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Barlow Insurance Surveys

 Collection
Identifier: mss-480
Abstract

Barlow's Insurance Surveys were published between circa 1870-1896. The site-specific surveys of industrial properties include a page of text and an isometric view and plan. The surveys describe buildings, special features, and available fire protection. They include notes about the business owners and the goods produced. Updated surveys were produced as the business activities and facilities changed.

Dates: 1873-1893

Collamer Abbott Collection

 Collection
Identifier: mss-191
Abstract

The Abbott Collection is composed of papers, maps, and photographs on mining and minerals, particularly in Vermont and the Eastern United States.

Dates: 1753-1976

Emporium Lumber Company Records

 Collection
Identifier: mss-059
Abstract

Correspondence between the company office in Danby, Vt., New York headquarters at Conifer, and general headquarters in Pennsylvania; deeds relating chiefly to the Griffith lands in Bennington and Rutland Counties, Vt.; survey reports and maps relating to specific land parcels in Danby, Mount Tabor, Peru, Stratton, and Sunderland, Vt.; and material (1928-1967) relating to purchase of the company’s Vermont lands by the U.S. Forest Service for the Green Mountain National Park.

Dates: Majority of material found within Bulk, 1907-1947; 1853-1967

Herbert W. Congdon Papers Collection

 Collection
Identifier: mss-095
Abstract The Herbert Wheaton Congdon Papers at UVM consist of five cartons, one document box, and eleven boxes containing hundreds of photographs, negatives, and notecards. Much of the collection relates to Congdon's part in the Old Buildings Project and his later, individual work on early Vermont buildings. There are also papers, maps, glass slides and photos from Congdon's work on the Long Trail and the Green Mountain Club, as well as 36 volumes of his diaries and a typescript of his unpublished...
Dates: 1914-1972

James Marsh Read Papers

 Collection
Identifier: mss-483
Abstract

James Marsh Read (1833-1865), an 1853 graduate of the University of Vermont, was an explorer of the American West and a Civil War soldier. He wrote critical essays about the events of the time and kept extensive correspondence with his family. These materials are combined with the collected research and manuscript of the collection’s donor, Gretchen Howe Miller, providing insight into James M. Read’s life and the issues of this period in American and Vermont history.

Dates: 1848-2004; Majority of material found within 1848 - 1866

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