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Author co Colby, Virginia Reed
Author Atkinson, James B.
title: Footprints of the past: images of Cornish, New Hampshire and the Cornish Colony
publisher: NH Historical Society
Concord, NH, 1996
content Cornish related people, places, and things not in either Child or Rawson; Cornish Colony members; people connected with the Cornish Colony
Location Reference, with revised edition
Author: Rawson, Barbara Eastman
title History of the town of Cornish, New Hampshire, with genealogical record, 1910-1960; two copies
publisher The Courier Printing Company Littleton, NH, 1963
contents: updates Child
Location Reference Author Wade, Hugh Mason
title Brief History of Cornish, 1763-1974; two copies
publisher University Press of New England Hanover, NH, 1976 Reprinted 1992
retells Child more succinctly; updates Cornish Colony section of Child;additional genealogical material by Stephen P. Tracy and Dwight C. Wood; reprint: index of residents (1961-1974) new
Location Reference; and Vault
Author: Meyers. Fern K. Author: Atkinson, James B. title New Hampshire's Cornish Colony
publisher Arcadia Publishing Charleston, SC, 2005 donor James B. Atkinson and Gretchen A. Holm, 2005
content archival pictures of Colony's people, places, and things
Location Reference
Author Rook, Dale Author Rook, Judy
title Photo tour around Cornish at the start of the twenty-first century
publisher Dale Rook, Cornish, NH, 2004 donor Dale and Judy Rook, 2004
content photographs of schools, their former sites; cemeteries; houses: brick and stone, early,Cornish Colony, modern; bridges; waterfalls; churches; businesses; town buildings
Location Reference
Author Dryfhout, John
title This land of pure delight: Charles C. Beaman and Blowmedown Farm
publisher Augustus Saint-Gaudens Memorial Cornish, NH, 2000 Donor John Dryfhout
content biography--Charles and Hettie; Evarts family; Mary Beaman Lagercrantz
Location Cornish Colony Shelves
Author: Meyers, Fern King title Percy's Watill: America's musical pioneers and the Cornish Colony
publisher Fern K. Meyers, Etna, NH, 2004
donor Fern Meyers, 2004
presentation copy; revised as "America's Musical Pioneers and the Cornish Colony"
Location Book Shelves
Author Meyers, Fern K
title America's musical pioneers and the Cornish Colony publisher SilverWood, Etna, NH, 2005
donor Fern Meyers, 2005
content Arthur Whiting; Franz Kneisel and Kneisel Quartet; Otto Roth; Olive Mead and Meade Quartette; Arthur Farwell; Frederick Shepherd Converse; Horatio Parker; Edgar and Jessie Stillman- Kelley;John
Location Book Shelves
Author Meyers, Fern K.
title Beyond a gilded cage: recollections of Laura Marquand Walker; two copies
publisher SilverWood, Etna, NH donor Fern Meyers
memoir--1857-1938; life in Boston, Newburyport, New York, and Cornish
Location Book Shelves
Author Adams, Adeline
title Amouretta landscape and other stories
publisher Houghton, Mifflin, Boston and New York, 1922
Donor John Dryfhout, 1990
Location Book Shelves
Author Adams, Adeline
title Spirit of American sculpture
publisher National Sculpture Society, New York, 1922
donor Virginia Colby
Location Book Shelves
Author Chapin, Bela
title New Hampshire Poets(two copies)
Publisher Charles H. Adams, post 1881
donor Virginia Colby, 1985
Location Book Shelves
Author Allen, Richard Sanders
title Covered bridges of the Northeast
publisher Stephen Greene Press Brattleboro, VT
donor Virginia Colby, 1995
Location Book Shelves
Author: Barrett, Katherine Ellis
title Girls in the High Sierras: A Tale of the Sierra Nevada with Himalayan Echoes
publisher Doubleday, Page & Company, 1924 Garden City, New York
Donor Virginia Colby, 1995
Location Storage, Rear Room; copy also Meetinghouse
Author Barrymore, Ethel
title Memories: An autobiography(Ethel Barrymore)
publisher Harper Brothers, New York, 1955
donor Virginia Colby, 1995
Location Book Shelves Author Barnes, Christy MacKaye
title Wound Awoke me: poems by
Christy MacKaye Barnes
publisher Adonis Press, 1994 Hawthorne Valley, Hillsdale, New York, 1994
donor Virginia Colby, 1995
Location Book Shelves Author Baynes, Ernest Harold
title Wild Bird Guests: How To Entertain Them
publisher E.P. Dutton & Company, New York, 1915
Long term loan from SGNHS
content dedicated: "To Mrs. Louis Saint-Gaudens, in the hope that she may entertain many wild bird guests from Ernest Harold Baynes, Meriden, N.H. 12th of Nov. 1916"
location Cornish Colony Shelves
Author Baynes, Harold Ernest
title Animal heroes of the Great War publisher MacMillan Company, New York, 1925
donor James B. Atkinson and Gretchen A. Holm
includes "The man and his enemies" by Owen Wister
Location Cornish Colony Shelves
Author Baynes, Ernest Harold
title Sprite: The story of a Red Fox
publisher: MacMillan, New York
donor Virginia Colby, 1995
content dedication:"To dear Annetta [Saint-Gaudens] With Christmas greetings, all kind wishes and much love from Harold, Meriden, N.H. 20th December 1924"
Location Cornish Colony Shelves K
Author: Blue, Frederick J.
Title Salmon P. Chase:i a life in politics
publisher Kent State University Press Kent, Ohio; London, 1987
Donor Virginia Colby, 1995
Location Book Shelves Author Bond, John W.W.
title Augustus Saint-Gaudens: a man and his art
publisher National Technical Information Service Springfield, Virginia, 1967 Donor Virginia Colby
Location Cornish Colony Shelves
Author Boyd, Albert Truman
Title Reba Durham
publisher Dodd, Mead and Company New York, 1933 Donor Virginia Colby, 1995
content Inscription by author
Location Book Shelves
Author Bowditch, Nancy Douglas
title George de Forest Brush: Recollections of a Joyous Painter
publisher William L. Bauhan Peterborough, NH, 1970 donor Virginia Colby, 1995
Location Book Shelves
Author: Brooks, Eldrich
title Story of a young peoples pilgrimage to historic homes
publisher Century Co., New York, 1896
Donor Virginia Colby
Century Book of Famous Americans
Location Book Shelves
Author: Brown, Milton W.
title Story of the Armory Show publisher Abbeville Press, New York
Virginia Colby, donor
Joseph H. Hirshorn Foundation
Location Book Shelves
Author: Bynner, Witter
title Against the Cold
publisher Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1940
donor James B. Atkinson and Gretchen A. Holm
Location Cornish Colony Shelves Author Bynner, Witter
title Journey With Genius: Recollections and Reflections Concerning the D. H. Lawrences
publish John Day Company, New York, 1951 donor John Dryfhout, 1987
Location Cornish Colony Shelves
Author Bynner, Witter
title Light Verse and Satires
publisher Farrar, Straus, Giroux New York, 1978
donor James B. Atkinson and Gretchen A. Holm
Location Cornish Colony Shelves
title Witter Byner in California: a tribute
publisher privately printed, Berkeley, Caliornia, 1919
donor Virginia Colby,1955
location Cornish Colony Shelves Author Caffin, Charles H.
title American masters of painting: being brief appreciations of some American painters(two copies)
publisher Sun Publishing Co., 1901, 1902
donor c.1, Virginia Colby c.2, Doubleday, Page & Company, Garden City, New York, 1913
Location Book Shelves Author Caffin, Charles H.
title American masters of sculpture: being brief appreciations of some American sculptors... (two copies)
publisher Doubleday, Page and Company 1903, 1913 donor Virginia Colby, c.1
Location Book Shelves Author Campbell, Catherine H
Author Blaine,Marcia Schmidt
title New Hampshire scenery: a dictionary of nineteenth century artists of New Hampshire mountain landscapes(two copies)
publisher Phoenix Publishing Canaan, New Hampshire
donor Virginia Colby published for the N.H. Historical Society
location Book Shelves Author Chase, A.W., MD
title: Dr. Chase's recipes or information
Publisher Stanton & Vliet, 1920
donor Virginia Colby
location Book Shelves
Author , Chase, Francis, M.A. Editor
title Gathered sketches from the early history of New Hampshire and Vermont(two copies)
publisher Tracy, Kenney & Co. Claremont, New Hampshire, 1856
donor Virginia Colby
"vivid and interesting accounts of a great variety of the adventures of our forefathers"
Location Book Shelves Author: Chesler, Ellen
title Woman of valor: Margaret Sanger and the birth control movement in America
Publisher Simon & Schuster, 1922
donor Virginia Colby
More information on Sanger, in Vertical Files for Birth Control and Women’s Suffrage
Location Book Shelves
Author: Churchill, Winston
title Crisis
publisher MacMillan Company New York, 1901
Location: Book Shelves
Author Churchill, Winston
Title: The Crossing
publisher: MacMillan, 1904
location Book Shelves
Author Churchill, Winston
title Dwelling place of light
publisher: MacMillan Company, New York, 1917
location Book Shelves
Author Churchill, Winston
title Far Country
publisher Macmillan New York, 1915
Location Book Shelves
Author Churchill, Winston
title Inside of the cup
publisher: MacMillan Company, New York, 1913
location Book Shelves Author Churchill, Winston
title Mr. Crewe's career; two copies
Publisher: MacMillan Company New York, 1908
Location Book Shelves; Display Area, opposite Vault
Author Churchill, Winston
title Mr. Keegan's elopement, two copies
publisher Century Company, Macmillan Company New York, 1896,1903
donor Virginia Colby
Location Book Shelves Author Churchill, Winston
title Modern chronicle
publisher: MacMillan Company, New York, 1916
Location Book Shelves
Author Churchill, Winston
title Richard Carvel
Publisher Macmillan Co, New York, 1899
Location Book Shelves
Author Churchill, Winston
title Traveler in war time with an essay on the American contribution and the democratic idea (two copies)
publisher Macmillan Company New York, 1918
Location Book Shelves Author Congdon, Herbert, Wheaton
title Covered bridge: an old American landmark
1941, published
donor Virginia Colby
illustrated by Edmund Homer Royce
Location Book Shelves Author Cortissoz, Royal
title American artists
publisher Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1923
donor James B. Atkinson and Gretchen A. Holm
Location Book Shelves Author Cortissoz, Royal
title Art and common sense
publisher Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1913
donor James B. Atkinson and Gretchen A. Holm
Location Book Shelves
Author Cortissoz, Royal
Title John La Farge: a memoir and study
donor James B. Atkinson
Location Book Shelves
Author Cortissoz, Royal
title Painter's craft
publisher Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1926,1930
donor James B. Atkinson and Gretchen A. Holm
Location Book Shelves
Author Cortissoz, Royal
title Personalities in art
publisher Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1925, 1925 donor James B. Atkinson and Gretchen A. Holm
Location Book Shelves Author Cox, Kenyon
title Mixed beasts: rhymes and pictures
publisher Eastern National Park & Monument Assoc 1992 donor Virginia Colby; John Dryfhout
Location Cornish Colony Shelves Author Cox, Kenyon
title Painters and sculptors: a second series of old masters and new
publisher Duffield and Company, 1907
Donor Virginia Colby
Location Cornish Colony Shelves
Author Cox, Kenyon
title What is painting: Winslow Homer and other essays publisher Classical America, 1988 published in Canada by Penguin Books
Donor Virginia Colby
Location Cornish Colony Shelves
Author Craven, Wayne
title Sculpture in America: from the colonial period to the present
Publisher Wayne Craven, 1968
donor James B. Atkinson and Gretchen A. Holm
Location Book Shelves
Author Croly, Herbert
title Marcus Alonzo Hanna: his life and death
publisher Macmillan Company, New York, 1912, 1913
donor James B. Atkinson and Gretchen A. Holm
Location Cornish Colony Shelves
Author Croly, Herbert
title Promise of American life
publisher Northeastern University Press, Boston, 1989
donor James B. Atkinson and Gretchen A. Holm
With a new foreword by Micheal McGeer
Location Cornish Colony Shelves
Author Hand, Learned
Author Dilliard, Irving, Editor
title Spirit of liberty: papers and addresses of Learned Hand
publisher Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1952
donor John Dryfhout
Location Book Shelves
title Covered bridges: 35th Anniversary world guide to covered bridges,1989
Location Book Shelves, under World...
Author Dorris, Michael
title Rooms in the house of stones; paperback
donor James B. Atkinson
Location Book Shelves Author Earle, Alice Morse
title Child life in colonial days
publisher Macmillan Company, 1899
Donor Virginia Colby
Location Book Shelves
Author Ege, Arvia, MacKaye
title Power of the impossible: the life story of Percy and Marion MacKaye
publisher Kennebec River Press Falmouth, Maine
donor James B Atkinson & Gretchen A. Holm
Inscription by author
Location Book Shelves
Author Erdrich, Louise
title Beet Queen
publisher Henry Holt and Company, New York, 1986
Donor Plainfield Library
Location Book Shelves
Author Erdrich, Louise
Author Dorris, Michael
title: Crown of Columbus
publisher Harper Paperbacks, New York, 1991, 1992
Location Book Shelves Author Fitch, Albert Parker
title Preaching and paganism
publisher Yale University Press New Haven, Connecticut, 1920
donor Virginia Colby
Location Book Shelves Author Garland, Hamlin
title: My friendly contemporaries: a literary log
publisher Macmillan Company, 1932
donor Virginia Colby
decorations by Constance Garland
Location Book Shelves Author Garland, Hamlin
title Son of the middle border
publisher Macmillan Company, 1914, 1913
donor Virginia Colby, John Dryfhout
Location Book Shelves Author Gunther, Gerald
title Learned Hand: the man and the judge
publisher Alfred A. Knopf New York, 1994
donor Virginia Colby
Forward by Justice Lewis F. Powell, Jr
Location Book Shelves Author Hard, Walter
title Connecticut (Connecticut River)
publisher Rinehart & Company New York and Toronto, 1947
donor Virginia Colby
illustrated by Douglas W. Gorsline
Location Book Shelves
Author Hartmann, Sadakichi
title History Of American Art (vol.1)
publication date 1901, 1932
donor James B. Atkinson and Gretchen A. Holm
Location Book Shelves
Author Levy, David W.
title Herbert Croly of the New Republic: the life and thought of an American Progressive
publisher Princeton University Press Princeton, New Jersey, 1985
donor Virginia Colby
Location Book Shelves
Author MacKaye, Constance D'Arcy
title Patriotic plays and patents for young people
Publisher Henry Holt and Company, 1912
Donor Virginia Colby
Location Cornish Colony Shelves
Author MacKaye, Percy
title Caliban by the Yellow Sands
publication date: 1916
long term loan from SGNHS
Shakespeare Tercentenary Masque; inscription by author
Location Cornish Colony Shelves Author MacKaye, Percy
title Civic theater in relation to the redemption of leisure
publisher Mitchell Kennerley, 1912
Donor Virginia Colby
Location Cornish Colony Shelves
Author MacKaye, Percy
title Community drama, 1917
donor James B. Atkinson
Inscription by author
Location Cornish Colony Shelves
Author MacKaye, Percy
title Epoch: the life of Steele MacKaye, genius of the theatre-a memoir by his son
publisher Boni & Liveright, New York, 1927
donor Virginia Colby, vol. one; Marian Ober vol. two
Inscription by author
Location Cornish Colony Shelves
Author MacKaye, Percy
title Gobbler of God
publisher Longmans, Green and Co. New York, London, Tronto, 1928
donor John Dryfhout, 1988
location Cornish Colony Shelves
Author MacKaye, Percy
title Hamlet: King Of Denmark or what we will
publisher Bond Wheelright Company New York
donor Virginia Colby
“the mystery of the tragical historie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, by William Shakespeare"
Location Cornish Colony Shelves
Author MacKaye, Percy
title Jeanne D'Arc
publisher Macmillan Company New York, London, 1922
donor c.1, Virginia Colby; c.2 Marian Ober(Theatre Edition)
eighth edition; with a new preface
Location Cornish Colony Shelves Author MacKaye, Percy
title My lady dear, arise!; songs and sonnets in remembrance of Marion Morse MacKaye(Mrs. Percy MacKaye)
publisher Emil Birkbauser & Cie Basle, Switzerland, 1940
Donor Virginia Colby
special Swiss edition
Location Cornish Colony Shelves
Author MacKaye, Percy
title Playhouse and the play; and other addresses concerning the theatre and democracy in America
publisher Macmillan Company, 1909
Long term loan from SGNHS
Signed by Percy MacKaye, Players Club, 16 Gramercy Park, New York
Location Cornish Colony Shelves Author MacKaye, Percy
Title Poog’s Pasture: the mythology of a child
Inscription by author
Two copies: donated by James B. Atkinson, Gretchen B. Holm, and Stuart and Mauri Hodgeman
Location Cornish Colony Shelves Author MacKaye, Percy
title Rememberings, 1895-1945: four poems
publisher Privately printed, 1945
donor James B. Atkinson and Gretchen A. Holm
Inscription by author
Location Cornish Colony Shelves
Author MacKaye, Percy
title Sanctuary: a bird masque; two copies
publisher Frederick A. Stokes Company New York, 1914
long-term loan from SGNHS
Inscription by author "To son, Rob Keith MacKaye, on his twentieth birthday in remembrances of Cornish woods & hills-from his loving Dad. P.M. Cambridge: 8 October 1919"
CHS copy: Inscription “To Cornish Library from Juliet Barrett Rublee”
Location Cornish Colony Shelves
Author MacKaye, Percy
title Sistine eve and other poems
publisher MacMillan Company, 1909, 1915
donor Virginia Colby
Location Cornish Colony Shelves
Author MacKaye, Percy
title Symposium on his fiftieth birthday, 1925
Christy MacKaye Barnes, donor
donation date July, 1984
Location Cornish Colony Shelves
title This fine-pretty world: a comedy of the Kentucky mountains
publication date 1923
donor James B. Atkinson and Gretchen A. Holm
Inscription by author
Location Cornish Colony Shelves
Author MacKaye, Percy
Title Uriel, and other poems
Published 1912; inscription by author
Donor James A. Atkinson and Gretchen B. Holm
Location Cornish Colony Shelves
Author MacKaye, Percy
title Wakefield: a folk masque of the birth of Washington
publisher Sol Bloom, 1932
donor Virginia Colby
also Opening Day Program
Location Cornish Colony Shelves
Author MacKaye, Percy
title Yankee fantasies: five one-act plays
publisher Duffield & Company, New York, 1912
donor Virginia Colby
Location Cornish Colony Shelves Author Ece, Arvia MacKaye title Secret iron of the heart: the sounds at the forge of awakening man
donor Stephen Tracy
Location Book Shelves
Author Manship, John title Paul Manship
publisher Abbeville Press, New York, 1989
donor Virginia Colby
Location Book Shelves Author Jewett, Frank Jr.
title Modern painting
New York; Garden City, New York, 1917, 1927 publisher Henry Holt and Co.; Garden City Publishing
donor James B. Atkinson and Gretchen A. Holm
Location Book Shelves Author Metcalf, H.H.
title New Hampshire in history; Salmon P. Chase included
publisher W.B. Ranney Company Concord, New Hampshire donor Virginia Colby
Location Book Shelves Author Metcalf, Williard L. title unknown
publisher Museum of Fine Arts, 1976
donor Virginia Colby
Location Book Shelves
William Vaugh Moody
Poet, dramatist, friend of Percy MacKaye
Works collected: Faith Healer; Poems; Great Divide; Masque of Judgement; Poems and Plays; Selected Poems; Some Letters
Letters to Harriet, edited by Percy MacKaye, is With MacKaye publications, Cornish Colony Shelves
Donors include Virginia Colby, James B. Atkinson and Gretchen A. Holm
Location Storage: Rear Room, Closet, Cabinet
Author Morgan, H. Wayne
title Kenyon Cox, 1856-1919: a life in American art
donor Virginia
Location Book Shelves Author Morgan, Wayne
title New muses: art in American culture, 1865-1920
publication date: 1978
donor James B. Atkinson
Location Book Shelves Author Morison, Elizabeth Forbes Author Elting, E.
title Spanish and Portuguese Gardens
publisher Houghton Mifflin; Riverside Press Boston and New York, 1924
donor long-term loan from SGNHS
Location Book Shelves
Author Morrison, Elizabeth Forbes
Author Elting, E.
Title New Hampshire: a history
American Association for State and Local History
Publisher W.W. Norton, New York, 1976
Donor Virginia Colby
Location Book Shelves
Author Platt, Charles A.
title Work of Charles A. Platt
publisher Architectural Book Publishing Co. New York donor Virginia Colby
with an introduction by Royal Cortissoz
Location Book Shelves Author Saint-Gaudens, Homer
title American artist and his times
publisher Dodd, Mead and Company, 1941
donor Virginia Colby
Location Cornish Colony Shelves Author Salinger, J.D.
title Catcher in the Rye; two copies
publication date: 1945
donor Virginia Colby
Location Book Shelves; copy two Vault Author Salinger, J.D.
title Catcher in the rye
publisher Harvard Outline Company, 1963
donor Virginia Colby
Study-Guide
Location Book Shelves
Author Salinger, J.D.
title Franny and Zooey: two copies
publication date 1955, 1961 donor Mr. and Mrs. Herbert P. Reed John Dryfhout
Location Book Shelves; Dryfhout gift in Vault Author Salinger, J.D.
title Nine Stories
publication date 1948,1953 donor Virginia Colby
Location Book Shelves Author Salinger, J.D.
title Raise high the roof beam, carpenters and Seymour: an introduction
publication date 1955, 1959
donor Virginia Colby
Location Book Shelves Author Shipman, Louis Evan
title Predicaments
publisher Life Publishing Company, 1899
donor James B. Atkinson
Location Book Shelves Author Shipman, Louis Evan
title True adventures of a play
publisher Mitchell Kennerley New York and London, 1914
donor Virginia Colby
Location Book Shelves Author Smith, Emily A.
title Life and letters of Nathan Smith, M.B.
publisher Humphrey Milford; Oxford Univ. Press New Haven and London, 1914
donor Virginia Colby and John Dryfhout
location Display Area, Opposite Vault
Location Author Tharp, Louise Hall
title Saint-Gaudens and the gilded era
publisher Little, Brown and Company Boston and Toronto, 1969
donor Virginia Colby; James B. Atkinson and Gretchen A. Holm
Location Cornish Colony Shelves
Author Wagemann, Clara E.
title Covered Bridges of New England
publisher Tuttle company Rutland, Vermont, 1931
donor Virginia Colby
Location Book Shelves Author Waite, Otis F.R.
title History of the town of Claremont: one hundred and thirty years from 1764 to 1894
publisher John B. Clarke Company Manchester, New Hampshire
donor Virginia Colby
Location Book Shelves, Second copy, Vault
Author Weitenkampf, Frank
title How to appreciate prints
publisher Charles Scribner's Sons New York, 1921,1929
Location Vault Author White, Rev. Henry
title Early history of New England
publisher I.S. Boyd Concord, New Hampshire, 1843
donor Virginia Colby
Location Book Shelves Author Wilkinson, Burke
title Uncommon Clay: life and works of Augustus Saint-Gaudens(two copies; also an "uncorrected proof" copy)
donor Virginia Colby, 1985
inscription by author
Location Cornish Colony Shelves; proof copy in Vault
Author Zorach, Marguerite and William
title Cubist Years
publisher Currier Gallery of Art Manchester, NH
donor Virginia Colby
Location Book Shelves Author Churchill, Winston
title Celebrity: an episode
publisher Macmillan Company New York, 1899
signed inscription to the Cornish Library
Location Book Shelves Author Low, Will H.
title Painter's Progress: the Scammon Lectures
publisher Charles Scribner's Sons, 1910
donor James B. Atkinson
Location Book Shelves Author MacKaye, Benton
title New exploration: a philosophy of regional planning
publisher Harcourt, Brace and Company New York, 1928
donor John Dryfhout
Location Cornish Colony Shelves Author Read, Opie
title Bolanyo: a novel; see also Fried, Paul G. Fried, vertical file material
publisher Way & Williams, Chicago, 1897
donor Dr. Paul G. Fried, 1991
cover designed by Maxfield Parrish
Location Cornish Colony Shelves, top
Author Shipman, Louis Evan
title D'Arcy of the guards, or the fortunes of war
publisher Herbert S. Stone and company Chicago and New York, 1899
donor James B. Atkinson and Gretchen A. Holm
location: Cornish Colony Shelves, top Author Hapgood, Norman
title Changing years: reminiscences of Norman Hapgood
publisher Farrar & Rinehart, New York, 1930
donor long-term loan from
SGNHS
Location Book Shelves Author Applegate, Frank G.
title Indian stories from the Pueblos; foreword by Witter Byner
publisher J.B. Lippincott Company Philadelphia and Longon, 1929 donor James B. Atkinson and Gretchen A. Holm
Location Book Shelves
Author Shipman, Louis Evan
title True adventures of a play
publisher Mitchell Kennerley New York & Longon, 1914
Related to book, D’Arcy of the Guards
Location Book Shelves Author Shipman, Louis Evan
title Three comedies: On parole; Fountain of youth; Fools errant
publisher MacMillan Company, New York, 1923
donor James B. Atkinson and Gretchen A. Holm
Location Book Shelves Author Elliott, Maud Howe
title This was my Newport
publisher Mythology Company, A. Marshall Jones Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1944
donor James B. Atkinson and Gretchen A. Holm
Location Book Shelves Author Richards, Laura E.
Author Elliott, Maud Howe
title Julia Ward Howe: 1819- 1910
publisher Houghton Mifflin Company Boston and New York, 1925
donor James B. Atkinson and Gretchen A. Holm
Location Cornish Colony Shelves Author Howe, Maud
title Two in Italy
publisher Little, Brown and Company, Boston, 1911
donor James B. Atkinson and Gretchen A. Holm
with illustrations from photographs and drawings by John Elliott
location Cornish Colony Shelves
Author Mears, Mary
title Breath of the runners: a novel
publisher Frederic A. Stokes Company, New York, 1906
donor long-term loan from
SGNHS
Location Book Shelves Author French, Mrs. Daniel Chester
title Memories of a sculptor's wife
publisher Houghton Mifflin Company Boson and New York, 1928
donor long-term loan from SGNHS
possible inscription and signature by Daniel Chester French
Location Book Shelves Author Green, Susan Porter
title Helen Farnsworth Mears
publisher Castle-Pierce Press Oshkosh, Wisconsin, 1972
donor James B. Atkinson and Gretchen A. Holm
Paine Art Center and Arboretum, Wisconsin
Location Cornish Colony Shelves Author Adams, Adeline
title Daniel Chester French: sculptor publisher Houghton Mifflin Company Boston and New York, 1932
donor James B. Atkinson and Gretchen A. Holm
Location Book Shelves Author Peixotto, Ernest
title Our Hispanic Southwest
illustrations by the auth0r
publisher Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1916
donor James B. Atkinson and Gretchen A. Holm
Location Book Shelves Author Littell, Robert
title Candles in the storm: a novel
publisher Harper & Brothers New York and London, 1934
donor long-term loan from
SGNHS
Location Cornish Colony Shelves Author Halpern, Martin
title William Vaughn Moody
Twayne’s United States Author Series: 64
publisher Twayne Publishers, New York, 1964
donor James B. Atkinson and Gretchen A. Holm
Location Storage: Rear Room, Closet, Cabinet Author St.-Gaudens, Paul Author Jackson, Arthur R.
title How to mend china and bric-a-brac: as a hobby...as a business
drawings by Jane Pitts
publisher Charles T. Branford Company Boston, 1953
donor James B. Atkinson and Gretchen A. Holm
Location Cornish Colony Shelves Author Shinn, Florence Scovel
title Writings of Florence Scovel Shinn
publisher DeVors & Company Marina del Rey, California, 1988
donor James B. Atkinson and Gretchen A. Holm
Location Cornish Colony Shelves
Author Shinn, Florence
title Game of life and how to play it
Seventh Edition, August 1927
publisher Florence Scovel Shinn New York, 1925
Location Cornish Colony Shelves
Author Churchill, Winston
title Uncharted way: the psychology of the gospel doctrine
publisher Dorrance and Company Philadelphia, 1940
donor long-term loan from
SGNHS
Location Cornish Colony Shelves Author Churchill, Winston
title Title-mart: a comedy in three acts
publisher Macmillan Company New York, 1905 donor James B. Atkinson and Gretchen A. Holm
Location Book Shelves Author Churchill, Winston
title Dr. Jonathan: a play in three acts
publisher MacMillan Company, New York, 1919
donor James B. Atkinson and Gretchen A. Holm
Location Book Shelves Author Elliott, Maud Howe
title Three generations
publisher Little, Brown, and Company Boston, 1924
donor James B. Atkinson and Gretchen A. Holm
Location Cornish Colony Shelves Author Steel, Ronald
title Walter Lippmann and the American century
publisher Little, Brown and Company Boston and Toronto, 1980 donor James B. Atkinson and Gretchen A. Holm
Location Book Shelves Author Lippmann, Walter
title Preface to Morals
publisher Macmillan Company New York, 1929
donor James B. Atkinson and Gretchen A. Holm
Location Book Shelves Author Henry, David O title William Vaughn Moody
inscription by author
publisher Bruce Humphries, Inc Boston, 1934
donor James B. Atkinson and Gretchen A. Holm
Location Storage: Rear Room, Closet, Cabinet
Author Adams, Adeline
Title John Quincy Adams: an appreciation
Written for the National Sculpture Society
Publisher National Sculpture Society New York, 1912
Donor James B. Atkinon and Gretchen A. Holm
Location Book Shelves Author Saunders, Louise
Title Collected Poems of Louise Saunders
Introduction by Bertha Perkins Frothingham
Publisher Awede Press, Windsor, VT
Donor James B. Atkinson and Gretchen A. Holm
Location Book Shelves
Author Saunders, Louise
Bergland,Brita, Editor
title Collected Stories of Louise Saunders
Introduction by Wendy Lamb
publisher Awede Press Windsor, Vermont, 2004 donor James B. Atkinson and Gretchen A. Holm
Location Book Shelves Author Saunders, Louise
title Magic Lanterns: a book of plays
publisher Charles Scribner's Sons New York, 1923
donor James B. Atkinson and Gretchen A. Holm
Location Cornish Colony Shelves Author Torrence, Ridgely
title Granny Maumee; the rider of dreams; Simon the Cyrenian: plays for a negro theater
publisher Macmillan Company, New York, 1917
donor long-term loan from
SGNHS
Location Cornish Colony Shelves Author Damrosch, Walter
title My musical life
publisher Charles Scribner's Sons New York, 1930
donor James B. Atkinson and Gretchen A. Holm
Location Cornish Colony Shelves Author Cox, Kenyon
title Painters and Sculptors
A second series of Old Masters and New
publisher Duffield & Company New York, 1907
Location Cornish Colony Shelves
Author Cox, Kenyon
title Old masters and new: essays in art criticism
publisher Duffield & Company, New York, 1908
Location Cornish Colony Shelves Author Perkins, Maxwell
Author Lemmon, Elizabeth
title As ever yours: letters of Max Perkins and Elizabeth Lemmon
Edited with introduction by Roger L. Tarr
publisher Pennsylvania University Press University Park, Pennsylvania, 2003
donor James B. Atkinson and Gretchen A. Holm
Location Cornish Colony Shelves Author Wong, Jay
title Everett Shinn: the spectacle of life
publisher Berry-Hill Galleries, Inc, New York, 2000
donor James B. Atkinson and Gretchen A. Holm
Location Cornish Colony Shelves Author Thayer, Gerald H.
title Concealing-coloration in the animal kingdom: an exposition of the laws of disguise through color and pattern: being a summary of Abbott H. Thayer's...
with an introductory essay by A.H. Thayer
publisher Macmillan Co., New York, 1909
donor long-term loan from SGNHS
Location Cornish Colony Shelves Author Cox, Kenyon
Morgan, H. Wayne, Editor
title American art student in Paris: the letters of Kenyon Cox, 1877-1882
publisher Kent State University Press, 1986 Kent, Ohio, and London donor Virginia Colby
Location Cornish Colony Shelves; copy, donated by James B. Atkinson, in Vault Author Morgan, H. Wayne
title Kenyon Cox, 1856-1919: a life in American art
publisher Kent State University Press Kent, Ohio and London, 1904
donor Virginia Colby
Location Cornish Colony Shelves Author Remington,Frederic
Samuels, Peggy and Harold Editors
title Collected writings of Frederic Remington
publisher Doubleday & Company Garden City, New York, 1979
donor James B. Atkinson and Gretchen A. Holm
Location Vault Author Cox, Kenyon
title Artist and public: and other essays on art subjects
with thirty-two illustrations
publisher Charles Scribner's Sons New York, 1914
Location Cornish Colony Shelves author Cox, Kenyon
title What is painting: "Winslow Homer" and other essays
Preface by Arthur Soss; Introduction by Gene Thompson; reprint of earlier works by Scribner’s, 1914, 1917
publisher W.W. Norton & Company New York and London, 1988
donor Virginia Colby
Location Cornish Colony Shelves Author Morgan, H. Wayne
title Keepers of culture: the art-thought of Kenyon Cox, Royal Cortissoz, and Frank Jewett Mather, Jr.
publisher Kent State University Press Kent, Ohio, and London, 1989
donor Virginia Colby
Location Cornish Colony Shelves Author Morgan, Keith N.
title Charles A. Platt: the artist as architect
with a Memoir by Geoffrey Platt; American Monograph Series
publisher Architect. History Found. and MIT Press Cambridge, Massachusetts and London, 1985
Location Cornish Colony Shelves Author Saint-Gaudens, Homer
title Augustus Saint-Gaudens; adapted from a lecture given by his son
publisher Saint-Gaudens Memoria Cornish, NH, 1927l
donor James B. Atkinson and Gretchen A. Holm
Location Cornish Colony Shelves Author Duffy, Henry J., Curator
Author Dryfhout, John H., Curator
title Augustus Saint-Gaudens: American Sculptor of the Gilded Age
publisher Trust for Museum Exhibitions Washington, D.C., 2003 donor James B. Atkinson and Gretchen A. Holm
Location Cornish Colony Shelves Author National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian
title Augustus Saint-Gaudens: the portrait reliefs
Exhibition Catalog
publisher National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Washington, D.C., 1969 donor James B. Atkinson and Gretchen A. Holm
Location Cornish Colony Shelves Author Smithsonian American Art Museum
title American Art, Summer 2002, Volume 16, Number 2
. publisher Smithsonian American Art Museum Washington, D.C.,2002 donor James B. Atkinson and Gretchen A. Holm
article about Anders Zorn and Augustus Saint-Gaudens
Location Cornish Colony Shelves Author: Phoenix Art Museum
title Americans in Brittany and Normandy, 1860-1910
publisher Phoenix Art Museum Phoenix, Arizona, 1982 donor James B. Atkinson and Gretchen A. Holm
Exhibition Catalog
Location Book Shelves Author: Spanierman Gallery
title Painters of Peconic: Edith Prellwitz(1864-1944) & Henry Prellwitz(1865-1940)
publisher Spanierman Gallery, LLC New York, 2001
donor James B. Atkinson and Gretchen A. Holm Exhibition Catalog(September 5-28, 2002)
Location Cornish Colony Shelves Author Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College
title Winter's Promise: Willard Metcalf in Cornish, New Hampshire
publisher Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College Hanover, New Hampshire, 1999 donor James B. Atkinson and Gretchen A. Holm; second copy, donated by John and Polly Rand, 2017, in Vault
Exhibition Catalog; photograph of Cornish Hills from Northcote, residence of Stephen Parish, figure 3 in Catalog, courtesy of SGNHS, located in Rear Room
Location Cornish Colony Shelves Author Portland Museum of Art, Portland, Maine
title Marguerite & William Zorach: harmonies and contrasts
publisher Portland Museum of Art Portland, Maine,2002 donor James B. Atkinson and Gretchen A. Holm
Exhibition Catalog
Location Cornish Colony Shelves Author Cortissoz, Royal
title John La Farge: a memoir and a study
publisher Houghton Mifflin Company Boston and New York, 1911 donor James B. Atkinson and Gretchen A. Holm
Location Book Shelves
Author Rice, Alice Hegan
title Mrs. Wiggs of the cabbage patch
publisher Century Co, New York, 1901
donor long-term loan from SGNHS
Location Cornish Colony Shelves
Author Greenwich historical society Author Oaklander, Christine I., Curator
title Cos Cob's surprising modernist: Henry Fitch Taylor
publisher Greenwich historical society Greenwich, Connecticut, 2005 donor James B. Atkinson and Gretchen A. Holm
Exhibition Catalog
Location Cornish Colony Shelves
Author Saint-Gaudens National Historic Site
title Shaw memorial: a celebration of an American masterpiece
publisher Eastern National Conshohocken, Pennsylvania, 1997 donor James B. Atkinson and Gretchen A. Holm
copy 1: 1997 edition; copy 2: 2002 edition
Location Cornish Colony Shelves
Author Musee des Augustins, Toulouse
title Augustus Saint-Gaudens, 1848-1907: un maitre de la sculpture americaine
Publisher Somogy, Paris, 1999
donor James B. Atkinson and Gretchen A. Holm
Exhibition Catalog
Location Cornish Colony Shelves
Author Dippie, Brian W.
title Frederic Remington Art Museum Collection
publisher Frederic Remington Art Museum Ogdensburg, New York, 2001
donor James B. Atkinson and Gretchen A. Holm
Location Cornish Colony Shelves
Author De Veer, Elizabeth
Author Boyle, Elizabeth
title Sunlight and shadow: the life and art of Willard L. Metcalf
publisher Abbeville Press New York, 1987
Donor James B. Atkinson and Gretchen A. Holm
Location Cornish Colony Shelves
Author Gilbert, Alma
Title Maxfield Parrish: the masterworks
publisher Ten Speed Press Berkeley, California, 1992
Donor James B. Atkinson and Gretchen A. Holm
signed by author
Location Cornish Colony Shelves Author Dryfhout, John
Title Work of Augustus Saint-Gaudens
publisher University Press of New England Hanover, New Hampshire, 1982
Donor James B. Atkinson and Gretchen A. Holm
Location Cornish Colony Shelves
Author Garland, Hamlin
title Book of the American Indian
publisher Harper & Brothers New York and London, 11923
Donor James B. Atkinson and Gretchen A. Holm
Pictured by Frederic Remington
Location Cornish Colony Shelves
Author Baur, John I.
