Collections

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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.

Change the Subject
A 54-minute documentary about Dartmouth students who challenged anti-immigrant language in Library of Congress subject headings.
College Photographer
Photos by College Photographers Adrian N. Bouchard; Stuart Bratesman; Joseph Mehling; and Eli Burakian.
College Photographer Index Cards
Correspondence of Commodore Oliver Hazard Perry
By Oliver Hazard Perry (1785-1819). Professional and personal correspondence from approximately 1807 to 1819.
Dartmouth College Films
Archival materials from the 1920s to the present day, chronicling the Dartmouth experience over the decades.
Dartmouth College Photographic Files
Photos of life at Dartmouth from various sources, including scenes of campus grounds, facilities, people, and events.
Dartmouth Dissertations
Doctoral dissertations written at Dartmouth College between 1960 and 2017. All are freely provided online with permission of the authors.
Dartmouth Winter Carnival Posters
Digital images of each known Winter Carnival poster from 1911 to the present.
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.

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Facsimile and searchable text of an unpublished Arctic encyclopedia, sponsored by the U.S. Office of Naval Research.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

General Catalogue: Dartmouth College and Associated Schools
List of Officers, Alumni, and others for Dartmouth class years through 1939.
George and Anna Ticknor Travel Diaries

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.

Hanover New Hampshire Maps
Maps of Hanover, New Hampshire, and Dartmouth College, circa 1700 to 1923.
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.

Jewelry Design Books of Jaques and Marcus, 1890 to 1910
Eight volumes of custom jewelry design books from the firm of Jaques and Marcus, later Marcus and Co., circa 1890-1910.
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.

Jon Appleton, Selected Compositions (1959-2006)
Over 140 music compositions by Dartmouth music professor Jon Appleton, freely available to listen to for non-commercial uses.
Joseph Rainone Early Comic Collection
American and British comic almanacs and other publications from the nineteenth century.
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.
Margrit (Gritli) Rosenstock-Huessy letters, in the Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy papers
Margrit (Gritli) Rosenstock-Huessy letters, in the Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy papers
New Hampshire's Towns & Cities in Maps
Maps of New Hampshire cities and towns from 1776 to 2006, complementing the “Granite State in Maps” collection.
Nitrate Negatives
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.

Old Dartmouth Classification Schedules
Classification system for books, created and used by the Dartmouth College Library in the late 19th and early 20th 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.

ReImagining History
Richard E. Stoiber Slide Collection
Color slides, many of Central American volcanoes, by Richard E. Stoiber '32 (1911-2001), Professor of Geology.
Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps: New Hampshire Towns, 1880s-1940s
Maps of towns and cities, produced by the Sanborn Map Company for insurance purposes.
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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 Collection of Arctic Photographs: Lantern Slides
700 lantern slides primarily from the Canadian Arctic Expedition (1913-1918).
Stefansson Collection of Arctic Photographs: Photographic Prints
Over 1,200 images primarily from the Canadian Arctic Expedition (1913-1918).
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.

Stone Family Papers, 1571-1933
Documents chronicling the legal transactions of Richard Stone (ca. 1570-1653) of England and his descendants.
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 Granite State in Maps, 1756-2003
Maps illustrating changes in New Hampshire's borders and how the state saw itself.
The Occom Circle

The Occom Circle provides free access to handwritten documents by and about Samson Occom (Mohegan, 1727-1792), intertribal leader, Presbyterian minister, and public intellectual, who helped raise the funds that eventually established 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.
Vox of Dartmouth Images
Photographs created for the print publication Vox of Dartmouth, 2006-2007.
Wrangel Island Expedition Photographs

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