Janice Webster Brown Collection, 1809-2018

Title:

Janice Webster Brown Collection, 1809-2018

Creator:

Brown, Janice Webster

Creator Role:

Collector

Accession / Call Number:

2022.005

Object ID:

2022.005

Date:

1809-2018

Physical Description:

8 boxes, 1 volume, and 1 oversized folder ; 3.71 linear feet

Scope and Content:

This collection is made up books, ephemera, photographs, postcards, objects and other materials that helped to tell the stories on the "Cow Hampshire: New Hampshire's History Blog" by Janice Webster Brown. This blog began in 2006 and continues today (2023) and covers New Hampshire history including information on individual people, businesses, organizations, places, and events. This broad collection of materials range from 1861-2008. These dates reflect the dates of the materials within the collection such as the photographs, ephemera, postcards, scrapbooks and not the dates of the accompanying materials within this collection which include receipts, certificates of authenticity, ancestry information, and printed Cow Hampshire blog articles.

Subjects:

Advertising , Agriculture , Ambassadors , Animals , Autograph albums , Automobile industry and trade , Blacksmiths , Boats and boating , Boulders , Bridges , Buildings , Carte de visite photographs , Church buildings , Circus , Clergy , Clippings (Books, newspapers, etc.) , Crime , Dwellings , Education , Entertainers , Families , Farmers , Floods , Granite industry and trade , Historic buildings , Hospitals , Hotels , Indians of North America , Lakes , Libraries , Maps , Medicine , Mills and mill-work , Monuments , Mountains , Nurses , Nursing--Study and teaching , Parades , Parks , Photographs , Physicians , Politicians , Portrait photography , Post office buildings , Postcards , Railroads , Restaurants , Rivers , School buildings , Scrapbooks , Ships , Spanish-American War, 1898 , Swimming , Transportation , United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865 , United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783 , Waterfalls , Wit and humor , World War, 1914-1918 , World War, 1939-1945 , Yearbooks

Locations:

New Hampshire

People:

Adams, Sherman, 1899-1986 , Babson, Roger Ward, 1875-1967 , Bridges, Doloris, 1916-1969 , Bridges, Styles, 1898-1961 , Brown, Janice Webster , Buchanan, Patrick Joseph, 1938 , Caron, Marye Walsh, 1900-1901 , Chase, Stuart, 1888-1985 , Churchill, Clementine, 1885-1977 , Churchill, Winston, 1871-1947 , Cilley, Joseph, 1791-1887 , Cody, Lew, 1884-1934 , Colby, Anthony, 1792-1873 , Cressy, Will Martin, 1863-1930 , Davis, Bette, 1908-1989 , Everett, Daniel, 1791-1876 , Farnsworth, Arthur Austin, 1909-1943 , Farnum, Dustin, 1876-1929 , Friberg, Gustaf Bernhard, 1899-1958 , Kilonis, John Demetrious, 1885-1965 , Knowlton, Maud Briggs, 1870-1956 , Kopache, Thomas, 1945 , Lee, Richard Henry, 1732-1794 , Maclaine, Shirley, 1934 , Maisky, Ivan, 1884-1975 , McGovern, George S., 1922-2012 , Moultrie, William, 1730-1805 , Muskie, Edmund, 1914-1996 , Normand, Mabel, 1894-1930 , Padden, Thomas Francis, 1908-1973 , Reagan, Ronald, 1911-2004 , Roosevelt, Franklin D., 1882-1945 , Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919 , Shepard, Alan B., 1891-1973 , Shepard, Renza, 1900-1993 , Souter, David H., 1939 , Stark, John, 1728-1822 , Stone, Christopher, 1942-1995 , Taft, William Howard, 1857-1930 , Uphaus, Willard E., 1890-1983 , Wallace, Dee, 1948 , Williams, Ted, 1918-2002 , Winant, John G., 1889-1947 , Yorty, Sam, 1909-1998

Organizations:

Amoskeag Manufacturing Company
Benson's Wild Animal Farm
Boston and Maine Railroad
Cathedral of the Pines
Clark's Trading Post (Lincoln, N.H.)
Corbin Park
Elliot Hospital (Manchester, N.H.)
Farragut Hotel
Hotel Weirs
Grenier Field
Hesser Business College
Hotel Randall (North Conway, N.H.)
Lucy Hastings Hospital (Manchester, N.H.)
Mount Washington Cog Railway
New Hampshire Historical Society
New Hampshire State Sanatorium
Our Lady of Perpetual Help School (Manchester, N.H.)
R.G. Sullivan Cigar Factory (Manchester, N.H.)
Rockingham Park (Salem, N.H.)
Saint Anselm College (Manchester, N.H.)
Santa's Village
Sinclair Hotel

Credit Line:

Gift of Janice Webster Brown.

Restrictions:

Available for research.

Level Description:

Collection

Finding Aid Link:

RS68334_Brown_Janice_Webster_Collection_2022.005.pdf