title William Zorach
publisher Frederick A. Praeger New York, 1959
Donor James B. Atkinson and Gretchen A. Holm
published for the Whitney Museum of American Art
Location Cornish Colony Shelves
Author Duffy, Henry J. Curator, Editor
title Paul St. Gaudens(1900-1954): ceramic artist
publisher Saint-Gaudens National Historic Site Cornish, New Hampshire, 2001
donor James B. Atkinson and Gretchen A. Holm
Location Cornish Colony Shelves
Author Labinsky Daria
Author Hieronymus Stan
title Frank Applegate of Sante Fe: artist and preservationist
publisher LPD Press Albuquerque, New Mexico, 2001
donor James B. Atkinson and Gretchen A. Holm
Location Cornish Colony Shelves Author Weinberg, Barbara H. Author Bolger, Doreen
title American impressionism and realism: the painting of modern life, 1885-1915
publisher Metropolitan Museum of Art New York, 1994
donor James B. Atkinson and Gretchen A. Holm
Location Cornish Colony Shelves
Author MacKaye, Percy
title Sanctuary: a bird masque; two copies
publisher Frederick A. Stokes Company New York, 1913 donor Virginia Colby; James B. Atkinson and Gretchen A. Holm
Prelude by Arvia MacKaye; illustrated with photographs by Arnold Genthe
Location Cornish Colony Shelves
Author Gorges, Raymond
title Ernest Harold Baynes: naturalist and crusader
publisher Houghton Mifflin Company Boston and New York, 1928
Inscription by author
Location Cornish Colony Shelves Author Baynes, Ernest Harold Birt, Louise, Editor
title My wild animal guests: three sketches
publisher Macmillan Company New York, 1930
donor James B. Atkinson and Gretchen A. Holm
Location Cornish Colony Shelves
Author Bynner, Witter
title New world
publisher Alfred A Knopf New York, 1922 signed by author
Location Cornish Colony Shelves
Author Bynner, Witter
title Iphigenia in Tauris
publisher Mitchell Kennerley New York, 1915 donor James B. Atkinson and Gretchen A. Holm
English version by Witter Bynner. In a letter to James L. Farley, June 5, 1957 (ASG papers, Box 43, Rauner): "...my plan of sailing with members of the Poetry Society of America on the Grecian
Location Cornish Colony Shelves
Author Bynner, Witter
title Young Harvard and other poems
publisher Frederic A. Stokes Company New York, 1907 1907 donor James B. Atkinson and Gretchen A. Holm
Location Cornish Colony Shelves Author Bynner, Witter
title Tiger
publisher: Mitchell Kennerley New York, 1913
donor James B. Atkinson and Gretchen A. Holm
Inscription by author
Location Cornish Colony Shelves Author Bynner, Witter
title Beloved stranger: two books of song & a divertisement for the unknown lover
Preface by William Marion Reedy
publisher Alfred A Knopf New York, 1930 donor James B. Atkinson and Gretchen A. Holm
Location Cornish Colony Shelves
Author Bynner, Witter
title Book of plays
publisher Alfred A Knopf New York, 1922
Location Cornish Colony Shelves
Author Baynes, Ernest Harold title: Jimmie: the story of a black bear cup
publisher Macmillan Company New York, 1923
donor James B. Atkinson and Gretchen A. Holm
Location Cornish Colony Shelves
Author Baynes, Ernest Harold
title War whoop and tomahawk: the story of two buffalo calves
publisher Macmillan Company New York, 1919 donor James B. Atkinson and Gretchen A. Holm
Location Cornish Colony Shelves
Author Baynes, Ernest Harold Baynes, Louise Birt, Editor
title Three young crows and other bird stories
publisher Macmillan Company New York, 1927
donor James B. Atkinson and Gretchen A. Holm
Location Cornish Colony Shelves
Author Baynes, Ernest Harold
Gorges, Raymond, Editor
title Wild life in the Blue Mountain Forest revised and edited by Raymond Gorges; forward by Austin Corbin
publisher Macmillan Company
New York, 1931 donor James B. Atkinson and Gretchen A. Holm
Location Cornish Colony Shelves
Author Stevens, Thomas
Wood Author MacKaye, Percy
title Pageant and Masque of Saint Louis; second edition
words of the Pageant by Stevens; words of the Masque by MacKaye
publisher Saint Louis Drama Association
St. Louis, 1914 donor James B. Atkinson and Gretchen A. Holm
Location Cornish Colony Shelves Author Kraft, James
title Who is Witter Bynner?: a biography
inscription by author
publisher University of New Mexico Albuquerque, New Mexicp
1995 donor James B. Atkinson and Gretchen A. Holm
Location Cornish Colony Shelves Author Smith, William Jay
title Spectra Hoax; hoax by Bynner
inscription by author hoax by Witter Bynner and others
publisher Wesleyan University Press Middleton, Connecticut, 1961
donor long term loan from SGNHS
Location Book Shelves Author Bynner, Witter
title Journey with genius: recollections and reflections concerning the D.H. Lawrences
publisher Peter Nevill London and New York, 1953
donor James B. Atkinson and Gretchen A. Holm
Location Cornish Colony Shelves Author Bynner, Witter
title New poems 1960
publisher Alfred A Knopf New York, 1960
donor James B. Atkinson and Gretchen A. Holm
Location Cornish Colony Shelves Author Nichols, Rose Standish
title English Pleasure Gardens
publisher Macmillan Company New York and London, 1902 donor James B. Atkinson and Gretchen A. Holm
Location Cornish Colony Shelves
Author Wharton, Edith
tile Italian villas and their gardens
illustrated with pictures by Maxfield Parrish
publisher Century Co., New York, 1910
Location Cornish Colony Shelves
Author Bynner, Witter
Richard Wilbur, Editor
title Selected poems(the works of Witter Bynner, General Editor, James Kraft)
Biographical introduction by James Kraft Inscription by James Kraft
publisher Farrar Straus Giroux New York, 1977 donor James B. Atkinson and Gretchen A. Holm
Location Cornish Colony Shelves Author Bynner, Witter
title Cake: an indulgence
publisher Alfred A Knopf New York, 1926
donor James B. Atkinson and Gretchen A. Holm
Location Cornish Colony Shelves Author Bynner, Witter
title Guest book
publisher Alfred A Knopf New York, 1935
donor James B. Atkinson and Gretchen A. Holm
Location Cornish Colony Shelves Author Tuckerman, Frederick Goddard
Author Bynner, Witter, Editor
title Sonnets of Frederick Goddard Tuckerman
edited, with an introduction by Witter Bynner
publisher Alfred A Knopf
New York and London, 1931 donor James B. Atkinson and Gretchen A. Holm
Location Cornish Colony Shelves Author Bynner, Witter
title Canticle of Pan and other poems
publisher Alfred A Knopf New York, 1920
donor James B. Atkinson and Gretchen A. Holm
Location Cornish Colony Shelves Author Bynner, Witter
Translator
title Jade mountain: a Chinese Anthology being three hundred poems of the T'ang dynasty, 618-906
from the tests of Kiang Kang-HU
publisher Alfred A Knopf, New York, 1920
donor long-term loan from SGNHS
Location Cornish Colony Shelves Author Bynner, Witter
title Prose pieces(the works of Witter Bynner, General Editor, James Kraft)
inscription by James Kraft
publisher Farrar Straus Giroux New York, 1979 donor James B. Atkinson and Gretchen A. Holm
Location Cornish Colony Shelves Author Bynner, Witter
Author Kraft, James, Editor
title Selected Letters(the works of Witter Bynner, General Editor, James Kraft)
inscription by James Kraft
publisher Farrar Straus Giroux New York, 1981
donor James B. Atkinson and Gretchen A. Holm
Location Cornish Colony Shelves Author Bynner, Witter
Author Smith, William Jay
title Light verse and satires(the works of Witter Bynner, General Editor, James Kraft)
inscription by James Kraft
publisher Farrar Straus Giroux New York, 1978 donor James B. Atkinson and Gretchen A. Holm
location Cornish Colony Shelves
Author Bynner, Witter
title Book of lyrics
publisher Alfred A Knopf, New York, 1955
donor long-term loan from
SGNHS
Location Cornish Colony Shelves, top Author Bynner, Witter
title Take away the darkness
publisher Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1947
donor James B. Atkinson and Gretchen A. Holm
Location Cornish Colony Shelves Author Bynner, Witter
title Indian Earth
publisher Alfred A Knopf, New York, 1929
donor James B. Atkinson and Gretchen A. Holm
Location Cornish Colony Shelves Author Knish, Anne
Author Morgan, Emanuel title Spectra: a book of poetic experiments
publisher Mitchell Kennerley, New York, 1916
Location Cornish Colony Shelves, top
Author Duncan, Frances
title Joyous art of gardening: a book of first aid to the amateur publisher Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1917
donor James B. Atkinson and Gretchen A. Holm
Location Book Shelves Author Moody, William Vaughan MacKaye, Percy, Editor
title Letters to Harriet
Publisher Houghton Mifflin, Boston, 1935
Edited with introduction and conclusion by Percy MacKaye
Location Cornish Colony Shelves
Author MacKaye, Percy
title Community drama: its motive and method of neighborliness, an interpretation
inscription by author
publisher Houghton Mifflin Company Boston and New York, 1917 donor James B. Atkinson and Gretchen A. Holm
Location Cornish Colony Shelves Author MacKaye, Percy
title Scarecrow or the glass of truth: a tragedy of the ludicrous
signed by author publisher Macmillan Company, New York, 1908
Location Cornish Colony Shelves Author MacKaye, Percy
title Dogtown Common
publisher Macmillan Company, New York, 1921
donor James B. Atkinson and Gretchen A. Holm
Location Cornish Colony Shelves Author MacKaye, Percy
title Poems and plays: in two volumes, volume I, poems
publisher Macmillan Company, New York, 1916
donor James B. Atkinson and Gretchen A. Holm
Location Cornish Colony Shelves Author Baynes, Harold
title Polaris: the story of an Eskimo dog
publisher Macmillan Company, New York, 1922
donor James B. Atkinson and Gretchen A. Holm
Location Cornish Colony Shelves
Author MacKaye, Percy
title Skippers of Nancy Gloucester
inscribed by author; for three hundredth anniversary of the founding of the Massachusetts Bay Colony
publisher Brick Row Book Shop, Inc New York, 1924 donor James B. Atkinson and Gretchen A. Holm
Location Cornish Colony Shelves title Kentucky mountains in works by Percy MacKaye
Commentary by fifth writers and artists
publisher Macmillan, New York publication date not listed
donor James B. Atkinson and Gretchen A. Holm
Location Cornish Colony Shelves Author MacKaye, Percy
title My lady dear, arise!: songs and sonnets in remembrance of Marion Morse MacKaye(Mrs. Percy MacKaye)
publisher Bond Wheelwright Company, New York, 1951
Location Cornish Colony Shelves Author MacKaye, Percy
title Mountain Munchhausen
short story published in Century Magazine, v. 109, no. 1, 1925, p. 83-92
Location Cornish Colony Shelves
Author MacKaye, Christy
title Wind in the grass
publisher Harper & Brothers Publishers New York and London, 1931
donor James B. Atkinson and Gretchen A. Holm
Location Cornish Colony Shelves Author MacKaye, Percy
title Discoveries and inventions: victories of the American spirit, fourteen poems
publisher Warner Press, Warner, New Hampshire, 1950
Location Cornish Colony Shelves Author MacKaye, Percy
title Kentucky mountain fantasies: three short plays for an Appalachian theatre
inscription by author; illustrations by Arvia MacKaye
publisher Samuel French New York and Los Angeles, 1953
donor James B. Atkinson and Gretchen A. Holm
location Cornish Colony Shelves
Author Baynes, Ernest Harold
title Berlepsch nest boxes: how, when, and where to erect them
publisher Audubon Bird-House Company Meriden, New Hampshire, 1914
Location Cornish Colony Shelves Author MacKaye, Percy
title Johnny Crimson: a legend of Hollis Hall
First edition of first book written by author During sophomore year at Harvard
place of publication Boston, 1895
donor James B. Atkinson and Gretchen A. Holm
Location Cornish Colony Shelves
Author MacKaye, Percy
title Sanctuary: a bird masque
printed in The Century Magazine, February, 1914, p.547-557
donor James B. Atkinson and Gretchen A. Holm
Location Cornish Colony Shelves
Author MacKaye, Percy
title Mystery of Hamlet, king of Denmark, or what we will: a tetralogy
publisher Bond Wheelwright Company New York, 1950 donor James B. Atkinson and Gretchen A. Holm
Location Cornish Colony Shelves Author Tankard, Judith B
title Gardens of Ellen Biddle Shipman
inscription by athor
publisher Sagapress, Inc. Sagaponack, New York,
donor James B. Atkinson and Gretchen A. Holm
Location Cornish Colony Shelves
Author Shelton, Louise
title Beautiful Gardens in America
publisher Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1915
donor long-term loan from
SGNHS
Location Cornish Colony Shelves
Author Lowell, Guy, Editor
title American Gardens
publisher Bates & Guild Company, Boston, 1902
donor long-term loan from
SGNHS
was on loan from SGNHS but returned, by request, 8/3/16; CHS has a paperback reprint, Cornish Colony Shelves
Author Wilson, Woodrow
Author Galt, Edith Bolling
title President in love: the courtship letters of Woodrow Wilson and Edith Bolling Galt; edited by Edwin Tribble
publisher Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, 1981
donor Virginia Colby
Location Book Shelves(placed under Wilson)
Author Hart, Albert Bushnell
title Salmon P. Chase
Introduction by G.S. Boritt Amecrican Statesmen Series Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., General Editor
publisher Chelsea House New York and London, 1980
donor Virginia Colby
Location Book Shelves
Author Herrick, Robert
title Master of the inn
publisher Charles Scribner's Sons New York, 1908, 1932
Location Book Shelves Author Phelps, Mary Merwin
title Kate Chase: dominant daughter; the life story of a brilliant woman and her famous father
publisher Thomas Y. Crowell Company, New York, 1935
donor Ed A. Boadway, May, 2004
Location Book Shelves
Author Deshazo, Edith
title Everett Shinn, 1876-1953: a figure in his time
publisher Clarkson N. Potter, Inc./Publisher New York, 1974
donor Virginia Colby
Location Book Shelves Author MacKaye, Marion Morse
title Emma: a play(founded on Jane Austen's novel)
with a prefatory letter to Jane Austen by Percy MacKaye
publisher Macmillan Company New York, 1941 Donor Virginia Colby
Location Cornish Colony Shelves Author Hoffman, Marilyn Friedman
title Marguerite and William Zorach: the Cubist years: 1915-1918
Exhibition Catalog
publisher Currier Gallery of Art, Manchester, NH Manchester, New Hampshire, 1987 Donor Virginia Colby
Location Book Shelves
Author MacKaye, Percy
title Thousand years ago: a romance of the orient
Introduction by Clayton Hamilton
publisher Samuel French New York and London, 1914
Location Cornish Colony Shelves
MacKaye, Arvia
title Secret iron of the heart: songs at the forge of awakening man: collected poems by Arvia MacKaye Ege publisher Adonis Press Hawthorne Valley, Ghent, New York, 1982 donor Stephen P. Tracy
Location Book Shelves
Author Craven, Wayne
title Sculpture in America
publisher Thomas Y. Crowell, New York, 1968
Location Book Shelves
Author Adams, Adeline
title Sylvia
publisher Privately Printed, 1912
long term loan from SGNHS
Location Cornish Colony Shelves, top
Author Kloss, William
title Samuel F.B. Morse
publisher Harry N. Abrams, Inc., Publishers New York, 1988 donor James B. Atkinson and Gretchen A. Holm
Location Book Shelves
Author Wagenknecht, Edward
title Pictorial history of New England
publisher Crown Publishers, Inc, New York, 1976
donor Virginia Colby
Location Book Shelves
title Percy MacKaye: a symposium on his fiftieth birthday
Foreward by Amy Lowell
publisher Dartmouth Press Hanover, New Hampshire, 1928
Location Cornish Colony Shelves
Author Barker, Paul R.
title Stanny: the gilded life of Stanford White
publisher Free Press, New York and London, 1989
Location Book Shelves
Author Baxter, Leon H.
title Boy bird house architecture
publisher Bruce Publishing Co. Milwaukee, Wisconsin, 1920
Location Book Shelves
Author Steinbaugh, Eric
title Winston Churchill: a reference guide
publisher G.K. Hall & Co Boston, 1985
donor Virginia Colby
Location Book Shelves
Author Dorris, Michael
title Paper Trail: essays
publisher Harper Collins, New York, 1994
donor James B. Atkinson and Gretchen A. Holm
Location Book Shelves
Author Croly, Herbert
title Progressive Democracy
publisher Macmillan Company, New York, 1915
Location Cornish Colony Shelves
Author Dorris, Michael
title Rooms in the house of stone
publisher Milkweed Editions Minneapolis, Minnesota, 1993
donor James B. Atkinson and Gretchen A. Holm
Location Book Shelves
Author Berg, A. Scott
title Max Perkins: editor of genius
publisher E. P. Dutton New York, 1978 donor James B. Atkinson and Gretchen A. Holm
Location Book Shelves
Author Cady, Daniel L.
title Rhymes of Vermont rural life: second series
publisher Tuttle Company Rutland, Vermont, 1922
Location Book Shelves Author Mead, Edgar T. Jr.
title Over the hills to Woodstock: the saga of the Woodstock Railroad
publisher Stephen Greene Press Brattleboro, Vermont, 1967
Location Book Shelves
Author Garland, Hamlin
title Hesper: a novel
publisher Harper & Brothers New York and London, 1903
donor James B. Atkinson and Gretchen A. Holm
Location Book Shelves Author Perkins, Maxwell E.
Wheelock, John Hall, Editor
title Editor to editor: the letters of Maxwell E. Perkins
publisher Charles Scribner's Sons New York, 1950, 1987
donor Virginia Colby
Location Book Shelves
Author Garland, Hamlin
title Daughter of the middle border
publisher Macmillan Company New York, 1921
donor James B. Atkinson and Gretchen A. Holm
Location Book Shelves
Author Garland, Hamlin
title Son of the middle border
publisher Grosset & Dunlap New York, 1917
donor John Dryfhout
Location Book Shelves Author Hancock, Mary Louise Compiler
title Mountains of New Hampshire: a directory locating the mountains and prominent elevations
publisher NH State Planning and Development Concord, New Hampshire, 1949
Location Book Shelves
Author Lyon, G. Parker
title New Hampshire annual register and United States Calendar for the year 1865
publisher G. Parker Lyon Concord, New Hampshire
Location Book Shelves
Author Stubbs, Burns A.
title Patintings, pastels, drawings, prints, and copper plates by and attributed to American and European artists
Freer Gallery of Art occasional papers; Volume one, number two
publisher Smithsonian Institution Washington, D.C., 1967
Location Book Shelves
author Rogers, Sherbrooke
title Sarah Josepha Hale: a New England pioneer, 1788-1879
inscription by author
publisher Tompson & Rutter Grantham, New Hampshire, 1985
donor Virginia Colby
Location Book Shelves
title Best American short stories, 1993 publisher Houghton Mifflin Company Boston and New York, 1993
Location Book Shelves
Author Erdrich, Louise
title Tracks: a novel
publisher Henry Holt Company New York, 1988
donor James B. Atkinson and Gretchen A. Holm
Location Book Shelves Author Shurcliff, Margaret Homer
title Lively days: some memoirs of Margaret Homer Shurcliff
edited by Alice W. Shurcliff, daughter
three copies
place of publication Taipei, Taiwan, 1965
donor 1. Charles Shurcliff, 1987 2. John Dryfhout, 1984 this copy signed by Elisabeth Shurcliff Lowell,1965; daughter of Margaret, sister of Alice 3. This copy signed by Alice Shurcliff
Location Book Shelves
Author Shurcliff, Arthur A.
title Second New England journal
publisher River Press Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1942
donor Virginia Colby
Location Book Shelves Author Henderson, Helen W.
title Loiterer in New York: discoveries made by a rambler through obvious yet unsought highways and byways
publisher George H. Doran Company New York, 1917
Location Book Shelves Author Grunwald,Henry Anatole, Editor
title Salinger: a critical and personal portrait
publisher Harper & Brothers New York, 1962
donor Virginia Colby
location Book Shelves Author Wardner, Henry Steele
title Birthplace of Vermont: a history of Windsor to 1781
publisher Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1927
New Hampshire Grants included
donor Virginia Colby
Location Book Shelves
Author Stearns, Carl
title Early history of medicine in Sullivan County, N.H.
publisher Privately published, 1971 Springfield, Vermont
donor John Dryfhout
Location Book Shelves
Author Kiepper, James J.
title Styles Bridges: Yankee Senator publisher Phoenix Publishing Sugar Hill, New Hampshire, 2001
donor Louise R. Ellis, Manchester, NH, in memory of Desmond N. Douglas,
Location Book Shelves
Author Pierce, Phillip C., et all
title Covered Bridge Manual: publication no. FHWA- HRT-04-098
publisher Federal Highway Administration, USDOT McLean, Virginia, 2005
Location Book Shelves
Author Hassrick, Peter H.
title Art of being an artist: Sally James Farnham, American sculptor
publisher Frederick Remington Art Museum Ogdensburg, New York, 2005
donor James B. Atkinson and Gretchen A. Holm
Location Book Shelves
Author Kimball, Fiske
title Domestic architecture of the American colonies and of the early republic
publisher Dover Publications, Inc. New York, 1922, 1966
Location Book Shelves
Author Rand, Harry
title Paul Manship
Exhibition Catalog
publisher Smithsonian Institution Press Washington and London, 1989 donor Virginia Colby
Location Book Shelves
author Graton, Milton S.
title Last of the covered bridge builders(Milton S. Graton),
Inscription by author
publisher Clifford-Nicol, Inc. Plymouth, New Hampshire, 1978, 1990
donor Virginia Colby
Location Book Shelves
Author French, Warren
title Fifties: the age of Salinger
publisher Everett/Edwards Deland, Florida, 1970
donor Virginia Colby
Location Book Shelves
Author Beston, John
title Comprehensive Outline of J. D. Salinger's catcher in the rye
publisher Harvard Outline Company, 1963
donor Virginia Colby
Location Book Shelves Author Congdon, Herbert Wheaton
title Covered Bridge(100 photographs of Vermont covered bridges)
publisher Vermont Books Middlebury, Vermont, 1979
donor Virginia Colby
Location Book Shelves
Author Kinsella, W.P.
title Shoeless Joe
includes “The Rapture of J.D. Salinger”
publisher Ballantine Books New York, 1982
donor Virginia Colby
Location Book Shelves
Author Hamilton, Ian
title In Search of J. D. Salinger
publisher Minerva, London, 1988, 1989
donor James B. Atkinson and Gretchen A. Holm
Location Book Shelves
Author Donovan, Richard T.
title 25th anniversary world guide to covered bridges, revised edition
publisher Nat. Soc. for the Preservation of Covered Bridges, 1980 donor Virginia Colby
Location Book Shelves
Author Hammer, Arthur F.
title Romantic shelters: a supplement to the 1989 world guide to covered bridges
publisher Nat. Soc. for the Preservation of Covered Bridges
publication date 1989
Location Book Shelves
Author Mulligan, Tim
title Traveler's guide to Western New England and the Connecticut River Valley
inscription by author
publisher Random House, New York, 1994
Location Book Shelves
Author Douskey, Franz
title Rowing across the dark: poems by Douskey
publisher University of Georgia Press Athens, Georgia, 1981
Location Book Shelves
Author Salmon, D.E.
title Special report on the diseases of the horse
publisher Government Printing Office Washington, D.C., 1890
Location Book Shelves
title Officers, Members, Constitution & By-Laws of the Colony Club, 1976
place of publication New York
Location Book Shelves(placed by title)
Author Dana, Richard T.
title Bridge at Windsor, Vt. and its Economic Implications
publisher Codex Book Company, Inc. New York, 1926
Location Book Shelves
Author Walker, C. Ernest
title Covered bridge ramblings in New England
publisher C. Ernest Walker Contoocock, New Hampshire, 1959
donor Virginia Colby
Location Book Shelves
title Cornish, New Hampshire: the first hundred years, 1763-1863
Bicentennial Exhibition
publisher Saint-Gaudens National Historic Site Cornish, New Hampshire, 1976
Location Book Shelves
Augustus Saint-Gaudens Memorial
Request for funds needed to accept gift of Mrs. Saint-Gaudens and her son
publisher Trustees, The Saint-Gaudens Memorial Cornish, New Hampshire
Location Cornish Colony Shelves
Author Elliott, Maud Howe
title John Elliott: the story of an artist
publisher Houghton Mifflin Company Boston and New York, 1930
donor Virginia Colby
Location Cornish Colony Shelves Author Saint-Gaudens,
Augustus
Homer Saint-Gaudens, Editor
title Reminiscences of Augustus Saint- Gaudens, volume one(two copies)
publisher Century Co., New York, 1913
donor Virginia Colby
Location Cornish Colony Shelves; second copy in Vault
Author Homer, Sidney
title My wife and I: the story of Louise and Sidney Homer
publisher Macmillan Company, New York, 1939
donor James B. Atkinson and Gretchen A. Holm
Location Book Shelves
Author Fitch, Albert Parker
title None So Blind
publisher Macmillan Company, New York, 1924
Location Book Shelves
Author Fuller, Blair
title Art in the blood: seven generations of American artists in the Fuller family
inscription by author
publisher Creative Arts Book Company Berkeley, California, 2001
donor James B. Atkinson and Gretchen A. Holm
Location Book Shelves
title New Hampshire Collections, historical and miscellaneous and monthly literary journal
chapter on Cornish
publisher J. B. Moore Concord, New Hampshire, 1823
Location Book Shelves(placed by title) Author Hyson, Marilyn Gage
title Profile of Herbert Adams, 1858-1945, Sculptor
publisher Privately published, 2000
Location Book Shelves Author Faulkner, Barry
Bauhan, William, L., Editor
title Barry Faulkner: sketches from an artist's life
publisher William L. Bauhan Publisher Dublin, New Hampshire, 1973
donor Virginia Colby
Location Cornish Colony Shelves
Author Sinnott, Edmund W.
title Meetinghouse & church in early New England
publisher Bonanza Books New York, 1963
Location Book Shelves
Title Indian narratives: containing a correct and interesting history of the Indian Wars
Owned by F.B. Comings, Cornish, NH
Publisher Tracy and Brothers
Claremont, NH, 1854
Location Book Shelves(placed by title)
Author Mazer, Susan Author Smith, Dallas title Ballet music from Maxfield Parrish-a love story (CD)
“secret romance between Maxfield Parris and Sue Lewin”
publisher Healing Health Care Systems Reno, Nevada, 1990 donor James B. Atkinson and Gretchen A. Holm
Location Vault
Author Bynner, Witter
title D.H. Lawrence Photographs
taken in Mexico
donor James B. Atkinson and Gretchen A. Holm
Location Cornish Colony Shelves
Author Lindsay, Robert O.
title Witter Bynner: a bibliography
University of New Mexico Publications, Library Series, Number 2
publisher University of New Mexico Press Albuquerque, New Mexico, 1967
donor James B. Atkinson and Gretchen A. Holm
Location Cornish Colony Shelves title Sante Fe Scene: weekly news and features; January 31, 1959(photocopy)
article on Witter Bynner
place of publication Sante Fe, New Mexico donors James B. Atkinson and Gretchen A. Holm
Location Vault: Bynner Vertical File
Interview with Witter Bynner, conducted by Judith Wray; audio tape; October 7, 1957
place of publication Bynner's home, Sante Fe, New Mexico
date October 7, 1957
donor James B. Atkinson and Gretchen A. Holm
Location Vault
Author Obee, Ruth
title Article about Witter Who?(reprinted from KIUA Magazine, Journal of the Cheyenne Heritage Center, Spring 2000)
place of publication Colorado Springs, Colorado
donor James B. Atkinson and Gretchen A. Holm
Location Cornish Colony Shelves
Author Baca, Elmo
title Mabel's Santa Fe and Taos bohemian legends, 1900-1950
publisher Gibbs-Smith Publisher Salt Lake City, Utah, 2000 donor James B. Atkinson and Gretchen A. Holm; Mabel Dodge Luhan
location Cornish Colony Shelves
Author Robinson, Joyce Henri Author Cartwright, Derrick R.
title: Interlude in Giverny
Exhibition Catalog
publisher Palmer Museum of Art University Park, Pennsylvania, 2000
donor James B. Atkinson and Gretchen A. Holm
Location Storage, Rear Room
Author Wilde, Oscar
title Happy Prince and other tales; illustrated by Everett Shinn
Illustrated by Everett Shinn
publisher Literary Guild of America, Inc. New York, 1940
donor James B. Atkinson and Gretchen A. Holm
Location Cornish Colony Shelves
Author Gilbert, Alma
title Parrish and Photography
publisher Alma Gilbert, Inc Plainfield, New Hampshire, 1998
donor James B. Atkinson and Gretchen A. Holm
Location Cornish Colony Shelves
Author Yount, Sylvia
title Maxfield Parrish, 1870-1966
Exhibition Catalog
publisher Harry N. Abrams, New York, 1999
donor James B. Atkinson and Gretchen A. Holm
location Cornish Colony Shelves
title Italian presence in American art, 1860-1920
Exhibition Catalog publisher Richard York Gallery, New York, 1989 donor James B. Atkinson and Gretchen A. Holm
Location Book Shelves(placed by title)
Author Marlais, Michael
title Americans and Paris
Exhibition catalog
publisher Colby College Museum of Art Waterville, Maine, 1990
donor James B. Atkinson and Gretchen A. Holm
Location Book Shelves
Author Mitchell, Langdon
title New York idea: a comedy in four acts
publisher Baker's Plays, Boston, 1907, 1936 donor James B. Atkinson and Gretchen A. Holm
Location Book Shelves Author Parrish, Anne
Author Parrish, Dillwyn title Lustres
publisher George H. Doran Company New York, 1924
Location Book Shelves Author Dunne, Finley Peter
Author Ellis, Elmer, Editor
Title: Mr. Dooley at his best
publisher Charles Scribner's Sons New York, 1910, 1938 donor James B. Atkinson and Gretchen A. Holm
Location Book Shelves Author Dunne, Finley Peter
title Mr. Dooley's Philosophy
Illustrated by F. Opper
publisher R.H. Russell, Publisher New York, 1902
donor James B. Atkinson and Gretchen A. Holm
Location Book Shelves
title Loan exhibition in honour of Royal Cortissoz and his 50 years of criticism in the New York Herald Tribune
Exhibition catalog publisher M. Knoedler and Company New York, 1941 donor James B. Atkinson and Gretchen A. Holm
Location Book Shelves(placed by Cortissoz)
Author Morley, Linda
title Western regions, New Hampshire: a visual history
publisher Donning Company Norfolk, Virginia Beach, Virginia
donor John B. Watson, Jr.
Location Book Shelves Author Nichols, Rose Standish
With a new introduction by Judith B. Tankard
title English Pleasure Gardens publisher David R. Godine, Publisher
Boston, 1902, 2003 donor James B. Atkinson and Gretchen A. Holm
Location Cornish Colony Shelves title Architectural League of New York
Bibliographic pages missing
Location Book Shelves
Author Dunne, Findley Peter
title Mr. Dooley in peace and war
publisher Small, Maynard & Company Boston, 1899 donor James B. Atkinson and Gretchen A. Holm
Location Book Shelves
Author Schultz, Arthur W. General Editor
title Caring for your collections
National institute for the conservation of cultural property
publisher Harry N. Abrams, Inc., Publishers New York, 1992
Location Book Shelves(under Caring...)
title Mabel Dodge: the salon years, 1912-1917
Exhibition catalog publisher Barbara Mathes Gallery New York, 1985 donor James B. Atkinson and Gretchen A. Holm
Location Book Shelves(placed by title)
Author Remington, Frederic Remington Author McCraken, Harold
title: Frederic Remington's own west
publisher Dial Press, New York, 1960
donor James A. Atkinson and Gretchen B. Holm
Location Book Shelves
Author Riley, James Whitcomb
title Poems of childhood
publisher Grosset & Dunlap New York, 1887, 1943 donor James B. Atkinson and Gretchen A. Holm
Location Book Shelves
title Scribner's Magazine: volume 12, July- December, 1892
Article by Kenyon Cox
Location Book Shelves(placed by title)
title Connecticut and American Impressionism
publisher William Benton Museum of Art Storrs, Connecticut, 1980
Exhibition Catalog
Location Book Shelves(placed by title) Author Spahr, P. Andrew Organizer
title Community of creativity: a century of MacDowell colony artists
Exhibition catalog
publisher Currier Gallery of Art Manchester, New Hampshire, 1996
Location Book Shelves title Historical New Hampshire: New Hampshire Women and the crafts; volume 56, numbers 3 & 4, Fall-Winter, 2001
pages 77-79: Cornish Colony women and the Plainfield Mothers-Daughters Club publisher New Hampshire Historical Society Concord, New Hampshire
donor James B. Atkinson and Gretchen A. Holm
Location Book Shelves(placed by title, Historical)
title Historical New Hampshire: the story of the MacDowell Colony; volume 51, numbers 1& 2, Spring/Summer, 1996
publisher New Hampshire Historical Society Concord, New Hampshire donor James B. Atkinson and Gretchen A. Holm
Location Book Shelves(placed by title, Historical)
Author Dunne, Findley Peter
title Mr. Dooley in the hearts of his countrymen
publisher Small, Maynard & Company Boston, Massachusetts, 1899 donor James B. Atkinson and Gretchen A. Holm
Location Book Shelves
Author Dunne, Findley Peter
title Mr. Dooley's opinions
publisher R. H. Russell, New York, 1901 donor James B. Atkinson and Gretchen A. Holm
Location Book Shelves
Author Hartman, Sadakichi Weaver, Jane, Editor title Sadakichi Hartman, critical modernist: colllected art writings
publisher University of California Press Berkeley, California, 1991 donor James B. Atkinson and Gretchen A. Holm
section on Cornish Colony artists
location Book Shelves author Chadwick, Christine Young
title Beyond the hedge: poems by Christine Young Chadwick (Cornish native)
publisher William L. Chadwick, 1991
Location Book Shelves Author Tishler, William H.
title American landscape architecture: designers and places
section on Charles A. Platt
publisher National Trust for Historic Preservation Washington, D.C.,1989
donor Virginia Colby
Location Book Shelves
title Proceedings and exercises of the one hundred fiftieth anniversary of the settlement of Cornish, New Hampshire
August 18th, 1915; in connection with Old Home Day or the annual Old People's visit
Location Vertical File: Cornish, 150th
Second Copy, Book Shelves under Cornish
Author Lawrence, Robert F.
title New Hampshire Churches: comprising histories of the Congregational and Presbyterian churches in the state
section on Cornish churches
publisher Claremont Manufacturing Company Claremont, New Hampshire, 1856
Location Book Shelves Author Clark, Edie
title Monadnock tales
inscription by author
publisher Brown Rabbit Press Peterborough, New Hampshire, 2002 donor James B. Atkinson and Gretchen A. Holm
Location Book Shelves
Author Goodrich, Jeremiah
title Murray's English reader or pieces in prose and poetry selected from the best writers
publisher Simeon Ide Windsor, Vermont, 1828
donor Mary Beaman Lagercrantz August, 1984
Location Book Shelves
title New Hampshire register and United States calendar, 1825
publisher Jacob B. Moore Concord, New Hampshire, 1824
donor Mary Beaman Lagercrantz August, 1984
Nathan Smith, M.D., cited on page 85
Location Book Shelves(placed by title) title Harper's New Monthly Magazine: volume 91, June to November, 1895
Remington: author and illustrator of an article; Hamlin Garland, author of a story; Royal Cortissoz, author of an article, cited Thomas Wilmer Dewing and Frederic William Macmonnies
Location Book Shelves(placed by title)
Author Hagedorn, Herman
title Edwin Arlington Robinson: a biography
publisher Macmillan Company New York, 1938
Location Book Shelves
Author Frankel, Alison
title Double Eagle: the epic story of the world's most valuable coin
Augustus Saint-Gaudens; inscription by author to the Cornish Historical Society
publisher W.W. Norton & Company New York and London, 2006
donor James B. Atkinson and Gretchen A. Holm
Location Book Shelves Author Aldrich, Thomas Bailey, Mrs.
title Crowning memories
Book owned by Mildred P. Whiting, August, 1922
publisher Houghton Mifflin Company Boston and New York, 1920, 1922
Location Book Shelves
Author Cox, Kenyon
title Concerning painting: considerations theoretical and historical
publisher Charles Scribner's Sons New York, 1917
Location Cornish Colony Shelves
New Hampshire, Civil War: Regimental Histories
CHS has 1-3,5-9,11-18; 4 and 10 not in collection
Location Some volumes: Civil War Display Area, opposite vault; others, Rear Room
Fair - Cornish
Cornish Fair
Vertical file material
Separate VF Folder for Fair - Photographs Donated by Nancy Newbold and Polly Rand
See also digital file available on the CHS Collection page at the Town website
Location Vault
MacKaye, Percy
Vertical file material
Includes "Memoir of the Occasion Celebrating Percy MacKaye's 70th Birthday On the Evening of Friday March 16, 1945 [signed by MacKaye, dedicated to "Elinor Moynihan Wagner...]
See also “childhood scrapbook–notebook” of paintings, drawings by Robin MacKaye, Robert MacKaye, son of Percy MacKaye; 1905-1906; includes drawing by Maxfield Parrish; located atop map drawer opposite Vault
Location Vault
title Progressive Speller
Bibliographic Information missing; Owned by Fred N. Weld, Cornish
Location Book Shelves(placed by title)
Author Morse, Jedidiah, D.D.
title Geography made easy: being an abridgment of the American Universal Geography
publisher Thomas & Andrews Boston, Massachusetts
donor Ed Battison
Location Book Shelves
title Records: School District No. 10 in Cornish; 1853 -1875
Location Book Shelves(placed by title)
Author Boke, Nicholas
title Waiting for winter: poems by Nicholas Boke
Illustrations by Gary Milek
publisher Rasberry Publications Perkinsville, Vermont, 1987
Location Book Shelves
Author Cornish Garden Club
title Cooking favorites of Cornish
publisher Cornish Garden Club, published privately
includes history of the Garden Club
Location Book Shelves l
Author Staples, Barbara
title Granite State's Boston Post Canes: a New England tradition
publisher Fleming Press Lynn, Massachusetts, 1999
Location Book Shelves
Author Meikle, James
title Solitude sweetened; or miscellaneous mediations on various religious subjects
publisher William Fessenden Brattleborough, Vermont, 1814
donor Ed Battison
Location Book Shelves
Author Smith, Ethan
title View of the Hebrews; or the tribes of Israel in America
publisher Smith & Shute Poultney, Vermont, 1825
donor Ed Battison
Location Book Shelves title History of the United States
“By a citizen of Massachusetts”
publisher John Prentiss Keene, New Hampshire, 1822
donor Ed Battison
Location Book Shelves Author Wilson, Marcus
title History of the United States
publisher Caleb Bartlett New York, 1846
Location Book Shelves
Author Lear, Annah L.
title One little woman
Notation that Anna L. Lear was from Claremont
publisher James H. Earle Boston, Massachusetts, 1893
Location Book Shelves Author Jackson, Blake Smith
Compiler
title Nicholas Jackson of Rowley, Massachusetts and his descendants: 1635-1976(Corbin family included)
place of publication Published privately, 1977
Corbin family included
Location Book Shelves
Author Eaton, James S. M.A
title Common school arithmetic
publisher Thompson, Bigelow & Brown Boston, Massachusetts, 1869
Location Book Shelves
Author Swinton, William A.M.
title Word-book of English spelling
Owned by Fred A. Weld, Cornish
publisher Ivison, Blakeman, Taylor and Company New York and Chicago, 1872
Location Book Shelves Author Worcester, J.E, LL.D
title Pronouncing spelling-book of the English Language
Owned by Frank Weld
publisher Brewer and Titeston Boston, Massachusetts, 1857
Location Book Shelves
Author Mason, Hugh
title Margaret Fuller: whetstone of genius
publisher Viking Press, New York, 1940
Location Book Shelves
Author Powers, Samuel Leland
title Portraits of half a century
Powers was born and raised in Cornish; chapters on his early Life are included; cites Philander Chase, Nathan Smith, Salmon P. Chase, Haldimand Sumner Putnam
publisher Little, Brown, and Company Boston, Massachusetts, 1925
Location Book Shelves
Author Hemphill, Phyllis M.
title Sally Thomas: Servant Girl
publisher Winston-Derek Publishers, Inc. Nashville, Tennessee, 1991 donor Phyllis Hemphill, 1991
content signed and dedicated by author; information about fire in author’s home included with book
Location Book Shelves
American Precision Museum Windsor, Vermont
Vertical file material
See also Battison, Ed
Location Vault
Battison, Ed
Vertical file
see also vertical file material for American Precision Museum
Location Vault Cornish Historical Society
Vertical file material
see also vertical files for: Town Records, Cornish; William H. Child; Jonathan Chase; Smithsonian
Location Vault
American Association for State and Local History, see Town Records, Cornish: vertical file material
Clippings, etc; includes also material relating to " A certificate of commendation" given to the Cornish Historical Society for making historical town records available, 1982
Location Vault
Preservation, Historical
Vertical file material (includes painting conservation)
Location Vault Association of Historical Societies of New Hampshire, Inc. Vertical file material
Location Vault Bartlett, Elmer Wood
Vertical file material;see also glass- slides in rear room; see also glass- slides transformed into a photo- album, Exhibit, Town Office, Second Floor
included is a history of the house on Dingleton Hill, owned by the Bartlett family, Lyman Wood family, and now owned by the Monettes; prepared by Polly Monette, 1983
Location Vault Obituaries, Cornish
Vertical file material
See also by name
Location Vault
Churches, Cornish
Vertical File Material
see also by denomination: vertical file material; see also Town Hall for Perfectionists; see also Postcard Album
See also Exhibit, Town Office, Second Floor Photographs
Location Vault
Baptist Church, Cornish Vertical file material see also: Meetinghouse; Kendrick, Eld. Ariel; Atwood, William
Location Vault Beaman, Charles C. Vertical file material
Location Vault Lagercrantz, Mary Beaman
Vertical file material
Clippings, etc.; includes letter to John Dryfhout about Mill, Blacksmith, and Blow-Me-Down covered bridges
Location Vault Kenyon Hill Covered Bridge, Blacksmith Shop Covered Bridge, Cornish
Vertical File under Blacksmith Covered Bridge
Location Vault
Blacksmith Shop Covered Bridge, Cornish Vertical file material
Location Vault Boston Post Cane
Vertical file material
Location Vault Bugbee, Captain Sylvester Bugbee Family
Vertical file material; located in Vault
In addition, Patricia Weikart has donated information and a thumb- drive with photographs based on research by Charles Bugbee; Balloch and Wood families included; material is located in the Vault, notebook section; August, 2018
Thumb-drive includes “Various Anecdotes From the Balloch, Bugbee, and Kellog families as recorded by Charles E. Bugbee”
Cornish Inn
Aka Hampshire Inn, Hampshire House
Vertical File
See also Roads, Cornish; Highways, Turnpikes; see also Postcard Album
Location Vault History, Cornish
Vertical file material
See also in vertical file: "In Cornish Long Ago"; "Cornish 1983"; Historic Roadside Markers; Proprietor's Book; Wade, Hugh Mason; see also Postcard collection
See also Cornish Historical Articles Notebook, Vault
Location Vault Chase (family) portraits
Vertical file material
Location Vault Chase House
Vertical file material
See also photograph: Exhibit, Town Office, Second Floor
Location Vault Chase, Salmon P.
