A collection of historic photos and other graphic materials documenting the history of Middlebury College and the surrounding community. Digitized from original materials held by Middlebury Special Collections, Middlebury, Vt.
Middlebury's varied athletic programs, including intercollegiate, club sports, intramurals, physical education courses, and recreation have created opportunities for all students regardless of their background or level of expertise for over two centuries. Our growing archive documents baseball, football, skiing, track and field, Quadball (formerly Quidditch), archery, hiking, sailing, logrolling, and more.
Topics: College athletics, Athletes, NESCAC, NCAA, Middlebury College
Middlebury's Bread Loaf Mountain campus, nestled amid the Green Mountain National Forest in Ripton, Vermont, is home to two venerable programs: Bread Loaf Writers' Conference and the Bread Loaf School of English. Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference is the oldest writers' conference in America, convening yearly in mid-August. Bread Loaf School of English has offered a rich array of graduate courses in literature, the teaching of writing, creative writing, and theater arts to students from across...
Topics: Bread Loaf School of English, Bread Loaf Writers Conference, Middlebury College, American...
This is a collection of campus newspapers and alumni newsletters, among other College publications, from the 19th Century to the present. Downloadable items include complete back issues of The Undergraduate, The Middlebury Campus, Middlebury College magazine, and more, currently held and maintained by Middlebury College Special Collections & Archives, Middlebury, Vt.
Among the many historical items in Middlebury College's Vermont Collection are over 1,100 photographic postcards from depicting landscapes, structures, disasters, and daily life in early 20th Century Vermont. Many of Vermont's towns and villages are represented in the collection, and we are proud to share digitized versions of these important historic images via the Internet Archive. For more information about any of the items in the collection, please contact Middlebury College Special...
A collection of archival texts - including letters, manuscripts, journals, and printed ephemera from the 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries - held and digitized by Middlebury College Special Collections.
Topics: Middlebury College, Manuscripts
Vermont Life magazine was a quarterly magazine, published by the State of Vermont, covering Vermont’s "people, places and culture." The state-owned magazine was founded in 1946 and ceased publication in the summer of 2018. Vermont Life was digitized from originals held by the State of Vermont, Middlebury College Special Collections, and the Dorothy Alling Memorial Library with funding support from the following: Davis Family Foundation, Middlebury College Friends of the Library,...
Topics: Vermont Life, magazine
Historic photographs from the Henry Sheldon Museum of Vermont History, originally presented in 'A Walking History of Middlebury' by Glenn M. Andres. This digital image collection is hosted by Middlebury College Special Collections, Middlebury, Vt.
Topics: Middlebury, Vt.,, Photographs
One of the nation's great archival collections of New England folksong, folklore, and balladry, the Flanders Ballad Collection was the lifework of Helen Hartness Flanders (1890-1972), of Springfield, Vermont. Over the course of thirty years, and with the assistance of Marguerite Olney, Flanders gathered and preserved more than 4,800 field recordings of New England folksongs and ballads as sung by native Vermonters and other New Englanders. In May, 1941, she donated the collection to...
Topics: folksong, folklore, balladry, Middlebury College, New England, folksongs
The Julian W. Abernethy Library of American Literature was bequeathed to Middlebury College in 1923, upon the death of Julian W. Abernethy, Class of 1876, College Trustee from 1901-1923. A distinguished teacher and scholar of American and British literature, Abernethy was an avid bibliophile and during his lifetime amassed an extraordinary collection of first editions, collected works, critical editions, and original manuscripts by the most notable men and women in American letters from the...
Topics: Transcendentalism, American writers, Manuscripts, Literature, Middlebury College
This collection contains copies of the Middlebury Kaleidoscope – Middlebury College’s yearbook – digitized by Middlebury College Special Collections & Archives, Middlebury, Vt.
Contains items related to Vermont’s railroads and their history from Middlebury College Special Collections and Archives' collections of rare books, historical photos, and ephemera.
Topics: Railroads, Vermont, Middlebury College
The Middlebury College Digital Lecture Archive includes video of lectures and events from Middlebury College. Lectures and addresses included in this collection have been delivered by speakers from many institutions on a variety of critical topics, and are made available whenever possible via the Internet Archive and other online platforms.
Topics: Lectures, Commencement speeches, Middlebury College
This is a collection of publications, photos, video, and other archival content documenting the long and rich history of the Middlebury Language Schools, which have taken place during 6 to 8 week long summer sessions each year since 1915. Items in this collection are digitized versions of objects currently held by Middlebury College Special Collections & Archives, Middlebury, Vt.
