family appears to have engaged primarily in agricultural activities. However, sometime after 1810, Major Caleb Stark and his son Henry…
- Special CollectionsJames Duane Squires (1904-1981) was born and educated in North Dakota. In 1933, he received a Ph.D. in European History from Harvard University and he subsequently taught at Colby-Sawyer College, where he later chaired the Department of Social Studies…
- Special CollectionsHenry Augustus Shute (1856-1943) was a graduate of Phillips Exeter Academy (1875) and Harvard University (1879). He was born and lived in Exeter, New Hampshire, where he worked as a lawyer and a judge of the municipal court. In 1902 his publication of…
- Special CollectionsSeabrook Station is a 1,220 megawatt nuclear fueled electric generating plant located in Seabrook, New Hampshire. It was originally projected that the plant would reach completion in 1979, but a long licensing process (up to 50 licenses and permits…
- Special CollectionsTed Sannella (1928-1995) was a square and contra dance caller from Boston, later moving to Maine. Ted began teaching New England dancing as a professional caller in 1946. He was the author of Balance and Swing (1982), and Swing the Next (1996). Ted…
- Special CollectionsThe Salmon Falls Bank of Rollinsford, New Hampshire was incorporated on July 3, 1851. In June 1964 the bank merged with the Somersworth Bank and became the Somersworth-Rollinsford Savings Bank. William Morton (1814-1904) began work at the bank as…
- Special CollectionsThe Sacred Dance Guild was founded in 1958 and incorporated in 1965 as an international, interfaith, interdenominational non-profit organization. It publishes the Sacred Dance Guild Journal three times a year and sponsors a National Festival held in…
- Special CollectionsThe Rye project consists of over 150 photographs of people, houses, seascapes, and landmarks, principally of the New Hampshire seacoast region. Included are photographs by many local photography studios, the bulk of which are from Alba R. H. Foss, an…
- Special CollectionsDunkin' 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…
- Special CollectionsThe Roche family – Annie Roche, widow of David Roche (died Sept. 6, 1932), and mother of John Michael, Elizabeth (born ca. 1920, died July 1990), and David Roche (born ca. 1926) – lived at 89 Fourth Street in Manchester, New Hampshire’s west side.…
- Special CollectionsEdwin Arlington Robinson (1869-1935), American poet, was born in Head Tide, Maine. He attended Harvard University without taking a degree and later moved to New York. He gained national recognition when President Theodore Roosevelt reviewed the second…
- Special CollectionsAuthor Kenneth Roberts (1885-1957) was born in Kennebunk, Maine. He was educated at Cornell University, where he served as editor-in-chief of the Cornell Widow, a humor magazine, for two years prior to his graduation in 1908. From 1909 to 1917, he was…
- Special CollectionsEdwin Jay Roberts was born in Gilford, New Hampshire on February 2, 1885. He graduated from New Hampshire College in 1902 and attended Yale University for graduate work on rare earths, receiving his PhD in 1911. Roberts married his hometown sweetheart…
- Special CollectionsThe Richardson family ran a set of successful businesses in Dover, New Hampshire. The patriarch of the family, James Richardson was born in Woburn, Massachusetts on July 7, 1779. He married Tammy Tibbets of Dover on December 21, 1808. Augustus and…
- Special CollectionsDorothy Prescott Ruth Cooke (1921-1988) was born in Everett, MA. Her respect for jazz musicians manifested itself in 1978 when she formed the New Hampshire Traditional Library of Jazz (NHLTJ). In 1979, Prescott collaborated with the UNH music…
- Special CollectionsThe photographer of these images is anonymous at this time. Eighteen copy negatives and thirty three contact prints of Portsmouth buildings, landscapes, and people copied from originals in the collection of the Portsmouth Athenaeum, from whom…
- Special CollectionsThe Portsmouth Naval Shipyard (PNS), often called the Portsmouth Navy Yard, is a United States Navy shipyard located in Kittery on the southern boundary of Maine near the city of Portsmouth, New Hampshire. It is used for remodeling and repairing the…
- Special CollectionsOdiorne Point State Park consists of 137 acres of protected shoreline near Rye Beach, New Hampshire. The park is one of the few remaining areas in the state where the public can observe intertidal life, geological formations, a salt marsh, and even a…
- Special CollectionsIn 1938 the state of New Hampshire celebrated the 150th anniversary of the ratification of the Constitution of the United States. The sesquicentennial festivities included an educational program, which included an oratorical contest for college-level…
- Special CollectionsThe New Hampshire State Survey Committee was a statewide committee formed in 1923 by leaders in business, education, government, and industry to survey and catalog the resources of New Hampshire, establishing a program to achieve maximum statewide development. Progress was very slow and finally, in…
- Special CollectionsThe New England Organization for Nursing (NEON) was established in 1983 to foster collaboration for improved nursing practice and patient care, address the specific needs, issues and problems of New England's nursing community, and to provide a…
- Special CollectionsCollector Eric N. Metcalf (b. 1953) is from south-eastern New Hampshire. The Eric Metcalf Collection on the New Hampshire Primaries contains materials from the 1988 and 1992 Democrat and Republican National Primary Races in the state of New Hampshire. It includes press releases, schedules, campaign…
- Special CollectionsMekeel McBride (1950-) is a writer who studied under Samuel Yellen, as well as going on to teach at Harvard, Princeton, Wheaton, and UNH (1979-present). Her books include A Change in the Weather (Chowder Chapbooks, 1979), No Ordinary World (1979), The…
- Special CollectionsLuther Locke (1820-1892) was a dentist and physician who had been trained at Harvard Medical School. He also served as a Union Army surgeon in the American Civil War. This collection is mostly comprised of papers from his Civil War service.
- Special CollectionsDudley 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…
- Special CollectionsFred Simmons Keller (1899-1996) was a psychologist who taught at Columbia University and the University of Brasilia (Brazil). He was awarded a Certificate of Merit in 1948 for his development of "Code Voice", a new technique for teaching Morse Code.…
- Special CollectionsSarah Orne Jewett (1849-1909), author and poet, was born and lived in South Berwick, Maine. Her best known works are The Country of the Pointed Firs and the short story “A White Heron”. Her first novel was Deephaven. The Sarah Orne Jewett Collection contains 9 letters written by Jewett from 1880-…
- Special CollectionsJohn Henry Jenks enlisted in the 14th New Hampshire Volunteer Infantry during the US Civil War. He was killed at the Battle of Cedar Creek (October 19). The Jenks Papers primarily contain Civil War letters from Jenks to his wife, Almina Crawford Jenks.
- Special CollectionsLocated 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…
- Special CollectionsHUMANALO, the Science Fiction Society of New Hampshire, was organized in July 1979 at the home of Steve Goldstein, its first president. The society took its name from the first two letters of each of the towns in which charter members resided, Hudson…
- Special CollectionsPoet Robert Huff (1924-1993) was educated at Wayne State University, Michigan. Huff’s first book of poetry, Colonel Johnson’s Ride, was published in 1959. Three others followed: The Course (1966); The Ventriloquist (1977), and Shore Guide to Flocking…
