A collection of historic photos and other graphic materials documenting the history of Middlebury College and the surrounding community. Digitized from original materials held by Middlebury Special Collections, Middlebury, Vt.
This is a collection of campus newspapers and alumni newsletters, among other College publications, from the 19th Century to the present. Downloadable items include complete back issues of The Undergraduate, The Middlebury Campus, Middlebury College magazine, and more, currently held and maintained by Middlebury College Special Collections & Archives, Middlebury, Vt.
A collection of archival texts - including letters, manuscripts, journals, and printed ephemera from the 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries - held and digitized by Middlebury College Special Collections.
Topics: Middlebury College, Manuscripts
One of the nation's great archival collections of New England folksong, folklore, and balladry, the Flanders Ballad Collection was the lifework of Helen Hartness Flanders (1890-1972), of Springfield, Vermont. Over the course of thirty years, and with the assistance of Marguerite Olney, Flanders gathered and preserved more than 4,800 field recordings of New England folksongs and ballads as sung by native Vermonters and other New Englanders. In May, 1941, she donated the collection to...
Topics: folksong, folklore, balladry, Middlebury College, New England, folksongs
Middlebury's Bread Loaf Mountain campus, nestled amid the Green Mountain National Forest in Ripton, Vermont, is home to two venerable programs: Bread Loaf Writers' Conference and the Bread Loaf School of English. Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference is the oldest writers' conference in America, convening yearly in mid-August. Bread Loaf School of English has offered a rich array of graduate courses in literature, the teaching of writing, creative writing, and theater arts to students from across...
Topics: Bread Loaf School of English, Bread Loaf Writers Conference, Middlebury College, American...
Historic photographs from the Henry Sheldon Museum of Vermont History, originally presented in 'A Walking History of Middlebury' by Glenn M. Andres. This digital image collection is hosted by Middlebury College Special Collections, Middlebury, Vt.
Topics: Middlebury, Vt.,, Photographs
This collection contains copies of the Middlebury Kaleidoscope – Middlebury College’s yearbook – digitized by Middlebury College Special Collections & Archives, Middlebury, Vt.
Among the many historical items in Middlebury College's Vermont Collection are over 1,100 photographic postcards from depicting landscapes, structures, disasters, and daily life in early 20th Century Vermont. Many of Vermont's towns and villages are represented in the collection, and we are proud to share digitized versions of these important historic images via the Internet Archive. For more information about any of the items in the collection, please contact Middlebury College Special...
The Julian W. Abernethy Library of American Literature was bequeathed to Middlebury College in 1923, upon the death of Julian W. Abernethy, Class of 1876, College Trustee from 1901-1923. A distinguished teacher and scholar of American and British literature, Abernethy was an avid bibliophile and during his lifetime amassed an extraordinary collection of first editions, collected works, critical editions, and original manuscripts by the most notable men and women in American letters from the...
Topics: Transcendentalism, American writers, Manuscripts, Literature, Middlebury College
Contains items related to Vermont’s railroads and their history from Middlebury College Special Collections and Archives' collections of rare books, historical photos, and ephemera.
Topics: Railroads, Vermont, Middlebury College
Vermont Life magazine was a quarterly magazine, published by the State of Vermont, covering Vermont’s "people, places and culture." The state-owned magazine was founded in 1946 and ceased publication in the summer of 2018. Vermont Life was digitized from originals held by the State of Vermont, Middlebury College Special Collections, and the Dorothy Alling Memorial Library with funding support from the following: Davis Family Foundation, Middlebury College Friends of the Library,...
Topics: Vermont Life, magazine
This is a collection of publications, photos, video, and other archival content documenting the long and rich history of the Middlebury Language Schools, which have taken place during 6 to 8 week long summer sessions each year since 1915. Items in this collection are digitized versions of objects currently held by Middlebury College Special Collections & Archives, Middlebury, Vt.
