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
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
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...
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
This collection contains copies of the Middlebury Kaleidoscope – Middlebury College’s yearbook – digitized by Middlebury College Special Collections & Archives, Middlebury, Vt.
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
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
A complete archive of Middlebury College course catalogs starting in 1804, from Middlebury College Special Collections, Middlebury, Vt.
Topic: course catalogs
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,...
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.
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
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...
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
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
Program for the inauguration of the Statue of Liberty on October 28, 1886. Includes the first appearance of John Greenleaf Whittier's poem "The Bartholdi Statue, " p. 61-62. This is a scanned version of the original document in the Abernethy Pamphlets Collection at Middlebury College.
Topics: Whittier, John Greenleaf, 1807-1892, Poem, Abernethy Pamphlets Collection
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Topics: 28cm., Middlebury College, Middlebury College Magazine, College newspapers
93 p. ; 18 cm.
Topic: Poetry
Topics: Middlebury College, Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, Writers, Lectures, Collier, Michael
Topics: Middlebury College, Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, Writers, Speakers, Kinnell, Galway
Dorm room in Hadley Hall belonging to Anonymous student, Class of 2019. This image is a scanned version of an original print or negative held by Middlebury College Special Collections, Middlebury, Vt.
Topics: Middlebury College, Hadley Hall, Student life, Campus buildings, College students, Dormitories
Topics: Middlebury College, Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, Writers, Readings, Baxter, Charles, Reading,...
Topics: Middlebury College, Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, Writers, Speakers, Orlen, Stever, Perry,...
Topics: Middlebury College, Yearbooks, College archives
Middlebury College New Faces for the Class of 1981. This is a scanned version of the original image in Special Collections and Archives at Middlebury College, Middlebury, Vt.
Topics: Middlebury College, College freshmen, First-year students, Photographs, New Faces
Topics: Middlebury College, Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, Writers, Speakers, Nunez, Sigrid, Harvey,...
Topics: Middlebury College, Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, Writers, Speakers, Kenan, Randall, Stone,...
Topics: Middlebury College, Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, Writers, Speakers, Meredith, William
Dorm room in Stewart Hall belonging to Peter Martin, Class of 2019. This image is a scanned version of an original print or negative held by Middlebury College Special Collections, Middlebury, Vt.
Topics: Middlebury College, Stewart Hall, Student life, Campus buildings, College students, Dormitories
Topics: Middlebury College, Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, Writers, Readings, Collier, Michael, Hample,...
Topics: Middlebury College, Yearbooks, College archives
6 x 6.5 cm b&w negative transparency. Photograph of Foster R. Dulles at the Middlebury Conference "How Should We Respond to the World Crises?" This is a scanned version of the original print or negative in Special Collections and Archives, Middlebury College, Middlebury, Vt. Do you know something about this photograph? We'd like to hear from you. Email us at specialcollections@middlebury.edu
Topics: Middlebury College, Photographs, Events
Topics: Middlebury College, Yearbooks, College archives
35 x 27 cm color map of Cornwall, Vermont
Topics: Cornwall (Vt.), maps
19.5x11.5 cm. First Line: "The heart bow'd down by weight of woe" Note: "From the Opera of The Bohemian Girl" 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
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Topics: 28cm., Middlebury College, Middlebury College Magazine, College newspapers
Topics: Middlebury College, Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, Writers, Lectures, Voigt Lecture, Ellen Bryant
Topics: Middlebury College, Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, Writers, Speakers, Meredith, William,...
Topics: College newspapers, Middlebury College, Middlebury College Magazine, 1982
Source: Middlebury College Special Collections
Topics: Middlebury College, Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, Writers, Lectures, Voigt, Ellen Bryant
Derby Line Hotel, with automobiles in front, signs "Socony", and "United States Customs", Derby Line, Vermont. This is a scanned copy of the original postcard at Middlebury College Special Collections and Archives, Middlebury, VT.
Topics: Hotels, Derby Line (Vt.), Postcards
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
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Topics: 28cm., Middlebury College, Middlebury College Magazine, College newspapers
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Topics: 28cm., Middlebury College, Middlebury College Magazine, College newspapers
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Topics: 28cm., Middlebury College, Middlebury College Magazine, College newspapers
Rutland Railroad steam locomotive 232 is belching smoke and steam in front of the railroad station at St. Alban's, Vermont, as two men stand on the adjacent sidewalk. This is a scanned copy of the original postcard at Middlebury College Special Collections and Archives, Middlebury, VT.
Topics: Railroad stations, Saint Albans, Postcards
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Topics: 28cm., Middlebury College, Middlebury College Magazine, College newspapers
Halloween card in Middlebury College's collection of holiday cards. This is a scanned version of the original image in Special Collections and Archives at Middlebury College, Middlebury, Vt.
Topics: Halloween, Postcards, Holiday cards, Greeting cards
Basketball game
Topics: Basketball, Games, College sports
Source: Middlebury College Special Collections & Archives: a10pfmcnb01-02-1970_71-51np
View of West Cemetery on South Main Street, adjacent to the Middlebury College Campus.
Topics: Historic sites--Vermont--Middlebury, Cemeteries--Vermont--Middlebury, Middlebury (Vt.), Addison...