Vertical file material
Location Vault Child, W. H. : vertical file material
Clippings, etc; includes material relating to Cornish Historical Society and Cornish Bicentennial Commission's reprint of Child's history of Cornish
Photograph of William H. Child looking toward his homestead on Center Road; donated by Judith Kaufman, present owner; information about photograph is included in vertical file
Location Vault, Vertical File
Photograph, Exhibit, Town Office, Second Floor
Chase family
Vertical file material
Location Vault Chaseholme
Vertical file material
present home of Michael Paccione and Gilliam Goodwin
Location Vault Author Batchellor, Albert Stillman
title Ranger service in Upper Valley of Connecticut and the most northerly regiment of the New Hampshire Militia in the period of the Revolution
Address at New Hampshire Society of Sons of the American Revolution, Concord, N.H., April 26, 1900
publisher Rumford Press Concord, New Hampshire, 1903
Location Book Shelves title General Jonathan Chase: Revolutionary War Papers; Cornish, N.H. Bicentennial Commission; see Jonathan Chase :vertical file material
American Revolution
Location: Vault
Chellis, Enoch F.
Vertical file material
Clippings, etc.; includes material prepared by Stephen P. Tracy concerning Benjamin Kimball Chase and Robert C. Deming, son of Charles H. Deming
Location Vault
Temperance, Cornish
Vertical file material
Location: Vault
Powers, Samuel L., see History, Cornish: vertical file material
Mrs. Orlando Powers included
Location Vault
Connecticut River
Vertical file material
See also Floods, and Dam, Vertical File Material
Location Vault
Roads
Vertical file material
Includes historical material on New England roads
See Town Forest for photographs of abandoned part of Root Hill Road
see also Postcard Album
Location Vault
United Church of Cornish, see also Congregational Church: vertical file material
Location Vault
United Church of Cornish 1789-1989 Coffee Mug, Front Room
Congregational Church: vertical file material see also Wellman, James
Location Vault
Corbin, Austin
Vertical file material
see also Corbin Park, Vertical File see also Postcard Album
Location Vault
Cornish Flat Telephone Company
also includes Audrey Jacquier, Meriden Telephone Company
Vertical file material
Location Vault
Baynes, Ernest Harold
Vertical file material
Contains material concerning Meriden Bird Club
For more material on Meriden Bird Club, see Baynes Documentation, Rear Room, Storage, Closet
Location Vault Cornish Bicentennial Medals, see Cornish Bicentennial Commission: vertical file material
Location Vault
Cemeteries, Cornish
Includes gravestones
And Cemeteries, General
Vertical file materials
see also New Hampshire Old Graveyard Association; Revolution, US;
Location Vault
Cornish collections at Dartmouth
Vertical file material
see also History, Cornish
Location Vault
Cornish Colony
Vertical file material
See also Tea Tray
See also Cornish Historical Articles Notebook, Vault
Location Vault
Mastlands
Vertical file material
see also Shurcliff-Nichols Property
Location Vault
Town Records, Cornish
Vertical file material
Location Vault
Covered bridges - Cornish
Vertical file material
See also for Cornish by name(Blow-Me-Down, Blacksmith Shop(Kenyon Hill), Cornish-Windsor, Dingleton) see also Postcard Album
See also Cornish Historical Articles Notebook, Vault
Location Vault
Blow-Me-Down Covered Bridge
Vertical File Material
Separate Folder for Photographs
Location Vault
title Tasker, James
Vertical file material
See also by name of covered bridge
See also Cornish Historical Articles Notebook, Vault
Location Vault
Title Cornish Commongood, Common Good
Cornish publication dealing with environment, conservation, recycling
Includes “Community of Cornish, April 1981, Directory”: listing of Town Officials
Location Vault
Cornish-Windsor covered bridge: vertical file material; see also vertical file material for: James Tasker and Milton Graton; Covered bridge note paper; see also Postcard Album
Location Vault
Cornish Business Association
Vertical file material
Location Vault
Cornish Historical Society: Articles of Agreement, NH Secretary of State: vertical file material
Papers
location Vault
Meetinghouse, Cornish
Vertical file material
see also Baptist Church, Cornish
Location Vault Cornish Rescue Squad
Vertical file material
See also Digital File for Rescue Squad available At the CHS Collection Page at the Town Website
Cornish Rescue Squad Coffee Mug, 1974-1999 in Front Room
Location Vault
Cornish Bicentennial Commission: vertical file material; see also vertical file material for: Jonathan Chase; William H. Child; Covered Bridge note paper
Location Vault
Chase, Jonathan
Vertical file material
Location Vault
title Chase, Philander
Vertical file material
See also Trinity Church See also Cornish Historical Articles Notebook, Vault
Location Vault
Old Home Day metals,
inscription “100th Old Home Day 1976” and “First Observed August 15, 1877”
see also Cornish Bicentennial Commission; Vertical file material; Old Home Day, Cornish, Vertical File Material
Location Front Room
Floods
Climate
Storms
Related, but separate Vertical Files
For Floods, see also Connecticut River
See also photo-albums
See also Snaps of High Water During Spring Flood of 1936; photo-album; located atop map drawer opposite Vault
Location Vault Electric Lights, Cornish
Vertical file material
Location Vault
Population, Cornish
Vertical file material
Location Vault
Rawson, Barbara: see Cornish History Committee: vertical file material
Location: Vault
Cornish History Committee
Vertical file material
Location Vault
Library, Cornish(George H. Stowell Free Public Library)
Cornish Library
Vertical file material
Includes articles about Kate Freeland
Location Vault
title "In Cornish Long Ago"; outdoor pageant held at Cornish Center, presented by Cornish Library Club on a Fair day in August, 1916
Clippings, etc.; includes picture of Paul St.-Gaudens
Vertical File
Location Vault
title Cornish 1983
A Collection of Photographs Taken at Random
published by Cornish Historical Society on the occasion of its 10th Anniversary, 1973- 1983
Also, Vertical File for the photographs used in the publication
Location Book Shelves under Cornish
Cornish Creamery
Vertical file material
Location Vault
Covered bridge note paper(Cornish- Windsor covered bridge): vertical file material
Location Vault
School
Vertical file material
see also by name of school, i.e. Tracy School;
see also Exhibit, Town Office, Second Floor, Photographs
see also One-Room Schoolhouses, Vertical File
see also Chabot, Norman, Vertical File
separate VF Folder for “Organization and SAU 6 Withdrawal Plan,” December 10, 2015
See Town Forest VF for site of School District 15
Location Vault
Hillside Creamery
Vertical file material
Location Vault
Northcote
Vertical file material
includes a history of Northcote, prepared for Cornish Historical Society, 1983
See also Cornish Historical Articles Notebook, Vault
Location Vault
Cornish Sign
Vertical file material
The Welcome to Cornish Sign was originally on 12A, going north, entering Cornish from Claremont; the sign was carved and painted by Ed Boggis, West Claremont; the sign was paid for and and installed by William Dole; the sign was restored by the Cornish Historical Society and now greets visitors to the CHS Exhibit, Second Floor, Town Office
Location Vault
New Hampshire Humanities Council
Vertical file material
Location Vault
Cornish-Windsor Covered Bridge
History, Repairs, Commemorative Stamp
Vertical file material
Location Vault
Folger, Admiral William Mayhew, and Folger House
Vertical file
see also Deming, Hubert, vertical file material
Location Vault
Parrish, Maxfield
Vertical file material
See also vertical file material for: Deming, Hubert; Tea Tray
Clippings, etc.; includes material about The Oaks and Maxfield Parrish Museum
Location Rear Room, File Cabinet, Closet
Deming, Hubert
Vertical file material
Location Vault
Daniels, Willis K.
Vertical file material
Location Vault
Davidson, James Monroe
Vertical file material
Location Vault
Chase, Moses
Vertical file material
Location Vault
Dingleton Hill Covered Bridge
Vertical file material
includes newspaper article about 2016 damage to the bridge
Location Vault Author Schor, Esthere
title Emma Lazarus
Emma Lazurus was the sister of Annie Lazarus, First owner of “High Court”
publisher Schocken New York, 2006
donor James B. Atkinson and Gretchen A. Holm
Location Book Shelves
Hammond Family
Vertical file material
see also Horses, Cornish; North Star Canoe: vertical file material
Location Vault
Horses, Cornish
Vertical file material
Includes Therapeutic Riding
Location Vault
Hildreth Family: vertical file material; see Shurcliff-Nichols Property
Location Vault
Hale, Sarah Josepha
Vertical file material
Location Vault
Miss Seton's School, Cornish: see Hale, Sara Josepha: vertical file material
Location: Vault
Hilliard painting
Vertical file material
Location Vault
Hilliard, David Hall
Vertical file material
See also Hilliard rifles, Hilliard family: vertical file material
See also Cornish Historical Articles Notebook, Vault
Location Vault
Railroads, Cornish
Vertical file material
see also Balloch's Crossing
Location Vault
Cornish General Store
Vertical file material
Location Vault
Jacobs Harness Shop, Cornish: see Horses, Cornish: vertical file material
Location Vault
Bus Transportation, Cornish
Vertical file material
Location Vault
Grange, Cornish
Vertical file material
Location Vault
Historic Roadside Markers, Cornish
Vertical file material
Location Vault
Johnson, Freeman; see also Poor House
Vertical file material
Location Vault
Lewis, James Campbell
Vertical file material
Location Vault
Hardy, Samuel(Hardy's Genuine Salve)
Vertical file material
Location Vault
LaClair, Robert
Vertical File Material
See also Hardy, Samuel(Hardy’s Genuine Salve)
Location Vault
LaClair genealogy
Vertical file material
Includes Gladys LaClair
Location Vault
Lafayette, Marquis de
Vertical file material
Lafayette, on his return visit to America, traveled through Cornish from Claremont and crossed the Connecticut River into Windsor
Location Vault(includes material on wagons, carriages)
See also “In Lafayette’s Footsteps: Memorializing the General’s Tour in
New Hampshire,” by Julien P. Asher; Historical New Hampshire periodical,
Spring 2018, vol. 71, no. 1; located with other Historical New Hampshire periodicals in Vault
Johnson Family
photographs, Vertical File
Location Vault
Memorial Day, Cornish Flat
Vertical File material
Photographs in separate VF folder
Some photographs have been uploaded to the CHS Collection Page at the Town Website: see Memorial Day in Cornish Flat and Samples from the CHS Collection
Location: Vault
Morse, Samuel F. B.
Vertical file material
Location Vault
Morton genealogy
Vertical file material
Location Vault
New Hampshire Old Graveyard Association
Vertical file material
Location Vault
Old Home Day, Cornish
Vertical file material; includes article about address by Stuart Hodgeman
Location Vault
Parrish, Maxfield(Knave of Hearts donation): vertical file material
Includes material relating to the gift by Dr. Paul G. Fried; Deed of Gift to the Cornish Historical Society
Location Vault
Mills, Cornish
Vertical file material
Location Vault
Fire Department, Cornish
Vertical file material
Photographs of Fire Department are at the Exhibit, Town Hall, Second Floor;
See also Digital File for Fire Department available At the CHS Collection Page at the Town Website
VF includes photographs of Cornish Muster, taken by Polly Rand and donated to CHS, 2019
Includes Obituary for Bob Michal
Location Vault
Recycling, Cornish
Vertical file material
Location Vault
Government-Town Petitions, Cornish
Vertical file
Location Vault
Pickering, Thomas
Vertical file
includes Deed of Gift from Pickering to Cornish Historical Society of a violin partly made from old wood taken down during the restoration of the Cornish-Windsor Covered Bridge
Includes Alice Hendrich
Violin itself: Glass Case, Exhibit, Town Office, Second Floor
Location Vault
Dworak, Augie
Vertical file material
includes material relating to a work made from old wood taken down during the restoration of the Cornish- Windsor Bridge
Location Vault
Civil War, Cornish
Vertical file material
see also Pike, Chester; Putnam, Haldimand Sumner; Queneau, Paul; Soldiers Monument
Location Vault
Pike, Chester
Vertical file material
see also Shurcliff-Nichols Property
Location Vault Pierce, J. W.; see Churchill Vertical File
Pierce's political letter in which he mentions Winston Churchill
Politics, Cornish
Vertical file material
Includes “The Plainfield Progressive League,” Secretary and Treasurer’s Report. 1908-1909, Louis Evan Shipman, Secretary and Treasurer; Cornish Colony members
Includes articles written by Ruth Rollins, Eagle Times, in the 1980’s, for Selectboard Candidates: Frank Ackerman, Bill Gallagher, Carlene Guy, Stuart Hodgeman, Myron Kuhre, David Monnette
Location Vault Post card, Cornish Historical Society
Vertical file material
see also Postcard Album
Location Vault title Proprietor's Book, Cornish, Copy(1809)
Location Donated by CHS to Special Collections, Dartmouth March 5, 1918
See also Vertical File for Proprietor’s Book; included is the Court case “Proprietors of Cornish v. Ariel Kenrick”(copy of The Book was made in relation to this case)
title Cornish Historical Society: News and Notes (President's Notes)
Vertical file material
Location Vault
title Cornish Historical Society: Treasurer's Reports:
Location Reference
Putnam: family; Haldimand Sumner Putnam; Samuel Putnam(letters)
vertical file material
Location Vault
Queneau, Paul
Vertical file material
Includes material relating to the Paul and Joan Queneau Scholarship; also speech delivered by James B. Atkinson on June 19, 1999
Location Vault
Revolutionary War Soldiers, Cornish
American Revolution
Vertical file material
Location Vault
Mail, Cornish
Vertical file material
Location Vault
Roosevelt, Theodore (visit to Cornish)
Vertical file material
Location Vault
Sanderson, Paul
Vertical file material
Sanderson produced the film "Augustus Saint- Gaudens: An American Original"
Location Vault
Smith, Nathan
Nathan Smith
Vertical file material includes material also on Lyman Spalding
See also copy of portrait(bottom drawer of Map Collection) See also Cornish Historical Articles Notebook, Vault
Location Vault
Smithsonian Institution
Vertical file
Material relating to the participation by the Cornish Historical Society in the "Inventory of American Paintings Executed Before 1914"
Location Vault
Steward, Joseph
Vertical file material Steward's portrait of Cornish Judge Samuel Chase is owned by the George Stowell Memorial Library, Cornish; small photo of portrait in Rear Room
See also Cornish Historical Articles Notebook, Vault
Location Vault
Chase, Samuel
see vertical file for Chase family; see also vertical file material for Steward, Joseph
Shaker Meeting House
Vertical file material
Article about the Shaker meting house in Enfield that was moved by Annetta(wife of Louis) St. Gaudens to Cornish in 1902. Home was owned by John Dryfhout before the fire.
Location Vault
Shurcliff-Nichols property
Vertical file material
Information relating to Hildreth, Mastlands, Nichols and Shurcliff family; supplied by Charles Shurcliff
Also contained is a drawing by Arthur Shurcliff, dated 1917, of the Daniels-Freeman homestead, presently owned by Ruth Cassidy. The drawing lists the homestead in Cornish but the location is in Plainfield. Drawing was donated by SGNHS to CHS and then donated to Plainfield Library because of the location. CHS kept a copy of the drawing in this Vertical File.
Location Vault
Soldiers Monument, Cornish Flat
Vertical file material
See also Memorial Day Vertical File
Location Vault lsongs("printed for F. Parks, Montpelier)
small book, included with vertical file material under Songs; published in Windsor, 1810
Location Vault
Saint-Gaudens National Historic Park
Vertical file material; see also Postcard Album; see also Blow-Me-Down Farm includes cooperative agreements with Cornish Historical Society; also material about Augustus Saint-Gaudens
Location Vault
Spalding, Lyman
Vertical file material
See also Cornish Historical Articles Notebook, Vault See also Nathan Smith
Location Vault
Stone, Josiah
Vertical file material
includes Deed of Gift from William and Virginia Jones of Stone portraits to the Cornish Historical Society, October 16, 1989
Location Vault
Sullivan County
Vertical file material
Location Vault
Sunnycrest Poultry Farm
Vertical file material
Location Vault
Cornish Historical Society: Federal Surplus Property
Vertical file material
Location Vault
Burling, Peter -
1. Political 2. Cornish Activities (see also Trinity Episcopal Church and Chase House
Vertical File material
location: Vault
History, Cornish: Historic Homes
Vertical file
Guide prepared by Virginia Colby
See also photographs of Cornish homes: Exhibit, Town Office, Second Floor
Location Vault
Thomas, Sally
Vertical file
letter about religious contributions to the Congregational Church
Location Vault
Evarts, William Maxwell
Vertical file material
Location: Vault
Weather, see Climate: vertical file material
Freeman, Austin T.
Vertical file material
Article on the Freeman Revolver(firearms); Freeman was born in Cornish
Location Vault
War Memorial, see Soldiers Monument
Author Morley, Linda State Folklorist
title New Hampshire folk arts and artists: a directory of resources
New Hampshire Folk Arts Project
publisher New Hampshire Commission on the arts Concord, New Hampshire, 1984
Location Book Shelves title Flood Insurance Study, Town of Cornish, New Hampshire(proof copy) publisher Federal Emergency Management Agency Washington, D.C., 1982
Location Book Shelves under Cornish
Fitch Family
Vertical file material
Location Vault
Fairbanks, George E.
Vertical file material
includes poems by Fairbanks("Cornish, the Gem of New Hampshire")
Location Vault
Farmers Market
Vertical file material
includes photographs(1980)
Location Vault Ferries
Vertical file material
Includes material on the Hartland-Plainfield ferries
Location Vault
Fletcher, B. S
Vertical file
Material relating to Fletcher's Adjustable Washing Machine, from Cornish Flat
Location Vault
title Forest Fire Control Plan, Town of Cornish
Vertical file
publisher Forestry and Recreation Department, NH, 1941
Location Vault
Fried, Paul G
Vertical file material;
see also vertical file material for Parrish, Maxfield, Knave of Hearts
Includes Deed of Gift for Opie Read's Bolanyo(cover of the book designed by Maxfield Parrish) to the Cornish Historical Society by Paul G. Fried
Location Vault
Parrish, Stephen
Vertical file material
see also vertical file material for Northcote
Location Rear Room, File Cabinet, Closet Tea Tray
Vertical file material
see also Cornish Colony
Location Vault
Torrey, Dr. Erastus
Vertical file material
Location Vault
Perfectionists, Cornish: see Town Hall, Cornish
Vertical file material
Millerite followers
Location: Vault
Town Hall, Cornish
Vertical file material
contains material concerning the Perfectionists
Location Vault
Thrasher, Mary Ann
Vertical file material
Location Vault
Tracy Family and Homestead
Vertical file material
includes article by Anne Tracy in New Hampshire Profiles (August, 1967) on the Tracy home on Lang Road; text and photographs by Anne Tracy; sketches by Stephen P. Tracy
also material on Tracy School
Location Vault
Fort Number Four
Vertical file material
Location Vault Trinity Episcopal Church
Trinity Church
Vertical file material
See also Cornish Historical Articles Notebook, Vault
Location Vault
Atwood, William and Family
Vertical file material
Atwood House, Cornish Flat, was once the parsonage for the Baptist Church; material prepared by John Dryfhout
also, information and picture supplied by Lois Fitts on an Atwood cemetery, now on the Fitts property, formerly part of the Cornish Creamery
Location Vault
Wood Family
Vertical File Material
Many of the items were donated by Ginny Wood, 2018
Additional material on Ruth Wood, Ruth Bugbee Wood is in the Bugbee Vertical File
See also material contributed by Patricia Weikart; located with note-books in Vault
Location Vault
Wood, Blanche
Vertical File Material
Location Vault Wade, Hugh Mason
Vertical file
includes material concerning Historical Society's request to republish A Brief History of Cornish
Location Vault
White Family
Vertical file material
Location Vault
Wilder Family
Vertical file material
Location Vault
Wellman, James
Vertical file material
Location Vault
Westgate Family
Vertical file material
see also Westgate Photos in Vault location: Vault
Hewitt Family
Vertical file material
Location Vault
Sargent Family
Vertical file material
Location Vault
Gifts, see Cornish Historical Society-Gifts, Vertical File
includes list of items on long-term-loan from Saint-Gaudens National Historic Site
Deed of Gift Forms are included
Location Vault
Logging
Vertical file material
includes material on log drives
Location Vault
Highway Department
Vertical file material
Includes material on Cornish Roads
See also digital file from CHS Collection Page at Town Website
Location Vault
Stage Coach
Vertical file material
see also Highways, Turnpikes;
Location Vault
Taverns: see Highways, Turnpike, Stage Coach Author Duncan, Salvadoran
title My Life(autobiography of Isadora Duncan)
publisher Garden City Publishing Company Garden City, New York, 1927
donor James B. Atkinson and Gretchen A. Holm
Location Cornish Colony Shelves, top Author Hoppin Martha J. Curator
title Arcadian vales: views of the Connecticut River Valley
publisher Smith College Museum of Art Northampton, Massachusetts, 1981
donor James B. Atkinson and Gretchen A. Holm
location: Book Shelves
Author Saunders, Louise
title Knave of Hearts
publisher Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1925
donor Paul G. Fried, 1989
"Advance copy not to be sold"; illustrated by Maxfield Parrish
Location Cornish Colony Shelves, top Author: Smith, Laura
title Life of Philander Chase
publisher E. P. Dutton & Company, New York, 1903
Location Book Shelves
19th Century Cornish School Registers
attendance and expenditures by district
Location Meetinghouse; also boxed material across from Vault, under Civil War Display Area
Author Smith, Nathan
title Medical and surgical memoirs(of Nathan Smith)
publisher William A. Francis, Baltimore, Maryland, 1831
donor James B. Atkinson and Gretchen A. Holm
Location Display Area, opposite Vault Author Hayward, Oliver S.
Author Putnam, Constance E
title Improve, perfect, & perpetuate: Dr. Nathan Smith and early American medical education
inscription by second author
publisher University Press of New England Hanover, NH and London, 1988 donor James B. Atkinson and Gretchen A. Holm
Location Display Area, opposite Vault
title Cornish Historical Society: I.R.S and NH agreements(originals)
Vertical file
Location Vault
Blow-Me Down Bridge, Cornish
Vertical file material
see also Postcard Album
Location: Vault
title Blow-Me-Down Mill
Vertical File material
see also Postcard Album; see also Arch Bridge
Grain sack with words Blow-Me-Down Mill printed on it is at the Meetinghouse
Location Vault Harlakenden House, Churchill Inn
Vertical file; see also Postcard Album; see also Churchill
Additional folder with information about Harlakenden, donated by Nancy Campbell, March, 2019; see letter from Mrs. Churchill stating people she would not rent to
Location Vault Author Field, Eugene
title Poems of Childhood
illustrations by Maxfield Parrish
publisher Scribner's Sons, New York, 1904
donor James B. Atkinson and Gretchen A. Holm
Location Cornish Colony Shelves Author Pratt, Charles Stuart
title Baby's Lullaby Book / Mother Songs
water colors by William Ladd Turner music by G.W. Chadwick
publisher L. Prang, Boston, 1896
donor long-term loan from SGNHS
small collection of Ladies’ Home Journal issues, from Turner’s period, located in Vertical File, Rear Room, Closet; examples of where Turner’s illustrations would have appeared although none of the copies show his work
Location Rear Room
Salmagundi Sketch Club, see Cornish Colony, vertical file material
Donor : Robert Mueller
Oakey[Dewing];Stephen Parrish;Charles A. Platt; Augustus Saint- Gaudens
Location: Vault
Statue of Miss Frances E. Willard done by Helen Farnsworth Mears publisher Government Printing Office Washington, D.C., 1897 donor Robert Mueller, March 2007
Location Book Shelves, under Mears
title Portrait of Paul St. Gaudens, by Annetta J. St. Gaudens, 1922; terracotta
loan term loan from SGNHS
location: Rear Room
title "Little theater"; paper and ink theater bill, by Paul St. Gaudens
7" by 5 1/2"; green ink on cream paper; male and female puppeteers dangling male and female puppets on a small stage; signed in center of the plate
Donors James B. Atkinson and Gretchen A. Holm
Location: Front Room
title Herbert Adams: Plaster cast for bronze doors (cream color) by Herbert Adams; Mariners' Museum, Newport News, Virginia, 1935
33" by 7 5/8"(interior); 36 1/2" by 10 7/8"(exterior); young female waiving a cloth in the clouds with one arm, holding a stick in her right arm, resting on a fish that is swimming in waves
Location Middle Room
title Herbert Adams: Plaster cast for bronze doors (beige color) by Herbert Adams; Mariners' Museum, Newport News, Virginia, 1935
9 1/2" by 7 1/4"(interior); 12 1/2" by 10 3/4"(exterior); bow of a merchant ship ploughing through the waves; bow and waves extend beyond the frame
location Middle Room title Self-portrait, by Henry Hyde; oil on canvass 23 1/2" by 19 1/2"(interior); 28 1/4" by 24 1/4"(framed);
donor Virginia Colby
Location Front Room
title "Mt. Ascutney from Dingleton Hill, Cornish, M.H." by Elmer W. Bartlett; watercolor
Mount Ascutney; Elmer Wood Bartlett
Long term loan from SGNHS
Location: Rear Room
title "Cornish music," glazed ceramic vase by Annetta J. St. Gaudens, 1933
7 1/2" tall; 6 3/4 inches wide; eleven female figures, one with a toddler, all dancing on a ground line; below female figures are six insignias; on base are initials "ASG," titled, and dated
Location: Front Room title Glazed ceramic pitcher(brown) by Annetta J. and Paul St. Gaudens, 1931
7" tall by 7 3/4" wide; signed with their initials; "Orchard" indicated for kiln; word "labor" beneath Paul's initials; a young Bernice Johnson posed for the pitcher's handle
Location: Front Room
title Collections, Topographical, Historical, and Biographical Relating Principally to New- Hampshire publisher Hill and Moore, Concord, 1822
donor James B. Atkinson and Gretchen A. Holm
check index for possible Cornish figures
Location Book Shelves, under Collections
title "View of Ascutney Mountain Taken from High Bridge at Claremont, N. H." - Advertising Broadside
Publisher M.K. Paine, Windsor, VT, 1868
donor James B. Atkinson and Gretchen A. Holm
States that this "Lithograph is a CORRECT representation of THE SIDE of the GRAND OLD ASCUTNEY MOUNTAIN." W. A. King drew the view; Forbes & Co. in Boston did the lithography location: Map drawer, opposite Vault
title "Sullivan County Agricultural Society Premium List and Awarding Committees, for 1855 - Broadside
. publisher National Eagle Office Claremont, N.H., 1855 donor James B. Atkinson and Gretchen A. Holm, 2006
Elaborate wood engraved border. Quite a few of the judges were from Cornish; note that the judges for "Darning and Patching" are I. Hall and Lady (from Cornish). Would need to check Child to see Location: Map Drawer, opposite Vault title Third Report of the Meriden Bird Club (1916); Baynes publisher Meriden Bird Club Meriden, N.H., 1916
donor Meriden Bird Club, May 2007
complete description of Percy MacKaye's "Sanctuary" with illustration of a costume, and the original "Programme of the Bird Masque "Sanctuary" (1913) Location Cornish Colony Shelves title Triptych, by Maxfield Parrish contents: General Electric Mazda Calendar for 1927, "Reverie"(artist's title: "The Fountain"; The House of Art(Reinthal and Newman) prints: for 1928, "Dreaming"(artist's title "October"); for 1924, "The Lute donor: long term loan from SGNHS
location: above Cornish Colony Shelves
title Bridge at Palvel, Normandy (1884): etching By Stephen Parrish
donor: Virginia Colby, 1995
plate size: 11 3/4" by 8 3/4". Maxfield Parrish Jr. noted, June 12, 1981: "An oil pointing of this was made (32" x 35") and it is a mirror image of the etching, and the only apparent difference
Location: Front Room
title Books and Things
publisher Harcourt, Brace and Howe New York, 1919 donor long-term loan from SGNH
content reprinted articles from THE NEW REPUBLIC
Location Book shelves Author Littell, Robert
title Read America First
publisher Harcourt, Brace and Company New York, 1926
donor long-term loan from SGNHS
articles reprinted from THE NEW REPUBLIC
Location Cornish Colony Shelves Author Parton, Ethel
title Runaway Prentice: A Story of Boys and Girls in the Year 1800
publisher The Viking Press (The Junior Literary Guild) New York, 1939
donor James B. Atkinson and Gretchen A. Holm, 2007
Location Book shelves Author Powers, Samuel L.
title "Three Cornish Boys" in "The Granite Monthly," 54,3 (March, 1922)
publisher Harlan C. Pearson Concord, NH, 1922 donor James B. Atkinson and Gretchen A. Holm, 2007
The three "boys" are: Philander Chase, Nathan Smith, and Salmon P. Chase; see pages 89-90
Location Book shelves Author Wilson, Woodrow
title A History of the American People (in five volumes)
publisher Harper and Brothers New York and London, 1901, 1902
donor Charles Shurcliff
Location Storage, Meetinghouse Author O'Toole, Patricia
title The Five of Hearts
publisher Clarkson Potter, New York, 1990
donor James B. Atkinson and Gretchen A. Holm author Lagemann, John Kord
title "Democracy in Our Town" in "Colliers" (March 8, 1947, pp. 13-15;43, vol. 119, #10
publisher Crowell-Collier Springfield, Ohio
Location Book Shelves Author Katlan, Alexander W.
title The Black and White Exhibitions of the Salmagundi Sketch Club 1878- 1887
publisher Salmagundi Club New York, 2007
donor Robert Mueller
works exhibited by Cornish Colony artists: Kenyon Cox,Thomas Wilmer Dewing, William Henry Hyde,Maria Oakey (Dewing), Stephen Parrish, Charles A. Platt, Augustus Saint- Gaudens
Location Vertical file: Cornish Colony
title Relief medallion, Charles Pratt by Herbert Adams
donor James B. Atkinson and Gretchen A. Holm
location Display Case, Rear Room
Author O'Toole, Patricia
title The Five of Hearts: An Intimate Portrait of Henry Adams and his Friends 1880-1918
publisher Clarkson Potter, New York, 1990
donor James B. Atkinson and Gretchen A. Holm, 2007
relevant to Augustus Saint-Gaudens and the Adams Memorial
Location Book shelves Adams, Herbert
Herbert Adams
Vertical file material
location: Vault
Alexander, John White
Vertical file material
Location vault
Arnold, Frances
Vertical file material
(photographs of Frances Arnold's home, called “Overbrook Fields”, and personal photographs were donated by John Dryfhout, July, 2017; they are in a packet with the notebooks in the Vault)
location Vault Art Students League
Vertical file material
Location vault
Barrymore, Ethel
Vertical file material
Location Vault
Beaman, Charles C. and Family
Vertical file material
Location vault
Author Adams, Adeline
title "The Big Beaman Ball"
Vertical file
text & typescript
Location vault Author Whiting, Richard
title "The America Student at the Beaux- Arts"
Vertical file
publisher The Century Magazine, New York December, 1881 Copy of article, pp. 258-272
Location Vault
title Bird Masque; includes Programme for the Bird Masque "Sanctuary"
Vertical file material
Original program
For Bird Masque, see also Cornish Historical Articles Notebook, Vault
place of publication Meriden, New Hampshire September 12, 1913
donor Norm Patch
Location Vault
Borie, Adolphe
Vertical file material
Location vault
Boyd, Fiske
Vertical file material
Location vault
Brush, George de Forest
Vertical file material
Location vault
title "The Butternuts" House:
Vertical file material
House's lineage: Chester Pike, Charles Beaman, Hugh Wade
Location vault Bynner, Witter
Vertical file material
Location vault Churchill, Winston
Vertical file material
See also Cornish Historical Articles Notebook, Vault Notebook includes address by Churchill for 150th Celebration
Location vault Author Titus, Warren
title Winston Churchill {xerox copy}
publisher Twayne Publishers, Inc. {TUAS #43} New York, 1963
donor James B. Atkinson and Gretchen A. Holm
Location Book Shelves
Cornish Colony: General Material
Vertical file
clippings, etc. (partially identified by Virginia Colby)
Location vault
Croly, Herbert
Vertical file material
Location vault
title The Organ at Home: A collection of New and Standard Music by the Best Composers for Reed Organs and Melodeons
Vertical file
publisher C. H. Ditson & Co. / Lyon & Healy New York and Chicago, 1886 donor Ed Boadway, November 2007
Three pieces by Addison Pinneo Wyman (1832- 1872) born in Cornish (Child, II, 430-431): "Harvest Leaves March" (p. 7); "Spring Morning Polka (pp. 65-66);"Moonlight Galop" (pp. 142- 43)
Location Vault, with notebooks
Author Ahern, Maureen
Author Tuller, Paul title New Hampshire Summer Colonies: Dublin and Cornish
publisher Blue Tree Portsmouth, New Hamphire, 2007
donor CHS, 2007
old and contemporary Cornish artists and scenes
Location Book Shelves
Cox, Allyn
Vertical file material
Location vault
Cox, Kenyon
Vertical file material
Location vault
Davidge, Clara P.
Vertical File material
Location vault
De Camp, Joseph
Vertical file material
Location vault Dewing, Thomas Wilmer and Maria Oakey Vertical file material
Location vault
Dressler, Marie
Vertical file material
Location vault
Duncan, Frances
Vertical file material
Location vault Duncan, Isadora
Vertical file material
Location vault
Elliott, John
Vertical file material
location vault
Evarts, William Maxwell
Vertical file material
location vault
Faulkner, Barry
Vertical file material
Includes “Talk Before the Lions Club of Keene, N.H. September 20, 1955” entitled “MacDowell Association At Peterboro and Saint-Gaudens Memorial in Cornish”
Location vault
Fitch, Albert Parker
Vertical file material
Location vault
Folger, Admiral William M.
Vertical file material
See also Vertical File under Barbour for the will of Admiral Folger
Location vault
Fraser, James Earle and Laura Gardin
Vertical file material
Location Vault
French, Daniel Chester
Daniel Chester French
Vertical file material
Include silver coin for “Five Cents” with buffalo on one Side and American Indian on the other
Location vault
Freeman, John
Vertical file material
Location vault Henry B. Fuller
Vertical file material
Includes an article by Frances Duncan, “A Swimming Pool in Cornish,” Country Life in America, July, 1906, p. 302; also in Cornish Historical Articles Notebook
Location Vault
Fuller Sisters: Cynthia, Dorothy, Rosalind
Vertical File material
Contains correspondence with comments on Rose Nichols and Percy MacKaye
Location vault
Genthe, Arnold
Vertical file material
Location vault
Gardens: Cornish Colony
Vertical file material
clippings; Frances Duncan, May Wilkinson Mount, Mary Caroline Crawford, etc.
includes article by Frances Duncan, “The Gardens of Cornish,” Century Magazine, vol LXXII, May, 1906, p.1
See also Cornish Historical Articles Notebook, Vault
Location vault Author MacKaye, Percy
title A Garland to Sylvia: A Dramatic Reverie, with a Prologue
publisher Macmillan, New York
Location Cornish Colony Shelves Author MacKaye, Percy
title Song of a Day
publisher The Angel Alley Press Winter Park, Florida, 1929 donor Cornish Historical Society, February, 2008
content Chapbook; Vest Pocket Poets #5, ed. Edwin Osgood Grover
Location Cornish Colony Shelves
Author MacKaye, Percy Author Converse,Frederick
title photo outside probably at "Saint Louis" Masque”
Vertical file material under MacKaye
Location Vault
title MacKaye and De Koven photo, inside, both at piano; vertical file material
Cornish Historical Society, donor, February, 2008
Location Vault Author Fuertes, Louis
Agassiz
Author Baynes, Ernest Harold
title The Book of Dogs
publisher National Geographic Society, Washington, D.C., 1919 donor CHS, 2008
content Baynes: "Mankind's Best Friend: Companion of His solitude, Advance Guard in the Hunt, and Ally of the Trenches"(pp. 1- 17; "Our Common Dogs" (with Louis Agassiz Fuertes; pp. 17- 69) Location Cornish Colony Shelves Author Baynes, Ernest Harold
title "The Language of the Trails
Harper's Magazine, vol. 112, # 667, pp. 123-130 December, 1905
donor CHS, 2008
content The evidence provided by the tracks of birds and animals in winter.
Location Cornish Colony Shelves Author Adams, Herbert Author St. Gaudens, Louis title The Vermonter, vol 15, #5 (May, 1910)
White River Junction, VT
donor CHS, 2008
content illustration of Adams's statue, "General A. A. Humphries" (p. 147) and brief biography (152); illustration of Louis's "Ceres,""Imagination" (155), & "Admiral Van Tromp" plus description (156) Location Louis St. Gaudens Folder: Vertical File
Author Levasseur,
Auguste Author Hoffman, Alan R., Translator
title Lafayette in America in 1824 and 1825: Journal of a Voyage to the United States
publisher Lafayette Press Manchester, New Hampshire, 2007
donor John Dryfhout, April, 15, 2008
content Levasseur was Lafayette's private secretary during Lafayette's Farewell Tour
Location Book Shelves Author Messing, Christine H
Author Rudder, John B. title A Son and his Adoptive Father: The Marquis de Lafayette and George Washington
publisher The Mount Vernon Ladies' Association, 2006
donor CHS, 2008
content A companion to a traveling exhibition (New York Historical Society, 2008)
Location Book Shelves Author Morris, Anna Huger
title Recipes of Anna Huger Morris; two copies
donation December, 2016, by Cheston and Nancy Newbold
Anna Huger Morris was Cheston Newbold's mother's mother(Mariamne Meade Morris) whose sister, Marie Parker had the Tea Tray
post-card inserted of the Tea Tray Sign with writing on back of a note from Mariamne Meade Morris, Cheston Newbold's mother, to her father, J. Cheston Morris
see also the recipes for the "Tea Tray" included in FOOTPRINTS, pp. 410-412
Location: Book Shelves; second copy, Vault, also Donated by the Newbolds, May, 2008
Author Vitry, Paul
title Paul Manship, Sculpteur Américain
publisher Editions de la Gazette des Beaux-Arts Paris, 1927
donor CHS, 2008
content book signed by Paul Manship; see pp-32-33 (Barry Faulkner, C. A. Platt); Faulkner and Maxfield Parrish (38) Platt (41 and plate 79)
Location Book Shelves
Author Goodwin, Doris Kearns
title Team of Rivals: the Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln publisher Simon & Schuster, New York
2006 (paperback) donor James B. Atkinson and Gretchen A. Holm, 2008
content Interesting for its Cornish connection: the coverage of Salmon P. Chase as well as for what it says about Lincoln and the Civil War; also, see "New Hampshire" in Index.
Location Book Shelves title “Residence of Mrs. Geohegan” post card; Known now
as Mary Banks Smoot house
Location Photo albums: Exhibit, Town Office, Second Floor
l
Hand, Learned
Vertical file material
Location Vault
Hapgood, Norman
Vertical file material
Location Vault
Hart, William Howard
Vertical file material
Location Vault
Hering, Henry
Vertical file material
Location Vault
Herrick, Robert
Vertical file material
Location Vault
Highcourt: Charles Platt house for Annie Lazarus
Vertical File
old clippings and recent sale info before Max Blumberg purchased it
Location Vault
Homer, Louise
Vertical file material
picture of portrait at Metropolitan Museum of Art
Location Vault
Hopkinson, Charles: relative of Charles Shurcliff:
Vertical file material
exhibition catalogue, Framingham, Massachusetts, 1988-1989
Location Vault
Houston, Frances C. Lyons
Vertical File material
clippings and "Crossways" info
included also is material on John Leslie Breck; Houston painted a portrait of him; information supplied by a museum in Charlotte, VA; Jan, 2020
Location Vault
Hyde, William Henry
Vertical File material
Location Vault
Ingalls, Henry
Vertical file
Obituary; reference to Rose Standish Nichols, "The House Beautiful," February, 1909
Location Vault
Isham, Samuel
Vertical File
photo of painting
Location Vault
Kneisel, Franz
Vertical file material
review of Kneisel Quartet, "The Nation," March 15, 1917
Location Vault Author: Percoco, James A.
title Summers with Lincoln:Looking for the Man in the Monuments
publisher Fordham University Press New York, 2008
donor James B. Atkinson and Gretchen A. Holm, 2008 Discussions of statues by Saint-Gaudens, Fraser, French, and Manship and how Lincoln--and changing views about
him—influenced the sculptors
Location Book Shelves
Lawson, Ernest
Vertical File material
Location Vault
Lazarus, Annie:
Vertical file material
clippings, esp, High Court, Charles A. Platt's design photographs of High Court also available in Hapgood Vertical File
Location Vault
Lewin, Susan
Vertical file material
picture of gravestone in Plainfield cemetery (taken by Virginia Colby)
Location Vault l
Lie, Jonas
Vertical file material
Location Vault
Littell, Robert, Philip, Margaret, Whittemore
Vertical File material
clippings (Robert, Philip, Margaret, Whittemore)
Location: Vault
Lyme, New Hampshire, Art Colony
Vertical file material
clippings--with special reference to Cornish Colony members
Location Vault
MacKaye, Benton
Vertical file material
Location Vault
MacKaye, Percy
Vertical file material
Location Vault
MacMonnies, Frederick William and Mary Fairchild Vertical file material
Location Vault
Grimes, Frances
Vertical file material
clippings; memories of Augustus Saint-Gaudens and Cornish Colony members
Location Vault
Lang, Albion A. and Arthur W. Fedor
Vertical file
clippings; picture of house and architectural drawing; trial of Arthur W. Fedor, arson suspect in 1945; vertical file
Location Vault
Lawrence, Grace (Taylor) and Edith
Vertical file material
Location Vault
Mann, A. E.
