Digital Collections

Papers of Samson Occom (Mohegan, 1723-1792), author, minister, missionary, intertribal leader, and public intellectual.

Maps of towns and cities, produced by the Sanborn Map Company for insurance purposes.

A 54-minute documentary about Dartmouth students who challenged anti-immigrant language in Library of Congress subject headings.

By Ovid (43 BCE-17/18 CE). Color facsimile of a pre-1480 printed Italian book (an incunabulum).

Unique collection of memoirs, photographs, correspondence, and other primary sources from China’s former Rusticated Youth.

Facsimile and searchable text of an unpublished Arctic encyclopedia, sponsored by the U.S. Office of Naval Research.

Charter for Dartmouth College, signed by Theodore Atkinson and John Wentworth on December 13, 1769. Includes transcription.

By Terence (ca. 190-159 BCE). Six plays, from a manuscript produced in 1462.

By David Brainard (1856-1946). An account of the Lady Franklin Bay Expedition through the long and desperate winter of 1883–1884.

By Donella Meadows et al, 1972. Subtitled "A Report for the Club of Rome's Project on the Predicament of Mankind."

Over 140 music compositions by Dartmouth music professor Jon Appleton, freely available to listen to for non-commercial uses.

Doctoral dissertations written at Dartmouth College between 1960 and 2017. All are freely provided online with permission of the authors.

Maps of New Hampshire cities and towns from 1776 to 2006, complementing the “Granite State in Maps” collection.

Maps illustrating changes in New Hampshire's borders and how the state saw itself.

By Lois A. Krieger. Subtitled "A Brief History of the Dartmouth College Library, 1769-2002."

Selections from the 19th-century comic novel "A shanks' mare tour of the Tōkaidō" by Ikku Jippensha (1765-1831).

Eight volumes of custom jewelry design books from the firm of Jaques and Marcus, later Marcus and Co., circa 1890-1910.

The earliest prose chronicle in English, begun after 1272, with continuations through the early 15th century.

American and British comic almanacs and other publications from the nineteenth century. 

16th-century Spanish antiphonal, containing the chants for the Divine Office of the Roman Catholic Church.

Published in 1883, this volume collects original prints by some of the most prominent American artists of the nineteenth century.

Descriptions and selected images from the Dartmouth Library's collection of early manuscripts.

Published circa 1850. The first comic book written in the United States.

By Rodolphe Töpffer. The first comic book printed in the United States, published circa 1840.

Posters designed by V. Lebedev for the windows of ROSTA, the state news agency of Soviet Russia.

Letters and papers from 1847-1899 related to John McCoy's time as a Union soldier in the American Civil War.

By Oliver Hazard Perry (1785-1819). Professional and personal correspondence from approximately 1807 to 1819.

Color slides, many of Central American volcanoes, by Richard E. Stoiber '32 (1911-2001), Professor of Geology.

Over 1,200 images primarily from the Canadian Arctic Expedition (1913-1918), and 700 lantern slides.

The papers of Charles Daniel Tenney (1857-1930) include essays, speeches and translations concerning his time in China.

Three unique manuscripts of rituals in classical Chinese and Vietnamese Nom, from the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

Documents chronicling the legal transactions of Richard Stone (ca. 1570-1653) of England and his descendants.

English summaries or full translations of newspaper articles and editorials from the U.S. Occupation of post-World War II Japan.

A 1776 collection of maps of the British colonies.

Maps of Hanover, New Hampshire, and Dartmouth College, circa 1700 to 1923.

Photos by College Photographers Adrian N. Bouchard; Stuart Bratesman; Joseph Mehling; and Eli Burakian.

Archival materials from the 1920s to the present day, chronicling the Dartmouth experience over the decades.

Digital images of each known Winter Carnival poster from 1911 to the present.

By George T. Chapman. Includes entries for most graduates from the classes of 1771 through 1867.

Classification system for books, created and used by the Dartmouth College Library in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

By J. Robert Oppenheimer (1904-1967). Lecture delivered at Dartmouth in 1959.

Photos of life at Dartmouth from various sources, including scenes of campus grounds, facilities, people, and events.

Photographs created for the print publication Vox of Dartmouth, 2006-2007.

By Theodor Geisel (1904-1991). Reflections on his early career, from audio recordings made in 1975.

By Edward Connery Lathem. Written to commemorate the 75th anniversary of Theodor Geisel's graduation from Dartmouth.

A directory of Dartmouth’s officers, faculty, and alumni, 1769-1939. Includes indexes to names and geographical location of alumni.

The Library's Scholarly Communication, Copyright, and Publishing program publishes open access ebooks.

The Library's Scholarly Communication, Copyright, and Publishing program publishes several open access scholarly journals.

Written in the 1470s, this astronomical text is a survey of the astronomical and natural philosophical worlds of Ptolemy's Almagest.

Documents events and issues that have shaped Dartmouth and altered or challenged the direction and identity of the institution.

Readex resource digitized from Dartmouth's print collection of over 13,800 congressional volumes, 1789-1980 (not open access).

Digital exhibits of materials from the Dartmouth Library collections.

The diary of Ada Blackjack, sole survivor of the Wrangel Island expedition, March-August 1923

Selections from the Vilhjalmur Stefansson Collection on Polar Exploration, 1900-1930

Letters and other documents that cast light on Dartmouth College founder Eleazar Wheelock's ownership of enslaved persons, and Dartmouth College's early involvement in the institution of slavery.

A browseable directory of known copies of the Middle English Prose Brut chronicle

Collection of materials documenting deaths and burials in Hanover, NH, from the late 18th to the mid-20th centuries

Documents from the Imperial Russian expedition of 1819-22 to the western coast of Alaska.

An NEH-funded initiative to provide digital access to historically significant New Hampshire newspapers.