Source: Averill Collection, Stewart-Swift Research Center at the Henry Sheldon Museum of Vermont History
Faculty member with students at the Bread Loaf School of English, 1950 Do you know something about this photograph? We���d like to hear from you. Email us at specialcollections@middlebury.edu This is a scanned version of the original image in Special Collections and Archives at Middlebury College, Middlebury, Vt.
Topics: Bread Loaf School of English, Bread Loaf Campus, Ripton, Vt., Bread Loaf School of English faculty,...
Source: A10 PF MCNB Photos
Portrait of Timothy Clark Smith, M.D., Middlebury College Alumnus, Class of 1842; Staff Surgeon in the Russian army, 1855-1856; born in Monkton, Vt.; physician; U.S. Consul at Odessa, Russia, 1861-1875, at Galatz, 1878-1883; died in Middlebury, Vt.; (right-facing portrait) Title supplied by cataloger This is a scanned version of the original image in Special Collections and Archives at Middlebury College, Middlebury, Vt.
Topics: Middlebury College, Alumni and alumnae, Smith, Timothy C. (Timothy Clark), 1821-1893
Source: a9pf.1842.smithtc.02
Portrait of William Frederick Hall, Middlebury College Alumnus, Class of 1820; (right-facing portrait) Title supplied by cataloger This is a scanned version of the original image in Special Collections and Archives at Middlebury College, Middlebury, Vt.
Topics: Middlebury College, Alumni and alumnae, Hall, William Frederick, 1802-1884
Source: a9pf.1820.hallwf
Painter Hall from the east This is a scanned version of the original image in Special Collections and Archives at Middlebury College, Middlebury, Vt.
Topics: College buildings, Painter Hall, College campus
Source: a12pf.painter.1906.01
Middlebury College course catalog from 2000. Scanned from the original by Middlebury College Special Collections.
Topics: Course catalogs, Middlebury College, College archives, Catalogues
Varsity Baseball team, spring 1945.
Topics: Baseball, Varsity, College sports
Source: Middlebury College Special Collections & Archives: a10pfmcnb01-01-1945-06np
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
Topics: Middlebury College, Yearbooks, College archives
This is a scanned version of the original print or negative in Special Collections and Archives, Middlebury College, Middlebury, Vt. Do you know something about this photograph? We'd like to hear from you. Email us at specialcollections@middlebury.edu.
Topics: Photographs, College archives, Student Activities
Portrait of Middlebury alum F. Andrews, class of 1900. Scanned from archival print by Middlebury College Special Collections.
Topics: Middlebury College, Middlebury alumni, Portraits, College archives, Alumni and alumnae
Source: A9 PF
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
Photograph of Starr Library at Middlebury College, taken in or around 1930.This is a scanned version of the original print or negative in Special Collections and Archives, Middlebury College, Middlebury, Vt. Do you know something about this photograph? We'd like to hear from you. Email us at specialcollections@middlebury.edu .
Topics: Middlebury College, College buildings, Buildings, structures, etc., Starr Library
Students at Middlebury College stage a “die-in” against racism and police violence in solidarity with protesters at Ferguson, MO and Black Lives Matter. This image is part of the Michael O’hara Photographic Collection of Student Activism at Middlebury College Special Collections.
Topics: Middlebury College, Student activism, Campus protest, Campus politics, Racism on campus, Black...
Source: Michael O’Hara Photographic Collection of Student Activism, Special Collections, Middlebury College
Topics: Middlebury College, Yearbooks, College archives
Photograph of A-frames at Middlebury College, taken in or around 2006.This is a scanned version of the original print or negative in Special Collections and Archives, Middlebury College, Middlebury, Vt. Do you know something about this photograph? We'd like to hear from you. Email us at specialcollections@middlebury.edu .
Topics: Middlebury College, College buildings, Buildings, structures, etc., A-frames
19 x 19 cm b&w photograph I.5, Box 4, Folder 11-298 Ralph Flanders walking down in Smiley mance This is a scanned version of the original image in the Helen Hartness Flanders Collection, Middlebury College Special Collections and Archives, Middlebury, VT.
Topics: Flanders, Ralph, Springfield (Vt.), Photographs
Photograph of the Middlebury College Class of 1996. This is a scanned version of the original image in Special Collections and Archives at Middlebury College, Middlebury, Vt.
Topics: Photographs, Middlebury College, Class photos, Middlebury College alumni
Middlebury College course catalog from 1996. Scanned from the original by Middlebury College Special Collections.
Topics: Course catalogs, Middlebury College, College archives, Catalogues
Topics: Middlebury College, Bread Loaf Writers Conference, Writers, Presentations, Boruch, Marianne
Student Government Association (SGA) bill F2019-SB3 entitled: A Bill to Invest a Portion of the SGA Reserves. The bill was sponsored by John Gosselin and Kenshin Cho.
Topics: Student Government Association, SGA, Student government, Middlebury College, Investments, Student...
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Topics: 28cm., Middlebury College, Middlebury College Magazine, College newspapers
35 x 27 cm color map of Vermont
Topics: Vermont, maps
Running on a dirt road in the rain This is a scanned version of the original image in Special Collections and Archives at Middlebury College, Middlebury, Vt.
Topics: Running, College athletics, Roads
Source: a28pf.xcountry.1936.01