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- Barker, B. Benton
- Title: B. Benton Barker Photograph Collection
- Dates: circ- 1920
- Extent: 1.6 Linear feet4 boxes
- Abstract: B. Benton Barker was an early 20th Century photographer in Burlington, Vermont. The collection contains glass negatives and prints of photos taken around Burlington by B. Benton Barker around the turn of the century.
- Parker, Charles E., 1839-1924
- Title: Charles E. Parker Papers
- Dates: 1810-1943
- Extent: 10.0 Linear feetFive cartons, three boxes, two oversized folders
- Abstract: Charles Edmund Parker (1839-1923) was a prominent businessman of Vergennes, Vermont, Civil War veteran, and politician. The collection covers 1810-1943 and includes family and civil war era correspondence, militia records, business records, and photographs.
- Spear Family
- Title: Spear Family Papers
- Dates: 1793-1942
- Extent: Two cartons, two oversize bound volumes
- Abstract: Richard Spear (1737 - 1788) moved to Shelburne, Vermont, from Braintree, Massachusetts, in the summer of 1783. He died five years later, but his sons Asahel (1778 - 1849) and Elhanan W. Spear (1782 - 1869) remained in Shelburne and raised families there. The Spear Family Papers contain an interesting variety of manuscripts from the 1790s to the 1940s.
- Rockwell Family
- Title: Rockwell Family Papers
- Dates: 1854-1972
- Extent: 2 cartons
- Abstract: The Rockwell Family Papers consist of two cartons of letters, business papers, bound diaries and account books, photographs, newspaper clippings, and other papers. The chronological span of the collection is from 1854 to 1972, with the great majority of the papers dating from the 1850s to 1929. Most of the materials in the Rockwell Family Papers relate to Ell B. Rockwell's many years of service on Lake Champlain steamboats.
- McAllister, L. L., (Louis L.), 1877-1963
- Title: Louis L. McAllister Photographs
- Dates: 1915-1961
- Extent: 19.0 Linear feet45 boxes
- Abstract: The L.L. McAllister Collection includes portraits, construction projects, buildings, businesses and events in the Burlington area covering the period ca. 1920-1960. The collection also includes photos of street, bridge, airport and sewer construction and repair, as well as group portraits of clubs, schools, etc.
- Peake family
- Title: Peake Family Papers
- Dates: 1793-1955
- Extent: 7.45 Linear feet5 cartons, 3 boxes
- Abstract: The Peake family arrived in the area that would become Addison County, Vermont, in 1779, when William Peake (1740-1813) moved with his family from Nantucket to the frontier town of Monkton. William's son Seth (1784-1827) settled in nearby Bristol in 1810 as a saddler and storekeeper, beginning more than a centry and a half of Peake residency in that community. The Peake Family Papers consist of approximately six linear feet of correspondence, bound manuscripts, diaries and other miscellaneous papers. The chronological span of the collection is from 1793 to 1955, with the heaviest concentration of material falling between 1840 and 1900.