Vertical File
references from Stephen Parrish's Diary; owner of shoe factory in Windsor, Vt (John Dryfhout)
Location Vault
Manship, Paul
clippings; images of some of his sculpture includes material on John Manship
Vertical File material
Location Vault
Mansur, Alice (m. Packard)
Vertical file: clippings, letters, etc.
location Vault
Martiny, Philip
Vertical File
post card, Library of Congress staircase; clippings of biographical entries
Location Vault
title Masque: Of "Ours," Gods & Golden Bowl
Cornish Colony Museum, Exhibit Catalog
Location Cornish Colony Shelves
title Masque: Sanctuary
original programs (1913); clippings, etc. Vertical file
Location Vault
Metcalf, Willard Leroy
clippings; images; letters from Elizabeth de Veer Vertical File
Location Vault Moody,William V.
Vertical File
clippings; pages from "Letters to Harriet," etc.
Location Vault Author: Aucella, Frank J. Author Hobbs, Patricia A. Piorkowski
title: Ellen Axson Wilson: First Lady— Artist
publisher Woodrow Wilson House Washington, 1995 donor Cornish Historical Society: Acquisition Funds, 2009
exhibition catalogue
Location Book Shelves
Mount Ascutney
Vertical file material
old post cards; card of Bierstadt painting (1862)
Location Vault
Author : Wade, Hugh Mason
title The French-Canadian Outlook: A Brief Account of the Unknown North Americans
publisher The Viking Press New York, 1946 donor James B. Atkinson and Gretchen A. Holm, 2009
location Book Shelves
Nichols, Rose
Vertical file
clippings,photographs, copies of articles
Location Vault
Paine, Robert Treat
clippings; articles about; his article:"How the Sculptor's Model Is Enlarged," Brush & Pencil, December 1903, pp. 164-189
Vertical File
Location Vault
Pape, Eric
images of art works
Vertical file
Location Vault
Parrish, Lydia
diary entries; clippings; Carl Carmer's review of "Slave Songs of the Georgia Sea Islands" (1942) New Yorker article (1940) Vertical file
Location Vault Parrish, Maxfield clippings; photos; Virginia Colby's notes; copies of documents in his hand Vertical file location Vault
Author Rumrill, Alan F. Author Jacobs, Carl B Jr
title Steps to Great Art: Barry Faulkner and the Art of the Muralist
publisher Historical Society of Cheshire County Keene, New Hampshire, 2007
donor CHS, July 2009
Illustrations and commentary; mostly murals. CD included with Faulkner describing his: National Archive Project; Study in Europe; Abbot Thayer; Augustus Saint-Gaudens
Location Book Shelves
Author Brinkley, Douglas
title The Wilderness Warrior: Theodore Roosevelt and the Crusade for America; Baynes
publisher Harper Collins New York, 2009
donor CHS, August 2009
see Index for Ernest Harold Baynes
Location Book Shelves
Author Shaffer, Duane E. title Men of Granite: New Hampshire's Soldiers in the Civil War
publisher University of South Carolina Columbia, South Carolina, 2008
donor CHS, 2009
see Index for Haldimand Sumner Putnam
Location Book Shelves
Author Smith, Laura Chase
title The Life of Philander Chase: First Bishop of Ohio and Illinois; Founder of Kenyon & Jubilee Colleges
publisher E. P. Dutton, New York, 1903
donor CHS
Location Book Shelves
Author Stuart, John Goodspeed
title Young Maxfield Parrish
publisher T. H. Pickens Technical Center Aurora, Colorado, 1992
donor James B. Atkinson & Gretchen A. Holm 2010-2011
signed by author
Location Cornish Colony Shelves Author Gilbert, Alma
title The Make Believe World of Maxfield Parrish and Sue Lewin
publisher Pomegranate Art books San Francisco, California, 1990
donor James B. Atkinson & Gretchen A. Holm 2010-2011
signed dedication
Location Cornish Colony Shelves
Author Ferry, Les Allen title The Make Believe World of Sue Lewin
publisher Republic Corporation-Continental Graphics Los Angeles, California, 1978 donor James B. Atkinson & Gretchen A. Holm 2010-2011
Location Cornish Colony Shelves
Author Cortissoz, Royall title Augustus Saint-Gaudens
publisher Houghton Mifflin Boston & New York, 1907 donor James B. Atkinson and Gretchen A. Holm 2010-2011
Location Cornish Colony Shelves
Author Gunn, Fenja title Lost Gardens of Gertrude Jekyll
publisher Macmillan, New York, 1991
donor James B. Atkinson & Gretchen A. Holm 2010-2011
Location Book Shelves
Author Gilbert, Alma title The Mechanic Who Loved To Paint:The Other Side of Maxfield Parrish
publisher Alma Gilbert, Inc. Burlingame, California, 1995
donor James B. Atkinson & Gretchen A. Holm 2010-2011
signed copy
Location Book Shelves Author Higbee, William Wallace
Author Carr, Harold M.
title Around the Mountains: Historical Essays About Charlotte, Ferrisburgh, and Monkton
publisher Charlotte Historical Society Charlotte, Vermont, 1991 donor James B. Atkinson & Gretchen A. Holm 2010-2011
Location Book Shelves
Author Remington, Frederic title Drawings
publisher R. H. Russell, New York, 1900
donor James B. Atkinson & Gretchen A. Holm 2010-2011
oversized
Location Storage, Rear Room
title Trans-Mississippi & International Exposition: Official Catalogue of FINE ARTS publisher Klopp & Bartlett Omaha, Nebraska, 1898 donor James B. Atkinson & Gretchen A. Holm 2010-2011
paperback reprint
Location Book Shelves
Author Barnes, Henry title Percy MacKaye: Poet of Old Worlds and New
publisher Adonis Press, Ghen, New York, 2000
donor James B. Atkinson & Gretchen A. Holm 2010-2011
rehash of Ege, "The Power of the Impossible"
Location Cornish Colony Shelves
Author Riley, James Whitcomb
title Farm-Rhymes
publisher Bobbs-Merrill, Indianapolis, Indiana, 1905
donor James B. Atkinson & Gretchen A. Holm 2010-2011
Location Book Shelves
Author Keary, Lianne E.
title Images of America
publisher Arcadia Publishing Charleston, South Carolina,2003
donor James B. Atkinson & Gretchen A. Holm 2010-2011
Location Book Shelves Author Faxon, Susan
Author Downey, Alice title A Stern and Lovely Scene: A Visual History of the Isles of Shoals
publisher UNH Art Galleries Durham, New Hampshire, 1978
donor James B. Atkinson & Gretchen A. Holm 2010-2011
exhibition catalogue
Location Book Shelves
Author Chambers, Bruce . Author Ellis, Amy Author Weeks, Emily M.
title May Night: Willard Metcalf at Old Lyme
publisher Florence Griswold Museum Old Lyme, Connecticut, 2005
donor James B. Atkinson & Gretchen A. Holm 2010-2011
Exhibition catalogue
Location Book Shelves
Author Maytham, Thomas N.. title Frederic Remington: The Late Years
publisher Denver Art Museum Denver, Colorado, 1981 donor James B. Atkinson & Gretchen A. Holm 2010-2011
exhibition catalogue
Location Cornish Colony Shelves
Author Greenthal, Kathryn
title Augustus Saint-Gaudens: Master Sculptor
publisher Metropolitan Museum of Art New York, 1895
donor James B. Atkinson & Gretchen A. Holm 2010-2011
Location Cornish Colony Shelves Author Williams, William Carlos title Two Drawings – Two Poems
publisher The Stovepipe Press, 1937
donor James B. Atkinson & Gretchen A. Holm 2010-2011
rare and beautiful pamphlet/book
Location Cornish Colony Shelves, top
Author Hoopes, Donelson F.
title William Zorach: Paintings, Watercolors & Drawings: 1911-1922
publisher Brooklyn Museum Brooklyn, New York, 1968
donor James B. Atkinson & Gretchen A. Holm 2010-2011
exhibition catalogue
Location Book Shelves
Author Proske, Beatrice Gilman
title Brookgreen Gardens: Sculpture Volumes I and II; also photocopy of pages from 1968 edition
Publisher: Trustees: Brookgreen Gardens Brookgreen, South Carolina, 1943
donor James B. Atkinson & Gretchen A. Holm 2010-2011
Location Book Shelves
Author Davis, Richard Harding
title The King's Jackal
publisher Scribners, New York, 1915
donor James B. Atkinson & Gretchen A. Holm 2010-2011
illustrations by Charles Dana Gibson
Location Storage, Rear Room
Author Davis, Richard Harding
title Gallegher and Other Stories
publisher Scribners, New York, 1915
donor James B. Atkinson & Gretchen A. Holm 2010-2011
illustrations by Charles Dana Gibson
Location Storage, Rear Room
Author Davis, Richard Harding
title Soldiers of Fortune
publisher Scribners, New York, 1915
donor James B. Atkinson & Gretchen A. Holm 2010-2011
illustrations by Charles Dana Gibson
Location Storage, Rear Room
Author Robinson, Edward Arlington
title The Man Who Died Twice
publisher Macmillan, New York, 1924
donor James B. Atkinson & Gretchen A. Holm 2010-2011
first edition
Location Storage, Rear Room
Author Robinson, Edward Arlington
title Matthias At The Door
publisher Macmillan, New York, 1931 donor James B. Atkinson & Gretchen A. Holm 2010-2011 First edition
Location Storage, Rear Room
Author Robinson, Edward Arlington
title Nicodemus:A Book of Poems
publisher Macmillan, New York
1932 donor James B. Atkinson & Gretchen A. Holm 2010-2011
first edition
Location Storage, Rear Room
Author Robinson, Edward Arlington
title Roman Bartholow publisher Macmillan, New York, 1923
dedicated to Percy MacKaye;
first edition
donor James B. Atkinson & Gretchen A. Holm 2010-2011
Location Storage, Rear Room
Author Genthe, Arnold Author Tchen, John Kuo
title Genthe's Photographs of San Francisco's Old Chinatown
publisher Dover Publications, New York, 1984
donor James B. Atkinson & Gretchen A. Holm 2010-2011
Location Storage, Rear Room
Author Frederick William MacMonnies (1863-1937) and Mary Fairchild MacMonnies (18585-1946)
Title Deux Artistes Américains à Giverny
publisher Musée Municipal A.G. Poulain – Vernon Rouen, 1988
donor James B. Atkinson & Gretchen A. Holm 2010-2011 Location Book Shelves author Robinson, Edward Arlington
Title two works: Tristram and Collected Poems
Publisher Macmillan, New York
Donor James B. Atkinson and Gretchen A. Holm 2010-2011
Location Storage, Room Room
Framed Photograph of Old Dingleton Hill School
presented to pupils by Aileen Kecy, last teacher, June 15, 1928
location Meetinghouse Photograph of Dingleton Hill School
Inscription on back “Old Home Day, 1915”
Donated by Jim Fitch, February, 2018; Fitch Stated the shed to the left was used as an Outhouse
Location Vertical File, under Dingleton Hill School
Author Torrence, Ridgely
title Poems
publisher Macmillan, New York, 1952 donor James B. Atkinson & Gretchen A. Holm 2010-2011
Location Book Shelves Author Sweeney, Marian S. title Maxfield Parrish Prints: A Collector's Guide
publisher William L. Bauhan Dublin, New Hampshire, 1974 donor James B. Atkinson & Gretchen A. Holm 2010-2011
Location Cornish Colony Shelves Author Jacobsen, Jack W.. title Maxfield Parrish: The Man Behind the Make- Believe publisher Jack W. Jacobsen, July, 1955 donor James B. Atkinson & Gretchen A. Holm, 2010-2011 Bound transcript of selected articles And remembrances with bibliography
Location Cornish Colony Shelves Author Fielding, Mantle title Dictionary of American Painters, Sculptors, and Engravers
publisher Modern Books and Crafts, Inc. Green Farms, Connecticut, 1974
donor Virginia Colby, 1995
revised and enlarged version of 1926 edition
Location Book Shelves Author Cox, Kenyon
title The Classic Point of View publisher Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1911
signed by author for Cornish Library
Location Cornish Colony Shelves Author Splete, Allen P. Author Splete, Marilyn D.
Title: Frederick Remington: Selected Letters
publisher Abbeville Press, New York, 1988
donor James B. Atkinson & Gretchen A. Holm 2010-2011
Location Vault Author Tripp, David
title Illegal Tender: Gold, Greed, and the Mystery of the Lost 1933 Double Eagle
publisher Free Press, New York, 2004 donor James B. Atkinson & Gretchen A. Holm 2010-2011
signed and dedicated edition
Location Book Shelves Author Cortissoz, Royal
title Loan Exhibition in Honour of Royal Cortissoz & His 50 Years of Criticism in the New York Herald Tribune
publisher M. Knoelder & Co., New York, 1941 donor James B. Atkinson & Gretchen A. Holm, 2010-2011
exhibition catalogue
Location Book Shelves
Author Cutler, Judy Goffman Author Cutler, Laurence S.
Title Maxfield Parrish: A Retrospective
publisher Parrish Family Trust Holderness, New Hampshire, 1995 donor James B. Atkinson & Gretchen A. Holm 2010-2011
signed by both authors; exhibition catalogue
Location Cornish Colony Shelves
Author Chambers, Bruce W.
title George De Forest Brush (1855-1941): Master of the American Renaissance
publisher Berry-Hill Galleries, New York, 1985 donor James B. Atkinson & Gretchen A. Holm 2010-2011
exhibition catalogue
Location Book Shelves
Author Gilbert, Alma
title Maxfield Parrish: Masterworks (Third Edition)
publisher Ten Speed Press, Berkeley, Toronto, 2001
donor James B. Atkinson & Gretchen A. Holm 2010-2011
Location Cornish Colony Shelves
Title Maxfield Parrish: The Early Years 1893-1930
With Commentary by Paul W. Skeeters
publisher Chartwell Books - Nash Publishing Company Los Angeles, California, 1973 donor James B. Atkinson & Gretchen A. Holm 2010-2011
Location Cornish Colony Shelves Author Birnbaum,Charles
Author Crowder, Lisa E. title Pioneers of American Landscape Design
publisher US Dept. of Interior: National Park Service Washington, D.C., 1993
donor James B. Atkinson & Gretchen A. Holm 2010-2011
Frances Duncan, Ellen Biddle Shipman, Arthur Asahel(Shurcliff)
Location Book Shelves Author Baur, John I.H.
title William Zorach
publisher Whitney Museum of American Art New York, 1959 donor James B. Atkinson & Gretchen A. Holm 2010-2011
text is a shorter version of the above 1959 book; exhibition catalogue
Location Book Shelves
Author Hind, C. Lewis
title Augustus Saint-Gaudens publisher John Lane, The Bodley Head London, New York, 1908
donor James B. Atkinson & Gretchen A. Holm 2010-2011
Location Cornish Colony Shelves
Author Biddle, George
title The Art of Adolphe Borie
publisher American Federation of Arts Washington, D.C., 1937 donor James B. Atkinson and Gretchen A. Holm
location Book Shelves Author Gilbert-Smith, Alma Author Stoner, Joyce
title Maxfield Parrish: Master of Make- Believe
publisher Trust for Museum Exhibitions Washington, D.C. 2005 donor Alma Gilbert-Smith, 2005
exhibition catalogue
Location Cornish Colony Shelves Author Gilbert, Alma M.
Author Tankard, Judith B.
title A Place of Beauty: The Artists and Gardens of the Cornish Colony; two copies
publisher Ten Speed Press Berkeley, Toronto, 2000 donor James B. Atkinson & Gretchen A. Holm 2010-2011
signed by both authors
Location Cornish Colony Shelves Author Rydell, Robert W.
Author Carr, Carolyn Kinder
title: Revisiting the White City
. publisher National Museum of Am. Art -Smithsonian Washington, D.C., 1993
donor James B. Atkinson & Gretchen A. Holm 2010-2011
exhibition catalogue
Location Book Shelves
Maxfield Parrish
Vertical file material
See also Cornish Historical Articles Notebook, Vault
Location Rear Room, Closet
Stephen Parrish
Vertical file material
See also Cornish Historical Articles Notebook, Vault See also Northcote
Location Rear Room, Closet
Ernest Peixotto
Vertical file material
location: Vault
Maxwell Perkins
Vertical file material
Location Vault
Charles A. Platt
Vertical File material
See also Platt Vertical Files for Etchings and Cornish Houses
Location Vault
Henry and Edith Prellwitz
Vertical File material
location: Vault
Frederic Remington
Vertical File material
location: Vault
George and Juliet Rublee
Clippings, audio tape, etc.
Vertical File material location Vault
George Ruggles
Vertical file material location: Vault
Annetta Johnson St. Gaudens
Vertical File material
See also Cornish Historical Articles Notebook, Vault Notebook contains an article “Bird Masque in Bas- Relief” in House Beautiful, December 1915
location: Vault
Augustus Saint-Gaudens
Vertical File material
Material relating to specific artistic creations have their own vertical files, i.e. Saint-Gaudens – Adams Memorial; included are ones for Adams Memorial, Brooks, Coinage, Diana, Farragut, Puritan, Shaw Memorial, Sherman, Standing Lincoln
Location Vault
Saint-Gaudens Memorial-Friends
Vertical file material
Additional folder with material donated Ellen Shaw, March 2019
Location Vault
Homer and Carlota Dolley Saint-Gaudens
Vertical File material
location: Vault
Louis St. Gaudens
Vertical File material
location: Vault
Margaret St. Gaudens:
Vertical File material location: Vault
Paul St. Gaudens
Vertical File material
Location Vault
Ellen Shipman
Vertical File material
Louis Shipman
Vertical File Material
Location Vault
Augusta and Emily Slade
Vertical File material; included are photographs of wooden carvings done by Emily Slade
see also Grace Bulkeley location: Vault
Joseph Lindon Smith
Vertical file material
location: Vault
Henry Fitch Taylor
Vertical File material
location: Vault William L. Taylor
Vertical file material
see also large folder featuring copies of his paintings in the notebook area
Location Vault
Abbot Thayer
Vertical File material
location: Vault
George Tooker
Vertical File material
location: Vault
Harry Thrasher
Vertical File material
Location Vault
Robert W. Vonnoh
Vertical file material
Location Vault
Julian Alden Weir
Vertical file material
location: Vault
Walker, Henry Oliver
Vertical File material
Includes material about John White, Connie White, more modern day owners of the home
location: Vault
Arthur Whiting
Vertical File material
Location Vault
Woodrow Wilson
Vertical File material
See also Cornish Historical Articles Notebook, Vault
Location Vault
Women's Suffrage
Vertical file material
Location Vault
Ammi B. Young-Windsor Post Office
Vertical file material
Location Vault
Young, Cliff
Vertical file material
Location Vault
Marguerite and William Zorach
Vertical file material
Location Vault
title Frederick William and Mary Fairchild MacMonnies: deux artistes américains `a Giverny
publisher Musée Municipal Vernon, France, 1988 donor James B. Atkinson and Gretchen A. Holm 2011
exhibition catalogue
Location Vault Author Hoopes, Donelson F.
title William Zorach: Paintings, Watercolors, and Drawings, 1911-1922
publisher Brooklyn Museim Brooklyn, New York, 1968
donor James B. Atkinson and Gretchen A. Holm 2011
exhibition catalogue
Location Book Shelves Author Littell, Phillip
title This Way Out
publisher Coward-McCann, New York, 1928
donor CHS, 2011
Location Cornish Colony Shelves
Author Parker, Trudy
title Big Snow, Little Snow:The Drama of Log Driving in the Connecticut River Valley
publisher Dawnland Publications Lancaster, New Hampshire, 1999 donor James B. Atkinson and Gretchen A. Holm 2011
signed by author
Location Book Shelves
title Knave of Hearts: Illustrations by Maxfield Parrish
publisher Ten Speed Press Berkeley, California donor James B. Atkinson and Gretchen A. Holm 2011
Location Cornish Colony Shelves
Author Zorach, William
title Zorach Explains Sculpture: What It Means and How It Is Made
publisher Tudor Publishing New York, 1947, 1960
Location Book Shelves
Author Robinson, Edwin Arlington
title Cavender's House
publisher Macmillan, New York, 1929
donor James B. Atkinson and Gretchen A. Holm
2011
Dedicated to the Memory of William Vaughn Moody
Location Storage, Rear Room title Scribner's Magazine, vol.33, Jan-June (1903) publisher Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1903 donor James B. Atkinson and Gretchen A. Holm 2011
Peixotto,Weitenkampf on Painter-Lithography in US
Location: Vault
Author Bolster, Jeffrey W. author: Anderson, Hiliary title Soldiers, Sailors, Slaves, and Ships - The civil War Photographs of Henry P. Moore
Publisher New Hampshire Historical Society Concord, NH, 1999
donor James B. Atkinson and Gretchen A. Holm, 2011
Location Book Shelves
Author Dorris, Michael
title A Yellow Raft in Blue Water see also Media
publisher Henry Holt and Company Inc. New York, 1987
donor James B. Atkinson and Gretchen A. Holm 2011
Location Book Shelves
Author Slawenski, Kenneth
title J. D. Salinger - A Life
publisher Random House Publishing Group New York,2010 donor CHS, 2011
Location Book Shelves
Author Brinkley, Douglas
title The Wildness Warrior - Theodore Roosevelt and The Crusade for America
publisher Harper Collins Publisher, New York, 2009
donor CHS, 2011
Location Book Shelves
Author Zorach, William
title Art is My Life: The Autobiography of William Zorch
publisher World Publishing Company Cleveland and New York, 1967
donor James B. Atkinson & Gretchen A. Holm 2011
Location Book Shelves
Author Stowe, Harriet Beecher
title The Writings of Harriet Beecher Stowe - Riverside Edition
publisher Houghton, Mifflin and Company Boston and New York,1898 donor James B. Atkinson and Gretchen A. Holm 2011
Frontis piece by William Ladd Taylor
location Book Shelves
Author O'Connor, Marianne
title Haunted Hikes of New Hampshire
publisher Publishing Works, Inc. Exeter, New Hampshire, 2008 donor author (speaker, CHS, 14 May 2012) donated 2012
Location Book Shelves
title Town of Cornish, NH - Zoning Map 1974
donor Rock, Teenie Perkins, 2012
Location: Map Drawer opposite Vault
title Map-Cornish, N.H. publication date 1860
donor Teenie Perkins Rock, 2012
enlarged, readable Xerox
Location: Map drawer, opposite Vault
title map - Cornish, N.H. 1892
Teenie Perkins Rock, donor, 2012
enlarged, readable Xerox copy
Location Map drawer, opposite Vault
title Plainfield - Meriden, NH, Fire Map (1973) publication date August 28, 1973 donor Rock, Teenie Perkins, 2012
Location Map Drawer, opposite Vault
title "Perambulation of line between Plainfield and Cornish"
publication date: 1861
donor Rock,Teenie Perkins, 2012
a hand-written document by selectmen of the time
Location Map drawer, opposite Vault
title Cornish, N.H. and Cornish Flat P.O., 1892
Rock, Teenie Perkins, donor, 2012
Location Map drawer, opposite Vault
title Town of Cornish, N.H., 1966 1966
USGS map enlarged on mylar - relocation of state highways location: Map drawer, opposite Vault
title Cornish Flat, N.H. re-evaluation by N.H. Dept. of Revenue Administration
publication date 1978
donor Rock, Teenie Perkins
property owners location Map drawer, opposite Vault
title Cornish Flat, N.H. by Bernice Fitch,
hand-drawn map of property owners and businesses
Location: Map Drawer, opposite Vault
title Claremont, N.H. - Vermont quadrangle publisher U.S. Geologic survey, 1957
donor Rock, Teenie Perkins, 2012
topographical map
Location: Map drawer, opposite Vault
title North Hartland, VT - N.H. quadrangle publisher U.S. Geological Survey Reston, Virginia, 1959
donor Rock, Teenie Perkins, 2012
topographical map
Location: Map drawer, opposite Vault
title Births registered in Cornish, NH 1869-1880 by Teenie Perkins Rock, 2012
hand-written list of registered births
Location Vault
title Plans of the Allotment of property of the Township of Cornish - 1803 by Albe Cady, Surveyor
donated by Teenie Rock Perkins, 2012
a copy based on plan by Stephan Maine, surveyor- Nov. 20, 1800
Location: Map drawer, opposite Vault
title Cornish Flat Cemetery, Cornish Flat, NH 1992 donor Rock, Teenie Perkins, 2012
location of deceased in cemetery and list of deceased by family research compiled by Teen Perkins Rock; drawn by Edward E. Nelson
Location: Reference
Author Rule, Rebecca
title Headin' for the Rhubarb!
publisher Islandport Press, Yarmouth, Maine, 2010 donor Rebecca Rule, 2012
"A New Hampshire Dictionary (well, kinda)”
Location Book Shelves Maps of Cornish Cemeteries by Teenie Perkins Rock
Location Map Drawer, opposite Vault
Location of deceased in cemeteries and listing of families
Location Vault
title All known burials in Cornish cemeteries
Teenie Rock Perkins
listing in alphabetical order of all know burials in Cornish cemeteries
Location: Vault
title Civil War Veterans - Cornish, NH
Teenie Perkins Rock
listing of Civil War Veterans: name, rank, regiment, act, cemetery, etc.
Location Civil War Display Area, opposite Vault
title Plans for Highway Department garage
Teenie Perkins Rock
architectural plans for highway garage
Location Vault
title Sub-division of Bolos & Smith - Sept. 1973
Teenie Perkins Rock
Location Vault
title measurements of Chase Cemetery: hand- drawn prepared by Hollis Boardman and presented to the Selectmen on 09/26/1980
location Map Drawer, opposite Vault
title Architectural drawing of the restoration of the Cornish-Windsor covered bridge
Teenie Rock Perkins
Location Map Drawer, opposite Vault
Author Dykstra, Natalie
title Clover Adams: A Gilded and Heartbreaking Life
publisher Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Boston and New York, 2012
donor Cornish Historical Society, 2012
Location Book Shelves
Author Bookbinder, Judith, editor Author Gallagher, Sheila
title First Hand Civil War Drawings from the Becker Collections
publisher McMullen Museum of Art Chestnut Hill, MA, 2009 donor Cornish Historical Society, 2010
Location Book Shelves
title 1805 map of Cornish copy of original
donor Rock, Teenie Perkins, 2012
Location: Map drawer, opposite vault
title Micro Film Records
small notebook containing micro film records and articles, re: microfilming
Location vault
title Cornish tax records on 1993/09/28
Location Vault
title Cemetery Records of Cornish, NH 1760-1999
donor Rock, Teenie Perkins, 2012
bound material - cemetery records researched by Teenie Rock, assisted by John Rock and edited by Clyde Perkins
Location Reference
Militia
White Mountain Militia file folder containing information on the Militia movement in Cornish
Vertical file
Location Vault Rogers' Rangers
Vertical File material
file containing articles about Rogers' Rangers
Location Vault
Cornish cemeteries - articles photographs and maps of town cemeteries; also by name
file folder of articles, photographs and maps of Cornish cemeteries
Location Vault
title General Jonathan Chase (1732 - 1800) of Cornish, New Hampshire - HIS PAPERS
publisher Cornish Bicentennial Commission Cornish, NH
January - 1977 donor Cornish Historical Society
soft-covered book of Jonathan Chase papers; box of volumes in Meetinghouse, Closet; one volume in Book Shelves under Chase; volumes for sale, Front Room
See also Vertical File, Chase Papers
Author Proctor, Alexander Phimister
title Sculptor in Buckskin - An autobiography edited and with a foreword by Hester Elizabeth Proctor
publisher University of Oklahoma Press Norman, Oaklahoma, 1971 donor James B. Atkinson & Gretchen A. Holm, 2012
Location Book Shelves
Author Higbee, William Wallace
title Around the Mountains - Historical Essays about Charlotte, Ferrisburg, and Monkton
publisher The Charlotte Historical Society, Charlotte, Vt.
1991 donor James B. Atkinson & Gretchen A. Holm 2012
Location Book Shelves
author Hobbs, Susan A.
title The Art of Thomas Wilmer Dewing - Beauty Reconfigured
publisher The Brooklyn Museum - Balding and Mansell United Kingdom, 1996
donor James B. Atkinson & Gretchen A. Holm 2012
Location Book Shelves
Author Gilbert, Alma M.
title The Mechanic Who Loved to Paint- The Other Side of Maxfield Parrish
publisher Alma Gilbert, Inc. Burlingame, California, 1995
donor James B. Atkinson & Gretchen A. Holm 2012
soft cover
Location Cornish Colony Shelves
Author Gunn, Fenja
title Lost Gardens of Gertrude Jekyll
publisher Macmillan Publishing Company New York, 1991
donor James B. Atkinson & Gretchen A. Holm 2012
Location Book Shelves
title Saturday Evening Post - Norman Rockwell - in loving memory: vertical file, Rockwell publisher The Saturday Evening Post Indianapolis, Indiana Jan/Fed, 1979
donor Cornish Historical Society, 2012
Location Vault
title Trans-Mississippi and International Exposition Official Catalogue of the Fine Arts Exhibit, Illustrated ; June 1 to November 1, 1898 publisher Klopp & Bartlett Co Omaha, Nebraska, 1898 donor James B. Atkinson & Gretchen A. Holm 2012
Location Vault
Author Barnes, Henry
title Percy MacKaye: Poet of Old Worlds and New
publisher Adonis Press, Ghent, New York, 2000
donor James B. Atkinson & Gretchen A. Holm,2012
location Cornish Colony Shelves
Author Riley, James Whitcomb
title Riley Farm Rhymes with country pictures by Will Vawter
publisher The Bobbs-Merrill Company Indianapolis, Indiana, 1905 donor James B. Atkinson & Gretchen A. Holm 2012
Location Book Shelves
Author Keary, Lianne E.H.
title New London: Images of America
publisher Arcadia Publishers Portsmouth, NH, 2003 donor Jim B. Atkinson & Gretchen A. Holm 2012
Location Book Shelves
Author Chambers, Bruce W.
title May Night - Willard Metcalf at Old Lyme with an essay by Amy Ellis and Catalogue Entries by Emily M. Weeks
publisher Florence Griswold Museum Old Lyme, CT, 2005 donor James B. Atkinson & Gretchen A. Holm, 2012
exhibit from May 1 – September 11, 2005
Location Book Shelves
Author Greenthal, Kathryn
title Augustus Saint-Gaudens Master Sculptor
publisher Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1985 donor James B. Atkinson & Gretchen A. Holm, 2012
Location Cornish Colony Shelves
title Frederic Remington - The Late Years publisher Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO, 1981
donor James B. Atkinson & Gretchen A. Holm, 2012
Location Storage, Rear Room
title Done in the Open - Drawings by Frederic Remington with an introduction and verses by Owen Wister and others publisher P.F. Collier & Son, New York, 1903
donor James B. Atkinson & Gretchen A. Holm, 2012
Location Storage, Rear Room
title Drawings by Frederic Remington publisher R. H. Russell, New York, 1900 donor James B. Atkinson and Gretchen A. Holm, 2012
Location Storage, Rear Room
Author Stowe, Harriet Beecher
title The Pearl of Orr's Island A Story of the Coast of Maine
publisher Houghton, Mifflin and Company Boston and New York, 1898 donor James B. Atkinson & Gretchen A. Holm, 2013
Location Book Shelves
Author Hareven, Tamara
Author Langenbach, Randolph title Amoskeag - Life and work in an American Factory-City
publisher Pantheon Books, New York, 1978 donor James B. Atkinson & Gretchen A. Holm, 2013
Location Book Shelves
Author Parrish, Anne
title The Methodist Faun
publisher Harper & Brothers Publishers New York & London, 1929
donor James B. Atkinson & Gretchen Holm, 2013
Location Book Shelves
Author Cooper, John Milton Jr
title Woodrow Wilson - A Biography
publisher Alfred A Knopf, New York, 1909
donor James B. Atkinson & Gretchen A. Holm, 2013
Location Book Shelves
Author Zorach, William
title Art Is My Life - The Unhibited Autobiography of a Famous Artist
publisher World Publishing Company Cleveland and New York, 1967
donor Cornish Historical Society, 2012
Location Book Shelves
Author Howells, John Mead
title Architectural Heritage of the Piscataqua - Early Houses & Gardens of the Portsmouth District
publisher Whalesback Books Washington, D.C., 1988
donor Cornish Historical Society, 2012
Location Book Shelves
Author Hastings, Scott E., Jr.
title The Last Yankees - Foldways in Eastern Vermont and the Border Country
publisher University Press of New England Hanover and London, 1990 donor The Cornish Historical Society, 2012
Location Book Shelves Author Hill, Mary Brawley
title Grandmother's Garden - The Old- Fashioned American Garden 1865-1915
publisher Harry N. Abrams, New York, 1995 donor James B. Atkinson & Gretchen A. Holm, 2012
Location Book Shelves
Author Prellwitz, Edith
Author Prellwitz, Henry
title Painters of Peconic
publisher Spanierman Gallery, LLC New York, 2002 donor James B. Atkinson & Gretchen A. Holm, 2012
Location Book Shelves Author Hoffman, Marilyn Friedman
title Marguerite and William Zorach - The Cubist Years: 1915-1918
publisher University Press of New England Hanover and London, 1987
Location Cornish Colony Shelves, oversize
title William Zorach Bibliography by Rosalind Irvine - Curator, Whitney Museum of American Art publisher Whitney Museum of American Art New York, 1959 donor James B. Atkinson & Gretchen A. Holm, 2012
Location Book Shelves, under Zorach
Title Cornish Grange
Book containing original poems and essays written by members of the Cornish Grange No. 25 - Cornish, NH 1922-23
Location vault
Author Gilbert, Alma
title Maxfield Parrish - The Masterworks, 1st and 3rd editions
publisher Ten Speed Press Berkeley, Toronto, 1992, 1995 donor James B. Atkinson & Gretchen A. Holm, 2012
Location: Cornish Colony Shelves
title The Arabian Nights; edited by Kate Douglas Wiggin and Nora A. Smith; illustrated by Maxfield Parrish; 1909, 1937
publisher Charles Scribner's Sons, New York
donated by James B. Atkinson and Gretchen A. Holm, 2013
Location Cornish Colony Shelves; additional copies Vault
title Common Birds of Town and Country: reprints from the National Geographic Magazine "Birds of Town and Country" by Henry W. Henshaw May 1914
publisher National Geographic Society Washington, D.C., 1911, 1914 donor James A. Atkinson & Gretchen A. Holm, 2012
Location Cornish Colony Shelves, under Baynes
Author Metalious, Grace
title Peyton Place
publisher Simon and Schuster, New York, 1956
donor James B. Atkinson & Gretchen A. Holm, 2013
Location Book Shelves Author Caverly, Robert B.
title Chocorua in the Mountains: an Historical Drama
publisher Robert B. Caverly, Boston, 1885
donor James B. Atkinson & Gretchen A. Holm,2013
Location Book Shelves
title New Hampshire Literature: edited by Robert C. Gilmore Writers: Aldrich, Churchill, Hall, Hawthorne, Howells, Metalious, Penhallow, Sarton, etc.
publisher University of New Hampshire Press Hanover, NH and London, 1981 donor James B. Atkinson & Gretchen A. Holm,2013
Location Book Shelves
title Adolph A. Weinman - The American Sculptors Series - edited by John J. Cunningham
publisher University of Georgia Press Athens, Georgia, 1950 donor James B. Atkinson & Gretchen A. Holm, 2013
Location Book Shelves, under Weinman
Author Nutting, Wallace
title New Hampshire Beautiful
publisher Old America Company Framingham, MA, 1923
donor James B. Atkinson & Gretchen A. Holm, 2013
Location Book Shelves
Author Jacobson, Jack W title Maxfield Parrish: The Man Behind the Make-Believe
publisher Jacobson, Jack W., 1995 donor James B. Atkinson & Gretchen A. Holm, 2013
Location Cornish Colony Shelves
Author Tripp, David
title Illegal Tender: Gold, Greed, and the Mystery of the Lost 1933 Double Eagle
publisher Free Press, New York, 2004 donor James B. Atkinson & Gretchen A. Holm, 2013
Location Book Shelves
Author Fielding, Mantle
title Dictionary of American Painters, Sculptors, and Engravers
publisher Modern Books and Crafts, Inc., CT, 1926
donor Virginia Colby by James B. Atkinson & Gretchen A. Holm 2013
Location Book Shelves
title A Gathering of Friends: The Early Artists of the Cornish Colony with introduction by James B. Atkinson
an exhibit at the Cornish Colony Museum in Windsor, Vt.
donor James B. Atkinson & Gretchen A. Holm, 2013
Location Cornish Colony Shelves
Author Smith, Alma Gilbert
title Maxfield Parrish: Master of Make-Believe a catalogue of an exhibit organized by the Trust for Museum Exhibitions in Washington, D.C.
publisher Philip Wilson Publishers, London, 2005
donor Smith, Alma Gilbert by James B. Atkinson & Gretchen A. Holm
Location Cornish Colony Shelves Author Biddle, George
title the Art of Adolphe Borie publisher American Federation of Arts Washington, D.C., 1937
donor James B. Atkinson & Gretchen A. Holm, 2013
Location Book Shelves
title Engraving of Augustus St. Gaudens by Kenyon Cox
publisher American Heritage Engravings, Virginia
donor James B. Atkinson & Gretchen A. Holm, 2013
location: Rear Room
Author Hind, C. Lewis
title Augustus Saint-Gaudens
publisher John Lane Company, New York, 1908 donor James B. Atkinson & Gretchen A. Holm, 2013
Location Book Shelves Author Dorris, Michael
title Morning Girl
publisher Scholastic Inc., New York, 1992
donor James B. Atkinson & Gretchen A. Holm, 2013
Location Book Shelves
Author Erdrich, Louise
title Love Medicine
publisher Holt, Rinehart, New York, 1984
donor Plainfield Historical Society, 2015
Location Book Shelves Author Brown, Dona
title Inventing New England Regional Tourism in the Nineteenth Century
publisher Smithsonian Institution Press Washington, D.C., 1995
donor James B. Atkinson & Gretchen A. Holm 2013 Location Book shelves
author Pratson, Frederick A.
title New Hampshire
publisher The Steven Greene Press Brattleboro, VT, 1974
donor James B. Atkinson & Gretchen A. Holm, 2013
Location Book Shelves
Author Sweeney, Marian S.
title Maxfield Parrish Prints - A Collectors' Guide
publisher William L. Bauhan Dublin, New Hampshire, 1974
location Book Shelves
title Revisiting the White City - American Art at the 1893 World's Fair
publisher National Museum of American Art Washington, D.C., 1993 donor James B. Atkinson & Gretchen A. Holm, 2013
Location vault Author Robert, General Henry M.
title Robert's Rules of Order
publisher Pyramid Books, New York, 1967
donor James B. Atkinson & Gretchen A. Holm, 2013
Location Reference
title Maxfield Parrish: a book of Postcards
publisher Pomegranate Artbooks Rohnert Park, California, 1955 donor James B. Atkinson & Gretchen A. Holm, 2013
Location Cornish Colony Shelves, top
title Album for Photographs: individuals
very old album of old photographs - velvet covered
donor James B. Atkinson and Gretchen A. Holm
Location Rear Room
Author Seal, Mark
title The Man in the Rockefeller Suit
publisher Viking Penguin, New York, 2011
donor James B. Atkinson & Gretchen A. Holm, 2013
Location Book Shelves Author Adams, Henry
title The Education of Henry Adams
publisher Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, 1918
donor James B. Atkinson & Gretchen A. Holm, 2013
Location Book Shelves Author Carter, Burnham
title The Mountain and Other Stories
publisher The Shenval Press, Great Britain, 1961
donor James B. Atkinson & Gretchen A. Holm, 2013
autographed copy with letters in book
Location Book Shelves
Author Peixotto, Ernest C.
title By Italian Seas
publisher Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1906
donor James B. Atkinson & Gretchen A. Holm, 2013
Location Book Shelves Author French, Mrs. Daniel
title Memories of a Sculptor's Wife
publisher Houghton Mifflin Company Boston and New York, 1928
donor James B. Atkinson & Gretchen A. Holm, 2013
Location Book Shelves
Author Marcaccio, Michael
title The Hapgoods - Three Earnest Brothers
publisher University Press of Virginia Charlottesville, Virginia, 1977 donor James B. Atkinson & Gretchen A. Holm, 2013
Location Book Shelves
Author Peixotto, Earnest
title Through The French Provinces
publisher Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1909
donor James B. Atkinson & Gretchen A. Holm, 2013
Location Book Shelves Author MacKaye, Marion Morse
title Emma - A Play publisher Macmillan Company, New York, 1941 donor James B. Atkinson & Gretchen A. Holm, 2013
Special Memorial Production Edition
Location Cornish Colony Shelves
Author Maynard, Joyce
title At Home in the World - A memoir
publisher Picador USA, New York, 1988
donor James B. Atkinson & Gretchen A. Holm, 2013
Location Book Shelves Author Peixotto, Ernest
title A Revolutionary Pilgrimage
publisher Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1917
donor James B. Atkinson & Gretchen A. Holm, 2013
Location Book Shelves
Author Hart, Albert Bushnell
title Salmon P. Chase
publisher Chelsea House, New York, 1980
donor James B. Atkinson & Gretchen A. Holm, 2013
Location Book Shelves Author Rogers, Sherbrooke
title Sarah Josepha Hale A New England Pioneer 1788 - 1879
publisher Tompson & Rutter, Inc. Grantham, NH, 1985
donor James B. Atkinson & Gretchen A. Holm, 2013
Location Book Shelves
Author Parrish, Anne
title The Perennial Bachelor publisher Harper & Brothers, New York, 1925
donor James B. Atkinson & Gretchen A. Holm, 2013
Location Book Shelves
title Annual Town Reports, Cornish
bound volumes 1851-1986, 1987-
donor Bound volumes from Clara Weld; originally owned by Reginald Davidson
Framed 1850 report is at the Meetinghouse; per John Dryfhout, this was the first town report to be printed; photo-copy Front Room
Location Vault title A Century and a Half of American Art 1825-1975
. publisher National Academy of Design Washington, D.C, 1975 donor James B. Atkinson & Gretchen A. Holm, 2013
Location Cornish Colony Shelves
Cemeteries, Cornish
Vertical File see also Cemetery Records of Cornish, N.H.
