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- Special CollectionsHobart Amory Hare Baker (January 15, 1892-December 21, 1918), known as Hobey Baker, was a noted athlete and fighter pilot of the early 20th century born in Bala Cynwyd, Pennsylvania, a suburb of Philadelphia. He attended St. Paul's School in Concord,…
- Special CollectionsThe Beanpot Tournament is played each year by four Boston area colleges: Northeastern University, Boston University, Boston College, and Harvard University. It was founded in 1952, and became an annual event in 1954. The collection consists of Beanpot…
- Special CollectionsHockey East is a collegiate hockey league that was founded in 1983 by five institutions: Boston College, Boston University, the University of Maine, the University of New Hampshire and Providence College. Since then the league has expanded to include…
- Special CollectionsDr. Stephen Hardy played as a defenseman for the Bowdoin College hockey team in ECAC Division II in the late 1960s. He and his twin brother Erland were co-captains in the 1969-1970 season and were the only twins playing collegiate hockey in the country. They helped Bowdoin’s 1968-1969 squad win the…
- Special CollectionsPrior to the start of each college hockey season the National Intercollegiate Athletic Association publishes an annual NCAA Ice Hockey Guide. In addition to a recap of the previous season, the publication includes rules and regulations that will…
- Special CollectionsThe American Hockey Coaches Association was formed in May of 1947 in Boston, MA by a handful of college coaches concerned about the game they loved. It has grown to include professional, junior, high school, and youth hockey coaches, as well as…
- Special CollectionsJoe Bertagna played high school hockey in Arlington, Massachusetts for the legendary Eddie Burns, then at Harvard University, where he was a standout goaltender. He graduated from Harvard in 1973 and then studied journalism at Marquette University.…
- Special CollectionsThis collection was assembled by University of New Hampshire sports faculty. This collection consists of videotapes of Hockey East games, including some tournament play, as well as Hobey Baker Award show tapes. Please be advised that in a number of cases only partial…
- Special CollectionsThe Eastern College Athletic Conference was founded in 1938 and was an umbrella conference consisting of smaller conferences of college and university athletic programs. The collection includes historical materials for ECAC hockey, including media…
- Special CollectionsThis collection consists of media guides for a wide variety of American college hockey programs. Most are from the 1980s and the 1990s.
- Special CollectionsSix broadsides: "Rembrandt’s Last Self Portrait" (poem by Charles E. Wadsworth; wood engraving by Lance Hidy; "The Beautiful Young Devon Shorthorn Bull. Sexton Hyades 33rd" (by Leslie Norris; lino-cut by Charles E. Wadsworth; "On Chick-A-Dee Mis-…
- Special Collections[bioghist abstract] The collection consists of class projects undertaken by participants in American Folklife courses taught in the English Department, primarily by Professor Burt Feintuch. The projects take the form of investigations of local persons…
- Special CollectionsThe 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…
- Special CollectionsGeorge R. Thomas (1906-1988) was in Portsmouth, Virginia, the son of George John and Ida Rixse. George Thomas married Naomi “Billye” Williams on September 11, 1931, and daughter Ann Lee was born in 1944. The George Thomas Letters were donated to Special…
- Special CollectionsThe 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…
- Special CollectionsThis collection was primarily assembled by Mary P. Thompson (1825- 1894) and her nephew Lucien Thompson (1859-1924), Durham historians. Their prominent ancestors included “Judge” Ebenezer Thompson (1737-1802), and Benjamin Thompson (1806-1890). This…
- Special CollectionsResident of Portsmouth, New Hampshire. The initials "P.F." do not match current documentation of residents of Portsmouth at that time. Four letters to Mrs. P. F. Harrington, Middle Street, Portsmouth, NH, one from her daughter Ethel and one from her daughter [-in-law?] Helen Nelthropp Harrington,…
- Special CollectionsThe 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…
- Special CollectionsThe Piscataqua Pioneers are descendants of the Piscataqua River basin’s original settlers. Families who moved to and helped develop any of the towns from Kennebunk to Dover Point and the Massachusetts border qualify. Across the United States, the…
- Special CollectionsDavid Proper (1933-2014) was Librarian at Historic Deerfield (Massachusetts), and a former Trustee of both Shaker Village, Inc., Canterbury, N.H. and Sabbathday Lake, ME. The David Proper Shaker Manuscript Collection contains over 200 titles of…
- Special CollectionsEdward Morgan Lewis served as president of the University of New Hampshire from September 1, 1927 to May 24, 1936. Lewis received both his undergraduate and graduate education from Williams College. He came to UNH from Massachusetts Agricultural…
- Special CollectionsThe Isaiah Piper family lived in Factory Village (Belmont), New Hampshire from 1836. Isaiah’s first wife Elisabeth died in 1864 aged 35 years leaving two children, Ahira Barney (born 1856) and Elmer Isaiah (born 1861). His second wife, Sarah Emeline…
- Special CollectionsIn 1962 Thomas J. McIntyre (1915-1992) became the first Democratic Senator from New Hampshire in thirty years. He was continuously re-elected to the Senate until his defeat in the 1978 elections. In 1940 McIntyre was admitted to the New Hampshire Bar…
- Special CollectionsThis collection consists of assorted eighteenth, nineteenth, and some twentieth-century New Hampshire newspapers, mostly from Dover, Exeter, and Portsmouth. These are rarely complete runs, and often only individual issues. Also included in the…
- Special CollectionsIsadore Zack (11 October 1912-January 8, 2011) was born in Quincy, MA. He served in the U.S. Army from 1941-1945 and was assigned as Special Agent in Charge of the Counter Intelligence Group/Subversive Squad, First Service Command, Boston, CIC from…
