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Beyond Brown Paper Online Archive

The Brown Paper Company Photographic Collection documents much of the history of the Brown Paper Company of Berlin, New Hampshire from the late nineteenth century through the mid-1960s. Among the subjects depicted in considerable detail are the varieties of work activity from the felling of trees to the final manufacture of pulp and paper in [...]

Beyond Brown Paper Being Upgraded

Update #2: Beyond Brown Paper is back! Thank you for your patience. Update #1: The upgrade is taking a little longer than expected. Please bear with us. The Beyond Brown Paper photo archive is offline for a while so we can build it bigger, with more pipes. We’ll have it back online as soon as [...]

Todd Trevorrow Award Winners Announced

Dan Ness and Marie Shaheen pictured with Craig Cote and Library Dean David Berona In December 2010, two Trevorrow scholarships were awarded to PSU Undergraduates Marie Shaheen and Dan Ness.

Spinelli Archives looks back at Homecoming

courtesy of Spinelli Archives Plymouth State University has rich history of Homecoming traditions. Saturday morning parades have been replaced by a wide variety of activities that now invite students’ families to participate. Stop by and see the exhibit created by students Marie Shaheen and Dan Ness from the Spinelli Archives, located on the Upper Level [...]

Beyond Brown Paper

Connect to Beyond Brown Paper. Beyond Brown Paper is a multi-phased project that involves three collaborative departments at Plymouth State University — Lamson Library’s Michael J. Spinelli Jr. Center for University Archives and Special Collections, Karl Drerup Art Gallery, and the Center for Rural Partnerships. In this first stage, funded by a grant from the [...]

Historic New England

from the Beyond Brown Collection Learn More about New Hampshire History from Spinelli Archives and Historic New England.

Collections

George H. Browne Robert Frost Collection The library has a small collection of material relating to the poet Robert Frost. This consists of correspondence, first edition books, audio-visual material, photographs and other items. George H. Browne summered in Bridgewater, New Hampshire, and was an acquaintance of Frost. Robert Frost Collection Finding Aid.     Brown [...]

Contact Us

Alice Staples (603-535-3084), Archives and Special Collections Librarian Susan Jarosz (603-535-2961), Archives Assistant. Return to the Historical Images Collection Return to the Campus Publications Collection Return to the Beyond Brown Paper Collection

Life “At the River’s Edge”

The LLC is pleased to announce a screening of the award-winning film At The River’s Edge: An Oral History of Berlin, New Hampshire, on September 27th at 6:00p.m. in Hyde 120.

Book event with Educator Jessica Hoffman Davis Nov 3rd

The Lamson Learning Commons is pleased to welcome writer, teacher, and educational researcher Jessica Hoffman Davis for a brown bag luncheon and book talk on Wednesday November 3rd at 11:30 am.

100 Years of Skiing with Dr. John Allen

Bode Miller – the first to use carving skis PSU Professor Emeritus of History, John Allen will speak on his recently published book FIS 100 Years of International Skiing, 1910-2010 at a brown bag luncheon on Wednesday February 9, 2011.

The Red Sox and the World Series:

Sources in Lamson Library The Red Sox Shut out : a story of race and baseball in Boston Bryant, Howard, 1968- New York : Routledge, 2002. BROWSING (MAIN) GV875.B62 B79 2002 The impossible dream remembered : the 1967 Red Sox Coleman, Ken. Lexington, Mass. : S. Greene Press, 1987. (LOWER LEVEL) GV875.B62 C644 1987 Beyond [...]

Repeating Inspiration: Printmakers and the White Mountains

For almost 200 years, the White Mountains have inspired countless artists, professional and amateur.  At the turn of the 20th century, however, the mountains were increasingly threatened by logging and fire. The 1911 Weeks Act, named after Lancaster, New Hampshire, native John Wingate Weeks, allowed the federal government to purchase private land and protect it [...]

IAC Practice Test

NOTE: You may use any resources (print or online) available to you to answer the questions, but you must answer the questions by yourself. Getting any manner of help from someone else is cheating. This is a PRACTICE TEST, for study purposes only, to help prepare TRANSFER STUDENTS not enrolled in First Year Seminar for [...]

Robert Frost Collection

Robert Frost Collection Finding Aid in PDF format History of the Collection George Browne and Robert Frost met in 1915 when Frost delivered the Phi Beta Kappa lecture at Tufts College. Impressed with what he heard, Browne struck a deal with Frost. In exchange for speaking without fee to the boys at the Browne and [...]