These 19th and Early 20th Century maps of Vermont and the surrounding region have been scanned from original documents in Special Collections and Archives at Middlebury College. For more information about any of the items in the collection, please contact Middlebury College Special Collections and Archives at specialcollections@middlebury.edu .
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Topic: Poetry
Source: RBMS
A complete archive of Middlebury College course catalogs starting in 1804, from Middlebury College Special Collections, Middlebury, Vt.
Topic: course catalogs
As part of Middlebury College Special Collections' commitment to preserving and providing access to a complex record of student life, we are sharing a selection of 19th-21st Century primary documents related to student activism at Middlebury. We hope that the items in this collection contribute to a more complete history of the College, its student body, the broader communities in which they reside, and the rich - and sometimes controversial - history of political and cultural...
Topic: student activism
Dorm room in Hadley Hall belonging to Anonymous student, Class of 2019.
Topics: Middlebury College, Hadley Hall, Student life, Campus buildings, College students, Dormitories
Source: S6 photo file
The Robinson Family letters from Rokeby Museum represent several generations of Quaker families in Vermont, especially the Robinsons - a family of farmers, abolitionists, artists, and authors whose home in Ferrisburgh is now a National Historic Landmark and one of the best-documented Underground Railroad sites in the country. The letters concern personal, farming, and business matters relating to the various families, and major political and social issues of their times, including abolitionism,...
Topics: Rokeby Museum, Robinson Family papers, Abolitionism, United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865,...
Dorm room in Hadley Hall belonging to Christina Puchinelli, Class of 2019.
Topics: Middlebury College, Hadley Hall, Student life, Campus buildings, College students, Dormitories
Source: S6 photo file
Dorm room in Hepburn Hall belonging to Kyle Schlanger, Class of 2018.
Topics: Middlebury College, Hepburn Hall, Student life, Campus buildings, College students, Dormitories
Source: S6 photo file
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Topics: 28cm., Middlebury College, Middlebury College Magazine, College newspapers
Source: College Archives
Dorm room in Battell belonging to Anonymous student, Class of 2018.
Topics: Middlebury College, Battell Hall, Student life, Campus buildings, College students, Dormitories
Source: S6 photo file
The Hemingway Family Archive at Middlebury College joins Hemingway archives in more than 75 private and institutional collections, the most distinguished of which include those at the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library & Museum, and the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center at the University of Texas at Austin. Compiled by writer Leicester Hemingway (1915-1982), the younger brother of Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961), our physical collection contains more than 1,600...
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Topics: 28cm., Middlebury College, Middlebury College Magazine, College newspapers
Source: College Archives
Dorm room in Gifford Hall belonging to Timo van der Geese, Class of 2018.
Topics: Middlebury College, Gifford Hall, Student life, Campus buildings, College students, Dormitories
Source: S6 photo file
Dorm room in Pearsons belonging to Amy Tat, Class of 2018.
Topics: Middlebury College, Pearsons Hall, Student life, Campus buildings, College students, Dormitories
Source: S6 photo file
Robert Frost and Anne Sexton at the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, 1959. Individuals in the photograph include, from left to right, Elizabeth Baker, Irene Orgel, Robert Frost, Anne Sexton, and George Lea.
Topics: Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, American poets, Poets, Photographs, Middlebury College, Ripton...
Source: F8 photo file
A collection of documents detailing the planning, foundation, and historical transformations of Middlebury Chapel. Middlebury removed the name “Mead” from its chapel in 2021 because of Governor John A. Mead’s role in advancing eugenics policy in the early 20th century. Mead graduated from Middlebury in 1864. The building is now referred to as Middlebury Chapel.
Topics: Middlebury College, Middlebury Chapel, Mead Chapel, Historical buildings, Campus buildings, Churches
Dorm room in Hadley Hall belonging to Jenna Flug, Class of 2019.
Topics: Middlebury College, Hadley Hall, Student life, Campus buildings, College students, Dormitories
Source: S6 photo file
View of the rear of Forest Hall, looking southeast, ca. 1940.
Topics: Middlebury (Vt.)--Buildings, structures, etc., College buildings--Vermont, Middlebury College,...
Source: Gipson Collection, Stewart-Swift Research Center at the Henry Sheldon Museum of Vermont History
Topics: College newspapers, Middlebury College, Middlebury College Newsletter, 1969
Source: College Archives
Dorm room in Battell belonging to Anonymous student, Class of 2019.
