Dartmouth Medical Student Notebooks

Dartmouth Medical Student Notebooks

Help transcribe Dartmouth Medical School history! The Dartmouth Medical School was founded in 1797 by Nathan Smith who, in 1796, petitioned the Board of Trustees of Dartmouth College for permission to travel to Edinburgh, Scotland to "attend to the several branches of medicine as taught &...

    Dartmouth Tutorial Collection

    Dartmouth Tutorial Collection

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      Hanover Cemetery Documents

      Hanover Cemetery Documents

      This collection as been fully transcribed (thank you!). You may still help out by proof-reading the transcriptions, and indexing subjects (People, Places, and Organizations) by placing double brackets around them [[like this]]. The Hanover, New Hampshire Cemetery Records digital collection...

        Shaker Commonplace Book, 1890-1921

        Shaker Commonplace Book, 1890-1921

        This collection as been fully transcribed (thank you!). You may still help out by proof-reading the transcriptions, and indexing subjects (Authors, Poem Titles, Places, and Organizations) by placing double brackets around them [[like this]]. This commonplace book of poetry was compiled by...

          The Edward Mitchell Papers

          The Edward Mitchell Papers

          Edward Mitchell was the first student of African descent to attend Dartmouth College. In 1824, students protested the Board of Trustees' decision not to admit Mitchell because of his race. The students’ activism was supported by the faculty, the Board relented, and Mitchell took his rightful...

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            Three Accounts of the Vasil'ev-Shismarev Expedition of 1819-1822

            Three Accounts of the Vasil'ev-Shismarev Expedition of 1819-1822

            This collection has been fully transcribed (thank you!), but we still need your help to index subjects, which are: people, places, and organizations. You can index a subject by placing double brackets around it [[like this]]. Take a look at our Tagging and Metadata Tutorial to learn more, or...

              Wrangel Island

              Wrangel Island

              Wrangel Island is a gateway to the northern portion of the Arctic Sea above the Bering Strait. This 2,900-square-mile expanse has been claimed at various times by Canada and Russia. Manuscript materials in the Dartmouth Library’s Vilhjalmur Stefansson Collection on Polar Exploration document...