Location: Vault title Cemetery Records of Cornish, N.H.(four volumes); researched by Maybelle(Tennie) Perkins Rock; assisted by John(Jack) Rock; two copies
bound set, Genealogy; notebooks, Reference; four copies volume one
Location Reference title Save Clark Camp Road(series of clippings in bound notebook)
See also Vertical File for Clark Camp Road;
Location Book Shelves(placed under title)
Author Kendrick, Eld. Ariel
title Sketches of the Life and Times of Eld. Ariel Kendrick; two copies
publisher P. Merrifield, Windsor, VT, 1847, 1848 donor Ed Boadway
Location Book Shelves
Author MacKaye, Percy
title Moments en Voyage: Nine Poems for the Harvard Class of 1897
publisher Pioneer Press Washington, D.C., 1932
donor Marian Ober, 2014
Location Cornish Colony Shelves
Author MacKaye, Percy
title The Sphinx: A Comedy in One Act
publisher Row, Peterson & Company New York, 1929
donor Marian Ober, 2014
Location Cornish Colony Shelves
Author MacKaye, Percy
title I Met God Waling Leisurely: Seven Poems in Dedication to Marion Morse MacKaye
publisher Adonis Press, New York, 1943 donor Marian Ober, 2014
Location Cornish Colony Shelves
Author MacKaye, Percy
title George Washington: A Dramatic Action
publisher Alfred A. Knopf Washington, D.C., 1918
donor Marian Ober, 2014
Location Cornish Colony Shelves
Author Atkinson, James B.
title scholarly works by author, past President of the Cornish Historical Society
Location Vault
Author Barron, Hal S.
title Those Who Stayed Behind: Rural Society in Nineteenth-Century New England
publisher Cambridge University Press New York, 1984
Location Book Shelves
title Museums Directory of the United States and Canada
. publisher Am. Assoc of Museums, Smithsonian Institute Washington, D.C., 1965
Location Reference
title Speaking With Charlie Shurcliff; interview by Fern K. Meyers, 2004; DVD
Location Vault
Author Walker, John
title Critical Pronouncing Dictionary and Expositor of the English Language
publisher Collins and Hannay, New York, 1825
Location Reference
title Proposal Submitted to the Kresge Foundation, Troy, Michigan by the Cornish Historical Society, March 1983: covered bridges; also sample of proposal
Location Book Shelves, under Cornish Historical
title Cornish People: photo-album of Cornish citizens title: Cornish Buildings, photo-album
both compiled by Teenie Rock
Location Reference, Front Room
title Town of Cornish Militia and Civil War Records From 1776 to 1891
preserved by Maybelle “Teenie” Rock; compiled by Virginia Gage
Location Two copies; photocopies in Civil War Display Area, opposite Vault; originals in Vault; digital file, compiled by Virginia Gage listing names of soldiers, is available at CHS Collection page at Town Website
title Cornish Quarterly; 1982-1991; produced by Nancy Wightman; succeeded by Consider This
publication for developments in Cornish
donated by Nancy Wightman, 2015
location Vault
title Directory of Historical Societies and Other Historical Resources, 2010
publisher Assoc. of Historical Societies of New Hampshire
Location Reference
Author MacKaye, Percy
title Roll Call: A Masque of the Red Cross
publisher Red Cross, National Headquarters Washington, D.C., 1918
donor Marian Ober, 2014
Location Cornish Colony Shelves
Author MacKaye, Steele
title Arrant Knave & Other Plays
publisher Princeton University Press Princeton, NJ, 1941
donor Marian Ober, 2014
Location Cornish Colony Shelves title Cornish Citizens: Virginia Colby's Note-card file
location on top of vertical file drawers Author: Doggett, Frank A.
title Dipped in Sky: A Study of Percy MacKaye's "Kentucky Mountain Cycle" publisher Longmans, Green and Co. New York, 1930
donor Marian Ober, 2014
Location Cornish Colony Shelves
Author MacKaye, Percy
title Far Familiar: New Poems
publisher Richards, London, 1937
donor Marian Ober, 2014
Location Cornish Colony Shelves
Author MacKaye, Percy
title To-Morrow: A Play In Three Acts
publisher Frederick A. Stokes Company New York, 1912
donor Marian Ober, 2014
Location Cornish Colony Shelves
Author MacKaye, Percy
title Sappho and Phaon: A Tragedy
publisher Macmillan Company New York, 1907
donor Marian Ober, 2014
Location Cornish Colony Shelves
Author MacKaye, Percy
title What Is She? A Sonnet of Sonnets to Marion Morse
publisher Minute Man Press, Concord, Mass., 1943
donor Marian Ober, 2014
Location Cornish Colony Shelves
Author MacKaye, Percy
title Kinfolk of Robin Hood: A Play in Four Acts
location Cornish Colony Shelves
publisher Samuel French, New York, 2014
donor Marian Ober, 2014
Location Cornish Colony Shelves
Author MacKaye, Percy
title Faith of Poetry
donor Marian Ober, 2014
location Cornish Colony Shelves
Author MacKaye, Percy
title Poem-Leaflets in Remembrance of Marion Morse MacKaye(Mrs. Percy MacKaye)
publisher Dornach, Switzerland, 1939
donor Marian Ober, 2014
Location Cornish Colony Shelves
Author MacKaye, Percy
title Poesia Religio
publisher Imprimerie J. Brinkman, France, 1939
donor Marian Ober, 2014
Location Cornish Colony Shelves
Author Wilbur, C. Keith
title New England Indians
publisher Globe Pequot Press Chester, CT, 1978
Location Book Shelves
title Cornish Historical Society: Secretary's Reports, 1994-2008
Location Reference Cornish-Windsor Covered Bridge: Repair
Vertical File material
Location Vault
Cornish-Windsor Covered Bridge: Toll-Free
Vertical File material
Location Vault
Author Child, Wm. H.
title History of the Town of Cornish New Hampshire With Genealogical Record 1763- 1910, vol. 1-2; multiple copies
reprinted in one volume, 2004, vol. 1-2 and reprint in Reference;
Vault copy with postcards
. publisher Rumford Press Concord, N.H.
Location Reference; Vault
Copy in Vault has an inscription by Child to the Stowell Free Library
title Paul Manship: Changing Taste in America; exhibition catalog; 19 May to 18 August 1985 publisher Minnesota Museum of Art Landmark Center, Minnesota, 1985
Location Book Shelves, under Manship
title New Hampshire Farms for Summer Homes; issued by the State Board of Agriculture publisher Rumford Press, Concord,NH, 1902
Location Book Shelves, under New Hampshire
Author Penfold, Alan S.
title Cornish Town Boundaries
Location Book Shelves
Maxfield Parish Stamp
Vertical File material
Location Rear Room, Vertical File, Closet
Connecticut River Authority
Vertical File material
Location Vault
Author MacKaye, Percy
title Sequestered Shrine: "Arvia" at Shirley Center, Massachusetts; dedicated to Marion Morse MacKaye
publisher Privately Printed by Freeman Tilden Warner, NH, 1950
donor Marian Ober, 2014
Location Cornish Colony Shelves
Author MacKaye, Percy
title Fenris, The Wolf
publisher MacMillan Company, New York, 1905
donor Marian Ober, 2014
Location Cornish Colony Shelves
Author Grover, Edwin Osgood
title Annals of an Era: Percy MacKaye and the MacKaye Family 1826-1932
publisher Pioneer Press Washington, D.C., 1932
donor Marian Ober, 2014
Published under Auspices of Dartmouth College
Location Cornish Colony Shelves
Author MacKaye, Percy
title Sinbad The Sailor
publisher Houghton Mifflin Company, New York, 1947
donor Marian Ober, 2014
Location Cornish Colony Shelves
Author MacKaye, Percy
title Washington: The Man Who Made Us: A Ballad Play
publisher Alfred A. Knopf New York, 1919
donor Marian Ober, 2014
Location Cornish Colony Shelves
Author MacKaye, Percy
title Civic Theatre In Relation to the Redemption of Leisure: A Book of Suggestions
publisher Mitchell Kennerley, New York, 1912
donor Marian Ober, 2014
location: Cornish Colony shelves
Author MacKaye, Percy
title Canterbury Pilgrims: A Comedy
publisher Macmillan Company, New York, 1908
donor Marian Ober, 2014
Location Cornish Colony Shelves Author MacKaye, Percy
title Evergreen Tree
publisher John Church Company, New York, 1917
donor Marian Ober, 2014
Location Cornish Colony Shelves
title Cornish Historical Society: news, notes, minutes, meetings, 1985-2010 and 1988-1997
Location Reference
Author Wellman, Rev. Joshua Wyman
title Descendants of Thomas Wellman of Lynn, Massachusetts
publisher Arthur Holbrook Wellman, Boston, 1918
Location Book Shelves
CREA BARN
Vertical file material
See also lobster Trap Company, and Barns in Vertical File
Business Materials in box, Storage, Meeting House
Location Vault Historic District
Vertical File Material
See also Cornish Art Colony Conservation...
location Vault
Maxfield Parish: legal, lawsuit
Vertical File material
Location Rear Room, Vertical File, Closet Incinerator, Wheelabrator
Vertical file material
See also Landfill VF
Location Vault
Bill Gallagher, see vertical files for Incinerator and Putnam Farm Committee
Author NH Division of Historical Resources
title New Hampshire Historical Markers, 8th Edition, 1989
Location Book Shelves under New Hampshire
Author MacKaye, Percy
title What is She: A Sonnet of Sonnets to Marion Morse
publisher Minute Man Press, Concord, MA, 1943
Location Cornish Colony Shelves
title Lay This Laurel: An Album On The Saint- Gaudens Memorial on Boston Common...Robert Gould Shaw publisher Eakins Press, New York, 1973
Location Cornish Colony Shelves
title Zorach: A Life in Art; May 3- June 8, 2007; exhibition catalog
publisher Gerald G. Peters Gallery, New York, 2007
essay by Valerie Ann Leeds
Location Book Shelves under Zorach Author: Marshall, Richard
title New Hampshire Covered Bridges: A Link With Our Past
publisher New Hampshire Department of Transportation Nashua, NH, 1994
Location Book Shelves
Author Gallup, Ronald W.
title Algonquian New Hampshire and Its Pre- Historic Woodland People
Publisher Privately Published, 1970
Location: Book Shelves
Author Davis, Richard Harding
title The West From A Car-Window
publisher Harper & Brothers, Franklin Square New York, 1892
Location Storage, Rear Room Author Baynes, Ernest Harold
title Baynes: Glass-Slides
Location Storage, Rear Room
Author Schneider, Robert W.
title Novelist To A Generation: The Life and Thought of Winston Churchill
publisher Bowling Green University Popular Press, Bowling Green, Ohio, 1976
Location Book Shelves
Author Shipman, Louis Evan
title Three Comedies: On Parole; The Fountain Of Youth; Fools Errant
publisher Macmillan Company, New York, 1923
Location Book Shelves Author Conlin, Katherine E.
title Windsor Heritage: Birthplace of Vermont's Constitution and Industry
publisher Countryman Press, Taftsville, VT, 1975
Location Book Shelves
Pennell, Joseph
Vertical File
Location Vault John Goodspeed Stuart
Vertical File
papers relating to publication of Young Maxfield Parrish
Location Vault
Coy Ludwig
Vertical file
papers relating to Maxfield Parrish
Location Vault title Cornish Town Records: listing of microfilm
Location Reference
Author Ermenc, Christine
title Farmers And Aesthetes: A Social History of the Cornish Art Colony And Its Relationship With The Town of Cornish, 1885-1930
publication date: 1981
Master of Arts Thesis, University of Delaware
Location Book Shelves
Author Grahame, Kenneth
title Dream Days; illustrated by Maxfield Parrish
publisher John Lane, The Bodley Head New York, 1898
Location Cornish Colony Shelves
Author Grahame, Kenneth
title Golden Age; illustrated by Maxfield Parrish
publisher John Lane, The Bodley Head New York, 1900
second copy, donated by John and Polly Rand, 2017, in Vault
Location Cornish Colony Shelves
Cornish Rifles from Ed Battison
Ed Battison, donor
Location side of Vertical File Cabinets
Posters and Paintings without frames, Photographs
Bottom drawer of Map Collection, opposite Vault
title Cornish-Windsor Guest Book; Bridge Lady
Location Vault
title A Masque of 'Ours': The Gods and The Golden Bowl: digital scan of original program, 1905
Given by St. Gaudens Memorial to Sandy Begas; presented by Fern Meyers; Sandy Begas then donated to Cornish Historical Society; 2015
Location Front Room
Author Salmon, Robin R.
title Sculpture of Brookgreen Gardens includes Cornish Colony sculpture
publisher Arcadia Publishers Charleston, South Carolina 2009
Location Cornish Colony Shelves
Author Parrish, Maxfield
title Illustrated Perspective Lessons
Limited Edition
Location Cornish Colony Shelves
Author Hobbs, Susan
title "Thomas Dewing In Cornish, 1885- 1905";
in American Art Journal, vol XVII, n. 2, Spring 1985, p. 2-32
Location Book Shelves under Hobbs
Author Hobbs, Susan
title "Thomas William Dewing: The Early Years, 1851 -1885" in American Art Journal, vol XIII, n. 2, Spring 1981, p. 4-35; two copies
second copy donated by Janet, 2016
Location Book Shelves
title Print of Maxfield Parrish's Enchanted Prince and Moonlight; authenticated hand-penned signature of Kathleen Philbrick Read
Location Bottom drawer of Map Collection,
title Cornish Colony At The Dawn Of The New Century: Featuring Maxfield Parrish's Vanderbilt Whitney Murals
publisher Alma Gilbert, Inc Plainfield, N.H.
Location Cornish Colony Shelves
Weathervanes
Vertical File material
Location Vault
title Cornish Grange Quantity Cooking; book made by Evelyn G. Lear and presented to Cornish Grange #25, July 13, 1939
Location Book Shelves under Grange
title Footprints Of The Past: publication material
Vertical File
See also 3” by 5” photographs
Boxed, Rear Room, under Display case
Original photographs placed by subject in Vertical Files
Location Vault
Author Aronson, Julie
title Bessie Potter Von Noh: Sculptor of Women
publisher Ohio University Press, Athens, Ohio, 2008
donor James B Atkinson and Gretchen A. Holm
Location Cornish Colony Shelves
Author Cornish Colony Gallery & Museum
title Women of The Cornish Colony, Parts I and II
Location Cornish Colony Shelves
author Field, William W.
title Good Doctor Smith: Life and Times of Dr. Nathan Smith, 1762-1829
publisher Advocate Press New Haven, CT,1992
Location Display Area, Opposite Vault
title News of Cornish: newspaper clippings of social scene in Cornish, 1921-1923
Vertical File(under News)
Contains other articles on social life in Cornish
Location Vault
Lightning Manufacturing
Vertical File material
Location Vault Liggetts, J.R., Soap & Shampoo
Commerce, Cornish
Vertical File material
Also, a display used at Powers Country Store, 1988; Donated by Jim and Diane Liggett, 1994; Display is in the Exhibit, Town Office, Second Floor
Location Vault Powers Country Store
Vertical File material
Location Vault title History of the United Church of Cornish, New Hampshire: 1789-1989
Two copies
Location Book Shelves under United Church of Cornish Pictures of Bernice Amy Fitch(mother of Helen Lovell), posing for Louis or Annette St. Gaudens, sometime between 1906-1911;
Vertical File: Fitch
Location Vault title Greeting cards from Carlota Saint-Gaudens
Location Reference
Posters, Paintings(without frames; Photographs (oversize)
Location Bottom drawer of Map Collection
title Warren Westgate Photos
Location Vault, photo-albums Cornish Fair: posters
Location Exhibit, Town Office, Second Floor
Neighbor-to-Neighbor
Vertical File material
Location Vault title Saint-Gaudens National Historic Site: draft, general management plan, development concept plan, environmental impact statement
Location Book Shelves, under Saint-Gaudens... title Blowmedown Record 1884-
also referred to as Beaman Record
Blow-Me-Down
diary entries from Beaman and his family; Cornish Colony
Location Cornish Colony Shelves title Consider This; published by Nancy Wightman and Janet Orion
2000-2009 local developments in Cornish donated by Nancy Wightman, 2015
Location Vault title Cornish Hills Echo: 1974-1976 complete set: vol. 1 issue 1 - vol. III issue 5
local developments in Cornish
Location Vault Lobster Trap Company
includes material on Margaret Kenyon
Vertical File material
Location Vault title Willard Leroy Metcalf: A Retrospective
Exhibition Catalog, Museum of Fine Arts, Springfield, Mass
Location Book Shelves, under Metcalf Police
Vertical File material
See also separate digital file with link on Collection Page at CHS, Town Website
Location Vault
Music
Vertical File material includes Cornish Colony Music, Ogilvy Sisters
Location Vault Squag City
Vertical File material
Location Vault
Whalen, Paul
Vertical File
Location Vault
Reed,Kathleen
Vertical File
Location Vault
title Civil War Letter: George Breck
Vertical File
Location Vault
Town Office
Vertical File material
Location Vault
Lewin, Sue
Vertical File material
Location Vault
title Schad, Hannah: Journal of activity in Pacific Theater, WWII
Vertical File
Location Vault
Boy Scouts
Vertical File material
Location Vault; also boxed material under Civil War Display Table across from Vault, and at Meetinghouse, Storage, Closet
Farmer's Market:
Vertical File material
Location Vault
Statue, Cornish Common:
See Soldiers Monument
title Grange: Papers, Records
2012 donated Given to the Historical Society in suitcase and metal box
Location Vault
Baynes Material: boxed
papers, correspondence, etc.
location Rear Room, under Display Table
title Index To The Papers of Augustus Saint- Gaudens: introductory material to the microfilm edition Notebook
Location Vault
Author 250th Anniversary Book Committee
title Cornish, New Hampshire In Celebration of 250 Years; published 2013
Location Reference
Photographs
Location Vault, photograph section
Author: Morgan, Keith
title Architecture and Landscapes of Charles A. Platt (1861-1933)
publication date June, 1978
Doctoral dissertation, Brown University
Location: Book Shelves
title Focus on Kenyon Hill: Selected Manufacturing Census and Deeds
notebook
Location Vault
title Cornish Historical Articles( includes records, clippings)
notebook; compiled by Virginia Colby
Location Vault
title Cornish Clippings, four notebooks; one by Virginia Colby,other sources not listed; one may be from Bernice Johnson
Location Vault
title Biographical Review, volume XXII: Containing Life Sketches Of Leading Citizens of Sullivan and Merrimack, New Hampshire
publisher Biographical Review Publishing Company Boston, MA, 1897
Location Vault Author Gilbert, Alma
title Case Of The Purloined Parrish
publisher Alma Gilbert Books & Publishing Rancho Palos Verdes, CA, 2014
Location Cornish Colony Shelves
Author Gilbert-Smith, Alma
title Maxfield Parrish: The Secret Letters(1936-1941)
publisher Alma Gilbert Books San Pedro, CA, 2012
Location Cornish Colony Shelves
title American Artist's Secret Love Letters: The Maxfield Parrish - Nancy Roelker Correspondence
publisher Christie's
Location Cornish Colony Shelves
title SVR Susan Davis Van Rensselaer; life
notebook
Location Book Shelves
CREA: Cornish Recreation & Education Area
Vertical File material
Location Vault
Stonewalls and Cellar Holes
Vertical File under Stonewalls
Location Vault
See also Stonewall Exhibit by CHS at the Cornish Fair, 2018; display shows stonewalls used to enclose sheep during the Great Sheep Boom of the 1820’s and 1830’s in the Upper Valley; display is located at the Second Floor, Town Office
title Brookgreen Gardens: Manship, Vonnoh, Dewing included
Vertical File
Location Vault
Author Bynner, Witter
title Little King
publisher Mitchell Kennerley, New York, 1914
signed by author
Location Cornish Colony Shelves
Author Hapgood, Norman
title George Washington publisher Macmillan Company, New York, 1901
signed by author
Location Book Shelves Author Mason, Daniel Gregory, ed.
title Some Letters of William Vaughn Moody
publisher Houghton Mifflin Company Boston, 1913
Location Storage: Rear Room, Closet, Cabinet
Author Livermore, Thomas L.
title History Of The Eighteenth New Hampshire Volunteers, 1864-5; Civil War
Publisher Fort Hill Press, Boston, MA, 1904
Location Book Shelves
title Harry Hunt's Contribution To The Betterment of Cornish, New Hampshire: Competitive Essays Written By the 7th and 8th Grade Pupils in the Cornish, New Hampshire School donation date 1960
Location Book Shelves, under Hunt
title Katharine Ellis Barrett: works by
Location Back Room, Storage
Includes photographs/post-cards from the desk of drawers Used by Katherine Barrett at the Library
Author U.S. Department of Agriculture
title Flood Hazard Analysis: Cornish and Plainfield, New Hampshire
publication date May 1977
Location Book Shelves, under Flood
title Heads of Families At The Second Census of the United States Taken In The Year 1800, New Hampshire publisher Adams Press Washington, D.C., 1973
Location Reference Author Spalding, James
title Dr. Lyman Spalding
publisher W.M. Leonard Publisher, Boston, MA, 1916
Location Book Shelves title Harry Hunt Memorial Essay Contest: Civil War Veterans in Cornish; School publication date May 1961
Location Book Shelves Author Norell, Irene P., Compiler
title Maxfield Parrish, New Hampshire Artist, 1870 -1966: A Contribution Toward A Bibliography With Notes; Preliminary Edition
place of publication San Jose, California January, 1971
Location Cornish Colony Shelves
Author Haynes, Martin A.
title History Of The Second Regiment: New Hampshire Volunteer Infantry In the War Of Rebellion; Civil War
place of publication Lakeport, New Hampshire, 1896
Location Book Shelves
Blue Mountain
Vertical File
Location Vault
title Illustrations of Some Of The Buildings by Stephen P. Tracy; magazine articles; notebook
Location Vault
Author Brown, Ralph
title Initial Dissertation Relating to Cornish Schools and History; notebook. 1950
Location Vault
title Records of the Evangelical Congregational Church in Cornish
Location Vault, with Notebooks
Author Hemphill, Phyllis
title Collection Of Short Stories by Phyllis Hemphill, Librarian of the Cornish Library, 1978-1979; notebook
Location Rear Room
title "In The Beginning": Twenty-Five Maxfield Parrish Drawings From The Men's Day Life Class at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, 1892-1894
donor Virginia Colby HC, 1975
Location Cornish Colony Shelves
Woodward, Laura
model for Annetta Saint-Gaudens
Vertical File; includes “A History of Our House” by Woodward
Location Vault
Milton Graton
Vertical File material see also Covered Bridges, Cornish- Windsor Covered Bridge Vertical File
title “Virginia’s Book”
Material collected by Virginia Colby, dealing primarily with the Cornish Colony; especially important for individual tax- records; individuals included are as follows
Herbert Adams, Adeline Adams, John White Alexander, Frances Arnold, Grace Arnold, Katherine Barrett, Adela Barrett, Alice Barrett, Robert Barrett, Ethel Barrymore, Ernest Harold Baynes, Charles Beaman, Cecilia Beaux, John Blair, Adolphe Borie, George de Forest Brush, Edward Buring, Charles Burlingham, Mabel Butler, Witter Bynner, Burnham Carter, Mabel Churchill, Winston Churchill; Austin Corbin, Kenyon Cox, Louise King, Herbert Croly, Clara Davidge, Joseph DeCamp, Thomas Dewing, Frances Duncan, Isadora Duncan, Peter Dunne,John Elliott, Maud Elliott, William Evarts, Barry Faulkner, William Folger, James Fraser, Daniel French, Henry Fuller, Lucia Fuller, Hamlin Garland, Charles Gibson, Conger Goodyear, Frances Graydon, Frances Grimes, Katherine Hamel, Frances Hand, Learned Hand, Amile Hapgood, Norman Hapgood, William Hart, Henry Hering, Robert Herrick, E.B. Higginson, Louise Homer, Sidney Homer, Charlotte Houston, Frances Houston, William Houston, William Hyde, Samuel Isham, Edith Lawrence, Albion Lang, Grace Lawrence, Ernest Lawson, Annie Lazarus, Emma Lazarus, Philip Littell, Stanley Littell, Marion MacKaye, Percy MacKaye, Frederick Macmonnies, Paul Manship, Willard Metcalf, Langdon Mitchell, William Moody, Mothers and Daughters Club, Arthur Nichols, Rose Standish Nichols, Robert Paine, Marie Parker, Anne Parrish, Lydia Parrish, Maxfield Parrish, Stephen Parrish, Ernest Peixotto, Maxwell Perkins, Charles Platt, Eleanor Platt, Edith Prellwitz, Henry Prellwitx, Frederic Remington, Otto Roth, George Rublee, Juliet Rublee, George Ruggles, Annetta Saint-Gaudens, Augusta Saint-Gaudens, Augustus Saint- Gaudens, Carlota Saint-Gaudens, Homer Saint-Gaudens, Louis St.Gaudens, Everett Shinn, Ellen Shipman, Louis Shipman, Augusta Slade, Elizabeth Slade, Emily Slade, Mary Slade, Sarah Smoot, Grace Taylor, Henry Fitch Taylor, William Ladd Taylor, Abbott Thayer, Henry Thrasher, Ridgely Torrence, Robert Vonnoh, Henry Walker, Laura Walker, Julian Alden Weir, Arthur Whiting, Cliff Young, William Zorach
Location Vault, with Notebooks
title Republican Party, Cornish records
Location Vault
John L. Rice: Civil War Veteran
Vertical File
Location Vault
Myron Quimby:
Vertical File material
Includes article on Arthur Quimby who conducted the Cornish Orchestra and played organ at the Congregational Church
Location Vault title Cornish District General Fund Record; Schools, 1920-1940's, inc; 1958- 1978
Location: Vault
title William Chadbourne; Wellman family Notebook
Location Vault
Author Ronan, Patricia C.
title Louise King Cox --Her Life And Work; wife of Kenyon Cox; notebook
publication date: 1988
Master of Arts, City University of New York
Location Vault
Author: Van Buren, Elizabeth
title Cornish Colony: Expressions of Attachment to Place, 1885-1915; notebook publication date: 1987
Dissertation, George Washington University
Location Vault
title Read's Brands High Grade Fertilizer; farms, farming
Vertical File material
Location Vault
Gun House; see also Meeting House
Vertical File material
Location Vault
author: Marshall, Richard G.
title: New Hampshire Covered Bridges: A Link With Our
publication date: 1994
Location: Book Shelves
title Cornish Colony and Dublin, exhibition
Virginia Colby's material
Vertical File
Location Vault
Author Widger, Beverly Wilder
title Cornish, New Hampshire: A New Yorker's Colony
Cornish Colony; notebook, 1973
Location Vault Author: Meador, Dorothy Kay
title untitled; Ellen Biddle Shipman
publication date: 1989
draft; MLA Thesis, Cornell
Location Vault, envelope, with notebooks Author: Van Buren, Elizabeth D.
title Landscape Architecture and Garden Writing in the Cornish Colony: The Careers of Ellen Shipman, Rose Nichols, and Francis Duncan
publication date: 1986
revision of a paper delivered in California
Location Vault, with notebooks
Author: Holler, Katherine Derry
title Herbert Adams, American Sculptor
publication date: 1975
Thesis, Master of Arts, University of Delaware
Location Vault, with Notebooks
title Remington Drawings
Location Storage, Rear Room
title Music Box Book, belonged to Mattie Walker (mother of Beverly Kenyon), of Cornish
Location Vault, with Notebooks title Photographic Album, compiled by Vernon Field of Cornish; home presently owned by Bill and Betty Caterino on Tifft Road
Location Vault, with Notebooks
Author: Dworak, Deborah E.
title Discussion of the Cornish, New Hampshire Art Colony and the Blue Mountain Forest Association, 1885- 1920; with slides
Corbin Park, Cornish Colony
publication date 1987
part of requirement for Masters, Dartmouth College
Location Book Shelves
Title: School Primers, mid-19th century; Lagercrantz gifts
Mary Beaman Lagercrantz, donor donation date 2004
Location Storage, Rear Room
Title: Stephen Parrish Diaries; compiled by Virginia Colby
Location Vault, envelope with Notebooks title Cornish Town Records; property and possessions; three volumes, microfilmed for Town Office; insert 1978 Real Estate Assessment
Location Storage, Display Area Cornish School Children; framed photographs
Location Vault
title Saint-Gaudens Notebook; compiled by Virginia Colby
Location Vault, with Notebooks Author U.S. Department of the Interior National Park Service
title Historic Furnishing Plan: Aspet, The Little Studio, The Stables; Saint-Gaudens National Historic Site
Location Vault, with Notebooks Author Arbogast, David H.
National Park Service
title Historic Structure Report: Architectural Data Section; The Little Studio, Saint-Gaudens National Historic Site
place of publication Washington, D.C, 1977
Location Vault, with Notebooks
Author Olson, Sarah
National Park Service
title Historic Furnishing Plan: Aspet, The Little Studio, The Stables; Saint-Gaudens National Historic Site, 1982
donor Sarah Olson
Location Vault, with Notebooks Walker Family
Includes H. E. Walker; Mr. and Mrs. Martin Walker
Vertical File Material
Location Vault Grace Bulkeley
Vertical File material
see also Slade
Location Vault Robert Maslin
Vertical File material
Location Vault 18th Century Highboy, estate of James Campbell Lewis, now at US State Department: clippings Vertical File(under Highboy)
Location Vault title Richard E. Mann: copies of letters to his grandfather from Maxfield Parish and Augustus Saint-Gaudens; Vertical File under Mann
Location Vault
Saint-Gaudens: Coinage
Vertical File material
See also Display Case, Rear Room
Location Vault
Author New Hampshire Historical Society(NHHS)
title "The publick To the Inhabitants of the Town of Cornish Dr. for services done in the late war" Revolutionary War; Vertical File
American Revolution
place of publication Concord, New Hampshire, 1975
publication date 1975
letter from NHHS to CHS regarding possible purchase
Location Vault, under NHHS
View Tax
Vertical File material
Location Vault
Drowning Suit
Vertical File material
Location Vault
Hi-Land Farm; Jean Hurlburt, cheesemaker
Vertical File material
Location Vault
Clock Tower, Meeting House, Jim Smith
Vertical File material
See also Cornish Historical Articles Notebook, Vault
See also clock restoration photographs, Exhibit, Town Office, Second Floor
See also George Edson under Edson Family in Vertical File
Location Vault
Commerce, Cornish
Vertical File material
includes 1860 list; also list from NH Business Directory, 1860, compiled by John Dryfhout
includes Skyline Design, Mouse Menagerie, Bokeelian, Bittersweet Antiques, North Country Door, Woodland Barrel Barn. Vitaline Carpenter, B&C Glassworks; John Nichols Antique Dealer; Ray Evans, Esersky’s Hardware; Hearthside Kennels; Lower East Gardens Greenhouse; Cornish Riverhouse Gift Gallery and Gardens; Straightaway Auto Service; Marjon’s Collectables; Cole and Hier Co.; Resource Optimization Technologies (Tim Schad – Composting); Granite Server; David Gee; Claremont Savings Bank; Pulsipher’s Store; Atwood Garage; D.H. Auto Service; North Star Canoe; Electron Associates – Doug Miller; Cribs to Crayons
search also under sawmils, grist mills, gunmiths Comings, Hardy's Salve, Liggetts Soap and Shampoo, Powers General Store; Dingee Machine(under Fire Dept.), Cornish Quilt Studio, 12% Solution, Chabot
see also VF History, Cornish for early commercial activity
Location Vault
Author Baum, Willa K.
title Transcribing and Editing Oral History
publisher Amer. Assoc. for State and Local History Nashville, Tennessee, 1977
Location Book Shelves
Author Baum, Willa K.
title Oral History for the Local Historical Society
publisher Amer. Assoc. for State and Local History Nashville, Tennessee, 1987
Location Book Shelves
Oral History
workbook and clippings
Vertical File
Location Vault
See also “The Art of Oral History” workshop April 19, 2008 Sponsored by Newport Historical Society; located in Reference
Millbrook Gallery: early photographs of Cornish; correspondence
Vertical File
Location Vault
title Blow-Me-Down Farm
Vertical File Material
See also Saint-Gaudens National Historic Park
Location Vault
Women: Notable Cornish Women
list; Vertical File
included also is an Osher course description, taught by Mary Keeler, on women painters of the Cornish Colony; 2018
Location Vault
Henry Herring
clippings, photographs
Vertical File
Location Vault
Wesley McNair
Vertical File material
Location Vault
Ballet
Vertical File material
Location Vault
title Mouse Menagerie of Fine Crafts
Sheila Kearns
Article, catalog, Vertical File
Location Vault
Author Cornish Historical Society
title Proposal Submitted to the Kresge Foundation, Troy, Michigan; for restoration of Cornish covered bridges, 1983
Location Book Shelves,under CHS
Author Bacon, Edwin
title Connecticut River and the Valley of the Connecticut
publisher G. P. Putnam's Sons, New York, 1906
donor James B. Atkinson and Gretchen A. Holm
Location Book Shelves
Author Baker, Paul R.
title Gilded Life of Stanford White
publisher Free Press, New York, 1989
Location Book Shelves
Author Gilbert, Alma M.
title Cornish Colony: A Book of Days
publisher Tide-Mark, East Hartford, CT, 2002
Letter from Charles Shurcliff about incorrect information In book
Location Book Shelves
Author Gardner, Charles M.
title: Grange: Friend of the Farmer, 1867-1947
publisher National Grange Washington, D.C., 1949
donor Evelyn G. Lear
author signed
Location Book Shelves
author Bachman, Ben
title Upstream: A Voyage on the Connecticut River
publisher Globe Pequot, Chester, CT, 1988
Location Book Shelves Author Ewald, Richard J.
Author Mulligan, Adair D.
title Proud to Live Here in the Connecticut River Valley of Vermont and New Hampshire
publisher Connecticut River Joint Commissions Charlestown, NH, 2003
Location Book Shelves
Author Dryfhout, John
title Talk given by John Dryfhout to the Cornish and Plainfield Historical Societies, Plainfield School, February 24, 1987, on Taverns, Stagecoaches, and Turnpikes
Location Book Shelves Cornish: General
Vertical File material
Location Vault
title: Homemeyer family
Vertical File material
Location Vault
Kimball, Richard: Christmas Lights
Vertical File material
Location Vault
Farming
Vertical File
includes newspaper article about award given to to the Sullivans, Brokenridge Farm
includes article by Steve Taylor on “Great Sheep Boom”
includes draft animals
Location Vault Author Heffernan, Nancy
Coffey Author Strecker, Ann Page title Sisters of Fortune: Being the true story of how three motherless sisters saved their home in New England...while their father went fortune hunting in the California Gold Rush
publisher University Press of New England Hanover, New Hampshire, 1993 donor James B. Atkinson and Gretchen A. Holm, 1994
inscribed by author to donors
Location Book Shelves
Bats
Vertical File
Location Vault
Native Americans; Mark Humpal
Vertical File material
Location Vault
Aircraft: Curtis Wyman Sr.; Brian Meyette
Vertical File material
Location Vault
title Cornish Reminiscences: Dwight and Ruth Wood, Bernice Johnson; Cornish Historical Society Meeting of September 10, 1990
Location Vertical File under Cornish,General
Sexual Assault; includes Curtis Wyman, Barritt Bodkins
Vertical File material
Location Vault
Kibbey, James C.; gift to Cornish
Framed newspaper articles
also newspaper article about how to use gift; Vertical File under Kibbey
Location Town Office, long term loan from CHS
Organs: See Music,
Vertical File
Planning Board; includes proposed subdivision by Davis and Symonds Lumber Co.; William Gallagher, Bill Gallagher
Vertical File
Location Vault Message Therapy; includes Steve Gordon, Diane Pinkston
Vertical File material
Location Vault
Author Nevius, Blake
title Robert Herrick: The Development of a Novelist
publisher University of California Press Berkeley and Los Angeles, CA, 1962
Location Book Shelves
title Memoir On the Occasion Celebrating Percy MacKaye's 70th Birthday
signed by MacKaye
Location Cornish Colony Shelves
Author Robinson, Corinne Roosevelt
title Out Of Nymph: Poems
publisher Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1930
Location Storage, Back Room
Author Tougias, Michael J.
title River Days: Exploring The Connecticut River From Source To Sea
publisher On Cape Publications, 2001
author signed
Location Book Shelves
title Master Plan for Saint-Gaudens National Historic Site
publication date May, 1971
Location Vault, with Notebooks
Author Schultz, Eric B. Author Tougias, Michael J.
title King Philip's War: The History and Legacy of America's Forgotten Conflict
publisher Countryman Press Woodstock, Vermont, 2002
Signed by Tougias
Location Book Shelves
title Marguerite Zorach: A Life in Art; May 3-June 8, 2007; essay by Valerie Ann Leeds
publisher Gerald GP Peters Gallery, New York, 2007
Location Book Shelves, under Zorach
Author Warden, Robert B.
title An Account of the Public Life And Public Services of Salmon Portland Chase
publisher Wilstach, Baldwin and Co. Cincinnati, Ohio, 1874
Location Book Shelves
title Library of Congress Mural Paintings
Cornish Colony Artists; John White Alexander, Kenyon Cox, included
publisher Foster & Reynolds, New York, 1902
Location Cornish Colony Shelves
Author Kraft, James
title Who Is Witter Bynner?; A Biography
publisher University of New Mexico Press Albuquerque, New Mexico, 1995
Author signed
Location Book Shelves
Author Bynner, Witter
title Grenstone Poems
publisher Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1926
Location Cornish Colony Shelves, top Author Bynner, Witter
Author Kraft, James, general editor
title Works of Witter Bynner: The Chinese Translations
publisher Farrar-Straus-Giroux, New York, 1978
Location Cornish Colony Shelves
Author: Frothingham, Bertha Perkins
title Father to Daughter: The Family Letters of Maxwell Perkins
publisher Andrews and McMeel Kansas City, Missouri, 1995
Location Cornish Colony Shelves
Author Parrish, Maxfield
title Illustrated Perspective Lessons made around the year 1890-1894 by Maxfield Parrish
Location Cornish Colony Shelves
Author Parrish, Lydia
title Slave Songs Of The Georgia Sea Islands, two copies
publisher Creative Age Press, New York, 1942
Location Cornish Colony Shelves and Vault
Cornish-Windsor Covered Bridge: pictures
Location Exhibit, Town Office, Second Floor
Cornish-Windsor Covered Bridge: Repair and Opening: pictures; probably taken by Virginia Colby
Location Exhibit, Town Office, Second Floor
title Baynes Scrapbook: photographs
Location Vault, photo-albums Author: Taylor, Sarah Sue
title O'Artful Death; novel; fictional characters from the Cornish Colony
publisher St. Martin's Paperbacks, New York, 2003
Author related to Steve Taylor of Plainfield
Location Book Shelves
title S & S Firearms 2005 Catalog of Military Americana
place of publication Glendale, Illinois, 2005
Location Reference
Energy-Efficient Homes; clippings includes article on home of Christina and Jeff Plant
Vertical File Material
Location Vault title Augustus Saint-Gaudens, 1848-1907; Un maitre de la sculpture amercaine publisher Musee des Augustins Toulouse, France, 1999
Location Cornish Colony Shelves author Tolles, Thayer
title Augustus Saint-Gaudens In The Metropolitan Museum Of Art
publisher Metropolitan Museum of Art New York, 2009
Location Cornish Colony Shelves Author Cornish Colony Museum
title Gathering Of Friends: The Early Artists Of the Cornish Colony
exhibition catalog
Location Cornish Colony Shelves
title Bartlett Framed Photographs; exhibit at Grange Hall Gallery by Cornish Historical Society, September 2012
Photographs donated by Cheston and Nancy Newbold
Location Vault
Hardy's Genuine Salve: company records, correspondence, pictures
Location Vault, notebook section
Royal Cortissoz
Vertical File material
Location Vault 12% Solution
Vertical File material
Location Vault
Animal Rescue
includes Ginny Prince
Vertical File Material
Location Vault
Tanning
includes Mark Humpal
Vertical File material
Location Vault
title Cornish Historical Society: Garden Tour, 2001
Vertical File
Location Vault
Glass Slides: Butman's Saw Mill, Log Drive on Connecticut River
Location Storage, Rear Room
Rock, Jack and Teenie
clippings, Vertical File
see also Cemeteries
Location Vault
Bayliss, Robert
Vertical File material
Location Vault
Saint-Gaudens: Movie photographs; album
Location Coffee Table, Entrance Room
Quilting
includes Betty Caterino
See also Cornish Quilt Studio, Vertical File
Vertical File material
Location Vault
Davidson, Susan
material relating to her donation to the Cornish Historical Society
Vertical File
Location Vault
Foss,Family
Vertical File
Location Vault
Author Erdrich, Louise
title Four Souls
publisher HarperCollins Publishers New York, 2004
donor Plainfield Historical Society
Location Book Shelves
Author Erdrich, Louise
title Bingo Place
publisher HarperCollins Publishers New York, 1994
donor Plainfield Historical Society
Location Book Shelves
Fred Bradley
letters; Vertical File
Location Vault
Author Dorris, Colleen
title Yellow Raft In Blue Water: books on tape
Location Vault, with tapes
Paintings and Sculpture Belonging to Mr. James H. Stebbins; includes work by Stephen Parrish
publisher American Art Association New York
donor James B. Atkinson
Location Storage, rear room
Clover Ridge Creamery, Mill Village
Vertical File material
Location Vault
Creameries: see Clover Ridge Creamery, Cornish Creamery, Hillside Creamery
Powder Horn
Vertical File
See also Powder Horn, Display Case, Rear Room
Newspaper article about purchase by James Atkinson, in both locations
Location Vault
Photographs: Cornish Area Residents not in albums
Photograph section
Location Vault Author Miller, Audrey Lightkep
Author Reed, Carol Miller title Commitment To Community: Celebrating the Heritage and Legacy of Frank Ritter Shumway& Hettie Beaman Lakin Shumway; sections on Beaman
publisher Rochester Institute of Technology Rochester, New York, 1994
Location Book Shelves
Author McIntosh, M.J.