Topics: Middlebury College, Battell Hall, Student life, Campus buildings, College students, Dormitories
Source: S6 photo file
Dorm room in Hadley Hall belonging to Christina Puchinelli, Class of 2019.
Topics: Middlebury College, Hadley Hall, Student life, Campus buildings, College students, Dormitories
Source: S6 photo file
20x11 cm. First Line: "A Soldier of the Legion lay dying in Algiers" This is a scanned copy of the original broadside in the Helen Hartness Flanders Collection at Middlebury College.
Topics: Helen Hartness Flanders, Broadsides, Folk music, Folksongs, Ballads, New England
Source: Helen Hartness Flanders Ballad Collection
Color; views of campus in winter incl. snow sculptures; Sugaring Off Party 0:33; “Commencement” 2:55 behind Forest Hall and in front of Middlebury Chapel; various views of people on campus and students in class/studying; students on Battell Beach 6:18 with name tags; faculty at Bread Loaf 6:53, playing tennis and football 7:55; military vehicles and tanks at Bread Loaf 8:25, on campus; various shots of students studying, in airplane, theater,cartoons, dancing, band, tug-of-war, three-legged...
Topics: Middlebury College, 16mm film clips
Dorm room in Stewart Hall belonging to Peter Martin, Class of 2019.
Topics: Middlebury College, Stewart Hall, Student life, Campus buildings, College students, Dormitories
Source: S6 photo file
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Topics: 28cm., Middlebury College, Middlebury College Magazine, College newspapers
Source: College Archives
Middlebury College New Faces for the Class of 1986. This is a scanned version of the original image in Special Collections and Archives at Middlebury College, Middlebury, Vt.
Topics: Middlebury College, College freshmen, First-year students, Photographs, New Faces
Source: A10 New Faces
Scrapbook containing numerous newspaper clippings from the late 1830s to the 1850s, mounted into a volume originally used as an account book from 1813-1817. Much of the subject matter relates to slavery in the United States and the antislavery movement. Clippings of published poems and prose include those by Whittier, Longfellow, Tennyson, and Lydia Maria Child. This volume has a hand-written index and is inscribed: "Began March 1844. H. L. Thoreau, Concord, Mass." Some of the loosely...
Topics: Helen Thoreau, antislavery, journals, clippings, abolitionism, scrapbooks, slavery
Source: C122
Topics: Middlebury College, Yearbooks, College archives
Source: College Archives
Main Street, with horse-drawn carriages and wagons, automobiles, town hall visible, signs "Andes", "Telephone", "Hotel", and "Home bakery", Bethel, Vermont.
Topics: Bethel (Vt.), Buildings, structures, etc., Postcards
Source: Vermont Postcards collection
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Topics: 28cm., Middlebury College, Middlebury College Magazine, College newspapers
Source: College Archives
Topics: College newspapers, Middlebury College, Middlebury College Newsletter, 1965
Source: College Archives
Photograph of Stewart Hall at Middlebury College, taken in or around 1950..
Topics: Middlebury College, College buildings, Buildings, structures, etc., Stewart Hall
Source: A12 photo file
Portrait of Timothy Clark Smith, M.D., Middlebury College Alumnus, Class of 1842; Staff Surgeon in the Russian army, 1855-1856; born in Monkton, Vt.; physician; U.S. Consul at Odessa, Russia, 1861-1875, at Galatz, 1878-1883; died in Middlebury, Vt.; (right-facing portrait) Title supplied by cataloger
Topics: Middlebury College, Alumni and alumnae, Smith, Timothy C. (Timothy Clark), 1821-1893
Source: A9 photo file
52 x 40 cm color map of railroad lines in Vermont in 1902.
Topics: Vermont, maps
Source: Vermont Maps collection
Photograph of Adirondack House at Middlebury College, taken in or around 1910..
Topics: Middlebury College, College buildings, Buildings, structures, etc., Adirondack House
Source: A12 photo file
Topics: Middlebury College, Athletics, College Sports, Hockey, Men’s hockey, Photographs, Athletes,...
Student strikers gathered at Middlebury College, May 1970.
Topics: Student activism, Anti-war protests, Campus politics, Student strikes, Vietnam War
Source: S6
View of Main Street looking southwest in the 1930s.
Topics: Middlebury (Vt.)--Buildings, structures, etc., Commercial buildings--Vermont--Middlebury,...
Source: Gipson Collection, Stewart-Swift Research Center at the Henry Sheldon Museum of Vermont History
Topics: Middlebury College, Athletics, College Sports, Hockey, Men’s hockey, Photographs, Athletes,...
