Primary Sources: U.S. States: Vermont

Letter from the Ruth Estelle Slack collection at the Vermont Historical Society describing the 1927 flood.

"The Civil War Broadsides and Ephemera Collection contains items from the Wilbur Collection of Vermontiana 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. "

"The diaries begin on January 1, 1830, continuing with regular entries until April 2, 1843, documenting the life of a young Vermont farm laborer in Royalton, Vermont. In his diaries, Williams reports on his daily chores, his attendance at singing and spelling schools, his participation in militia, and his religious and social life." Vermont Historical Society

"The Green Mountain Chronicles is a series of 52 five-minute radio programs created by the Vermont Historical Society between 1987 and 1988. They were broadcast by commercial and public radio stations throughout the state in late 1988 and early 1989. The radio series tells the history of Vermont in the twentieth century using archival sound recordings and oral history interviews."

"This collection consists of letters exchanged by James Hope (1819-1892) of Castleton, Vermont, a portrait painter and landscapist, and his wife Julia, between 1854 and 1874." Vermont Historical Society

"The extensive collections at the Library of Congress contain historic artifacts and cultural materials from across the U.S. "

"... a transcription of a journal and scrapbook of a 12-day road trip taken by
two young women from Reading, Massachusetts, to Vermont sometime around 1930.
The journal was created by Doris Ward’s unnamed travelling companion and given to
Doris as a memento of the trip. This transcription was created by volunteers at the
Vermont Historical Society, especially Edith Harding and Liz Gilligan, in 2011." Vermont Historical Society

"The Center for Digital Initiatives makes unique research collections available online." Collections include: Civil War Broadsides and Ephemera, Congressional Speeches, Louis L. McAllister Photographs, Photographs of Vergennes (Vt.) and many more.

"The Diaries collection provides access to more than thirty fully transcribed and searchable diaries from the eighteenth, nineteenth and twentieth century. The collection includes diaries documenting student life at UVM in different eras, the 1918-1919 flu epidemic, the civil war, life in Italy in the early 1860’s, courtship and marriage, social life, religious life, employment opportunities for women, travel, life at a summer cottage, and much more."

"The Vermont Digital Newspaper Project is committed to providing free online access to historic Vermont newspapers published between 1836 to 1922, as part of a nationwide newspaper digitization effort."

"The digital holdings of the Vermont Folklife Center Archive include two streams of content:

1) Analog audio source material, photographic prints, slides and negatives, and manuscripts that were created between 1945 and 1995 and digitized between 2003 and the present for the purposes of preservation and access, and

2) Born-digital audio, images and text generated from approximately 2004 to date. The total quantity of digital material in the collection consists of 5 terabytes of data."