title Violet, or, The Cross And The Crown: fiction publisher John P. Jewett And Company Boston, Massachusetts, 1859
belonged to Paul Davidson, Cornish Flat; a Selectman
location Storage, Rear Room
Mastlands: garden photographs
Photographs
Location Exhibit, Town Office, Second Floor
Author Niven. John
title Salmon P. Chase: A Biography
publisher Oxford University Press, New York, 1995
donor Plainfield Historical Society
Location: Book Shelves
Author Maynard, Joyce
title Labor Day: A Novel
publisher Harper Perennial, New York, 2009
donor Plainfield Historical Society
Location Book Shelves
Tours of Cornish: bicycles, driving, walking
Vertical File
Location Vault Author Putnam, Constance E.
title The Science We Have Loved And Taught: Dartmouth Medical School's First Two Centuries; Nathan Smith
publisher University Press of New England Hanover, New Hampshire, 2004
donor Philip Read Memorial Library, Plainfield, New Hampshire
Location Display Area, Opposite Vault
Author McCullough, David
title Greater Journey: Americans In Paris;
Augustus Saint-Gaudens included
publisher Simon & Schuster, New York, 2011 donor Plainfield Historical Society
Location Book Shelves
title Red Schoolhouse on Dingleton Hill, painting by Joseph Charles Smith
Location Exhibit, Town Office, Second Floor
Baynes material: records, letters, pictures
Location Storage, Rear Room
Blair, John
Vertical File
Location Vault
Author MacKaye, Percy
title Faith of Poetry: An Essay
reprinted from Winter Issue, Oxford Criterion, 1933
Location Cornish Colony Shelves
Author Odell, Carol
title The Fuller Sisters: Fourth Tour of America, Part Two
Caroll Odell, donor
Location Book Shelves, under Odell
title Appraisal of Virginia Colby material given to Cornish Historical Society, done for George Reed
1995
Location Vault, Appraisal Section
Author: Cornish Colony Museum
title Power Of Place: Paintings That Define The American Image; Cornish Colony, 2008
exhibition catalog
Location Cornish Colony Shelves
Author Cornish Colony Museum
title Women's Work: The Artistry Of The Women Of The Cornish Colony
exhibition catalog
Location Cornish Colony Shelves
Author Cornish Colony Museum
title Illustrating The Imagination: Celebrating Children's Illustrators from the Cornish Colony and Today exhibition catalog
Location Cornish Colony Shelves
Author Cornish Colony Museum
Title Cornish Art of the Past Century: Art for Art's Sake
exhibition catalog
Location Cornish Colony Shelves
Author Cornish Colony Museum
title Coming Home! A Retrospective Exhibit Of Parish, Manship, Faulkner, and Zorach Cornish Colony
exhibition catalog
Location Cornish Colony Shelves
Farwell, Arthur
pictures at Saint-Gaudens
Vertical File
Location Vault Dorris, Michael
Vertical File See also VF for Louise Erdrich
Location Vault title Mural by Thomas W. Dewing booklet about
publisher Spanierman Gallery, New York, 1998
Location Book Shelves, under Dewing
Erdrich,Louis
Vertical File
See also VF for Michael Dorris
Location Vault
Agutter, George
obituary
Vertical File
Location Vault
Author Historic Windsor
title Windsor, VT "An Architectural & Historical Walking Tour of Windsor Vermont"; Vertical File
Location Vault
Safe Cornish Historical Society Building
Vertical File material
Location Vault
Safe: Masons, Robert LaClair
donation agreement
Vertical File
Location Vault
Author New Hampshire Historical Society
title New Hampshire Collections: A Guide Tour, Cultural Heritage
Historical society collections
publication date 1992
Location Book Shelves, under New Hampshire
title Appraisal of Cornish Historical collections both at Meeting House and former Selectmen's Office, 1998
Vertical File
Location Vault, Appraisal Section
title Deming Family: "A Brief History Of The Life Of D. E. Deming In Connection With Early Settlement"
History, Cornish; Vertical File
copy of Letter in Baker Archives from David Ebeneezer Deming
Location Vault
Comings Cemetery
Vertical File material
Location Vault
Bryant, Julia
Memory Card
Vertical File
Donor Carol H. Barber, 2015
Location Vault
Clark, Jonathan Records for military service, Revolution
Vertical File
Location Vault
Revolutionary War Muskets: documents
American Revolution
Vertical File
Location Vault
title New Hampshire Government: Proceedings of the Hon. Senate, June 1796
Vertical File
Location Vault
title King's New York Views
photographs
publisher Spencer Trask & Company, 1895
Location Vault, notebook area
title Great Britain: Her Beauty And Achievements: Photographs From The Times
Location Vault, notebook area
title White Mountains
Vertical File
Location Vault
Title Rocky Mountains: Canada’s Playgrounds Photographs
Vertical File
Location Vault
Mears, Helen Farnsworth
Exhibition Catalog
Vertical File
Location Vault
Mount Ascutney
Vertical File material
Location Vault
Author Gilbert, Alma M.
title Anne Parrish: The Story of Two Lives
publisher Alma Gilbert, Inc, Plainfield, NH, 1998
Location Cornish Colony Shelves
title Cornish Homes and Gardens: Platt House, Mastlands, Mary Banks Smoot House, High Court, Slade House(Grace Bulkeley) photographs
Location Exhibit, Town Office, Second Floor
Woodchuck Hole: studio built by George Ruggles for visiting artists, including Percy MacKaye
photographs(signatures on a wall)
from collection of Charles E. Bugbee, brother of Ruth Wood
Location Exhibit, Town Office, Second Floor
First Strike Ceremony; minting of Saint- Gaudens coin; West Point Mint; John Dryfhout; photographs
Location Exhibit, Town Office, Second Floor
Poor Farm Photographs
Location Vault, photo-albums
Flood Damage, 1973: Townhouse Road, foot of Dingleton Hill Road
Photographs
Location Vault, photo- albums
Covered Bridges
Photographs
Location Exhibit, Town Office, Second Floor
Spirit Day, 1991
Photographs
Location Exhibit, Town Office, Second Floor
Spirit Day, May 17, 2008, DVD
Painting: Engine 2 Fire Station, Meetinghouse Entrance; in Vault
Virginia Colby Night, Chase House, June 7, 1993; retirement as President of Cornish Historical Society; photographs
Location Exhibit, Town Office, Second Floor
title "The Garden"; Saint-Gaudens National Historical Site, Picture Gallery, September 1- October, 1991; Program
Vertical File; see also photographs "this exhibition recalls the artist community that surrounded Saint- Gaudens"
Location Vault
Admiral Farragut; new bronze cast, Saint- Gaudens National Historic Site; photographs
Location Exhibit, Town Office, Second Floor
title William Balloch: Diaries: 1869-1872, 1884- 1885,1887-1888; DVD
Location Front Room, Glass Table
Saint-Gaudens Slides; purchased at site
Location With Postcard book, opposite Vault
Slides Take by Charlotte Thibault
Location With Postcard book, opposite vault
Quilt made by Colleen O'Neill to raise money for the CREA Barn restoration, August 1999
Location Front Room
Cornish-Windsor Covered Bridge, Toll Rates Sign
Location Front Room
title Cornish and Windsor Citizens; late 19th century; pictures in card format; includes Chester Pike and Charles Ruggles could be of graduating students, school and public officials
Location Vault, photo-albums
Letter from Henry W. Townsend to H.S. Putnam, 1853; under Haldimand Sumner Putnam in Vertical File
Location Vault
title Southeast Cornish School District Record Book, 1803-1851
Location Front Room, on top of Safe
Adams Memorial, Saint-Gaudens, and other works at the Oak Creek Cemetery, Washington, D.C.
photographs taken by James
Atkinson
Location Vault, photo-albums
Framed print of Maxfield Parrish's Daybreak
Location Front Room, above safe Maxfield Parrish Calendars
Location Above Cornish Colony Shelves
title Charles Platt, "The Mountain" etching and drypoint
gift by Eric G. Lagercrantz;
a wedding present by Charles Platt to Eric and Mary Beaman Lagercrantz, 1941;
information supplied by John Dryfhout
Location Front Room
Carlota Saint-Gaudens: "Portrait of H. Witter Bynner"; oil on ivory; miniature
Long-term loan from
SGNHS location Front Room
Frances Grimes, "Louis Henry Dow"; bronze
Long-term loan from
SGNHS
Location Front Room
Photographs of the Eben Johnson family, former owners of what was the Cornish Poor House on Townhouse Road
Vertical File under Johnson Family
Carolyn Johnson Reed, donor
Location Vault
Picture of Myron Quimby, Fred Sullivan, Michael Yatsevitch, and Lionel Tracy, in Colonial attire, addressing a Town Meeting in 1976
Selectmen
Location Exhibit, Town Office, Second Floor
Author Hoyt, Henry
title Coals Of Fire and other stories
“from the library of the Cornish Central School”
publisher Rockwell and Rolands Boston, Massachusetts, 1867
Location Display Area, opposite Vault title New Hampshire Tax Collector's Book And Warrant, 1878; list of taxes paid in Cornish
Location Vault
title Ida Child's Diary, 1884
daughter of William Henry Child
Location Display Area, opposite Vault title Autograph Book, Mrs. M.
W. Hardy 1861
Location Display Area, opposite Vault
title Autograph Book, Bernice M. Fitch, 1935
Location Display Area, opposite Vault title Picture Book, Cornish, Windsor
Location Display Area, opposite Vault title Diary, Mary P. Hall, 1866
Location Display Area, opposite Vault title Book of Music: MacKaye's Canterbury Pilgrims
Location Storage Book Ends made by Annetta Saint- Gaudens, 1925
Location Display Area, opposite Vault Author Smith, Emily A.
title Life And Letters of Nathan Smith
publisher Yale University Press New Haven, Connecticut, 1914
Location Display Area, opposite Vault Refrigerator Magnet of the Cornish- Windsor Bridge; sold by Ethel R. Nelson, Bridge Lady
Location Display Area, opposite Vault Photographs of Cornish and Windsor
Location Display Area, opposite Vault
title Postcard Album
Location Display Area, opposite Vault Author: Brown, George Waldo
title Ruel Durkee, Master Of Men
Central character in Winston Churchill’s novel
Coniston; portraits of Durkee and his wife
Polly are at the Croydon Historical Society
publisher Richard G. Badger, Gorham Press Boston, Massachusetts, 1910
Location Display Area, opposite Vault; displayed also is an advertisement for the book on the cover of Granite State Magazine, May, 1910, v. VI, no. 10
Author Lucier, A.J.
title Machine: A Political Satire (railroads)
publisher Mayhew Publishing Boston, New York, 1908
Location Display Area, opposite Vault Author: Johnson, Bernice
title My Life In Cornish - And Beyond
location Book Shelves, Reference, and Exhibit, Town Office, Second Floor
title US Infantry Tactics: prepared by the War Department, 1861; property of H.L. Putnam; with Haldimand Sumner Putnam memorabilia
Location Civil War Display Area, opposite Vault title Cornish N.H. Town Records 1767- 1783: Vital statistics Taken from earliest town records Compiled by Maybelle(Tennie) Rock
Location Vault title Veterans of Cornish N.H, compiled by Teenie Perkins Rock
Location Civil War Display Area, opposite Vault Haldimand Sumner Putnam
memorabilia(letters, records, Civil War insignia, eulogy); Putner was killed in the attack on Fort Wagner during the Civil War
Location Civil War Display Area, Opposite Vault title Woodrow Wilson Memorabilia, including signed letter
Location Vertical File for Wilson Annetta St. Gaudens: "Portrait of Paul St. Gaudens"; 1922; terracotta
Location Front Room
Blue glazed bowl with broken handle by Paul
St. Gaudens
Donor: long term loan from SGNHS
Location: In front of safe, on top of bird bath Author MacKaye, Percy
title Pilgrim and The Book
publisher American Bible Society, New York, 1920
Location Front Room A Lock, dating back to the American Revolution
Location Display Case, Rear Room Herbert Adams: "Portrait Medallion of Charles Pratt(1830- 1891)
Location Cornish Colony Shelves Cornish-Windsor Covered Bridge Monthly and Yearly Passes
Location Display Case, Rear Room Annetta J. St. Gaudens: "Eleanor Wilson as 'Ornis' in Percy MacKaye's Sanctuary: A Bird Masque(1913)"; bas-relief
Long-term loan from SGNHS
Location Beside Vault Door Abraham Walkowitz: "Dancer(Study of Isadora Duncan) c. 1920
Brush and ink drawing on paper
long-term loan from SGNHS
Location Rear Room Sampler: Sarah C(alista) Huggins(1807- 1892); "Virtue is the Universal Charm"
Cornish,July 3rd, 1918; completed in her eleventh year
Location Rear Room
Kenyon Cox(1856-1919): "Tolstoy Receiving Appeals from the Peasants"; oil on board(en grisaille)
donor: long-term loan from SGNHS
Century Magazine, vol. 46, 1893, p.257
Illustration “With Tolstoy in the Russian Famine”
Location Middle Room
title New Hampshire Troubadour Yearbooks: 1938 and 1940 publisher State Planning and Development Commission Concord, New Hampshire
“The Land of Scenic Splendor
Location Vault
title Bixby Family: "The Photographic Album"
dono r Walte r Rock wood
locat ion: Displ ay Area, Oppo site Vault
Margaret Thompson Zorach: "Autumn Colors"; c. 1940
color serigraph
long-term loan from SGNHS
Location Rear Room
Elmer Wood Bartlett; Lyman Wood House (Dingleton Hill); oil on canvas
Location Front Room
Elmer Wood Bartlett: "Toll Bridge - Windsor, VT"; reverse painting on glass in a hand- designed wooden frame
Location Front Room
Elmer Wood Bartlett: "Farm Scene"; reverse painting on glass acquired in a collection of glasses; presumed to be unfinished
Location Front Room Two paintings by Elmer Wood Bartlett
1/ Country Road in the Fall, possibly Dingleton Hill Road where Bartlett lived 2/ a reverse painting on glass of a windmill above a long rectangular mirror from the Estate of Virginia R. Quimby, donated by her son Steve Quimby, and her daughter, Molly Dulong
Per mirror-windmill, from box of Bartlett correspondence donated by Cheston Newbold, Nancy Newbold, there is a letter from a cousin containing photographs, one of a windmill, possible inspiration for painting; photograph placed in Front Room beside the mirror painting
Location Front Room
Map used on Fire Tower at Blue Mountain Forest (Corbin Park) on Croydon Mountain: amalgamated geodetic map used in conjunction with an Osborne Fire-Finder
information on the Osborne Fire-Finder, supplied by Bill Fitts, May 2016, is beneath the map
Location Rear Room
Asabel Lynde Powers: "Portrait of David Hall Hilliard"; (on reverse, painted in 1833); some experts believe Hilliard constructed the frame
Location Rear Room
Henry Brown Fuller: "Triumph of Truth Over Error"; print location: Rear Room
Stephen Parrish; "Head of an African-American"; oil sketch
LONG TERM LOAN FROM SGNHS
Location Rear Room
Portrait of Mrs. Samuel Hardy; accompanying portrait of possibly her husband, Samuel Hardy, as a young man
see also Hardy’s Salve, Vertical File
donated by Robert LaClair
location Rear Room
Framed Photograph of the Cornish- Windsor Covered Bridge by Ethel R. Nelson, "The Bridge Lady" frame: tongue & groove siding, circa 1800
Location Front Room
Framed photograph of the house of James Ripley Wellman(1789-1860)
donor Bradford S. Wellman
Location Front Room
Maxfield Parrish: "Tranquility"( also known as Elm, Late Afternoon and Peaceful Valley)
Print is signed
donor Mrs. Maxfield Parrish, Jr. (Helen), 1985
Location Front Room
Barry Faulkner "Cornish Mills"
Watercolor
Location Front Room
Framed Photographs of farm life owned by Vernon and Helen Field; present home of Bill and Betty Caterino
Location Display Area, opposite Vault
Henry Prellwitz
"Still Life"; 1908; oil on canvas
Donated: 2003
long-term loan from SGNHS
Location Rear Room
Portrait of Prudence Chase, daughter of Jonathan Chase; born 1760; married Nathaniel Hall
copied from a larger portrait in 1897 by L. Custer
donated by Miss Alice L.C. Dodge
Location Rear Room
Portrait of Champion Spalding Chase, Civil War Colonel in the Union Army
donor Sherret E. Chase
Location Rear Room North Star Canoe
Clippings, Vertical File See also VF for Hammond location: Vault
Opening, The Maxfield Parrish Museum, 1978 Photographs
Location Exhibit, Town Office, Second Floor
Methodist Church Documents
donated by Priscilla Hull and Cathy Parks, August 2017
Vertical File
Location Vault
Portraits of General Jonathan Chase; b. Dec. 6, 1732; d. Jan. 12, 1800; and wife, Sarah Hall Chase, b. Dec. 15.1774; d. Oct. 13, 1806
donated by Miss Alice L.C. Dodge
Location Rear Room
Portrait of Captain Josiah Stone; b. 1789 in Cornish; d. 1865 in Cornish; husband of Experience Stevens Stone
attributed to Zedekiah Belknap, per John Dryfhout and Phil Zea, March 2017
Location Rear Room, with portrait of wife, Storage, under Display Table
Portrait of Experience Stevens Stone; b. 1790, Plainfield; d. 1867, Royalton, VT; wife of Captain Josiah Stone
Location Rear Room, with portrait of husband, Rear Room under Display Table
Author Barrett, R. & K
title Cloud Mosaics publisher W. Heffer & Sons LTD. Cambridge, 1931
donor presented by authors to the Cornish Library
Location Book Shelves
Author Hapgood, Norman
title Industry and Progress
publisher Yale University Press New Haven, Connecticut, MCMXI
Signed, dedicated to Cornish Library
Location Book Shelves
Author Barrett, R.& K.
title Himalayan Letters of Gypsy Davy and Lady Ba
publisher W. Heffer & Sons LTD. Cambridge, 1927
Donors Robert and Katherine Barrett
Location Book Shelves
Stephen Parrish: "Coastal New England Village"; oil sketch with wooden stretcher frame; unsigned, undated
donor: long-term loan from SGNHS
Location Rear Room
Desk, A Maxfield Parrish original; built by the artist
Location Rear Room Glass House, photograph
Robert and Katherine Barrett
Location Exhibit, Town Office, Second Floor
title Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn
inscription "Robert Keith MacKaye from Christy, Oc. 8, 1919"; Robert, son of Percy MacKaye
Location Rear Room
Ceramic Jewelry by Margaret Parry St. Gaudens, wife of Paul St. Gaudens
Donor John Dryfhout, 2009
Location Rear Room
title "Ascutney Mountain"; poem(framed) by Karl. A. Pember
Location Rear Room
title Dream City: A Portfolio of Photographic Views of the World's Columbian Exposition
publisher N. D. Thompson St. Louis, Mo., 1893
Location Rear Room
title The Aldine: Mount Ascutney, Connecticut Valley," by J.D. Woodward
Original Antique Print
Location Rear Room
title Diaries: Johnson family, wrapped in plastic bag; includes Eben Johnson
Location Rear Room
"The Oaks," Alma Gilbert; Maxfield Parrish Photographs
Location Exhibit, Town Office, Second Floor title Photographic album of of Katie E. Daniels
Location Rear Room
title Diary of David Hall Hilliard(1805- 1877), March 12-14, 1852
Location Rear Room
title Hymn Book: "The Village Harmony or New England Repository of Sacred Musk"; belonging to Charles Balloch(1809-1834)
Location Rear Room
Pitchers; 1874; used at Grange Hall #25 meetings
Location Rear Room
title "Hilliard Rifle Works!"
Advertisement for company; glass enclosed on a frame
Location Rear Room author: Clyde L. Deming
title: Collected Papers of Clyde L. Deming, M.D.
comments: author born in Cornish and attended KUA
donor: given to Cornish Library and signed by author; then given to Cornish Historical Society
location: Storage, Rear Room
title 16th Regiment New Hampshire Volunteers; Civil War; Captain John L. Kier, Cornish; hand- written list
Location Civil War Display Area, opposite vault
title "Windsor, Vermont: Cornish-Windsor Covered Bridge”; picture from Harper's Magazine, 1856
Location Meetinghouse
Author Field, Eugene
title Poems of Childhood; with illustrations by Maxfield Parrish
publisher Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, MCMIX
Location Rear Room
title Illustration by Kenyon Cox, dedicated to Will Low; in Dante Gabriel Rosetti's The Blessed Damozel(New York: Dodd, Mead, 1886)
LONG-TERM LOAN FROM SGNHS
Location Rear Room
Cornish Town Paint Party, 1989 Photographs
Location Exhibit, Town Office, Second Floor
Boston Post Cane to the Oldest Citizen of Cornish, N. 76
Location Rear Room title Art And Handicraft in the Woman's Building of the World's Columbian Exposition, Official Edition, 1893
publisher Goupil & Co.
donor: long term loan from SGNHS
Location Rear Room
Harlakenden, home of Winston Churchill; photographs of home under construction
Location Rear Room
Harlakenden, Summer White House for President Woodrow Wilson; photograph of secret service operations
Location Rear Room
Author Cortissoz, Royal
title Monograph of the Work of Charles A. Platt; illustration from "The Brick Builder" misplacing Harlakenden in Montpelier, Vermont
publisher Architectural Book Publishing Company, 1913
donor long term loan from SGNHS
Location Rear Room
Hardy's Salve Company
samples, advertisements, order book
some items donated by Robert Weaver, via New Hampshire Historical Society
Rear Room items include bottle “Dr. Hardy’s Magical Pain Destroyer”; donated by Margaret Roludeux, May, 2019
Location Rear Room; Exhibit, Town Office, Second Floor; Exhibit, Meetinghouse, with rosin sample
title Republicans of Cornish, handbill for meeting, January 31st, 1859; for Free Soil, Free Speech, Free Men, and a Free Press
Location Rear Room
Tea Tray, made by Blanche Wood; decorated in Cornish in 1950
Location Rear Room
Egg Crate, Fernald Hill Farm; crate used for shipping; Belonged to Mike Yatsevitch
Location Rear Room
Maxfield Parrish: laminated photographs on foamboard
Location Rear Room
title Ascutney Mountain: print
Location Map Drawer, opposite vault
title NH Division of Historical Resources recognition of Town of Cornish for Stewardship of First Baptist Church of Cornish(Meetinghouse); framed certificate
Location Rear Room
Headstones, Gravestones in Cornish cemeteries; photographs taken by Teenie Rock
Arranged by Ginny Gage(August, 2020)
Location Vault, notebook with photo-albums
Framed photograph of Civil War Soldier donor Sheryl Hahn, October 9, 2010 note on back: “Mr. Jesse Hahn found this in Laura's house.” Probably Charles Woodward, a Civil War veteran, per John Dryfhout, May 2017; Sandy Redlands assisted with identification
Location Rear Room, under Display Case (being refinished, 9/20)_
See also Vertical File, Civil War Soldier - Woodward
Portraits of Champion Spalding and Ruth Stevens, his wife; maternal grand-parents of Champion Spalding Chase
donated by Sherret E. Chase, 2015
Location Rear Room
Plate commemorating Cornish Bicentennial, 1763- -1963; first minister's house built for Rev. Jas. Wellman about 1769
Location Rear Room;second plate in Vault
Cornish Bicentennial ashtrays in Front Room title "A Vanishing Race"; buffalo at Corbin Park, July 15, 1907; photograph
location: Exhibit, Town Office, Second Floor
title "View of Ascutney Mountain Taken from High Bridge at Claremont, NH"
Location Map drawer, opposite vault
title "Ascutney Quick Step, by Capt. E.C. Boynton; musical score
Location Map drawer, opposite vault
title "Manuscript Executive Pardon Request Letter For A Escaped Prisoner"; for a Joel Caleb; letter originated in Cornish
Location Rear Room, Display Case
title "Anne Parrish in the Northcote Garden, Cornish, NH"; Summer, 1898, photo by Stephen Parrish; photograph on foamboard
Location Rear Room, Display Case
title "Sullivan County Agricultural Society: Premium List and Awarding Committees for 1855"; county fair poster
Location Map drawer, opposite vault
Paul Manship: two bronze ashtrays(Chiron, 1919 and Libra- Zodiac Series, 1946)
Long-term loan from SGNHS
Location Rear Room, Display Case
Buffalo Nickels, designed by James Earle Fraser
Location Rear Room, Display Case
A reproduction(2010) is at the Exhibit, Town Office, Second Floor
Medal won by the Cornish Creamery, Pan- American Exhibition, Buffalo, New York, 1901
Cornish Creamery was supervised by Edwin L. Child from 1897 to 1909; son of town historian, William H. Child
See also Vertical File for Pan-American Exhibition
Location Rear Room, Display Case
Hillside Creamery Sign; creamery formerly located on 12A directly opposite the Cornish- Windsor Bridge; in operation from 1889 to 1916
Location Rear Room, Display Case
title Containers: "Valve Grinder/Auto & Marine Motors/Lightning/ 4 in 1 Lightning, Mfg. Co./Cornish Flat/N.H."
Location Rear Room, Display Case
Civil War Canteen; information probably compiled by Annetta St. Gaudens; canteen carried by Edgar Churchill at Battle of Gettysburg
Location Display Case, Rear Room
title Letter from Saint-Gaudens to George W. Curtis (author, editor, and lecturer); interested in Transcendentalism
Location Display Case, Rear Room
Powder Horn belonging to Lebbeus Chase, son of Jonathan Chase
with newspaper article about purchase by James Atkinson
Location Display Case, Rear Room
Laura Gardin Fraser, George Washington Bicentennial Medal
Long-term loan from SGNHS
Location Display Case, Rear Room
title "Father of His Country": George Washington Inaugural Centennial Medal, 1889; designed by Augustus Saint- Gaudens, relief modeled by Philip Martiny
Long-term loan from SGNHS
Location Display Case, Rear Room
Video Tapes of Cornish Historical Society meetings, made by Frank Ackerman
includes meeting where Virginia Colby, after seventeen years, passed Presidency of CHS to James Atkinson
Location Vault
title "My Tribute to the Connecticut River"
video tape by Vernon B. Field; donated to the Cornish Historical Society
Location Vault
title Cornish-Windsor Bridge Opening , December 8, 1989; video tape
Location Vault
title Cornish-Windsor Covered Bridge: Rudolph Story; video tape
Location Vault
title Maxfield Parrish: In Shadow and Light(A Video Guide For the Maxfield Parrish Collector); video tape
Location Vault
title "Nathan Smith: Country Doctor"; video tape
Location Vault
title "Plainfield Town Hall Backdrop"; video tape
Location Vault
title Cornish-Windsor Covered Bridge and Repair; video tape
Location Vault
title "Augustus Saint-Gaudens: An American Original"; video tape
Location Vault
title Saint-Gaudens Crossroads Program; video tape
Location Vault
title Samuel Chase Ledger Book. Sample Pages
CD was donated by Joan Bush, 2012; CHS made a copy for the Bookshelves; CD is in the Vault with other media
The document itself is at the New Hampshire Historical Society
location CD is in Vault with other media; Printed copy is in Book Shelves under Chase...
title "Who Is Clark Rockefeller?"; DVD
Location Vault
title Lecture by Stan Colby; audio tape
Location Vault
Trinity Church, Peter Burling, Music, Cornish School Children; audio tape
Location Vault
title Maxfield Parrish - Hooper Billstein; audio tape
Location Vault Small sculpture of young woman by Annetta St. Gaudens; Laura Woodward, sister of Bernice Johnson, posed
Donors: Laura Woodward, Bernice
Johnson; originally given to Cornish
Colony Museum with provision that if no longer in existence, the sculpture would go to the Cornish Historical
Society
Location: Rear Room
title "Woodrow Wilson In Cornish"; talk by Laird Klingler to Cornish Historical Society, 5/9/94; video and audio tapes
video uploaded to YouTube
Location Vault
Photograph of Spad Johnson, Witter Bynner, and D.H. Lawrence;
taken in Mexico, Witter Bynner long-term loan from
SGNHS
location:
Cornish Colony Shelves title Samuel Hardy Ledgers
Location Vault Large ceramic Bird Bath by Annetta St. Gaudens
Location: Front Room Author, Rice, Alice Hegan Title: Lovey Mary; by author of “Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch”
Publisher Century, New York, 1903
donor: long term loan from SGNHS (James B. Atkinson and Gretchen A. Holm)
location: Cornish Colony Shelves Food
Vertical file
includes article on handling of cranberries by Connie Kousman and Leigh Callahan includes article on bread-making by Suzzane Lupien
Location: Vault Blue Glazed Plates by Paul St. Gaudens long term loan from SGNHS a smaller vase of same color, donated by Cynthis Durward, is on top of Cornish Colony Shelves location: shelves, in safe front room title: Small pencil drawing of a cat by Everett Shinn long term loan from SNHS location: Rear Room title: Cornish New Hampshire Phone Directory & Handbook: published bi- yearly by the Cornish Elementary School; editors Nancy Newbold, Barbara Jones, Dale Lawrence donated by Nancy Newbold location: current year Reference; back years vault Old Dingleton School House, painting by “E.W. Bartlett” Elmer Wood Bartlett location: Exhibit, Town Office, Second Floor title: Two Sloops, painting by Charles Platt being used for research by James Atkinson
long term loan from SGNHS Slides, mainly of art works; marked by Virginia Colby as extras location: Vault title: Cornish Flat Nursery, advertising broadside, 1858
business of W.H. Child location: Two copies: Front Room, and framed copy at Exhibit, Town Office, Second Floor Framed Picture of Haldimand Sumner Putnam location: Civil War Display Area, opposite vault title: Guest Books from Cornish Colony Museum donated by Plainfield Historical Society, 2015 location: Vault Tray painted by Blanche Wood, 1950 from estate of Lucia Bryant, 1984 donated by Plainfield Historical Society, 2015
location: beside Vault door Pyle, Howard
Vertical File location: Vault Author: Hale, Louise Closser Title We Discover New England Drawings by Walter Hale
publisher: Dodd, Mead, New York, 1916 donated by Plainfield Historical Society, 2015 includes comments on Cornish location: Book Shelves Author: Kinney, Charles B. Jr. title: Church & State: The Struggle For Separation in New Hampshire, 1630-1900 Cornish experience included
publisher: Teachers College, Columbia University, New York, 1955 donor Plainfield Historical Society, 2015 location: Book Shelves Author: Erdrich, Louise title: Last Report on the Miracles at Little No Horse
publisher: Harper Collins, New York, 2002 donor Plainfield Historical Society, 2015 location: Book Shelves Civil War memorabilia collected by Stephen Tracy donated by Anne Tracy location: Civil War Display Area, opposite Vault
Gray, Everett Cornish man attacked by a deer clipping; Vertical File
location: Vault Houghton, Warren “Lost Wallet Found 70 Years Later” by members of Masonic Lodge; Masons; School Street School
Vertical File location: Vault Title: Carte de Visite: calling or visiting cards boxed collection of small albumen photographs includes one of Salmon Portland Chase
location: boxed collection, Vault; card for Chase, display table opposite Vault Title: Iron plaque “Cornish-N. H. 1945 Fire & Highway Depts. Douglas E. Page Cont. Selectmen John M. Tewksbury Harry J. Nelson Fred Davis
location: Rear Room
Warren Westgate Photographs included are ones of Mrs. Maxfield Parrish's World War I Victory Garden, and “Freeing Cornish-Windsor Bridge” 1943
location: Victory Garden, Exhibit, Town Office, Second Floor
“Freeing Cornish-Windsor Bridge”, Rear Room
Smith, Nathan Nathan Smith
family pictures of descendants
Vertical File location: vault Title: Plot of Cornish, Proprietors Map along with copy showing present(1900?) owners of the plots; on bowl next to the Plot Map location: Front room See also copy of the copy made by Stephen Tracy, supplied by Vernon Hood, Chester County NH Deeds, 1969; presented to the Historical Center by John Dryfhout, 2015; in Vertical File under Plot of Cornish, Vault See also information supplied by John Dryfhout(2015) regarding creation of map, in Vertical File under Plot of Cornish, Vault
Cornish Anniversary 250th,
Thumb drive with book and all unused pictures scanned for project, 2013; will have to be remastered in ten years; donated in 2015 by John Dryfhout along with papers for the donation Vertical File, location: Vault also, thumb drive with photographs taken of Celebration taken by Deanna Meadows, supplied by Mike Monette; located with Media In Vault Digital files for both are available at CHS Collection Page at Town Website
See also Vertical File for 250th Oaks, fire destruction
Location: Exhibit, Town Office, Second Floor
Ration Tokens, WWII Office of Price Administration
Vertical File
location: Vault Nelson Photographs: 1900-1920 1/ Dingleton Hill School; 2/ Nelson Homestead on Dingleton Hill; 3/ Bertie Nelson and workers on a culvert beyond Gap Road going west and before Stagecoach Road From Arthur Nelson location: Vault
Winston Churchill photograph location: Display area opposite Vault
Maxfield Parrish Prints; multiple copies
includes: Quiet Solitude, Under Summer Skies Sheltering Oaks. Twilight. Summer's Eve, Rocks and Rills, Autumn Afternoon, Ectasy
location Middle Room, under Display area, opposite vault see also Parrish Drawings, Boxed, under Display case, Rear Room
Cornish Oral Histories: VHS Tapes located in vault with other media
Tombstone, Gravestone Rubbings: Cornish and Plainfield wrapped in brown paper
location Vault
Blue Mountain Forest, Corbin Park, circa 1900 map and attached sheet with photographs 1905 US Geological Survey location: Map drawer opposite Vault
Map of Cornish Roads, 1991 location: Map drawer opposite Vault
Maps, Cornish: 1892, 1860, 1966 location: Map drawer opposite vault Map of descendants of Aquila Chase, by Benjamin Chase location: Map drawer opposite vault
Cornish Flat Maps: 1860,1892, and 1997(by Bernice Fitch) laminated versions of 1860 and 1892: rolled up, in a bag opposite vault location Map drawer opposite vault
Cornish Colony Map location: Map drawer opposite vault author: Kaplan, Sidney title: Sculptural World of Augustus Saint-Gaudens prepared by Oxbow Press, Amherst, Massachusetts, 1989 location Cornish Colony Shelves
Author: Currier, Thomas Title: Old Home Day in New Hampshire, 1899-1998 published by Inherit New Hampshire, Concord, New Hampshire, 1996 location: Book Shelves Title: Garden Tour: A Cornish Ramble, July 11, 1998 prepared by Historic Windsor for its fifth annual tour
title: Garden Tour: Hidden Gardens of Cornish, July 13, 1966 prepared by Historic Windsor for its third annual tour title: A Tour of the Historic Homes of Windsor Presented by the Mt. Ascutney Hospital Auxiliary, June 14, 2014 location: Book Shelves, under Historic Windsor
Cornish-Windsor Bridge: Construction Details built by James Tasker and Bela J. Fletcher measured and drawn by Merton A. Fletcher, great grandson of Bela J. Fletcher location: Map drawer, opposite vault Wilson, Ellen Axson Vertical File material location: Vault Title: Master Plan for Cornish Vertical File material location: Vault
Harlakenden, photograph location: Display area opposite Vault, with other Churchill items Author: National Park Service title: Cultural Landscapes: Rural Historic Districts in the National Park System National Park Service, Washington DC, 1984 donated by Plainfield Historical Society location: Book Shelves under National Park Service Samuel Chase, small photo of portrait in Cornish Library location: Rear Room
Cornish-Windsor Bridge Toll Tickets toll keeper: Elsie Lawrence donated by niece, Patty Bladen location: Display Case, Rear Room Photographs: Runnemede Lake, Windsor, Vermont reverse side: Stone House on Mount Ascutney
location: Display area, opposite Vault author: Brown, Carrie for American Precision Museum title: Maxfield Parrish: Machinist, Artisan, Artist
date: 1995 location: Cornish Colony Shelves title: Percy MacKaye's photograph of “Saint Louis: A Civic Masque” (1914) largest central mound, Saint Louis at apex location Rear Room Braided rug by Helen Lovell done during the winter of 2004 in her 90th year location Rear Room Masque of the Golden Bowl, see Golden Bowl for Vertical File material in Vault author: Smithsonian Institution title: Marguerite Zorach: The Early Years, 1908-1920 publisher Smithsonian Institute Press, 1973 location: Book Shelves under Smithsonian
Zorach, William and Marguerite Galleries, Sales issues Vertical File location Vault
title: Posner, Bruce; filmmaker Vertical File material location: Vault Etching Vertical File location: Vault
Leyendecker, J.C. Vertical File material location: Vault Trunk belonging to Champion Spalding Chase possible “pin-up” inside donated by Sherret E. Chase, 2015 location: Rear Room Author: Kennedy Galleries, New York, 1969 title: James Earle Fraser: American Sculptor location: Book Shelves under Fraser Theater, Theatricals: Cornish Vertical File material Includes material on The Cornish Players; Judy Rook performed With this group See also Louis Shipman location: Vault title: “In Ascutney's Shadow”: The Cornish Colony notes prepared by James Atkinson location: Vertical File under title
Historic Map of Cornish, and laminated version location: Middle Room
Augusta Saint-Gaudens Vertical File material Includes Exhibition Catalog, from Exhibit at SGNP, 2019, And interview with Henry Duffy about Exhibit location Vault author: Massachusetts Historical Society title: we fight for freedom: Massachusetts African Americans and the Civil War Shaw Memorial Boston, Massachusetts, 1993 location: Book Shelves Cornish Publications location: Vertical File see also Cornish Common Good, Cornish Hills Echo, Cornish Quarterly, and Consider This title: “Cornish Capers Evening” performance 3/21/10 video tape; two DVDs; unable to upload to YouTube because copyright for some songs location Vault author: Churchill, Winston title: Coniston
illustrations by Florence Scovel Shin in novel, Clovelly is Cornish
publisher MacMillan, New York, 1906 three copies locations: Book Shelves, Cornish Colony Shelves Top, Middle Room
Cornish 250th License Plate location: shelf beside Vault Covered bridge models made of wood salvaged from Old Cornish-Windsor Covered Bridge location: Front Room, also Exhibit, Town Office, Second Floor
World War II memorabilia belonging to Carl and Martha Lorimer includes Ration Books location: Storage, Vault Garland, Hamlin vertical file material location Vault
Maxfield Parrish Paint Brush “used for strippling the sky” donated by Joanna Gordon, Parrish's grand-daughter location: Cornish Colony Shelves, top
author Cassedy, Mary author Perkins, Sue, editor
title Brief History of early Plainfield
place of publication Hanover, New Hampshire, 1976 publisher Plainfield Bicentennial Committee
location Book Shelves
Paul Saint-Gaudens, see Paul St. Gaudens author Museum of Fine Arts, Boston title Early modern textiles from arts and crafts to art deco
Exhibition Catalog: Marianne Cariano and Nicola J. Shipman, Curators
publication date 1993 donor James B. Atkinson and Gretchen A. Holm
location: Cornish Colony Shelves
title: Provincial, Town, and State Papers multi-volume set covering 17th and 18th centuries included are Town Charters, Revolutionary Rolls Probate Records, Court Records
see also Early Town Records, Provincial and State Papers, pages copied: vol. 24, p. 662-671; in Cornish Historical Articles Notebook, Vault
location Reference
title History of Cheshire & Sullivan Counties edited by D. Hamilton Hurd pages copied 141-149 Book published by J.W Lewis & Co., Philadelphia, 1886 location Cornish Historical Articles Notebook, Vault author Morgan, Keith N.
title Charles A. Platt's houses and gardens in Cornish, New Hampshire Charles A. Platt copied from Antiques Magazine, July 1982 p. 117-129
location Cornish Historical Articles Notebook, Vault author Colby, Virginia
title Stephen and Maxfield Parrish in New Hampshire Stephen Parrish, Maxfield Parrish
copied from Antiques Magazine, June 1979, p. 1290-1298
location Cornish Historical Articles Notebook, Vault title: Cornish, 150th Celebration Vertical File material See also Cornish Historical Articles Notebook, Vault Notebook includes address by Winston Churchill
location: Vault
Seager, Edward
Vertical File material
See also Cornish Historical Articles Notebook, Vault location: Vault
Barrett, Robert and Katherine
Vertical File material
See also Cornish Historical Articles Notebook, Vault, for article in Momentum magazine in which Bernice Johnson describes her memories of the Barretts and their Glass House location: Vault
Golden Bowl
Vertical File material
See also Cornish Historical Articles Notebook, Vault location Vault
Oaks
Vertical file material for Oaks included under Maxfield Parrish
See also Cornish Historical Articles Notebook, Vault title Newspaper Articles
Notebook compiled by Virginia containing reference material used for her newspaper articles and for the book Footprints of the Past
location Vault, with notebooks
title Bernice Johnson Notebook
Newspaper clippings from 2004-2008
of note is an article, 2/18/05, citing Bernice Johnson's offer of her home and two acre lot, on School Street, for Senior Housing; favorable reaction from Select Board was indicated
Other topics include Trinity Church Transaction; Cornish Drug Raid; CREA Barn restoration; Chore Core(George Edson); new Fire Station; Hier – Cole development on East Road Per Chore Core, aka Chore Corps, see Edson VF
Individuals mentioned include Ruth Rollins, Peter Burling, Mark Humpal, Lew Gage, Nate Cass, Michael Yatsevitch, John Hammond, Laura Woodward, Leland Atwood, Clark 'Rockefeller'. Caroline Storrs
Additional years at Cornish Library location: Vault, with notebooks
School Bell used by Marjorie Kidder
when she taught at the Center School, corner of Center and Paget roads donor Ruth Ann Wheeler, Plainfield, NH, 1988 location: Exhibit, Town Office, Second Floor
“Square Nails Were Retrieved from the site of the Welker Barn after it burned down in the early 1800's. It was part of Col. Jonathan Chase estate.”
hand wrought nails mounted on wooden square
donated by Dale Rook location Rear Room
“BEAMAN'S FERRY > 1&2 M” iron directional sign a picture of the ferry appears in John Dryfhout's book, This Land of Pure Delight, p. 94 The following is the caption beneath the picture: “Beaman (Summer) Ferry between Plainfield, N.H. And Hartland, Vermont, possibly photographed by C.S. Sherman (Windsor Historical Society)” location Front Room
Large framed picture of commemorative stamp for the Cornish-Windsor Bridge
Plaque at bottom of picture reads “Presented to the Cornish New Hampshire Historical Society 'In Recognition of your commitment to the community' by the United States Postal Service, September 13, 2006” location: Exhibit, Town Office, Second Floor
Bishop Chase Trivet: reproduction Original housed in Historic Orange Johnson House donor Bill and Barbara Lewis location: Front Room, shelf next to Reference
Coronet
Belonged to Wm. Chadbourne, Cornish Band
early 1900's
donor Daphna Chadbourne location Front Room, top of Safe;
also photograph of Band, top of safe; Second copy of photograph, Meetinghouse; See also Vertical for Cornish Coronet Band
title: The Life and Times of James Brewster Fitch: A Centennial 1884-1984
donor Fitch Family, Feb. 11, 1985
location Book Shelves, under Fitch Second copy, Vertical File for Fitch author Benes, Peter author Zimmerman, Phillip D.
title New England Meeting House and Church 1630-1650 A Loan Exhibition held at the Currier Gallery of Art, Manchester, New Hampshire, May 19-July 15, 1979
publisher Boston University and Currier Gallery of Art Boston, Massachusetts
location Book Shelves
author Benes, Peter title New England Prospect: A Loan Exhibition of Maps at The Currier Gallery of Art, Manchester, New Hampshire; June 21 – September 2, 1980
place of publication Boston, Massachusetts, 1981
location Book Shelves
Cornish Town Meeting: “Democracy in Our Town”
Boston Sunday Globe: article and pictures; laminated location Exhibit, Town Office, Second Floor
“The Big Beaman Ball: Song and Chorus”
laminated copy
location: Map drawer, opposite vault
Framed Photographs of Cornish-Windsor Covered Bridge 1. Insert: ticket: “Cornish Bridge, Pass for One Horse, Truck Team.” 2. Plaque: “Cornish-Windsor Covered Bridge (Tongue and Groove Siding, circa 1800); inscription on photograph: Ethel Nelson, 1992 (The Bridge Lady) location Exhibit, Town Office, Second Floor
Korean and Vietnam Memorial : work done by Cornish Grange #25 to establish memorial; Notebook donor Cornish Grange #25
location Town Office, Second Floor
author U.S. Secretary of the Interior
title Preliminary Report of the Eighth Census, 1860
location Reference
title Adjutant General's Report, New Hampshire
vol. 1-2, 1866, and 1868 location Reference
Clock Restoration Photographs at Meetinghouse location Exhibit, Town Office, Second Floor
Cornish School Class Photograph Grade One, 1968-1969 pictures of students with names on back of photograph location Exhibit, Town Office, Second Floor
Trinity Episcopal Church, Cornish NH from an original photograph by Elmer Bartlett in the possession of SGNHS gift from John Dryfhout
location Exhibit, Town Office, Second Floor
“'Tally-ho', photo of Winston Churchill - President Wilson parade, ca 1914. Peter Saundus is probably the coach man. His son Kemp is in the foreground. I went to school with Kemp and knew him well.”