A complete archive of Middlebury College course catalogs starting in 1804, from Middlebury College Special Collections, Middlebury, Vt.
Topic: course catalogs
As part of Middlebury College Special Collections' commitment to preserving and providing access to a complex record of student life, we are sharing a selection of 19th-21st Century primary documents related to student activism at Middlebury. We hope that the items in this collection contribute to a more complete history of the College, its student body, the broader communities in which they reside, and the rich - and sometimes controversial - history of political and cultural...
Topic: student activism
The Robinson Family letters from Rokeby Museum represent several generations of Quaker families in Vermont, especially the Robinsons - a family of farmers, abolitionists, artists, and authors whose home in Ferrisburgh is now a National Historic Landmark and one of the best-documented Underground Railroad sites in the country. The letters concern personal, farming, and business matters relating to the various families, and major political and social issues of their times, including abolitionism,...
Topics: Rokeby Museum, Robinson Family papers, Abolitionism, United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865,...
Writers' Conference faculty member George Stephens with Avis DeVoto in front of the Little Theatre on Bread Loaf campus, August 1935.
Topics: Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, Stephens, George, Faculty & students
Source: Middlebury College Special Collections & Archives: a10pfmcnb07-1935-01np
The Hemingway Family Archive at Middlebury College joins Hemingway archives in more than 75 private and institutional collections, the most distinguished of which include those at the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library & Museum, and the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center at the University of Texas at Austin. Compiled by writer Leicester Hemingway (1915-1982), the younger brother of Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961), our physical collection contains more than 1,600...
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Topics: 28cm., Middlebury College, Middlebury College Magazine, College newspapers
Dorm room in Hadley Hall belonging to Anonymous student, Class of 2019.
Topics: Middlebury College, Hadley Hall, Student life, Campus buildings, College students, Dormitories
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Topics: 28cm., Middlebury College, Middlebury College Magazine, College newspapers
These 19th and Early 20th Century maps of Vermont and the surrounding region have been scanned from original documents in Special Collections and Archives at Middlebury College. For more information about any of the items in the collection, please contact Middlebury College Special Collections and Archives at specialcollections@middlebury.edu .
The Middlebury College Digital Lecture Archive includes video of lectures and events from Middlebury College. Lectures and addresses included in this collection have been delivered by speakers from many institutions on a variety of critical topics, and are made available whenever possible via the Internet Archive and other online platforms.
Topics: Lectures, Commencement speeches, Middlebury College
From the Middlebury News Bureau collection.
Topics: Middlebury College, Photographs, College archives, Student Activities
Dorm room in Hepburn Hall belonging to Kyle Schlanger, Class of 2018.
Topics: Middlebury College, Hepburn Hall, Student life, Campus buildings, College students, Dormitories
Dorm room in Hadley Hall belonging to Christina Puchinelli, Class of 2019.
Topics: Middlebury College, Hadley Hall, Student life, Campus buildings, College students, Dormitories
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Topics: 28cm., Middlebury College, Middlebury College Magazine, College newspapers
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Topic: Poetry
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Scrapbook containing numerous newspaper clippings from the late 1830s to the 1850s, mounted into a volume originally used as an account book from 1813-1817. Much of the subject matter relates to slavery in the United States and the antislavery movement. Clippings of published poems and prose include those by Whittier, Longfellow, Tennyson, and Lydia Maria Child. This volume has a hand-written index and is inscribed: "Began March 1844. H. L. Thoreau, Concord, Mass." Some of the loosely...
Topics: Helen Thoreau, antislavery, journals, clippings, abolitionism, scrapbooks, slavery
Source: c122.thoreauhel.vol04
Dorm room in Battell belonging to Anonymous student, Class of 2018.
Topics: Middlebury College, Battell Hall, Student life, Campus buildings, College students, Dormitories
20x11 cm. First Line: "A Soldier of the Legion lay dying in Algiers" This is a scanned copy of the original broadside in the Helen Hartness Flanders Collection at Middlebury College.
