Norwich University Archives & Special Collections

Norwich University Archives & Special Collections Stories, images, and documents from the Norwich University Archives and Special Collections, located on the 5th floor of the Kreitzberg Library.

The Norwich University Archives collects, preserves, and provides access to the historical records of the university and the personal papers of its alumni and affiliates. Our beautiful reading room on the 5th floor of the Kreitzberg Library is open to the public five days a week. We love working with faculty, students, and anyone who wants to learn more about the primary sources that have shaped N

orwich history. We invite anyone to come and explore our shared Norwich legacy! This page is a place for anyone who is interested in the history and legacy of Norwich University to learn and share. Please be respectful, truthful, and do not publish advertisements or spam. We reserve the right to remove posts or ban users who violate these guidelines.

Can anyone help us date these recently digitized slides of members of the men’s ice hockey team with Coach Robert Priest...
02/11/2022

Can anyone help us date these recently digitized slides of members of the men’s ice hockey team with Coach Robert Priestley? More hockey images from this group can be found at: https://bit.ly/361xaLf.

[Source: NU Photograph Collection, Athletics, Hockey]

From our collection of images by NU's past staff photographers: Vermont Senator Patrick Leahy with two of our history an...
11/18/2021

From our collection of images by NU's past staff photographers: Vermont Senator Patrick Leahy with two of our history and government students in 1983, photographed by George Turner.

[Source: NU Photograph Collection, Visitors, Negatives]

Collections included in the NU Archives remember the service of Norwich veterans in many different ways. Following the N...
11/11/2021

Collections included in the NU Archives remember the service of Norwich veterans in many different ways. Following the November 11th armistice, which ended hostilities in World War I and which we now commemorate as Veterans Day, the Norwich University Record published a short note that "Col. Ira L. Reeves, former president of Norwich University, was gassed within thirty minutes of the time the armistice took effect...He is now in a hospital in France."

Ira Louis Reeves had become president of Norwich University in 1915 but submitted his resignation in order to return to active service after the U.S. entrance into World War I in 1917. After the armistice, he served as president of the A.E.F. (American Expeditionary Forces) University in Beaune, France, from February-June 1919.

We’re honored to have a collection of papers and scrapbooks, representing events from throughout the span of Col. Reeves’ life in the Norwich Archives. See our guide to that collection for more about Col. Ira L. Reeves: https://bit.ly/ReevesIraL.

Here’s how the campus was laid out when Charles Field Yardley attended from 1936-1939. Yardley’s scrapbook featuring pho...
09/28/2021

Here’s how the campus was laid out when Charles Field Yardley attended from 1936-1939. Yardley’s scrapbook featuring photographs and other items saved during his years at Norwich is our newest addition to the Archives. It joins our larger collection of student “memory books,” many of which were created in the 1910s and 1920s, and includes many new views of life on campus in the late 1930s.

Read more about Charles Field Yardley and his scrapbook at: https://bit.ly/2XTwIL5.

[Source: Charles Field Yardley Scrapbook]

Recently digitized: Scrapbook pages featuring photographs saved by Ernest Harmon from his time competing in the modern p...
07/01/2021

Recently digitized: Scrapbook pages featuring photographs saved by Ernest Harmon from his time competing in the modern pentathlon at the 1924 Summer Olympics!

See them all at: https://bit.ly/3w9nhCS.

Roger Flanders (Class of 1922) was also at the 1924 Olympics on the U.S. wrestling team. You can also read what was written about him in the Norwich Record at the time: https://bit.ly/3xbkWsk.

In June 1905, commandant Henry W. Hovey decided to revive the “pedestrian excursions” that had been a feature of the Ame...
06/17/2021

In June 1905, commandant Henry W. Hovey decided to revive the “pedestrian excursions” that had been a feature of the American Literary, Scientific, and Military Academy with a practice march beginning in Northfield and going through Roxbury, Warren, Waitsfield, Waterbury, Middlesex, and Montpelier.

We love this photo postcard showing a group of students on that hike, including: Jim Swett, "Dummy" Moore (probably Edward Moore), Harry Deal, Bradford Hovey, and "Cissy" Gilman (possibly Dana Howes Gilman).

A detailed account of this excursion was printed in the Reveille and can be read at: https://bit.ly/3gyZho5.

