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- Special CollectionsThe New Hampshire Account Book Collection creaters made their living through a variety of rural professions, mostly farmers, blacksmiths, doctors, town officials, tanners, cobblers, and other mixed income streams. The account books are organized by town within New Hampshire, Maine, Massachussetts…
- Special CollectionsMilne Special Collections is located at the University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH, USA. The New Hampshire Diary Collection consists of approximately 40 diaries from men and women writing between 1856-1951. Predomenant subjects include farming,…
- Special CollectionsIn 1965, the State of New Hampshire purchased the farmhouse in Derry New Hampshire where Robert Frost and family lived from 1900 to 1909. In 1969, two adjacent properties were purchased that served to protect the homestead’s beauty. With the help of…
- 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 CollectionsLesley 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…
- Special CollectionsThomas C. Cheney (1831-1900) was born in Derry, New Hampshire to Sally and Lyman King Cheney. Cheney enlisted as a private in the First N.H. Volunteer Light Battery, participating in virtually every major battle of the Army of the Potomac. The Thomas…
- Special CollectionsThe Association of Historical Societies of New Hampshire, Inc., was formed at a meeting held on September 19, 1950, in Wakefield with 13 local historical societies represented. Incorporated in October 1951, with 24 Charter Members, the non-profit…
- Special CollectionsNamed after Molly Woodburn Reid, the wife of General George Reid (commander of the First New Hampshire Regiment), the chapter was the second of its kind founded in the state of New Hampshire, and was organized on October 27, 1894. The Molly Reid DAR…
