Dartmouth College. Library. Rauner Special Collections Library

Date(s): 1762 to 1957

Scope and Contents The collection includes account books originating from the Upper Connecticut River Valley as well as various New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, and Maine towns. The majority of the books are from the 18th and 19th centuries, but a few extend into the 20th Century. Types of accounts include general stores, agricultural, merchants, post office, physicians, pharmacists, along with individual or family accounts. Some account books are unidentified. Many volumes contain ephemeral items tipped...

Date(s): 1790 to 1966

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Consists of printed works, mostly in pamphlet or reprint form, produced by Dartmouth College alumni from the late 1700s through the mid 20th century. Although a few items are later, most materials date from before 1900. The collection includes sermons, speeches, reports, and articles covering a wide range of subjects, including medicine, scientific developments, and social, political, and cultural issues.

Date(s): 1800 to 2015

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Collection of wooden canes, primarily those carried and carved by Dartmouth seniors. The practice of carving senior canes began in 1885. In the 1890s, Charles Dudley, Class of 1902, designed the most common Indian Head Cane. Other canes in the collection include presentation canes, society canes, and Daniel Webster's walking stick.

Date(s): circa 1920-2006

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Affiliates Files. The collection contains files with clippings, photographs, administrative documents, press releases and printed material related to affiliates of Dartmouth College which include staff, faculty and honorary degree recipients.

Date(s): 1930 to 2024

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Contains the administrative records of the Rauner Special Collections Library at Dartmouth College. Contents include donor correspondence, logbooks, project documents and accession records.

Date(s): circa 1978

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The collection contains a photocopy of the typescript of the "Guide to the microfilm edition of the European journals of George and Anna Ticknor" published by Dartmouth College Library.

Date(s): 1870 to 2005

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Rauner Special Collections Library photographic files contain images collected by the library documenting student life, campus events, buildings and people at Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire.

Date(s): 1845 to 2007

Scope and Contents Artificial collection of materials related to select New Hampshire and Vermont cemeteries gathered circa 1993. Contains maps, notes taken from physical observation of gravestones and from towns records of interments. Includes the records of deaths and burials in Hanover compiled by John Richards, and records of the Dartmouth Cemetery Association, which was established in 1845 to take control of the cemetery on the Hanover plain. Also included are notes taken from gravestone observations by...

Date(s): circa 1806-2003

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Thespis Collection. The collection contains miscellaneous ephemeral materials related to the history of theater and the performing arts. The materials are topically arranged and include printed programs, publicity stills, souvenir booklets, stage designs, and the occasional student paper.

Date(s): 1911 to 2008

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The collection contains souvenir programs and playbills for performances at theaters in the United States and abroad, after 1911, excluding oversized. The domestic playbills have an emphasis on New York and Boston theaters. The collection consists of mostly original playbills with some photocopies among them. They are organized by theater.