What's in the collection?

The manuscript collection includes personal papers, account books, diaries, scrapbooks and church, school, town, military, court and organizational records dating from the 1770s to the present.

The collection is especially strong in the following areas: politics, literature, architecture, social history, religion, education, theater and music, business and labor, transportation, and land surveys.

How do you access these materials?

Finding aids are available online for many UVM manuscript collections. Printed finding aids are available in the Special Collections reading room.

Some manuscript collections can be used int the Special Collections reading room any time we are open. However, many larger manuscript collections are stored off-site.

Please contact us at least 48 hours in advance so we have sufficient time to retrieve material for you.

You can find some manuscripts online in UVM Libraries Digital Collections.

What's in the collection?

Thousands of photographs, postcards, stereographs and prints docujment Vermont's people, places and events.

The Burlington image collection is especially rich.

A number of Vermont photographers are represented, including A. F. Styles, William H. Jackson, George Houghton, L. L. McAllister, James Detore, Fred Hill, Mack Derrick, Herbert Congdon, B. Barker Benton, Peter Miller and Clara Sipprell.

How do you access these materials?

Our finding aids inventory many of our photo collections.

A descriptive guide (print book) for some photograph collections is available.

You can also find some Vermont photograph collections in UVM Libraries Digital Collections.

What's in the collection?

The Vermont map collection includes printed maps and atlases as well as maps drawn by hand. The majority of maps focus on Vermont, but the collection also covers the northeastern United States, New England and Lake Champlain. The maps date from the late 17th century to the present.

Collection strengths include fire insurance maps (19-20th c), land surveyor records and records of the Central Vermont Railroad.

How do you access these materials?

You can search CATQuest, the library catalog to find many of the Vermont maps and atlases.

Special Collections librarians can help you locate maps that are not yet represented in the library catalog.

Find some fire insurance maps and 19th-century maps of Burlington and Winooski in UVM Libraries Digital Collections.

There are more maps in the Map Collection at Howe Library.

What's in this collection?

The collection includes thousands of broadsides, posters, proclamations, announcements, invitations, dance cards, menus, advertisements, trade cards, calling cards, campaign literature, business letterhead, timetables, programs, and other printed items that provide insights into the everyday life of Vermonters.

Items date from the late 18th century to the present.

What is a broadside? According to the Library of Congress, broadsides are single sheets of paper, often intended for quick consumption in everyday life. These sheets can contain a variety of information from news, to official proclamations to advertisements and political advocacy.

How do you access these materials?

Most broadsides can be found in CATQuest, the library catalog.

Special Collections librarians can help you find other types of ephemera.

Selected Civil War broadsides and ephemera are available in UVM Libraries Digital Collections.

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