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- Congressional Papers
- The University of Vermont (UVM) is a major repository for
Vermont Congressional papers, holding the records of over 30 Members of
Congress from 1791 to the present. The Congressional Papers collection will
provide access to digitized content from these papers. The intent is to
document selected aspects of the legislative history of Vermont's members of
Congress. In particular, we look at issues that were important for a
particular member as well as issues that have been important over time such
as support for dairy farmers, water quality, and slavery.
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- Congressional Portraits
- Individual and group portraits of Vermont members of Congress.
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- Congressional Speeches
- This collection features speeches made on the floor of the
United States House of Representatives and Senate by Vermont Congressmen.
Topics covered include the environment, education, agriculture, World War II
and selective service, the Mexican War, the tariff and international trade,
slavery, the Civil War and Reconstruction. The speeches date from 1812 to
the present and a wide variety of Congressmen are represented.
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- Dairy and the US Congress
- This collection documents legislative issues relating to dairy
such as milk pricing, subsidies, and oleomargarine. Vermont's congressional
delegation has a long and active history in matters relating to Vermont's
dairy farmers and the dairy industry. George Aiken, Elbert Brigham, James
Jeffords, and Patrick Leahy all served on Agriculture committees and their
collections document many of the agricultural issues that faced Congress in
the 20th Century.
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- Fletcher Family
- The Fletcher Family collection includes family correspondence from the period 1826-1903 and photographs from circa 1860-1890.
The material comes from the Fletcher Family subseries of the Consuelo Northrop Bailey Papers, which contains family papers
collected by Consuelo's mother, Katherine Fletcher Northrop.
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- George Perkins Marsh Online Research Center
- The American Civil War. Vermont geography. Nineteenth century sculpture. Nineteenth century public architecture. Creation
of the Smithsonian Institution. Biography: George Perkins Marsh: Prophet of Conservation Technical Information The text files
were created using WordPerfect 7.0 as an SGML editor and the DTD for
historical documents developed by Dr. David R. Chesnutt of the University of South
Carolina and the Model Editions Partnership (MEP). The SGML publication used DynaText, a
software package developed by EBT Corporation of Providence Rhode Island and granted to
the University of Vermont under their educational grant program. WordPerfect 9.0 was used
as the final editor and parser. Contributors David A. Donath, the Advisory Board of Directors, and the Board of Trustees of
the
Woodstock Foundation provided the financial support that made this project possible.
Bruce Kirby, archivist at the Smithsonian Institution Archives, and archivists at t h e
Houghton Library, Harvard University, the New York Historical Society, and the Archives
of American Art provided copies of Marsh correspondence in their collections for us to
transcribe and publish. The Vermont Historical Society allowed us to reproduce
photographs in their collection.
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- Hay Harvesting in the 1940's
- In the 1940’s, Robert M. Carter, of the University of
Vermont Agricultural Experiment Station, conducted a study of hay harvesting
techniques and costs in Vermont. This collection documents that work which
resulted in several published studies and three films showing different hay
harvesting techniques.
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- Letters Home From Congress
- This collection features letters home from Warren R. Austin
(Senator, 1931-1946), Jacob Collamer (Representative, 1843-1848; Senator,
1855-1865), and Samuel C. Crafts (Representative, 1817-1824; Senator
1842-1843). The letters document travel to and from Washington by horse,
boat, train, and airplane; lodging in boarding houses, hotels, and homes;
social life in Washington; significant local and national events; and
legislative issues under consideration in Congress. Austin's letters are
particularly strong in their coverage of his frustration at being a minority
Senator during the era of Roosevelt and the New Deal; his activities on the
Judiciary Committee; and foreign affairs questions such as the Neutrality
Act. The letters of Crafts and Collamer both extensively cover the question
of slavery, discussing Missouri statehood, John Brown, the annexation of
Texas, and the Civil War. All three Congressmen frequently discuss questions
regarding appropriations and the Federal budget. Biographical information is
available from the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, at:
http://bioguide.congress.gov/biosearch/biosearch.asp
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- Louis L. McAllister Photographs
- Louis Leon McAllister was born in
Omaha, Nebraska on October 16, 1876, the son of Rosa (Gould) and William
G. McAllister. His father, a native of Warren VT, was a maker of
tintypes in Bristol prior to the Civil War. L.L. returned to Vermont and
began photographing in Randolph in 1897. In a few years he moved to
Burlington and became a well-known photographer in the Burlington area
with his business at 47 North Winooski Avenue.
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- Tennie Toussaint Photographs
- The Tennie Toussaint collection includes photographs of
agricultural landscapes, logging, mills, barn raisings, and railroad bridges
from the Danville, Vermont area, circa 1900.
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