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Maple Recipe Collection
- Date Created: 1952-2008
- Description: The Maple Recipe collection offers a unique glimpse at the variety in maple sugar and maple syrup use over the last half-century, as it is prominently featured in a range of dishes, from the sweet to the savory. The collection includes entrees, side dishes, appetizers, breads and desserts, and draws recipes from a variety of sources, including commercial cookbooks, regional cookbooks, and community cookbooks. Highlights of the collection include: a selection of recipes from Judith Jones, cookbook editor for Julia Child and part-time Vermont resident; published recipes from celebrated Vermont food establishments, including the Inn at Shelburne Farms, the Cobble House Inn, and the New England Culinary Institute; and recipes from community organizations, including local Vermont church groups, the Green Mountain Folklore Society, and the University of Vermont. The materials in this collection are a small sampling of the cookbook collection in the University of Vermont Libraries Department of Special Collections.
Tennie Toussaint Photographs
- Date Created: 2007-04-10
- Description: The Tennie Toussaint collection includes photographs of agricultural landscapes, logging, mills, barn raisings, and railroad bridges from the Danville, Vermont area, circa 1900. Tennie Toussaint was a columnist for the Burlington Free Press in the 1960s - 1970s. In addition, she was an artist, librarian, made maple syrup, and refinished antique chairs. The photographs were taken by Elgin Gates, a North Danville blacksmith. Other notable figures in this collection are Frank Valley, a carpenter responsible for a lot of the new barns built at this time and the remodeling of many local houses who was known for his meticulous craftmanship, and Arthur Sanborn, who owned the sawmill and whose home had modern touches such as electricity, an aluminum roof, and a stained glass window. The mill owned by Sanborn had previously been run by the McFarlands and produced one million board feet a year at its peak.
Out in the Mountains
- Date Issued: 1986-2007
- Description: Out in the Mountains was the only LGBT focused newspaper in Vermont from early 1986 to January of 2007 when the last issue was released. The newspaper provided a forum for a diverse LGBT community to stay connected, covered issues facing the community such as violence, isolation and HIV, and discussed policy and organizing efforts to battle discrimination against LGBT people in Vermont and in the United States as a whole. Some significant milestones for LGBT rights in Vermont covered by Out in the Mountains include the passage of Civil Unions and the Vermont Employment Non-Discrimination Act. The newspaper featured ongoing advice and dating column, a series of coming out stories, a column for youth writers, LGBT cartoonists including Alison Bechdel, and profiles of prominent community members. The newspaper refused to print advertisements for alcohol or cigarettes, and ran advertisements for safer sex practices. Out in the Mountains ceased publication due to financial difficulties.
Fletcher Family
- Date Created: 1826-1903
- Description: 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. The correspondence included in this collection was collected by Ruth Allen Colton Fletcher, Henrietta Smith Fletcher, and Katherine Fletcher. Ruth was born in 1810 or 1811 to Lydia and Lemuel Colton of Sharon, VT. She married Andrew Fletcher in 1839, and lived in Waterville, Belvidere, and then Johnson, VT until her death, circa 1903. Her oldest surviving child was Andrew Craig Fletcher, who married Henrietta Smith in 1869. Henrietta was born in 1845 to Catherine and George Smith of Burke, NY. Katherine Fletcher was born in 1870 to Henrietta and Andrew Craig Fletcher of Jeffersonville, VT. She attended Johnson State Normal School from 1885-1887, graduating in January 1888. The correspondence describes the experiences of several family members who moved west to New York, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, and California. The correspondents recount in great detail the work of creating and managing their farms in these new states or territories, and many letters give meticulous lists of the prices of land, grains, stock, and groceries. The families in this correspondence endure a great deal of sickness and deaths and these as well as some accounts of their medical treatments are described in the letters. There are a few letters from Enos Fletcher and Charles Hogan that are from the Civil War, and several letters refer to the War and its effects on their communities. There is an account of the "St. Albans Raid" by Ruth's son Andrew Craig Fletcher, who was working in St. Albans at the time. Katherine Fletcher's correspondence with her family and classmates document her life and studies at Vermont's teacher training institution twenty years into its history as such.
Civil War Broadsides and Epemera
- Date Created: 1861-1865
- Description: The Civil War Broadsides and Ephemera Collection contains items from the UVM Silver Special Collections Library that were printed and circulated from 1861 to 1865. Most of the items are related to the war, while a small number are related to Vermont’s efforts to organize and train the state militia after the war. The collection features proclamations, orders and announcements about the state’s military operations, including recruitment, enrollment, supplies, and equipment; relief efforts; the end of the war; and President Lincoln’s death. One of the most unusual items is a broadside alerting the public to the theft of U.S. Treasury notes and bonds stolen from a St. Albans, Vermont bank by Confederate raiders in October 1864.
Fire Insurance Maps of Burlington, Vermont, 1889
- Description: The 1889 fire insurance maps for Burlington, Vermont were produced by the Sanborn Map and Publishing Co. to provide insurance companies and underwriters with detailed and accurate information about individual properties. Queen City Park, located in the adjacent town of South Burlington, is also shown.
- Parent Collections: Fire Insurance Maps of Vermont, Fire Insurance Maps of Burlington, Vermont
Fire Insurance Maps of Burlington, Vermont, 1894
- Date Created: 1894
- Description: The 1894 fire insurance maps for Burlington, Vermont were produced by the Sanborn-Perris Map Co. to provide insurance companies and underwriters with detailed and accurate information about individual properties. Two areas located outside Burlington, Queen City Park in the town of South Burlington and Dr. W. Seward Webb's farm in Shelburne, are also shown.
- Parent Collections: Fire Insurance Maps of Vermont, Fire Insurance Maps of Burlington, Vermont
Fire Insurance Maps of Richmond, Vermont, 1904
- Creator: Sanborn Map Company
- Date Created: 1904
- Description: The 1904 fire insurance map sheet for the central part of the village of Richmond, Vermont was produced by the Sanborn Map Company to give fire insurance companies and underwriters accurate information about insured properties. Insets show the facilities of manufacturing enterprises, including the Richmond Underwear Co., Vermont Condensed Milk, and a lumber company.
- Parent Collections: Fire Insurance Maps of Vermont, Fire Insurance Maps of Richmond, Vermont
Fire Insurance Maps of Winooski, Vermont, 1909
- Creator: Sanborn Map Company
- Date Created: 1909
- Description: The 1909 fire insurance map sheets for Winooski, Vermont were produced by the Sanborn Map Co. to give fire insurance companies and underwriters accurate information about insured properties. The maps document the extensive mill complexes along the Winooski River, commercial buildings, and the expanding residential areas.
- Parent Collections: Fire Insurance Maps of Vermont, Fire Insurance Maps of Winooski, Vermont
Fire Insurance Maps of St. Albans, Vermont, 1889
- Creator: Sanborn Map Company
- Date Created: 1889
- Description: The 1889 fire insurance map sheets for the village of St. Albans, Vermont were produced by the Sanborn Map and Publishing Co. to give fire insurance companies and underwriters accurate information about insured properties. The maps record the extensive railroad facilities west of Main Street, manufacturing and industrial enterprises located nearby, the city’s commercial center along Main Street, and the churches, courthouse and academy located east of Taylor Park. The maps also include residences in the central section of St. Albans.
- Parent Collections: Fire Insurance Maps of Vermont, Fire Insurance Maps of St. Albans, Vermont