Vermont Antiquarian Society Collection

The Vermont Antiquarian Society Papers are made up of a combination of the materials pertaining to the Society and collected by it. In the first category there are minutes of Society meetings, catalogues of the library and museum, Society correspondence, printed by-laws and promotional pamphlets, membership application forms, and so on, all from 1897-1905 and 1922. There is also a sizeable body of newspaper clippings of Burlington historical items from 1866 to 1923, as well as numerous photographs and pictures of Burlington and other Vermont locales. The historical material relating to Burlington collected by the society and included in the Papers is concentrated mainly in the first half of the nineteenth century. This material includes local deeds from the period 1829-30 pertaining to Chittenden county militia, a record of the meeting of Burlington School District No. 2 on January 14, 1805, and a small group of political papers from the years 1824-38 that shed some light on the Whig party in Burlington and Chittenden County during the administrations of John Quincy Adams and Andrew Jackson.

The Papers have been broken down into the following categories: dated Society materials; undated Society materials; Burlington history clippings and twentieth century miscellany; and early nineteenth century collections of the Society. The dated material in each category has been arranged chronologically, with the undated material grouped alphabetically by subject or type.