Topics: Helen Hartness Flanders, Broadsides, Folk music, Folksongs, Ballads, New England
Dorm room in Gifford Hall belonging to Timo van der Geese, Class of 2018.
Topics: Middlebury College, Gifford Hall, Student life, Campus buildings, College students, Dormitories
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Topics: 28cm., Middlebury College, Middlebury College Magazine, College newspapers
Topics: College newspapers, Middlebury College, Middlebury College Newsletter, 1972
Source: Middlebury College Special Collections
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Topics: College newspapers, Middlebury College, Middlebury College Newsletter, 1969
Source: Middlebury College Special Collections
Portrait of Middlebury alum Charles Benjamin Franklin Palmer, class of 1883.
Topics: Middlebury College, Middlebury alumni, Portraits, College archives, Alumni and alumnae
Source: A9 PF
Dorm room in Pearsons belonging to Amy Tat, Class of 2018.
Topics: Middlebury College, Pearsons Hall, Student life, Campus buildings, College students, Dormitories
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Topics: 28cm., Middlebury College, Middlebury College Magazine, College newspapers
6 x 6.5 cm b&w negative transparency. Photograph of William L. Shirer accompanied by a student at the Middlebury Conference "How Should We Respond to the World Crises?"
Topics: Middlebury College, Photographs, Events
Box 2, Cylinder 20 of the Helen Hartness Flanders Ballad Collection at Middlebury College Special Collections & Archives, digitized from the original phonograph cylinder using IRENE optical scanning. All songs performed by Orlon Merrill of Charlestown, NH. Contents (by label): "Lord Banner"; "Lovely Jimmie";
Topics: Helen Hartness Flanders, Ballads, Folksongs, Folk music, New England, Field recordings,...
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Topics: 28cm., Middlebury College, Middlebury College Magazine, College newspapers
Robert Frost and Anne Sexton at the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, 1959. Individuals in the photograph include, from left to right, Elizabeth Baker, Irene Orgel, Robert Frost, Anne Sexton, and George Lea.
Topics: Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, American poets, Poets, Photographs, Middlebury College, Ripton...
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Dorm room in Hadley Hall belonging to Christina Puchinelli, Class of 2019.
Topics: Middlebury College, Hadley Hall, Student life, Campus buildings, College students, Dormitories
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Topics: Middlebury College, Middlebury College Magazine, College newspapers, Alumni
Topics: Middlebury College, Yearbooks, College archives
463 pages. Volume 4 of 4. Historical treatise detailing the early history of the state of Vermont. This is a digitized version of the original book in the Vermont Collection at Middlebury College.
Topic: History
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Topics: Middlebury College, Middlebury College Magazine, College newspapers, Alumni
Box 1, Cylinder 12 of the Helen Hartness Flanders Ballad Collection at Middlebury College Special Collections & Archives, digitized from the original phonograph cylinder using IRENE optical scanning. Contents (by label): "Billy boy" performed by Josiah Kennison at Townshend, VT "Jim Fisk" performed by Josiah Kennison at Townshend, VT
Topics: Helen Hartness Flanders, Ballads, Folksongs, New England, Townshend (Vt.), Wax cylinders
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Topics: 28cm., Middlebury College, Middlebury College Magazine, College newspapers
Box 3, Cylinder 30 of the Helen Hartness Flanders Ballad Collection at Middlebury College Special Collections & Archives, digitized from the original phonograph cylinder using IRENE optical scanning. Contents (by label): "Mountains of Pomeroy" performed by Ellen M. Sullivan of Springfield, VT "Gerry's rock" performed by Herbert Haley of Northam, VT "Belle of Long Lake" performed by Herbert Haley of Northam, VT
Topics: Helen Hartness Flanders, Ballads, Folksongs, Folk music, New England, Field recordings,...