Warren Westgate; July 5, 1984
Virginia Colby wrote that this photo was of Churchill driving President Roosevelt in 1902
location Front Room
Old Photographs of Cornish Flat location Exhibit, Town Office, Second Floor
Program, Ceremony for Opening of new consolidated Cornish School names of speakers on back location Exhibit, Town Office, Second Floor
Cornish Homes: photographs location Exhibit, Town Office, Second Floor
1994 Cornish Conservation Award Lawrence Hilliard, Helena “Danny” Hilliard location Exhibit, Town Office, Second Floor
Unidentified pieces from Glass Case at Meetinghouse per John Dryfhout, November, 2015 location Storage, Rear Room
Two Display Cabinets made by Edward M. Dannatt of Windsor
John Dryfhout said that Dannatt made furniture for members of the Cornish Colony
moved from Meetinghouse donor Marian Trepanier(photograph of her with Virginia Colby, in front of one of the cabinets)
location Exhibit, Town Office, Second Floor
Framed award: “Division of Historical Resources. Department of Cultural Resources, State of New Hampshire, Recognizes Town of Cornish For On-Going Stewardship of First Baptist Church of Cornish in Cornish, NH, July 31, 1999.” Meetinghouse location: Exhibit, Town Office, Second Floor
Violin made by Norman Pickering
made in April 1989 “from Vermont red spruce taken from one of the old chords of the Cornish-Windsor Covered Bridge during its restoration 1988-1989”; rest of violin made in France in 1880 of European maple
location Glass Case, Exhibit, Town Office, Second Floor
Whiskey bottles: gin, rum bottled by A.L. Peters, Cornish, NH
donor Mrs. Tennie Rock
See also Vertical File, Peters, for information about him; information supplied by John Dryfhout, 9/17/16
location Exhibit, Town Office, Second Floor additional bottles at Meetinghouse
title Black & White: Being The Early Illustrations of Maxfield Parish publisher: Thumtack Books Brooklyn, New York, 1982
donors Stephen Parrish II, Jean Parrish Seymour, Anna Bennett Parrish; Mrs. Maxfield Parrish, Jr. location Cornish Colony Shelves
title The Music-Box Book: Planned by the Cornish Librarian, Cornish, New Hampshire
made by Keith J. Hosmer
copyright 1915 by Katherine Ellis Barrett who was the Librarian
“Cornish Librarian dedicates the planning of this book to Kate S. Chittenden who made her love music.”
three copies with different titles and different bibliographic information location Notebooks, Vault
Poster: 1st Annual Cornish Fair Muzzleloading Rifle Shoot; Saturday, August 18, 1990
location Exhibit, Town Office, Second Floor
Photograph: W.R. Rickert Blacksmithing
location Exhibit, Town Office, Second Floor; second copy: Vertical File, Blacksmithing
Photograph: Anne Parrish in Northcote, 1898
location Exhibit, Town Office, Second Floor
Photograph: Butman's Saw Mill
location Exhibit, Town Office, Second Floor
Photograph: Mrs. Maxfield Parrish's Victory Garden WWI
location Exhibit, Town Office, Second Floor
Plate: Cornish-Windsor Covered Bridge
location Exhibit, Town Office, Second Floor
Tile: Cornish-Windsor Covered Bridge
tile, or hot-plate also sold by Cornish Historical Society
location Front Room and boxed in Storage, Rear Room; also Exhibit, Town Office, Second Floor
“A Young Boy” miniature painting by Carlota Saint-Gaudens
donor Mrs. Hilda Terry location Glass Case, Exhibit, Town Office, Second Floor
Small Purses donor Miss Alice D. Dodge location Glass Case, Exhibit, Town Office, Second Floor
Photographs: Workers, and construction of home for of Albert Parker Fitch
location Exhibit, Town Office, Second Floor
Nahum Chase: wallet and papers includes sixteen promissory notes and some fragments of Capt. Chase's military commendation donor: Jim and Diane Liggett location Vault
Blue Prints and Photographs of Dingleton Hill Covered Bridge and Blacksmith Covered Bridge, by Stephen Tracy location Map Drawer, opposite Vault
Drawing: “ Garden Designed for Mrs. Adam Marks” design by Sylvia Hide, daughter of William Henry Hyde location Map Drawer, opposite Vault
author Environmental Studies Program Dartmouth College title The Hart Dam Project: Assessment and Recommendations
Town of Windsor proposed construction of a hydro-electric dam near Hart Island on the Connecticut River; would have impacted Cornish; probable flooding of farms and displacement of families.
See also Dam, Vertical File
location Book Shelves under Hart Island
GAR Ribbon and Medallion of Wm. H. Bryant, Post no. 63, Cornish N.H. donor New Hampshire Historical Society(a duplicate) 1992; given in 1951 to the Society by Aurilla H. Robbins whose former hus, Stephen M. Thornton, was the last Commander of Post #63 location Civil War Display Area, opposite Vault Correspondence concerning gift in Vertical File under CHS-Gifts
author J.A. Graham
title A Descriptive Sketch of the Present State of Vermont
publisher Henry Fry, at the Cicero Office, Finsbury Place, London, 1797 donor Mary Beaman Lagercrantz, August 1984
location Offered to the Vermont Historical Society, December, 1915; no response; Vault
Deeds: Jonathan Chase location: Map Drawer, opposite Vault
Replicas of Double Eagle coin designed by Augustus Saint-Gaudens
location: Exhibit, Town Office, Second Floor; another, donated by James B. Atkinson and Gretch Holm, in Display Case, Rear Room
Painted enamel pin, earring, and jewel box made by Blanche E. Wood location Glass Case, Exhibit, Town Office, Second Floor
“William Balloch's Things” photographs of home, family
location Vault
Photographs of Balloch's Crossing Railroad Station
one donated by Thelma Hinshaw
location Exhibit, Town Office, Second Floor
Photograph: “Creamery Across from entrance to Cornish-Windsor Bridge”; belonged to Marion E. Lewis, Claremont, NH location Exhibit, Town Office, Second Floor
Buggy Rifle by Hilliard for information on its usage, see Librarian
Hand-written notice: at a meeting of Democratic Republicans of Cornish, John L. Putnam and Capt. Bela Chase appointed to attend a convention, January 2, 1833 location Map drawer, opposite vault
Deeds: Chase family Land sales included location Map drawer, opposite vault
Picture album: Walker and Kenyon family location Vault
Art: vertical file 19th Century Itinerant Portrait Artists publication
See also contemporary artists in digital Vertcal File, available Through CHS Collection Page at Town Website location Vault
Woodrow Wilson: portrait and signed letter location Rear Room
Poster: Mid-Year Meeting of the Chase-Chace Family Association, Boston, January 30, 1926
location Map drawer, opposite vault
Ledger book: George W. Hunt, Jr. postmaster and general merchant in Cornish Flat, 1890's location Vault
Picture: Buck Farington, with a trapped bobcat
Farington was the game-keeper at Corbin Park, and his wife Mary(“Minnie) was the cook; approximate period from WWI through WWII
bobcats were a threat to young deer and pigs
information supplied by Frank Hawkins and Albert Leahy
location Exhibit, Town Office, Second Floor
Cornish History: Cornish Historical Society Notebooks, no. 1-3; compiled by Virginia Colby
includes historical documents with annotations and news paper articles(one on Ellsworth Atwood) location Vault
Inventory of Natural, Scientific, and Historic Areas in Sullivan County
Sullivan County Conservation initiated the study in 1968
From the estate of Stephen Tracy location Book Shelves under Sullivan County
Blow-Me-Down Watershed, Sullivan County, NH
USDA-SCS, May 1978
From the estate of Stephen Tracy
location Book Shelves under Blow-Me-Down
Large Rolled Map of Sullivan County, 1860 location Closet, Rear Room; also Meetinghouse
Various issues from the early 1900's of Collier's, Saturday Evening Post, Ladies Home Journal enclosed in plastic covers includes articles illustrated by H.J. Soulen location Closet, Rear Room
Hot-Air Balloon Day, 1991 photographs taken by Virginia Colby location Photo-albums, Exhibit, Town Office, Second Floor
Photographs: Spirit Day, 1991, at the Meetinghouse
photos taken by Virginia Colby; photo-album location Exhibit, Town Office, Second Floor
author Scudder, Louisa H.
title Baby Boy's Book: Eight Little Songs published by Louisa H. Scudder, Windsor, VT belonged to Grace Lawrence Taylor, Grace Lawrence gift of Edith Taylor location Cornish Colony Shelves
Comings Mills: sawmill and gristmill Vertical File
picture of Comings gristmill donated by Charles Bugbee (a Balloch family member), Livingston, N.J., 1994
location Vault
Tape of the Quimbys discussing the Barretts made by Bill Cable, November, 9, 1980 location Vault
Stephen Tracy Estate Materials includes information on Cornish History and on the Cornish Historical Society location Vault
Photographs from Stephen Tracy Estate Placed by subject in Vertical Files
Baptist Church, records Meetinghouse
Included in the records were currency and a ledger book, from William Child, Church Treasurer, relating to window repair; currency and ledger book are on display at the History Center; other material relating to the repair is in the Vertical File under Baptist Church - Window Repair; gifts from Marjorie Kidder, Claremont, NH
location Boxed material, under Display Table. Framed left-over coins from widow repair in Rear Room
author New Hampshire Visual Arts Coalition title Artist & The Environment – New Hampshire location Book Shelves under New Hampshire
Cornish Proprietor's Record Book, Cornish, NH 1763-1809 location Donated to Special Collections, Dartmouth, March, 2018
Pony Express Medal by James Earle Fraser location Rear Room, Glass Case
Plaque: “Certificate of Commendation Presented by the American Association for State and Local History to the Cornish Historical Society For Making Readily Available the Records of Cornish, New Hampshire.” 1982 location Front Room
author Hills, Thomas title Three Ancient Cemeteries Near Junction Boundary Lines of Lebanon, Plainfield, and Grantham publisher David Clapp & Son, Boston, 1910 donor Nancy Newbold
Lebanon was Enfield; Plainfield was East Plainfield(Chase family genealogies included); third was in Grantham, in a “little hamlet now abandoned” on Leavitt's Hill as verified in 1907 and 1909; probably was once reached from Leavitt Hill Road in Cornish Flat
location Vault
Baynes Scrapbook: newspaper articles
possibly collected by Baynes or member of his family location With boxed Baynes materials, under table in Rear Room
Also includes box of Baynes photographs possibly scanned From glass-slides
Spur belonging to General Jonathan Chase
location: Rear Room, display area
Militia Billet(?), New Hampshire, 1816 regulations, requirements by town location Closet, Rear Room
Wallet, Comings location Closet, Rear Room
Diary: A.C. Chadbourne, 1888 location Closet, Rear Room
Election Poster for Woodrow Wilson location Under Civil War Table, opposite Vault
King Elm Farm
Vertical File
the home of Dyer Spalding, one of the original settlers of Cornish; home burned in 1968; ruins are on land conserved by Bill and Jennifer Lipfert; information about ruins given by Bill Lipfert, January 2016 location Vault
Balloch's Crossing Vertical File includes railroad time tables scanned and given to CHS by Bill Lipfert, January 2016 location Vault
Haldimand Sumner Putnam
Vertical File Material
see also Seventh NH Civil War Regimental History (Civil War Display area opposite vault)
location Vault
1860 Map of Cornish
pre-Beaman: shows names of Pike, Williams, Davis
location Map Drawer, opposite vault
Cornish NH Civil War Veterans List compiled by Clyde H. Perkins location Civil War Display Area, opposite vault; second copy: Closet, Rear Room
Plans for New Highway Garage location Closet, Rear Room
Cornish-Windsor Covered Bridge Restoration Pictures and Drawings location Closet, Rear Room
Civil War Conscription Records for Cornish includes enlistments, substitutes substitute example: Edwin P. Bartlett, father of Elmer Wood Bartlett, paid Lewis Maier, Springfield?, $300, December 18th, 1864
Draft was conducted by Chester Pike, Provost Marshall of third congressional and military district, West Lebanon
location Civil War Display Area, opposite vault
Seal of Town Clerk, Avis B. MacMillan, 1949-1952
from Bernice Johnson location Rear Room
Photograph of Blanche Wood House just south of Cornish-Windsor Covered Bridge included in photo-album: Old Photographs of Cornish Houses and Buildings
location Exhibit, Town Office, Second Floor
Photograph: View of Cornish across the river from Windsor shows Hillside Creamery, Barn, Newman(now Monette) home included in photo-album: Old Photographs of Cornish Homes and Buildings location Exhibit, Town Office, Second Floor
Photograph of Dingleton Hill School: exterior and interior shows the first brick building that was replaced by a wooden one that burned; information supplied by Mike Monette
included in photo-album: Old Photographs of Cornish Homes and Buildings
there is also a framed photograph of the building at the Meetinghouse
location Exhibit, Town Office, Second Floor
Album: Old Photographs of Cornish Homes and Buildings location Exhibit, Town Office, Second Floor
author Caroline Preston, wife of Christopher Tilghman
title Scrapbook of Frankie Pratt
publisher HarperCollins, New York, 2011 donor Marilyn Blight, Hanover NH, 2/16 pictorial novel begins and ends on Dingleton Hill location Book Shelves
Cornish Real Estate Dealings; c. 1911-1919 Correspondence of Ernest H. Blodgett(1877-1943), of Charlestown, NH donor Charlestown Historical Society, 2/16 location Vault
Album: Photographs of Cornish School Children taken by Doris Williams, their teacher(c. 1922-1954) donor Wallace Williams, her brother; January 2004 location Exhibit, Town Office, Second Floor
Album: “On Dingleton Hill With The Bartletts”
Cheston and Nancy Newbold transformed the Elmer Wood Bartlett glass slides into photographs and a CD location Album, Exhibit, Town Office, Second Floor; CD, CHS Center, Vault
Album: The Palmer Collection At Saint-Gaudens Homes in Cornish and Plainfield
Scanned photographs of the originals taken by Tom Palmer, brother of William Palmer, for the 1985 exhibition “A Circle of Friends – Art Colonies of Cornish & Dublin”
photographs from SGNHS and information from John Dryfhout scanned file available through CHS Collection Page
location Exhibit, Town Office, Second Floor; CD, CHS Center, Vault
Framed newspaper article about the life of Beatrice 'Bernie' Johnson location Exhibit, Town Office, Second Floor
Two wooden signs(same): “Cornish Bi-Centennial, Aug 24, 1763-1963”
Plaque on top of signs: “New Hampshire American Revolution Bicentennial Commission – Certificate of Appreciation Awarded to Cornish Bicentennial Commission, January 1, 1977” location Exhibit, Town Office, Second Floor author Hicks, Lillian born in Cornish, 1913
title Early Childhood Memories of Cornish fascinating depiction of rural life in Cornish before electricity and running water became common; hardship, yes but there was joy from a life much simpler than what we know now; plus gypsies, peddlers, tramps and the Great Flood of 1927 donation Gloria Greene, Lillian's daughter, April 2016 location a copy on display at the Exhibit, Town Office, Second Floor; original, with photographs at CHS Center, Book Shelves under Hicks;
Vertical File under Hicks
title: Helen Lovell: Memories compiled by Laird Klingler, Librarian, Cornish Historical Society, based on an interview with Helen Lovell on April 27, 2016
location Exhibit, Town Office, Second Floor; second copy in Vertical File under Helen Lovell, Cornish Historical Center
Study of Laura Woodward by Annetta St. Gaudens, 1925 donor Laura Fitch Woodward location Cornish Colony Shelves, Top
Cornish Historical Society – Bake Sales
Vertical File location Vault
Report of the Officers of Sullivan County, May 1, 1879 includes “list of paupers aided or supported at the farm”; Cornish citizens included
location Vertical File under Sullivan County
Photograph: “Fuller Sisters” c. 1915, by Alice Tray Olsen?
Rosalind left, Cynthia center, Dorothy right location Cornish Colony Shelves, Top
“Dieppe”: Etching by Charles Platt
view of the town across the Bassin Duquesne purchased November, 1993, Bill Smith Auction; donated by James B. Atkinson and Gretchen B. Holm location Front Room
“Winter Sunset at Cape Cod”: Print by Stephen Parish
painting exhibited at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition, San Francisco, California, 1915
Gift to Virginia Colby from Les Ferry, 1978
location Vault
Untitled Print by Earl H. Reed, January 3, 1911 inscribed to “my friend Stephen Parish, March, 1911” and signed location Vault
“November” Etching by Stephen Parrish, 1880
location Vault
“Pot of Basil” Print by John White Alexander
location Vault
“The Hanging of the Crane”; Print by William Ladd Taylor published in Ladies Home Journal, 1899
location Vault
“Portrait in bas-relief of the sons of Prescott Hall Butler” Print by Kenyon Cox; included in “Augustus Saind-Gaudens” by Kenyon Cox, Century Magazine, 1887; illustration used in article
Gift to Virginia Colby from Les Ferry, Los Angeles, 1978
location Vault
“Rye, Sussex”: Etching by Charles Platt, 1884
“purchased from an antique shot in Marie Dressler's old house, just north of Windsor, opp. Windsor Country Club; house no longer standing”
donated by Virginia Colby
location Vault
“Old Boat-House”: Etching by Charles Platt, 1881
location Vault
“Fuller Sisters”: plaster sculpture location Cornish Colony Shelves, Top
Interview with Stephen Tracy, May 1984 audio tape, two copies location Vault
“Michael Yatsevitch, interviewed by Bernice Johnson,” produced by Martha Zoerheide video and audio tapes; February 1, 1998 video uploaded to YouTube
location Vault
“Cornish Historical Interviews: Fred Sullivan and Duayne Allen”
video tape; tape also uploaded to YouTube also a DVD
location Vault
Civil War Letter from Haldiman Sumner Putnam, dated April 21, 1861, to the Governor of New Hampshire
Anticipating a leave of absence from his regular Army corps, Putnam requested a commission in the New Hampshire Militia so he could serve with the men of his own state.
Donor Lew Gage
location Civil War Display Area, opposite Vault
“The Putnams of Cornish, New Hampshire: A Family History”
photo-copy of manuscript
donor Annie Putnam, through Lew Gage; Annie explained that a cousin from the Midwest by the name of Amy came to visit her Mother to learn about the Putnam family; she was doing research for a college thesis and for family history
location Book Shelves, under Putnam
Portrait of Salmon P. Chase unable to decipher name of artist donor: Darien Historical Society, Darien, Illinois CHS paid for the postage; arranged by Jim Atkinson
location: Rear Room
Framed Photograph of Lang Road Farm in the early 20th Century loaned by Colleen O'Neill location Exhibit, Town Office, Second Floor
Framed 1892 Map of Cornish location Front Room
author Otis, Mina Walleser Ellis, compiler
title Our Ellises: A Family Album compiler is a descendant of Katherine Ellis who married Robert Barrett and lived in the Glass House
Printed by Quinn Printing Company, Inc., Boston Massachusetts donor Compiler, through John Dryfhout; book contains a note from compiler to Dryfhout location Storage, Rear Room, Closet, File Cabinet
author Joseph Lindon Smith
title Tombs, Temples & Ancient Art edited by Corinna Lindon Smith, wife
Smith was primarily associated with the Dublin Art Colony, but he knew the Saint-Gaudens family and was involved in theatrical productions for the Cornish Colony publisher: Univversity of Oklahoma Press, Norman, 1956
location Storage, Rear Room, Closet, File Cabinet
author Corinna Lindon Smith title Interesting People: Eighty years with the Great and Near-Great
Author was the wife of Joseph Lindon Smith publisher University of Oklahoma Press, Norman. 1962 location Storage, Rear Room, Closet, File Cabinet
author Croly, Herbert
title The Promise of American Life publisher Macmillan Company, New York, 1914 inscription by author to the Cornish Public Library location Cornish Colony Shelves
author Weyl, Walter E.
title American World Policies
publisher MacMillan Company, New York, 1917 signed by Winson Churchill location Storage, Rear Room, Closet, File Cabinet
author Wilson, Woodrow
title President Wilson's State Papers and Addresses publisher Review of Reviews Company, New York, 1918 location Rear Room, Storage
author Wilson, Woodrow
title New Freedom publisher Doubleday, Page & Company, New York, 1913 location Storage, Rear Room
title Glorious Wings type-written letters by French Aviators in WWI, translated for the Cornish Library by Lewis Fitch and the Cornish Librarians location Storage, Rear Room, Closet, File Cabinet
author Platt, Charles A.
title Italian Gardens two articles in bound Harper's Magazine, volume 87, 1893 location Storage, Rear Room, Closet, File Cabinet
title “Augustus St. Gaudens: A Cameo Cutter Who Became A Great Sculptor”
Piece included in book, The Everyday Library for Young People, edited by Arthur Mee and Holland Thompson; Grolier Society, New York, 1915 location Photocopy in Vertical File, Augustus Saint-Gaudens, Vault
CD of excerpts from Christopher Columbus Baldwin Diary, Manuscript, 1821
purchased from American Antiquarian Society location Vault; in envelope with notebooks
“Native Americans”; talk by Mark Humpal to the Cornish Historical Society, October 11, 1999
video tape; tape also uploaded to YouTube
location Vault
“Notable Cornish Women”; talk at the Cornish Historical Society led by Bernice Johnson; April 13, 1998
video tape; tape also uploaded to YouTube
location Vault
“One-Room Cornish Schoolhouses”; talk at the Cornish Historical Society, led by Linda Fuerst
video tape; tape also uploaded to YouTube also a DVD location Vault
“Haldimand Sumner Putnam”; talk presented by James Atkinson and Lew Gage; June 14, 2010
video tape; tape also uploaded to YouTube
location Vault
See also Vertical File, Haldimand Sumner Putnam – Presentation; Contains material about the Fort Wagner assault, a eulogy delivered by Rev. Malcolm Douglass, and an article by a soldier who as at Fort Wagner
“Dr. Nathan Smith”; talk by Constance Putnam to the Cornish Historical Society, September 14, 1998
video tape; tape also uploaded to YouTube also a DVD
location Vault
“Cornish-Windsor Covered Bridge”: New Hampshire Crossroads, NH Public Televison; 1989
repair and reopening; interviews with Ed Battison and Virginia Colby
video tape; tape also uploaded to YouTube also a DVD
location Vault
“Cornish-Windsor Covered Bridge”
repair and reopening; interviews with Virginia Colby, Mike Yatsevitch, and Ethel Nelson(“The Bridge Lady”
video tape; tape also uploaded to YouTube also a DVD
location Vault
“Myrtle Feary Interviewed by Bernice Johnson”; 1998
video tape; tape also uploaded to YouTube also a DVD
See also Vertical File: Feary, Myrtle
location Vault
“Rose Nelson, with family, interviewed by Bernice Johnson,” 1997
contains information of the Barretts and the Glass House
video tape; tape also uploaded to YouTube also a DVD
location Vault
“Cornish Capers”; March 31, 2000
performances by Cornish School students, parents, and staff; familiar faces, younger then, and great fun
video tape: tape also uploaded to YouTube
location Vault
l
“Celebration: James Brewster Fitch”; 1984
on the occasion of his 100th birthday and 70th wedding anniversary with his wife Laura
video tape; tape also uploaded to YouTube
location Vault
“American Precision Museum: archaeological dig at the site of the old grist mill, adjacent to the museum”
talk presented to the Cornish Historical Society by the Director of the museum, Sue Richardson
video tape
location Vault
“My Tribute to the Connecticut River and its Valley”; by Vernon Field
video tape
location Vault
David Hall Hilliard Gunshop: photographs building, workers donor Ed Battison, via John Dryfhout
location Photograph in Album, Old Photographs, Exhibit,
Town Office, Second Floor; accompany material in Vertical File, under Hilliard
Untitled Print by Carol Lummus
from wood-block
donor Susan Schad, July 2016
See also Vertical File under Art – Contemporary Artists location Front Room
Trinity Church, Cornish New Hampshire: Its Restoration from September 1984 to August 1985 illustrated by Nancy Wightman three copies: one with photographs (photographs later later transferred to Trinity Church VF)
location Map Drawer, opposite Vault
Cornish Historical Society: Collection Management Policy, Purpose, Ownership
document; guidelines
location Vertical File; CHS-Collection...
Blacksmithing
Vertical File
See also Blacksmith Shop Covered Bridge, Vertical File
location Vault title Cornish New Hampshire Highlights
pamphlet published by the Cornish Historical Society
location Front Room; copies also at Exhibit, Town Office, Second Floor title New England Music: The Public Sphere, 1600-1900
Dublin Seminar for New England Folklife, Annual Proceedings, 1996; edited by Peter Benes
publisher Boston University, 1998 location Book Shelves under Dublin...
title Shinn, Everett and Florence
Vertical File; articles by them location Vault
title Catalogue of the Twenty-Ninth Annual Exhibition of American Oil Paintings and Sculpture at the Art Institute of Chicago, November 2 to December 7, 1916
Cornish Colony Artists cited location Cornish Colony Shelves
title Old Maps of Sullivan County, N.H. In 1892
compiled by D.H. Hurd & Co. of Boston publisher Saco Valley Printing, Frysburg, Maine, March 1984 location Book Shelves, under Sullivan County title Hog Reeve includes Michael Fuerst
Vertical File
location Vault
title Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
Part of a series of architectural and mural decorations; Cornish Colony artists; John White Alexander, Henry O. Walker, included
compiled by Howard G. Douglas publisher Howard Grey Douglas, Washington, D.C. No date location Cornish Colony Shelves title Revised Register of the Soldiers and Sailors of New Hampshire in the War of The Rebellion, 1861-1866
Civil War listing prepared by Augustus D. Ayling
publisher Ira C. Evans, Public Printer, Concord, NH, 1895
location Storage, Rear Room
title Lear Family
Vertical File
See also “The Lear Homestead: A History of the Lear Home from 1855 to 1983”; submitted by Evelyn G. Lear, April 14, 1983; Bookshelves under Lear location Vault
title White Swan Farm
Vertical File
includes history entitled “The White Swan” prepared by Virginia Colby, 1983 former home of Herbert and Virginia Colby, then Stanley and Virginia Colby location Vault
title Circle of Friends: Art Colonies of Cornish and Dublin
Cooperative exhibition project of the University of New Hampshire and Keene State College
exhibition pamphlets included with books location Cornish Colony Shelves; two more copies in Vault
author Dupont, Irene title Spanning Time: New Hampshire Covered Bridges published privately, 1986 location Book Shelves
Granite Monthly, vol. 43, 1911
article on Newport and Austin Corbin
location Meetinghouse
Framed Drawing of a Young Woman by Sally Almira Blake, dated 1819 donated by Alice Dodge, 1985; Dodge and Blake were from the Chase family; from letter by the attorney, Blake “… became Mrs. R.A. Lamb, the grandmother of Henry Percival Dodge, Miss Dodge’s father”(letter in Vertical File for Chase Portraits) arrangement of the gift by Virginia Colby and John Dryfhout
Alice Dodge, Alice L.C. Dodge also from Alice Dodge: small case with inscription “Sally Blake, July 25, 1806”
additional items relating to the Blake family are in the Rear Room; see Items from Alice Dodge
See also Vertical File for Blake
location Front Room
author Mueller, James W. title Archeological Investigations...at Saint-Gaudens National Historic Site, 1995 publisher National Park Service location Book Shelves
author Little, Nina Fletcher
title American Decorative Wall Painting, 1700-1850 publisher E.P. Dutton, New York, 1989
location Vault
author Blumenthal, Arthur title Portraits at Dartmouth
includes Joseph Steward's portrait of Eleazar Wheelock publisher Dartmouth College Museum and Galleries Hanover, N.H., 1978 location Vault
author Delaney, Edmund title Connecticut River: New England's Historic Waterway publisher Globe Pequot Press, Chester, Connecticut, 1983 location Book Shelves
author Luhan, Mabel Dodge title Movers and Shakers publisher University of New Mexico Press Albuquerque, New Mexico, 1936 location Vault
author Samuels, Peggy and Harold
title Frederic Remington: A Biography
publisher Doubleday & Company, New York, 1982
location Vault l
author Norton, Charles Eliot title Heart Of Oak Books: Rhymes, Jingles and Fables hand-written “presented by Mr. R. Barrett” publisher D.C. Heath, Boston, Massachusetts, 1895
location Storage, Rear Room
author Wilson, Edith Bolling
title My Memoir publisher Bobbs-Merrill, Indianapolis, Indiana, 1938 location Vault
author Garvin, Donna-Belle and James L. Garvin title On the Road North of Boston: New Hampshire Taverns and Turnpikes, 1700-1900 publisher New Hampshire Historical Society, Concord, New Hampshire, 1988
location Book Shelves
title Cultural Landscape Report For Saint-Gaudens National Historic Site; Volume 1: Site History and Existing Conditions
publisher National Park Service, Boston, Massachusetts, 1993
donor Saint-Gaudens National Historic Site, January, 1994 location Cornish Colony Shelves
title Cornish Deeds
Package containing deeds from 1828 to 1884 location Vault, with Notebooks
title History of the Proprietors of Cornish Bridge and the Cornish, N.H.-Windsor, VT. Covered Toll Bridge (1796-1943)
Prepared By The New Hampshire Department of Public Works and Highways, Concord, N.H.
location Book Shelves, under Cornish....
author Wright, David W. title Plans for the Authentic Restoration of the Cornish- Windsor Covered Bridge, 1984
Wright was Chairman of the Committee for an Authentic Restoration of the bridge
also by Wright, Reply to Draft Environmental Assessment and Draft Section 4(f) Evaluation for repair of bridge; the assessment itself, from the state of New Hampshire, is with the Wright publications, under Wright; structural evaluation reports are located in the Vault, with notebooks
separate volume, Appendix C location Book Shelves
Land Use
Vertical File
includes newspaper articles citing Troy Simino, Bill Lipfert, John Hammond, Jim Firch, Chuck Sullivan
location Vault
Cell Tower Vertical File
location Vault
Art - Contemporary Artists
Vertical File
includes James Schubert, Nancy Wightman, Kathleen Welker, Sheryl Hahn, Suzanne Lupien, Ara Cardew, Sally Wellborn, Angie Follensbee, Barbara Cieslicki, Ara Cardew; Adam Blue; Carol Lummus. Larry Nowlan; David Gee
see also Millbrook Gallery; see also Digital Vertical File through CHS Collection Page at Town Website
location Vault
Harry E. Butman
Vertical File newspaper article location Vault
Iron Stove Formerly used in the Jail in the old Selectmen's Building, now home to the Cornish Historical Society
Stove was restored and given by Jack and Teenie Rock, 1988
location Meetinghouse
Eight Old Books Used in Cornish Schools
The Eight Old Books were donated by Mrs. A.J. Hinshaw, 1993 location Meetinghouse
Kidder, Margerie
Cornish school teacher
Vertical File
location Vault
Fitch Negatives Vertical File
Negatives used for publication of “Life and Times of James Brewster Fitch” location Vault
Framed Report of the Selectmen, Overseers of the Poor, and Treasurer: Receipts and Expenditures of the Town of Cornish, year ending March 12, 1850
First printed report for the town
location Meetinghouse; second copy, unframed, under Civil War Table, across from Vault
Cornish Garden Club Historical Records location Meetinghouse
Cornish Garden Club Scrap Book location Meetinghouse
See also Vertical File, History Center
George W. Hunt, Jr.
Vertical File
Cornish photographer; photographs included of Cornish Flat around 1906; included also is a photograph of “Blow-Me-Down Ranch”, former Daniel Chase property north of Cornish Flat; information supplied by John Dryfhout, 9/19/16
See also Hunt photographs with Notebooks, Vault
location Vault
Solomon Chase
Vertical File
includes photograph of his home; former residence of Myrtle Feary; information supplied by John Dryfhout, 9/17/16
location Vault
Cornish Scrapbook
Newspaper articles, and photographs used in the book by Barbara Rawson; information supplied by John Dryfhout, 9/17/16
location Vault, Notebooks
Check Lists of Voters of the 1800's of Cornish, N.H.
