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George Perkins Marsh Collection

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Identifier: mss-985
Abstract Collection includes correspondence, diaries (1864-82), notebooks (1834-86), and published works, relating to protective tariff, founding of Smithsonian Institute, Mexican War, Civil War, and other political issues during Marsh's congressional career; his impressions of Garabaldi and Italian unification while U.S. minister to Italy (1860-82); and comparative philosophy, Near Eastern Studies, Scandanavian Studies, conservation, book collecting, and other scholarly interests. Includes papers of...
Dates: 1812-1929

Herbert W. Congdon Papers Collection

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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work on the Long Trail and the Green Mountain Club, as well as 36 volumes of his diaries and a typescript of his unpublished...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