- Special CollectionsThe 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…
- Special CollectionsThe 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…
- Special CollectionsRobert Wear was born in Yunnan-fu, China on September 6, 1916, the son of missionaries who met while in China. His mother, Alice, née von Niederhauser, worked for the German Evangelical Church while his father, Robert Benjamin, worked for the YMCA.…
- Special CollectionsAmanda Elizabeth Homiston (Mrs. E.E.) Thompson was born in 1864 and married Elmer Ellsworth Thompson in 1885 and they had two children, a daughter, Ethel Elizabeth, in 1886 and a son, Sereno Wright, in 1889. In 1896 they adopted another daughter, Ina…
- Special CollectionsThe Dance Gypsy, a monthly dance newsletter and calendar “for dancers with wanderlust” edited by Tom and Val Medve in Essex Junction, Vermont, started publication in 1990. Direct forerunners were the Vermont Folk Arts Network (1983-1987) and Patchwork…
- Special CollectionsMartin V. B. Tewkesbury (1834-1900) of Danville, New Hampshire was primarily a farmer who grew potatoes, corn, and wheat, and also raised sheep and pigs. He supplemented his income by means of a saw and cider mill which were constantly in use…
- Special CollectionsCharles Taylor (1805-1877) the son of Edward and Sarah Brooks Taylor, was born in Hancock, NH in March of 1805. He married Almira Clafflin and died in her home town of Westboro, MA in 1877. Letter (1833) written by Charles Taylor from Hopkinton, MA to his brother Edward Taylor of Hancock, NH.…
- Special CollectionsWinn 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…
- Special CollectionsHarold Caswell Sweetser, son of John P. Sweetser, who was born May 19, 1897 in Portsmouth, N.H. He was employed as a Helper General at Portsmouth Naval Shipyard in May of 1917 and graduated from the University of New Hampshire in 1918. After enlisting…
- Special CollectionsHenry Bailey Stevens (1891-1976), author and playwright was born in Hooksett, New Hampshire. He graduated from Manchester Central High School and Dartmouth College. After graduation in 1912, he worked the Woman’s Journal, whose managing editor was…
- Special CollectionsIn 1757, the first Stevens (Joshua, 1737-1816) settled in Nottingham, New Hampshire and for over one-hundred and fifty years the family occupied the same land. Town and local histories provide little information about the lives of the first three…
- Special CollectionsThe Perkins Family resided in Unity, New Hampshire. The principal figure of the family papers is Amos Perkins (1790-1885). He was a farmer by occupation but also worked as Secretary and President of Unity Mutual Fire Insurance Company. He also served…
- Special CollectionsThe Seacoast Anti-Pollution League (SAPL) was formed on March 29, 1969 in response to the Public Service Company of New Hampshire’s announcement of its intent to construct a nuclear power plant in Seabrook, New Hampshire. SAPL’s primary emphasis from…
- Special CollectionsUrsula 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…
- Special CollectionsRichard Wilmer Rowan (1894-1964) has been described as the foremost American non-fiction writer on the history of espionage. He was educated at Brown and Columbia and served in the U.S. Army Chemical Warfare Service during World War I. He maintained a…
- Special CollectionsGerda Peterich (1906-1974) came to New Hampshire in 1959 and did an architectural survey and photographic studies of Manchester. She was a lecturer in Art History and Director of the Photographic Archives at Syracuse University from 1964 to 1968.…
- Special CollectionsJoab Nelson Patterson was born in Hopkinton, NH on January 2, 1835. He fought in the Civil War enlisting as a First Lieutenant in Company H, 2nd Regiment New Hampshire Volunteers. He was promoted captain in May 1862 and the following year was wounded…
- Special CollectionsThe Pages and Southards were old families in Haverhill, New Hampshire. John Page (1787-1865) was one of Haverhill’s most honored and respected citizens, serving as town clerk, selectman (fourteen times), representative to the General Court (three…
- Special CollectionsThe first training school for nurses in New Hampshire was opened at the New Hampshire State Hospital in 1888. The forerunner of the American Nurses Association was formed in 1896 and that of the National League for Nursing in 1893. On May 28, 1906, at…
- Special CollectionsFranklin Norvish (1911-2010) was a professor of English at Northeastern University and an espionage agent for the United States Army during World War II. In 1943, Norvish was dispatched to Nazi-occupied France to catalog pro-German collaborators and…
- Special CollectionsThe collection of Northwood Photographs consists of 53 negatives of various scenes in Northwood, New Hampshire, apparently taken between 1890 and the early 1930s, and made by the University of New Hampshire’s Media Services from original prints…
- Special CollectionsThe photographer(s) are anonymous. The collection consists of glass lantern slides mostly from the period 1900-1920. Most of the 331 images are of forestry and lumbering activities in Northern New Hampshire.
- Special CollectionsThe New Hampshire Old Graveyard Association was organized on April 10, 1976. It was incorporated as a voluntary association with the New Hampshire Secretary of State on April 12, 1977. The Association’s mission is “to discover, restore, maintain, map…
- Special CollectionsPhilip M. Marston was a professor of History at the University of New Hampshire from 1939 to 1966. Philip Mason Marston lived from 1902-1966. The collection contains papers from the administrations of fifteen New Hampshire governors, spanning the…
- Special CollectionsThe New Hampshire AFL-CIO was created in 1955 after the American Federation of Labor and the Congress of Industrial Organizations were combined into one organization. This national organization issued a charter to the NH branch on October 27, 1957.…