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Topics: Middlebury College, Yearbooks, College archives
Topics: College newspapers, Middlebury College, Middlebury College Newsletter, 1977
Source: Middlebury College Special Collections
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Box 5, Cylinder 52 of the Helen Hartness Flanders Ballad Collection at Middlebury College Special Collections & Archives, digitized from the original phonograph cylinder using IRENE optical scanning. All songs on this cylinder are performed by Ellen M. Sullivan of Springfield, VT. Contents (by label): "Woodsman's alphabet" "Cherry tree carol" "Twelve joys of Mary" "The cuckoo" "The ship that never returned"
Topics: Helen Hartness Flanders, Ballads, Folksongs, Folk music, New England, Field recordings,...
Students pose in front of KDR house at 48 South Street, Middlebury, Vermont. This is a scanned version of the original image in Special Collections and Archives at Middlebury College, Middlebury, Vt.
Topics: KDR, Kappa Delta Rho, Student activities
Color; views of campus in winter incl. snow sculptures; Sugaring Off Party 0:33; “Commencement” 2:55 behind Forest Hall and in front of Mead Chapel; various views of people on campus and students in class/studying; students on Battell Beach 6:18 with name tags; faculty at Bread Loaf 6:53, playing tennis and football 7:55; military vehicles and tanks at Bread Loaf 8:25, on campus; various shots of students studying, in airplane, theater,cartoons, dancing, band, tug-of-war, three-legged race,...
Topics: Middlebury College, 16mm film clips
Middlebury College New Faces for the Class of 1970. New Students Enrolled in the Fall of 1966. This is a scanned version of the original image in Special Collections and Archives at Middlebury College, Middlebury, Vt.
Topics: Middlebury College, Photographs, New Faces, Freshmen
Topics: Middlebury College, Athletics, College Sports, Skiing, Alpine skiing, Photographs, Portraits,...
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Topics: 28cm., Middlebury College, Middlebury College Magazine, College newspapers
Zoom panel discussion initiated by Bee Ottinger '70 with classmates Carol P. Harden, Margarett Floyd McCann, Arthur H. Johnson, Sue Porter Beffel, and Katharine Wardwell Rosser. Agenda: Conversation on Monday March 14, 2022 7:00 PM eastern time. 1. Carol will moderate and make very brief introductory remarks to set the stage 2. Introductions and beginnings: Name, influential experiences before Middlebury. Did Environmental Studies affect your choice of Middlebury College? [Note –we...
Topics: Middlebury College, Alumni and Alumnae, Environmentalism, Environmental studies, Environmental...
397 pages. Volume 3 of 4. Historical treatise detailing the early history of the state of Vermont. This is a digitized version of the original book in the Vermont Collection at Middlebury College.
Topic: History
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Topics: 28cm., Middlebury College, Middlebury College Magazine, College newspapers
Portrait of Middlebury alum Charles E. Fitzpatrick, class of 1896.
Topics: Middlebury College, Middlebury alumni, Portraits, College archives, Alumni and alumnae
Source: A9 PF
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Topics: 28cm., Middlebury College, Middlebury College Magazine, College newspapers
Topics: Middlebury College, Athletics, College Sports, Skiing, Alpine skiing, Photographs, Portraits,...
View of 3 Mill Street (ca. 1840) (also known as the Old Stone Mill), occupied by Peter Hawkes, Ltd., 1979.
Topics: Middlebury (Vt.)--Buildings, structures, etc., Mills and mill-work--Vermont--Middlebury, Commercial...
Source: Irion Collection, Stewart-Swift Research Center at the Henry Sheldon Museum of Vermont History
Middlebury College course catalog from 1989. Scanned from the original by Middlebury College Special Collections.
Topics: Course catalogs, Middlebury College, College archives, Catalogues
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Topics: Middlebury College, Middlebury College Magazine, College newspapers, Alumni
Topics: Middlebury College, Yearbooks, College archives
