Books

The Encyclopedia Arctica

A color facsimile of 16 volumes of an Arctic encyclopedia, sponsored in the 1940s by the U.S. Office of Naval Research and never-published. Edited by Vilhjalmur Stefansson (1879–1962), who was later to become Director of Polar Studies at Dartmouth College. The Encyclopedia covers many scientific, geographic, zoological, and ethnographical subjects, and includes maps, diagrams, and biographies of important Arctic figures.

Ovid. De Arte Amanti

A color facsimile of a pre-1480 printed Italian book (an incunabulum) -- one of only two copies known in American libraries.

Who's Who and What's What in the Books of Dr. Seuss. Compiled by Edward Connery Lathem.

This extensive guide, published in 2000, commemorates the seventy-fifth anniversary of the graduation from Dartmouth College of Theodor Seuss Geisel.

Music

Jon Appleton (1939-): Instrumental and electro-acoustic music

Over 140 compositions in production, freely available to download for non-commercial uses.

Photographs

713 Lantern Slides (1906-1918) from the Stefansson Arctic Photos Collection.

Vilhjalmur Stefansson was an Arctic explorer, promoter and teacher who made expeditions above the Arctic Circle between 1906 and 1918. Documentation from these explorations including diaries, notes, scientific experiments, letters, and photographs. Stefansson lectured internationally on the subject of Arctic exploration and culture, using this collection of over 700 lantern slides to illustrate his lectures. Included are images of flora and fauna, landscapes, ice formations, boats, indigenous housing, clothing, hunting and fishing practices, as well as many individuals.In addition, there are some slides from Stefansson's 1923 trip to Australia and French Polynesia, and images of Stefansson teaching in Dartmouth College's Northern Studies Program. A full descriptive finding aid is also available.

12,000 color slides, many of volcanoes in Central America (early 1970s), from the Richard E. Stoiber Collection

Richard E. Stoiber '32 (1911-2001) was a professor of geology and a volcanologist at Dartmouth College (1935-1989). He spent much of his later career studying volcanoes in Central America, and in the mid-1960's he began organizing term-long trips -- called "stretches" -- to Central America for third-year Earth Science classes to study the geology of volcanoes. Available here are 12,000 color slides, mostly from these field trips to Central American volcanoes.

Manuscripts

Occom, Samson (1723-1792): Letters

Seventy-seven letters to and from Samson Occom, from the 1740s to the early 1790s.

Chronicles of England. [The Brut Chronicle -- England, ca. 1425-1450].

Forthcoming, October 2009.  Medieval manuscript -- 121 leaves: parchment.  Composed in Anglo-Norman sometime after 1272, then extended to 1333, and, finally, in about 1400 translated into English; includes second continuation, believed to have been written around 1430, that extends the account from 1377 to 1419.