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Topics: 28cm., Middlebury College, Middlebury College Magazine, College newspapers
Source: College Archives
35 x 27 cm color map of Weybridge with a detailed inset map of the center of Weybridge, Vermont
Topics: Weybridge (Vt.), maps
Source: Vermont Maps collection
Topics: Middlebury College, Athletics, College Sports, Hockey, Men’s hockey, Photographs, Athletes,...
Rutland Railroad steam locomotive 232 is belching smoke and steam in front of the railroad station at St. Alban's, Vermont, as two men stand on the adjacent sidewalk.
Topics: Railroad stations, Saint Albans, Postcards
Source: Vermont Postcards collection
View of Battell Bridge (1893) under construction after the fire of 1891.
Topics: Middlebury (Vt.)--Buildings, structures, etc., Bridges--Otter Creek, Bridges--Vermont--Middlebury,...
Source: General, Stewart-Swift Research Center at the Henry Sheldon Museum of Vermont History
View looking south on Court Street in the late nineteenth or early twentieth century. The Old Courthouse (1883) is just visible on the left.
Topics: Middlebury (Vt.)--Buildings, structures, etc., Middlebury (Vt.), Court Street (Middlebury, Vt.),...
Source: Postcards, Stewart-Swift Research Center at the Henry Sheldon Museum of Vermont History
Topics: Middlebury College, Athletics, College Sports, Hockey, Men’s hockey, Photographs, Athletes,...
Winter Carnival poster.
Topics: Middlebury College, Student activities, Posters, Winter Carnival, Events
Source: S6 photo file
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Topics: 28cm., Middlebury College, Middlebury College Magazine, College newspapers
Source: College Archives
Topics: Middlebury College, Athletics, College Sports, Hockey, Men’s hockey, Photographs, Athletes,...
View of North Pleasant Street looking south toward town from the intersection with Stewart Lane and Elm Street, ca. 1892.
Topics: Middlebury (Vt.)--Buildings, structures, etc., Roads--Vermont, Middlebury (Vt.), North Pleasant...
Source: Postcards, Stewart-Swift Research Center at the Henry Sheldon Museum of Vermont History
View of Starr Library reading room, ca. 1910.
Topics: Middlebury (Vt.)--Buildings, structures, etc., College buildings--Vermont, Middlebury College....
Source: photograph album 1970.08, Stewart-Swift Research Center at the Henry Sheldon Museum of Vermont History
Topics: Middlebury College, Athletics, College Sports, Hockey, Men’s hockey, Photographs, Athletes,...
Topics: Middlebury College, Athletics, College Sports, Hockey, Men’s hockey, Photographs, Athletes,...
Topics: Middlebury College, Athletics, College Sports, Hockey, Men’s hockey, Photographs, Athletes,...
From the Middlebury News Bureau collection.
Topics: Middlebury College, Photographs, Winter Carnival, Student activities, Events
Source: A10 photo file (MCNB)
Portrait of Middlebury alum Ezra J. Warner, class of 1861.
Topics: Middlebury College, Middlebury alumni, Portraits, College archives, Alumni and alumnae
Source: A9 photo file
View of 23 Seminary Street, built by Samuel Bent in 1825, ca. 1890s. Individuals pictured are unidentified.
Topics: Middlebury (Vt.)--Buildings, structures, etc., Seminary Street (Middlebury, Vt.), Middlebury (Vt.),...
Source: General Collection, Stewart-Swift Research Center at the Henry Sheldon Museum of Vermont History
View of the Sargent House Hotel at 15 Court Street (1811), ca. 1910. Formerly the Middlebury Hotel (1811) and the Pierce House (1876-1906). In 1946 the building was divided into apartments.
Topics: Middlebury (Vt.)--Buildings, structures, etc., Hotels--Vermont--Middlebury, Sargent House...
Source: Postcards, Stewart-Swift Research Center at the Henry Sheldon Museum of Vermont History
Topics: Middlebury College, Athletics, College Sports, Hockey, Men’s hockey, Photographs, Athletes,...
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Topics: Vermont Life Magazine, Vermont, Vermont – Periodicals, Magazines, Tourism
Source: RBMS
Students pose in front of KDR house at 48 South Street, Middlebury, Vermont. This is a scanned version of the original image in Special Collections and Archives at Middlebury College, Middlebury, Vt.
Topics: KDR, Kappa Delta Rho, Student activities
Source: A12 photo file
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