Here’s one of our earliest records of baseball at Norwich University, documenting a game played against the baseball clu...
06/11/2021

Here’s one of our earliest records of baseball at Norwich University, documenting a game played against the baseball club of Montpelier 151 years ago today. This game was the first recorded in a scorebook kept by the Norwich baseball club from 1870-1879.

[Source: Records of Fraternities, Societies and Clubs, Baseball club]

  in 1919 cadet veterans of World War I met in Dewey Hall to discuss organizing a post of the American Legion named in i...
05/20/2021

in 1919 cadet veterans of World War I met in Dewey Hall to discuss organizing a post of the American Legion named in in memory of Moses Taylor, a former student who was mortally wounded during the war.

[Article from the Norwich University Record, Volume XI, Issue 3; Image from the War Whoop (1920)]

Congratulations, Class of 2021!In honor of this weekend's graduates, we’re sharing some of the earliest Norwich diplomas...
04/30/2021

Congratulations, Class of 2021!

In honor of this weekend's graduates, we’re sharing some of the earliest Norwich diplomas in Archives. Here are degrees of Friend P. Fletcher (1838), Cyrus Barrett Burnham (1839), and Charles B. Stoughton (1862).

Our latest blog post features records of Norwich's smallpox quarantine in 1912, which we recently revisited for a remote...
04/27/2021

Our latest blog post features records of Norwich's smallpox quarantine in 1912, which we recently revisited for a remote researcher.

See our favorite images from this moment in NU history in the full blog post: https://bit.ly/2Ptp1aL.

Learn about our collections and services, and browse thousands of digitized documents and photographs from Norwich University history!

The Guidon in 1940 asked their readers to learn these six Norwich songs, some of which may still be familiar.[Source: No...
04/23/2021

The Guidon in 1940 asked their readers to learn these six Norwich songs, some of which may still be familiar.

[Source: Norwich Guidon, Volume XXVII, Issue 1]

The earliest photograph in our collection is a daguerreotype portrait tentatively identified as Edward Bushell, Class of...
04/16/2021

The earliest photograph in our collection is a daguerreotype portrait tentatively identified as Edward Bushell, Class of 1843.

Recently transcribed letters written to Alden Partridge in the 1840s indicate Bushell taught at Norwich in order to finance his education and remained in contact after graduation. Read them at: https://bit.ly/3ts13LA.

[Photo source: NU Photograph Collection, Portraits, Daguerreotypes]

Recently transcribed: Jimmie Evans’s Camp-fire, or Fifteen Months in Rebel Prisons.Armorer and janitor James Evans was a...
04/09/2021

Recently transcribed: Jimmie Evans’s Camp-fire, or Fifteen Months in Rebel Prisons.

Armorer and janitor James Evans was a much-loved confidant to both cadets and faculty at Norwich from 1869 to 1901. A 33-page manuscript he prepared in 1891 has recently been transcribed. You can now read its narration of Evans’ experiences after capture at the Battle of Chickamauga on 20 September 1863 at https://bit.ly/3s5XI3x.

[Image source: Alumni with James Evans, 1886. Norwich University Photograph Collection, Commencement, 1886]

What to do when you’re writing a letter home with more to say than you have paper on hand? For Norwich student Edward Cr...
03/19/2021

What to do when you’re writing a letter home with more to say than you have paper on hand? For Norwich student Edward Crowell in 1840, the answer was to “cross-write” – upon reaching the end of his paper, he just turned his last page sideways and kept writing!

Cross-writing, also called cross-hatching or crossed letters, was common in the 19th century as a way to save money on paper and postage (which was at the time charged per page or by the size of the paper). Crowell would have had no doubt that his parents would be able to make out everything he wished to tell them. It can be hard for us to get used to cross-writing at first but is often a fun puzzle to piece together. Give it a try and learn about a wintertime pedestrian excursion the cadets made up Mt. Ascutney in 1840.

A transcription can also be found with the letter’s description in our digital collections: https://bit.ly/3tBse6j.

Here’s a fun one from our mystery file! We think it might date to the Sport Parachute Club of the 1960s but would love t...
03/17/2021

Here’s a fun one from our mystery file!

We think it might date to the Sport Parachute Club of the 1960s but would love to hear from anyone that can identify the where and when more precisely.

Address

158 Harmon Drive
Northfield, VT
05663

Alerts

Be the first to know and let us send you an email when Norwich University Archives & Special Collections posts news and promotions. Your email address will not be used for any other purpose, and you can unsubscribe at any time.

Share

Category