Collections

List of Collections
NameDescription
Ada Blackjack Collection

The diary of Ada Blackjack, sole survivor of the Wrangel Island expedition, March-August 1923.

Alaskan Voyage of the Ulanah, 1941

Album of photographs taken by a member of the crew of the yacht Ulanah while the sailing vessel traveled from Seattle to Juneau via the Inside Passage in 1941.

Brut Chronicles

The earliest prose chronicle in English, begun after 1272, with continuations through the early 15th century.

David Brainard Diary

By David Brainard (1856-1946). An account of the Lady Franklin Bay Expedition through the long and desperate winter of 1883–1884.

Donella Meadows Collection
By Donella Meadows et al, 1972. Subtitled "A Report for the Club of Rome's Project on the Predicament of Mankind."
Down to the Countryside Movement

Unique collection of memoirs, photographs, correspondence, and other primary sources from China's former Rusticated Youth.

Encyclopedia Arctica

Facsimile and searchable text of an unpublished Arctic encyclopedia, sponsored by the U.S. Office of Naval Research.

Enslavement Documents from the Wheelock Collection

Enslavement Documents from the Wheelock Collection focuses not only on Wheelock's role as a slave owner, but also documents his involvement with the institution of slavery as it existed in Colonial Connecticut.

Hanover Cemetery Records

The Hanover, New Hampshire Cemetery Records digital collection provides an extraordinary wealth of information on mortality and genealogy in the Hanover area.

Harold Noice Papers

Correspondence, newspaper articles, and other material related to Vilhjalmur Stefansson and the ill-fated expedition to Wrangel Island. Of special note is a record of the Wrangel Island Expedition narrated by the expedition's lone survivor, Ada Blackjack.

John McCoy Family Papers

Letters and papers from 1847-1899 related to John McCoy's time as a Union soldier in the American Civil War.

Marcus & Co. History Documents
This collection has many unique stories illustrating the wonderful past of one of the most celebrated antique jewelers, sellers, and designers.
Old Dartmouth Classification Schedules

The Old Dartmouth Classification Schedules is a classification system for books, created and used by the Dartmouth College Library in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

Original Etchings by American Artists

Published in 1883, this volume collects original prints by some of the most prominent American artists of the nineteenth century.

Press Translations, Japan, 1945-1946

English summaries or full translations of newspaper articles and editorials from the U.S. Occupation of post-World War II Japan.

Rauner Manuscript Codex 003203

16th-century Spanish antiphonal, containing the chants for the Divine Office of the Roman Catholic Church.

Simple Book Repair Manual

A simple manual to provide guidelines for selecting appropriate candidates for in-house book repair and introduce staff to some repair methods.

Sino-Viet Ritual Texts

Three unique manuscripts of rituals in classical Chinese and Vietnamese Nom, from the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

Stefansson Wrangel Island

Manuscript materials in the Dartmouth Library's Vilhjalmur Stefansson Collection on Polar Exploration document Wrangel Island from 1900-1930. This digital project "collates" these materials in order to reveal the nuanced history of this contested space.

The Edward Mitchell Collection

Primary documents surrounding the life of Edward Mitchell '1828, the first person of African descent to graduate from Dartmouth College.

The Papers of Charles Daniel Tenney

The papers of Charles Daniel Tenney (1857-1930) include essays, speeches and translations concerning his time in China.

Three Accounts of the Vasilev-Shishmarev Expedition of 1819-1822
Gleb Semyonovich Shishmarev (1781-1835) and Mikhail Nikolayevich Vasilyev (1770-1847) were officers in the Imperial Russian Navy. Their expedition of 1819-1822 explored the western coast of Alaska.

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