Rauner Special Collections Library

In 1944, Dr. Agnes Bartlett left Hanover to serve as a medical officer at the Poston Internment Camp in southwestern Arizona, one of the largest concentration camps for Japanese-Americans that was run by the United States during World War II. Bartlett was the granddaughter of Samuel Colcord Bartlett, eighth president of Dartmouth, and the daughter of missionaries to Japan. Her parents, Samuel Colcord Bartlett Jr. and Fanny G. Bartlett, were living there when Agnes was born in Kyoto on March 18, 1911. We have a small collection of papers that belonged to Dr.

We just had one of those "discovery" moments. We put that in quotes because the only reason we could make the discovery was because an archivist long ago did a great job of cataloging a letter. She or he probably "discovered" it, we used their work to rediscover it. Anyway, none of us knew about it. It's quite a story. In the Fall of 1839, a person fleeing bondage from a plantation in Alabama found his way to Hanover on the way to Canada.

In 1876, Americans celebrated the centennial of the Declaration of Independence in grand fashion. For six months, millions of visitors flocked to Philadelphia to visit the Centennial Exhibition, a showcase for the nation’s growing industrial strength. And on July 4, thousands gathered in front of Philadelphia’s Independence Hall, where the Declaration had been signed, to hear the document read aloud by U.S.