Notebook with copies of the original lists
location Vault
Blanche Wood: three tea trays and a chair donated by Dortia Davis, Perkinsville, VT, 9/15/16 one tea tray is in front room of CHS Center; the other two trays and the chair are at an Exhibit at the Meetinghouse; in the exhibit also are two photographs of Blanche Wood three additional tea trays were donated by the Plainfield Historical Society via Nancy Norwalk. September, 2017; they are located at the Meetinghouse
David Hall Hilliard George Elbridge Hilliard, son
Gunsmiths
Photographs with biographical information on foamboards
location Rear Room
Autograph Book, Brainard Peaters, Cornish, N.H., December 25, 1875
location Vault
Petitions
Vertical File
topics such as vacancy on General Court, reduction of military spending, acid rain, surveying notice, veterans tax exemption, election of planning board members
location Vault
Republican Party
Vertical File location Vault
Gage, Lew and Virginia
Vertical File location Vault
Trepanier, Marian
Vertical File
obituary articles
Trepanier donated the Dannatt furniture(display cases) now on display at the Exhibit, Town Office, Second Floor
location Vault
Dryfhout, John
Vertical File
Superintendent of Saint-Gaudens National Historic Site; see also Vertical File for SGNHS location Vault
Mitchell, Langdon
Vertical File location Vault
Torrence, Ridgely
Vertical File location Vault
Remnants from Barrett's Glass House on Saint-Gaudens Road
donated by Mary Boyle and Bill Cable, May, 1994 location Vault, with Notebooks
Collection of Newspaper Clippings Relating to Cornish dates included: 1985-87, 1990-1992, 1993-1994
topics included: 1/ Covered Bridges; 2/ Cornish Fair; 3/ Saint-Gaudens National Historic Site; 4/ Political, Town Business, Regional; 5/ School; 6/ Fire, Police, Rescue Squad, Disasters; 7/ Incinerator, Recycling
Collection together, in envelopes, according to dates and topic
location Vault
“Blow-Me-Down Mill”
Watercolor by Winston Churchill location Front Room; photocopy of watercolor in Vertical File under Churchill
Buffalo, Photograph, Corbin Park location Rear Room
Boxed Collection of Hardy Salve Invoices
Arranged alphabetically by name of person sending order location Meetinghouse
author Wellman, James
title Photocopied material from a book kept by Rev. James Wellman, Cornish Records as published in the New England Historical and Genealogical Register; 1917, vol. 71, and 1918, vol.72
See also Vertical File, under Wellman, James
location Book Shelves
“The Owl”
Paper published every month from October to June by the pupils of the Cornish Flat School, no date
location Vault, with Notebooks
New Hampshire Directory
Business, Government, 1880's
location Vault
Photographs, various
Vertical File location Vault
Period Costume Event at Saint-Gaudens National Historic Site, 1/31/07
CD
location Vault, with Media
Survey of Local Historical Societies conducted by New Hampshire Historical Society, Summer/Fall, 2006
CD location Vault, with Media
American Precision Museum: Ephemera copy of printed items in the collection, two copies
CD supplied by John Alexander
location Vault, with Media
Postcard: “Cornish Primary School & Masonic Building” “Harold Dean's Garage in 1903”
location Exhibit, Town Office, Second Floor
Class Photograph: Cornish District No. 1
with William “Balloch's Things – Balloch Farm, 1890's”
location Vault, with School pictures
Class Photograph: Cornish School #8
“near Peter Storrs, 1979”
“down in hollow”
“Myron Quimby attended school there. Williard Eastman
took it down and used it to build a shed”
presented to CHS by Walter Burr, April 24, 1971
location Exhibit, Town Office, Second Floor
Box of rosin(stones) used in the manufacture of Hardy's Salve
location Meetinghouse, storage, closet
Letters from Jean Parish, daughter of Maxfield Parrish
on foam core board
gift by Alma Gilbert-Smith, 9/29/2011
location Rear Room
Framed drawings by children of Maxfield Parish
Dillwyn, Maxfield Jr,, Jean, Stephen
gift by Alma Gilbert-Smith, 9/28/2011
location Rear Room, and boxed under Display Case
“Original Photograph of Maxfield Parish at about age 50”
courtesy of Robin Hein; donated by Alma Gilbert-Smith,
9/28/2011
location Cornish Colony Shelves
Charcoal Sketch of Percy MacKaye
by Albert Sterner, from National Arts Club, New York City, 1945
location Meetinghouse
Renconte Portrait of Percy MacKaye
by F. Kitson Cowley, signed, 1927
location Storage, Rear Room
Photograph of Goward School
East Road near end of Mace Road
location Exhibit, Town Office, Second Floor
Telephone Directory, Fall and Winter Issue, 1914 Lebanon-White River Junction District
Numbers listed for Cornish residents, on the western part of town, under Windsor; a number of Cornish Colony members are included
Directory restored, and a copy given to CHS by Don Picard, October 22, 2016
location Front Room
Photograph: Interior of Baptist Church taken by Rev. F.J. Franklyn, 1914 or 1916
Meetinghouse
location Meetinghouse
author Burgess, Mark
title The Former Baptist Meeting House at Cornish Flat, October 20, 1995
location copies are at the Meetinghouse, and in the Vertical File under Baptist Church, and Meetinghouse
Two Photographs of Old Home Day - Cornish Center Congregational Church(“Brick Church”) one dated 1893
location Meetinghouse
Two Photographs of the Dedication of Cornish Grange Building, Cornish Flat, 1906
location Meetinghouse
Photograph: “Residence of Mr. Winston Churchill, Cornish, N.H., viewed fom the Vermont side of Connecticut River”
location Meetinghouse
Checklists of Legal Voters of Cornish, N.H. 1978-1993
location Boxed, Meetinghouse
Civil War Papers: List of Soldiers from Cornish
location Civil War Display Area, opposite Vault
Notes from Child's History of Cornish
addenda to manuscript
gift of “Margaret P. St. Gaudens.” 1967
location Vault
Calendar 1932: “Clarence E. Hamlin - Groceries, Ice Cream. Lunches , Gulf Gas and Oil, Cornish Flat, New Hampshire”
Commerce, Cornish
location Meetinghouse
Three Photographs: Home of James R. Wellman and Albert E. Wellman
now 60 Old Stagecoach Road
one of Walker Children with horse and buggy
location Meetinghouse
Two blurred photographs of Theodore Roosevelt in Cornish
location Meetinghouse
Photograph of Eliza Paget at her home, with Mary Field, in the 1930's note: “(Pay-get)” for pronunciation location Meetinghouse photograph of Eliza Paget also included in Vertical File under her name; photo taken from Cornish People, a compilation done by Teenie Rock
author Farley, James L. title The Cornish Colony,
Dartmouth College Library Bulletin, vol XIX, no. 1, November 1973
with Vertical File for Cornish Colony
location Vault
Obituary for Marie Stevens
Included in Vertical File for CREA Barn
location Vault
“Agricultural Life in Early Twentieth-Century Cornish: More Images from Elmer Wood Bartlett's Glass Slides”
Exhibit at the Grange Hall Gallery, September 2012, presented by the Cornish Historical Society
location Box of framed photographs, Storage, Rear Room
Revised Appraisal Report: Sherret E. Chase Donation of 19th Century Portraits and Artifacts
Prepared by Sharon D. Green, July 13, 2015 two copies
location Vault
author Thompson-Stahr, Jane
title Burling Books: Ancestors and Descendants of Edward and Grace Burling, Quakers (1600-2000)
section on Peter Hoe Burling, Peter Burling
two volumes; donated to CHS by the George Stowell Library, November, 2016 publisher Gateway Press, Baltimore, Maryland, 2001
location Vault
“Revolutionary New Hampshire: On Land and Sea”
Historical New Hampshire, volume 69, No. 2, Spring 2016
American Revolution
Shelved under New Hampshire Historical Society
location Book Shelves
author Copeley, William title Index to Genealogies in New Hampshire Town Histories publisher New Hampshire Historical Society, no date donated by the George Stowell Library, 2016
location Book Shelves
Cornish Colony: One Hundred Year Celebration Exhibit, 1898-1998
Cornish Colony Gallery and Museum, 1998
location Cornish Colony Shelves
Cornish Old Home Day, 2005 with Helen Lovell, Ruth Rollins, and featuring Heidi Jaasma on piano filmed by Frank Ackerman; VHS tape loaned to Cornish Historical Society from his private collection; Matt Wood converted the tape into digital format, produced a DVD, downloaded it to an external disc drive, and uploaded it to YouTube; DVD in Vault
Cornish Gardens, a talk by Bill Noble
included are the gardens at Saint-Gaudens, Northcote, and the Platt House
Cornish Historical Society Meeting held at the former Storrs home
filmed by Frank Ackerman; VHS tape loaned to Cornish Historical Society from his private collection; Matt Wood converted the tape into digital format, produced a DVD, downloaded it to an external disc drive, and uploaded it to YouTube; DVD in Vault
Tracy School
Vertical File location Vertical File
author Wayne, Donald
title One-Room Schoolhouse
publication Holiday, November, 1952, pages 11-16 one page missing describes the Tracy School; Tracy ancestors(unnamed) cited for providing meals and another, a twelve year old boy, for opening school; determined that the boy was Stuart Hodgeman and the woman providing meals was Stuart's grandmother, Pearl Tracy
donor Carolyn Johnson Reed, November, 2016
location Vault; Vertical File for Tracy School
Letter from Vonnie Johnson to Mrs. Hemstiger, September 13, 1954
Vonnie Johnson was formerly a resident of what was once the Cornish Alms House, or the Cornish Poor House; letter describes the house to the new resident
donor Carol Johnson Reed, grand-daughter of Vonnie Johnson
location Vault, Vertical File for Poor House
Cornish School Scrapbook, compiled by Ethel Langley
Ethel Langley taught at the Center School, next to the Town Hall in 1932 and then at the City School, now 628 Townhouse Road until she resigned in 1940
Scrapbook has photographs of the schools and students as well as newspaper articles describing school activities
donor Carolyn Johnson Reed, daughter of Ethel Langley, November, 2016
location Vault
Cornish Alms House or Cornish Poor House, see Poor House in Vertical File
Includes article about Raymond Mark, Mary Mark, Who later lived in the Poor House
Johnson, Bernice
Vertical File material see also framed newspaper article about her life; Exhibit, Town Office, Second Floor
Location Vault
Framed photographs of the Vernon Field family and farm home presently owned by Bill and Betty Caterino on Tifft Road
location Display Area, opposite Vault
“The Yankee Storyeller”
Audio-tape by Vernon Field
Part I: Field talks about farm life on his home on Tifft Road in the 1930's; home presently owned by Bill and Berry Caterino
Part II: Field talks about growing up in Norwish, VT, in the 1920's
location Vault
Interview with Calvin Monroe, January 10, 2017
Film was produced by Billy Sharff. Interview was conducted by Laird Klingler, a librarian with the Cornish Historical Society; digital file uploaded to YouTube by Matt Wood
Cornish Historical Society's Film Interview Project
During the course of the interview, Calvin Monroe mentioned the presence of African-American Army troops guarding Windsor after Pearl Harbor; for more information on this, consult the Facebook entry compiled by the Windsor Historical Society; copies of the Facebook entry are in the Vertical File under African-American Soldiers in Windsor location Uploaded to YouTube; CD in Vault; digital file on external hard drive
author Monroe, Calvin E.
title My Navy Days: 1942-1946
published privately
Monroe lived on Dingleton Hil
location Book Shelves
Memorial Day In The Flat, 2004 photo-album
Photographs donated by Cheston and Nancy Newbold. Date and identifications provided by Dale Lawrence
location Exhibit, Town Office, Second Floor
Cornish Fair Exhibits
Mounted by Steve Bobin: Blacksmithing, 2016; Barns 2017; Both won first place awards
Blacksmithing exhibit at Meetinghouse; Barns at Town Office, Second Floor
Massachusetts 54th Colored Infantry
DVD; PBS production as seen on WGBH, Boston, MA., 2005
Donated by Laird Klingler, 2017
location Vault
title Out of Cornish Kitchens recipies; compiled by the Ladies Auxiliary of the Cornish Fire Department; typing by Lynn Nolen; illustrated by Merilynn Bourne donated by John and Polly Rand, 2017
location Book Shelves, under Cornish Fire Department
Filmed tour of the Cornish Historical Society Exhibit at the Town Office, Second Floor; 2/6/17
Narration by Laird Klingler; filming done by Matt Wood; digital file uploaded to YouTube by Matt Wood
Part of the Cornish Historical Society's Film Interview Project
location Uploaded to YouTube; CD in Vault; digital file on external hard drive
Lew and Ginny Gage: talk on Civil War Monuments talk given to the Cornish Historical Society, October 9, 2001
filmed by Frank Ackerman; VHS tape loaned to CHS by the Gages; tape converted to a digital file and uploaded to YouTube by Matt Wood
location Uploaded to YouTube; CD in Vault; digital file on external hard drive
Sylvia Hyde, painting
Portrait by William Henry Hyde of his daughter
donor Virginia Colby
location Front Room
author Barton, David
title Bulletproof George Washington
publisher WallBuilders, Aledo, Texas, 1990 donors Lew and Ginny Gage, 2017
inscription: “In Memory of Kenneth A. Chase, grandson of General Johnathan Chase”; (Jonathan Chase)
location Front Room
author Allen, Richard Sanders title Rare Old Covered Bridges of Windsor County
publisher The Book Cellar, Brattleboro, Vermont, 1962
location Book Shelves
One Room Schoolhouses, vertical file material see also School, Vertical File material
location Vault
Sullivan Family
Vertical file material
See also Maple Syrup, Maple Sugar VF
location Vault
Cornish Elementary School
a/ Handbook for Parents, adopted September 17, 1973
b/ Student Handbook: 1981-1982 and 1984-1985
location Vault, filed by year with Town Reports
author Heiskell, Mary Beth Upper Valley Land Trust title Cornish Art Colony Conservation and Historic Preservation Project: Landscape Conservation Plan publisher Upper Valley Land Trust, Hanover, N.H.,2000
Area for Cornish Colony see also Historic District Vertical file
location Book Shelves
author Adams, Adeline title The Art of Maxfield Parrish
American Magazine of Art, Volume IX January 1918, Number 3
location Book Shelves
Putnam Farm Committee
Rural Education Center, Cornish Community Farm
Vertical File material
Bill Gallagher
location Vault
Blow-Me-Down Watershed, Sullivan County, New Hampshire
U.S. Department of Agriculture, Durham, New Hampshire, May, 1978
location Book Shelves under Blow-Me-Down
Cornish River House
Bridge Lady; Ethel Nelson
includes material regarding her work toward obtaining a commemorative stamp for the Cornish-Windsor Bridge
Vertical File Material
location Vault
Abenaki Indians, see Vertical File for Native Americans
Nelson Family
Vertical File Material
location Vault
Decatur, Peter and Family
Vertical File Material
location Vault
Old Photograph of Congregational Church, now United Church of Cornish, with parsonage on Center Road donated by Daphne Chadbourne
location Meetinghouse
Avery, Janet
Cornish School Ski Program included
Vertical File Material
location Vault
Cornish Fair: Programs location Vault
Jewell, Milton
Vertical File Material; includes obituary
location Vault
Town Forest
Vertical File Material
Contains copies of photographs taken and supplied by Bill Lipfert of the abandoned part of Root Hill Road
location Vault
Cornish Aspet, June 1995 , Newsletter
Conish to Aspet, France; Cornish Student Cultural Exchange
Vertical File under School - French
location Vault
Chabot, Norman
Vertical File Material
location Vault
Hills, Bradford
Vertical File Material
location Vault
Morse, Harold
Vertical Material
Material on Harold Morse also under Roads
See also digital file for Highway Department, available through the Society’s Collection Page at the town website
location Vault
Transcript of “Cornish Reminiscences” by Dwight and Ruth Wood and Bernice Johnson
Meeting of the Cornish Historical Society, Septemer 10, 1990
with Vertical File material under Cornish-General
location Vault
Dodge, Allen
Vertical File material
location Vault
Woodbury, Karen
Vertical File material
location Vault
Monnette Family
Vertical File material
includes obituary for Polly Monnette
location Vault
Witty, Kyle
Vertical File Material
location Vault
John Kousman
Obituary, included in Vertical File for Masons
Building Construction and Zoning Ordinance as adopted by Town Meeting, March 8, 1956
Vertical File, under Building Construction; Zoning included
See also Current Use, Vertical File
location Vault
title Choice White Pines and Good Land: A History of Plainfield and Meriden, New Hampshire
Written by the Townspeople Edited by Philip Zea and Nancy Norwalk
published by Peter E. Randll Publisher, Portsmouth, New Hampshire, 1991
Inscribed by Nancy Norwalk
location Reference; second copy in Vault
“The Abenaki in New Hampshire, Vermont, New York, Maine, So. Quebec: A Short Chronology” prepared by John and Donna Moody, Winter Center for Indigenous Traditions
location Vertical File under Native Americans
information on Charles Woodward in Vertical File for Civil War, Cornish
“Saint-Gaudens Estate – A Picured View”
drawn by Carlotta Saint-Gaudens
donated by Steve Bobin, 2017
location Vertical File under Saint-Gaudens
Photograph: Salmon Portland Chase and his third wife, Sarah Bella Dunlop Ludlow Chase – plate c. 1850-1852
Antiques, April 1973, p.790 donated by Charlestown Historical Society, Charlestown, NH framed by Cornish Historical Society
location Rear Room
Photograph of home of Jonathan Chase, Weld, Welker in photo-album entitled “Old Photographs of Cornish Homes and Buildings,” Exhibit, Second Floor, Town Office also in photo-album opposite Vault
Buffalo
Vertical File material
includes article from the Valley News(no date) on the Buffalo Farm in Cornish owned by Mr. and Mrs. John McSwain Jr.
See also VF for Baynes and for Corbin Park
location Vault
New Hampshire Historical Society
membership material for CHS in Vertical File, Vault magazine, beginning 2017, in Vault
author Daniell, Jere R. title Colonial New Hampshire: A History publisher University Press of New England, Hanover, NH, 1981
Colonial History, Cornish donated by Laird Klingler, 2017
location Book Shelves Author Daniell, Jere R.
Title Experiment in Republicanism: New Hampshire Politics and the American Revolution, 1741-1794
Publisher Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA, 1970
Daniell has a section on the New Hampshire Grants(p. 145-163) during the American Revolution when Cornish, along with other towns on the eastern side of the Connecticut River, and under the leadership of the Chase family, sought to leave the state of New Hampshire and join with Vermont. Child’s History of Cornish also has a chapter on the New Hampshire Grants.
Colonial History. Cornish
Donated by Laird Klingler, 2020
Location Book Shelves
Author Clark, Charles E.
Title The Eastern Frontier: The Settlement of Northern New England, 1610-1763
Publisher University Press of New England, Hanover NH, 1983
Colonial History, Cornish
Location Book Shelves
“I Will Not Leave/ Romaine Tenney Loved His Vermont Farm To Death”
Yankee Magazine: March/April 2013 issue; downloaded from the Internet
Story of a farmer from Ascutney who, when faced with the confiscation of his farm because of eminent domain for the construction of Highway 91, burned his home and took his life
Vertical File under Tenney
location Vault
Ruth Schneider
Cornish Educator see Vertical File: School
Cornish Historical Film Interview Project
Films were directed and produced by Billy Sharff. Interviews were conducted by Laird Klingler, a librarian with the Cornish Historical Society; digital files uploaded to YouTube by Matt Wood
Included are Rob and Mariet Jaarsma, Henry Homeyer: Cornish Creamery; American Revolution by Jennifer Bartlau. Jim and Jody Schubert; Fitch Family Farm; two Cornish Fair films by Augie Dworak, John and Linda Hammond, Daisy Yatsevitch, Sandy Guest, Dan and Rickey Poor(Herrika), Jim and Regina Barker, Merilyn Bourne, Jim Fitch and Martha Zoerheide, Charles Platt, John and Polly Rand, Scott and Lee Baker, Connie Kousman, Peter Burling, Jim Atkinson, George and Jill Edson, Steve Taylor, Dale Lawrence, Peter and Caroline Storrs, Nancy Wightman, Calvin Monroe, Leland Atwood, Cheston Newbold, Ruth Rollins, Stuart and Mauri Hodgeman, Dale and Judy Rook.
Included also is a tour of the Exhibit at the Town Office, second floor, mounted by the Historical Society
location Uploaded to YouTube; CD in Vault; digital file on external hard drive
Interview with Bernice Johnson and Helen Lovell
Conducted by Jim Fitch, May 18, 1998
8 mm tape loaned to Cornish Historical Society by Jim and Sue Fitch; converted to present digital standards by Matt Wood who also uploaded it to YouTube
location CD in Vault; digital file on external hard drive
Donation by Kathie Barbour, Hanover, NH, June 2017
Includes the will of Admiral Folger and letters from her father; the letters include comments on members of the Cornish Colony, and in particular, Winston Churchill and his wife in Vertical File under Barbour
location Vault
Granite State Sampler pictorial slide presentation of New Hampshire project by the Southeastern Regional Education Service, Center Derry, NH, 1989 on a 12” laser disc this is a massive file and in its entirety can only be viewed using the 12” disc player; but Matt Wood uploaded a sample(Chapter One) and converted it to a CD; the sample CD is in the vault along with the other CD's
location disc in Vault; player in Rear Room
Interview with Grace Bulkeley conducted at the Bulkeley home by Fern Meyers, assisted by Beth Lum and Judy Rook; December 8, 2008
uploaded to YouTube and DVD in Vault
Etchings by Charles Platt
Richard A. Rice published A Descriptive Catalogue of the Etched Work of Charles A. Platt, The De Vinne Press, 1889 this work is available online, full-text, by searching Google
Slade-Bulkeley House
National Register Application; description of the house prepared by Lisa Mausolf, September 1989
Vertical File under Bulkeley
location Vault
Resources for Elderly, Cornish, New Hampshire handbook, produced by Cornish Aging In Place, 2016 designed and composed by Barbara Jones; edited by Nancy Newbold; photos by Leigh Callahan
location Reference
Tax Records, Cornish,1878 collected and compiled by James M. Davidson
location Display Area opposite Vault
Photo-album: Blacksmith Shop Covered Bridge, Cornish. New Hampshire, Re-opening, September 18, 1983, 2:00 PM
location Vault, with Notebooks
author Gardner, Kevin title Granite Kiss: Traditions and Techniques of Building New England Stone Walls
stonewalls
Gardner gave a talk on this subject to the Cornish Historical Society, 2016
donated by Stuart and Mauri Hodgeman, 2017
location Book Shelves
Photograph of F. J. Franklyn Pastor of Baptist Church, Cornish Flat
inscription: “Your Sincere Friend and Pastor, F.J. Franklyn”
location Meetinghouse
Photograph: “Birds' eyeview of Cornish Flat, N.H.”
one copy, Exhibit, Second Floor, Town Office second copy, Front Room, History Center; this copy came from the collection of Fritz Hier, supplied by Beth Lum, and reproduced by Steve Bobin; this photograph was used as part of the CHS Exhibit at the Cornish Fair, 2018; topic was stonewalls; photograph shows cleared fields and stonewalls north of Cornish Flat
author Flagg, James Montgomery
title Roses and Buckshot
“An Autobiography of James Montgomery Flagg”
publisher G.F. Putnam's Sons, New York, 1946
location Display, Front Room, with his portrait entitled “Miss Fairchild”; Miss Fairchild is believed to be the daughter of Charlotte Houston Fairchild, sister-in-law to Lucia Fairchild
title Genealogy Notes for Houston and Fairchild Family
from the estate of Sara R. Fairchild; gift of Frances Houston. 1988
included in the gift were framed photographs relating to Charlotte Houston Fairchild
a portrait entitled “Miss Fairchild” by James Montgomery Flagg; located on display in Front Room
Location Vault, Notebooks
“Miss Fairchild”
drawing by James Montgomery Flagg
believed to be Frances Fairchild, the daughter of Charlotte Houston Fairchild
location Display, Front Room
Commemorative Button with American Flag Attached
“Cornish 150th Anniversary, 1765-1915”
location Rear Room with Harlakenden material
Notices of and Results from 19th Century Cornish Town Meetings
Bound volumes for annual town meetings are at the Selectman's Office; this collection at the History Center includes annual meetings and those held throughout the year
documents donated by Susan Schad, from the belongings of her mother, Hannah Schad; documents may have come to Hannah from the estate of Virginia Colby
location Boxed, Rear Room, under Display Case
Miscellaneous 19th Century Cornish Government Documents
includes highway issues; boundary questions within town and with neighboring towns; swearing in of town officials; petitions for new highways; for debt “attach the goods or estate” documents; oaths of office; voting results; jury duty; appointment of guardians; debt notices; appointment of town officials such as Surveyors of Highways, Fence Viewers, Collector of Taxes; lists of qualified voters; town expenditures
Included also are 1/ School Reports; 2/ Support of the Poor; 3/ Militia Lists, after Civil War; 4/ Granting of Liquor Licenses for Tavern Owners(primarily 1800-1820)
documents donated by Susan Schad, from the belongings of her mother, Hannah Schad; documents may have come to Hannah from the estate of Virginia Colby
location Boxed, Storage in Rear Room under Display Case
Austin Farm: Photo-album
inscription: “these pictures cover the period from 1898 (when Maxfield Parrish took the first images) down to the present”
shows Lang Road before it was changed, and the Baker homestead; Squag City
donated by Peter Burling, 2017
location Front Room
United States Military Academy 1857 Diploma for Haldimand Sumner Putnam
donated by Vernon Bond, through Lew Gage, 2017
location Civil War Display Area, opposite Vault
Arch Bridge
Also known as Stone Arch Bridge, Blow-Me-Down Bridge
hand-written letter, dated March 11, 1890, from the Town Office, commending Charles Beaman for designing and paying for the Arch Bridge; then adopted as a resolution at the Town Meeting
hand-written response, dated March 19, 1980, from Charles Beaman thanking the town for the resolution and citing Mr. Evarts for suggesting the idea and for paying one-third of the cost
See also Blow-Me-Down Mill
location Vertical File under Arch Bridge
Charles A. Plat: Cornish Houses
Vertical File material
location Vault, Vertical File under Platt – Cornish Houses
19th Century Checklists of Cornish Voters
location Meetinghouse
Chase Homes, Cornish by Inis Philps(?)
location Rear Room
School - Addition
Vertical File
newspaper articles about the addition of the gymnasium Chabot donation included
location Vault
Conservation
Vertical File Material
See also Resource Optimization Technologies, for composting, In Vertical File for Commerce, Cornish
location Vault
Fairbanks Case
Vertical File Material
See also Burling Books, Ancestors & Descendants...; section on Peter Burling discusses the Fairbanks Case
location Vault
Cable Television
Vertical File Material
location Vault
Perambulation
Vertical File Material
location Vault
Environmental Protection, see Incinerator, Recycling, Landfill, Herbicides
Vertical File Material
location Vault
Metallic Artifacts From the 18th And 19th Centuries Detected by Ken Burke
1/ Spoon, Clothes Buttons, Coin from the Putnam-Sprague Farm
2/ Shoe buckle from the Ripley-Yatsevitch Farm
3/ 1881 Spoon from West Pass Gate Road
location Display Case, Rear Room
Dam
Vertical File Material
includes material on Chase Island Dam and Hart Island projects
location Vault
Civil War Bounties
Documents relating to the payment by the Town of Cornish for enlistment bounties during the Civil War
Copies from the original documents made by Virginia Gage, October, 2017
location Copies in a notebook, Civil War Display Area opposite Vault; originals, storage, Rear Room
Civil War Correspondence of Haldimand Sumner Putnam
original documents; includes letter requesting transfer from Regular Army to New Hampshire militia
donated by Vernon Bond, October, 2017
location Album, Civil War Display Area, opposite Vault copy of transfer letter also there
Peace Corps
Vertical File Material
includes Patrick Pinkson-Burke; see also Henry Homemeyer
location Vault
“Bundle of photographs from William Balloch's estate.”
as described in CHS gift files; 1992 gift of Mrs. Thelma Hinshaw
unidentified photographs
location Meetinghouse, Storage
Hodgeman Family
Vertical File Material
location Vault
Jones, Keith
Megabucks winner
Vertical File Material
location Vault
Weld, Clara
Vertical File Material
location Vault
Gordon, Robert
Vertical File Material
See also Northcote
location Vault
Post Office
Vertical File Material
location Vault
Bank
Vertical File Material
location Vault
Medical
Vertical File Material
Includes Nathan Neily, Gisela Polleys, William Gersumky; William Palmer, Pamela Collins
location Vault
Rodeo
Vertical File Material
location Vault
Wood, Virginia; Ginny Wood
Vertical File Material
location Vault
Bernard, Eva
Vertical File Material
location Vault
Gallagher Family, Wellborn
Vertical File Material
location Vault
Eastman Family
Vertical File Material
location Vault
Spirit Committee
Vertical File Material
location Vault
Military
Vertical File Material
Service: Robert Downing, Richard Dow, Lester Little, Harold Burns, Walter Wilson, Harold Dean, Aaron Kibbie, Walt Patterson
Includes an article in the Valley News, Aug. 9, 2018, p. C-3, about commemoration of the centenary of the death of Harry Dickinson Thrasher who was killed in WWI; Thrasher lived on the Cornish-Plainfield line, on what is now Thrasher formerly Ruggles Road; Peter Burling and Stuart Hodgeman attended
See also Little, Lester: Vertical File Material
See also by subject, i.e. Revolutionary War Soldiers, Civil War
location Vault
Weld, Clara, and Weld Family
Vertical File Material
location Vault
Jaarsma Family
Vertical File Material
See also Vertical Files, under School and Conservation
See also Mariet Jaarsma, and Cornish Historical Film Interview Project
location Vault
Sharff, Stefan and family
Includes Billy Sharff
Vertical File Material
location Vault
Barns
Vertical File Material
location Vault
Newbold Family
Vertical File Material
location Vault
Wildlife
Vertical File Material
Location Vault
Solar Housing
Includes Doug Miller, Betty Miller, Jeff Plant, Christina Plant
Vertical File Material
Location Vault Hendrick, Alice
Vertical File Material
Long-time Cornish school teacher; includes article citing Linda Coolidge as replacement
Location Vault Ackerman, Frances
Vertical File Material
Location Vault
Poor, Daniel and family
Vertical File Material
See also Vertical File for School
Location Vault Ardinger, William
Vertical File Material
Location Vault Cornish Historical Society: Meetings
Vertical File Material: programs
location Vault
Photograph of Cornish-Windsor Bridge Under Reconstruction, 1990
Belonged to Ethel Nelson
Location Exhibit, Town Office, Second Floor Langwood Tree Farm, Cornish, New Hampshire
Vertical File Material
Includes pamphlet done by Colleen O’Neill, owner, to illustrate the trail System and to document goals/practices of the tree farm
Location Vault
Little, Lester
Vertical File Material
Location Vault Guest, Edna
Vertical File Material
See also interview with Sandy Guest, her daughter; part of the CHS Film-Interview Project; uploaded to YouTube and accessible at the CHS Collection page on the Town Website
Location Vault
Kuzma Family
Vertical File Material
Location Vault South Cornish Home Economics Group
Vertical File Material
Includes Marion Boardman, Marjerie Kidder, Eda Guest, Betty Caterino
Location Vault
Scott, John and Terrie
Vertical File Material
Grateful Dead included
Location Vault Cornish Quilt Studio
Vertical File Material
See also VF for Quilting
Location Vault Richardson Family, from Sutton
Vertical File Material
Includes note from Barbara Sutton to Virginia Colby per 1982 gift
Includes button(1835-1837, Wodham, Coe, and Company, Connecticut) found and donated to CHS by Zeb Watkins, presently living in the Richardson- Jewell Home, with is metal detector.
Includes material on Sarah Herrick
Location Vault Sturtevant Family
See note from Barbara Sutton to Virginia Colby per 1982 gift; note is in the Vertical File under “Richardson Family, from Sutton”
Location Storage, Meetinghouse Author Decato, Stephen N.
Title Cornish Colony and Augustus Saint-Gaudens
Research Methodology, Sheila Murphy, December 1982
Location Cornish Colony Shelves Evarts, Jo and Jeremiah
Includes Runnemede School, Sean Eastman
Vertical File Material
Location Vault Bourne, Merilynn
Listen
Vertical File Material
See also Interview, YouTube, available through CHS Collection Page at Town Website
Location Vault Hawkins, Frank
Vertical File Material
See also Interview, available at CHS Collection Page, Town Website
Location Vault Field, Vernon
Vertical File Material
Location Vault Pierce, Jeremy
Vertical File Material
Location Vault
Webb, Sue
Vertical File Material
Location Vault Osgood, Joe
Vertical File Material
See also Police Department digital file available at CHS Collection Page, Town Website
Location Vault
Jail, Cornish
Vertical File Material
See also Jail digital file, CHS Collection Page, at Town Website
Photograph, donated by Linda Fuerst, 2019, Rear Room
Location Vault Wilkie Family
Vertical File Material
Location Vault
Current Use
Vertical File Material
Location Vault Title Historic Homes, Private Art Collections and Gardens
Prepared by Historic Windsor for its Sixth Annual Tour Saturday, July 10, 1999
Location Book Shelves under Historic Windsor
Billings
Vertical File Material
Includes letter from Jane Curtis to Virginia Colby, February 23, 1993; Cites Mrs. Frederic Lee, daughter of Frederick and Julia Parmly Billings, “who lived in Cornish for a few summers before building a Platt House in Woodstock”
Location Vault Saint-Gaudens NHS - Expansion
Vertical File Material
Location Vault Author Gross, Rita
Title Corbin’s Park: Blue Mountain Forest
Corbin Park
Location Book Shelves Highway Garage
Vertical File Material
See also Digital File for Highway Department at CHS Collection Page, Town Website
Location Vault Garcia, Norma
Vertical File Material
Location Vault Herbicides
Vertical File Material
See also VF for Hearse House where old herbicide was stored
Location Vault Hier, Fritz
Vertical File Material
Location Vault Cole and Hier Co.
East Road development
Vertical File Material
Location Vault Elk
Jim Neil
Vertical File Material
Location Vault Motorcycles
Bruce Rossborough
Vertical File Material
Location Vault
Anglican Church
Vertical File Material
Location Vault
Parrish, Maxfield
Vertical File Material
Location Rear Room, Vertical File, Closet Art’s Community Store
Arthur LaClair
General Store
Location Vault 12% Solution
Vertical File Material
Location Vault
Beavers
Vertical File Material
Contains material relating to Ethel Nelson, known as the Bridge Lady
Location Vault E. Coli
Sandy Schuele
Vertical File Material
Location Vault
School – Ski Program
Vertical File Material
Location Vault School – Merger, Plainfield
Cornfield
Vertical File Material
Location Vault School – Regional School
Vertical File Material
Location Vault
School – Playground
Vertical File Material
Location Vault School – French
Includes visits by Cornish students to Aspet
Vertical File Material
Location Vault
School – Margaret Regan
Principal
Vertical File Material
Location Vault School – High School Choice
Vertical File Material
Location Vault
Taxes, Taxation
Includes View Tax
Location Vault Cornish Colony Museum – Windsor
Vertical File Material
Location Vault School – Fish Tournament
Cornfield Trout Tournament, Fishing
Vertical File Material
Location Vault Redlands, Sandy
Sheep, ash, incinerator
Vertical File Material
Location Vault Senior Housing
Vertical File Material
Location Vault Hospice
Includes Gretchen Holm, Teddy-Bear project
Location Vault Ferry
From Plainfield to Hartland; includes note by Helen Lovell; also photographs, taken by his grandparents and supplied by Charles Surcliff
Vertical File Material
Location Vault
Boars
Vertical File Material
Location Vault Kuhre, Andrew and Vera
Vertical File Material
Location Vault Spaulding Family
Vertical File Material additional information from Tom Spaulding under Vertical File for Highway
Includes photograph of Leavitt- Spaulding home in Cornish Flat; Leavitt practiced medicine in early 19th Century
location Vault Kinsman, D. Ford
Cornish Flat “character”
Vertical File Material
Location Vault Densmore, Peg
Vertical File Material
Location Vault Sweetser Family
Vertical File Material
Location Vault Pagani, Dalia
Vertical File Material
Location Vault Frothingham, Bertha
Vertical File Material
Location Vault O’Neil, Peggy
WISE, Women’s Information Service
Vertical File Material
Location Vault
Rollins Family
Vertical File Material
Location Vault Home-Schooling
Vertical File Material
Includes Nathan Neily, Gisela Polleys, William Gersumky, William Palmer
Location Vault Fontaine – Howe
Vertical File Material
Location Vertical File Housing
Vertical File Material
Location Vault Items from Alice Dodge, Alice L.C. Dodge
Assorted items include teaspoon, cup and saucer of lusterware, sugar tongs, daguerreotypes, needlework purse, coin purse, glass perfume flaggers, miniature books, gold buckle, mustard spoon
many of the items from Dodge came through her descendants, the Blake family who descended from the Jonathan Chase family; items are documented in CHS Gifts folder in the Vertical File
Location: Rear Room, on tray, under table to the right
School – Consolidated School
Central School, School Consolidation
See Vertical File Material for School
See also in Vault an album of newspaper clippings assembled by Bicentennial History Committee, 1963; used in History of Cornish by Barbara Rawson; for preservation, clippings have been scanned for second copies
Location Vault
F.J. Franklyn Frederick J. Franklyn
Vertical File Material
Location Vault Autograph Book: “Bernice M. Fitch, May, 1935, K.U.A ‘38”
Bernice Johnson
Location Display Area opposite Vault
Stool, Organ Stool Cushion
Probably from Baptist Church, now Meetinghouse
Location Rear Room. Storage, Closet Oil on Board of Marion Morse MacKaye, wife of Percy MacKaye
Artist unknown
Location Rear Room, Storage, Closet Photograph of Set Design by Robert Jones for Percy MacKaye’s Play “Washington”
Location Rear Room, Storage, Closet Etching of Set for Percy MacKaye’s Play “Masque of St. Louis”
Location Storage, Rear Room, Closet
Author Burchard, Peter
Title One Gallant Rush: Robert Gould Shaw & His Brave Black Regiment
Publisher St. Martin’s Press, New York, 1965
Donated by Laird Klingler
Location Civil War Display Area, opposite Vault
Thornton’s General Store
Photograph, Vertical File
Photograph also at Meetinghouse
Location Vault
Autograph Book: Brainard Peaters, Cornish, NH, Dec. 25, 1875
Location Display Area opposite Vault
Autograph Book: Eben M Johnson, Cornish Center 1887-1890
Location Display Area opposite Vault
Autograph Book: Mamie S. Johnson, 1887-1889
Location Display Area opposite Vault
Audio Tape
1. Rublee 2. “Who is Who at the Dump, Paul Daws 4/14/80”
Location Vault Cornish History
Type-written manuscript dealing with early Cornish history. Of particular interest are drawings of the various New Hampshire Boundaries prior to George Washington settling the issue
No bibliographic information
Location Book Shelves under Cornish History Burling, Jean
Vertical File Material
Location Vault
Backofen, Walter
Vertical File Material
Also, Sales Catalog for William A. Smith Auction June 29, 2007; located in Book Shelves under Backofen
Location Vault
Alexander, John White
Gallery Catalog, Graham, New York, NY, October 21 - December 21, 1980
Location Cornish Colony Shelves “Cornish’s Very Own Train Station: The Story of Balloch”
Balloch’s Train Crossing, Balloch’s Crossing
Presentation by Bill and Clara Lipfert to the Cornish Historical Society, October 10, 2005
Location Book Shelves Author Bynner, Witter
Title Grenstone Poems: a sequence(two copies)
Publisher c.1 Frederick A. Stokes, 1917, New York c.2 Alfred A. Knopf, 1926, New York donor James B. Atkinson, Gretchen A. Holm introductory note by Edgar Lee Masters to James L. Farley, June 5, 1957(ASG papers, Box re, Rauner): “The Grenstone”
Location Cornish Colony Shelves
Juniper Hill Inn, see Evarts Diary: Samuel Chase, 1863
Grand-son of Jonathan Chase
Location Display Area opposite Vault Memoirs: William Conrad Chadbourne
Covers period 1905-1922 and includes the following: Center School, Chase House and farm; Barrett family; Pasture School(sponsored by the Barretts); Stowell Library; Three Corner School(California Trip); Stevens High School
Location Book Shelves
William Chadbourne
Notebook containing biographical material, from a booklet dedicated to his grandchildren; contains memories of his youth at the Wellman Farm(on top of present day Old Stagecoach Road) and what is presently known as the Chase House; memories also of the Barrett family including the Pasture School, Three Corners Round, Camping in California,
Location Vault
Author Faulkner, Barry
Title George De Forest Brush
Type-written photo copy
Location Book Shelves Claremont Anniversary
Claremont History: to 1914
Granite Monthly: A New Hampshire Magazine November-December 1914, vol IX, nos 11-12
Location Book Shelves under Claremont Author Sims, Alice L. Murray
Title Covered Bridges of New Hampshire
Published privately, 1994
Location Book Shelves Author Schuckers, J.W.
Title Life and Public Services of Salmon Portland Chase
Publisher D. Appleton and Company, New York, 1874
Includes eulogy delivered by William E. Evarts, June 24, 1874; Separate copy of eulogy is in Vertical File for Salmon Portland Chase
Location Vault, damaged copy Maple Sugar
Maple Syrup; Sugaring
See also Sullivan VF
Vertical File
Location Vault Author Hess, Wendell
Title Enfield (N.H.) Shakers: A Brief History
Enfield Historical Society, 1993
Location Book Shelves Fuller, Lucia
Letters and papers; photocopies
Vertical File
Location Vault
Also, Lucia Fuller painting-chair, donated by her grand-daughter, Lucia Miller, 1985, located in Meetinghouse
See also Luca Fuller Diary, 1903, with Notebooks in Vault
Highways, Turnpikes – Historical and Present
Vertical File Material
Location Vault Fuller Sisters: Photographs of 1915 Tour of America
Location Cornish Colony Shelves
Autograph Book: Eben M. Johnson, Cornish Center, 1887-1890
Location Display Area opposite Vault
Autograph Book: Mamie S. Johnson, Cornish, 1887-1889
Location Display Area opposite Vault Title Life and Trials of Joseph Steward
Connecticut Historical Society Bulletin, October 1981, v. 46, n.4
Location Book Shelves under Steward Author Wade, Hugh Mason
Title Cornish Eccentrics
Photocopy of type-written manuscript; contains material “not suitable for an official town history” in reference to his A Brief History of Cornish, 1763-1974; stories about the following: Charles Beaman, Willy Beaman, Robert Barrett, Homer St. Gaudens, James Campbell Lewis, Philip Littell, Charles Platt and his wife, Maxfield Parrish and his wife, Winston Churchill and his wife, Juliette Rublee, and Grace Taylor. Included also is a description of the annual Labor Day softball game between Cornish and Windsor, played alternately between the Platt home and the Evarts home
location Book Shelves Sporting Events, Sports
Vertical File Material
Includes email from Charles Platt concerning baseball games between Cornish and Windsor, and tennis events in Cornish
See also Vertical Files for School – Fish Tournament, and Rodeo
Location Vault Willing Hands
Vertical File Material
Location Vault Helicopter Crash, Wyman, Rand
See Police in Vertical File; and Digital File for Police Available through the CHS Collection Page at the Town Website Bicycling the Town History of Cornish, New Hampshire: Map and Guide
2004 edition
“created by parents and teachers in order to raise money for the Cornish Elementary School French Scholarship Fund”
Location Book Shelves under Bicycling 250 Years: 1763-2013 Cornish, New Hampshire
Commemorative Passport & Quests
Guide for 250th Celebration
Prepared by Cornish 250th Committee
Location Reference Interview relating to Saint-Gaudens Exhibition in Washington, D.C.
Including Henry Duffy
Location Vertical File for Saint-Gaudens Corbin Park Photographs
Available on a digital file through the CHS Collection Page at the Town Website
Photographs taken, with permission, from the Corbin Park Website maintained by Brian Meyette; March, 2018
author Pisano, Ronald G. Gerdts, William
Title Painters of Peconic: Edith Prellwitz and Henry Prewillitz
Exhibition catalog
Donors James B. Atkinson and Gretcen A. Holm 2010-2011
Location Book Shelves
Title George Washington Medals of 1889
Reprinted from The Nuismatist, May, June, July, 1949 by Susan H. Douglas, Caldwell, New Jersey
CHS has a medal showing George Washington and Benjamin Harrison(President in 1889); medal is Cited in above, but no creator/designer is given
Location medal and book are in Display Case, Rear Room along with other 1889 medals, including One by Saint-Gaudens Author Lucey, Donna M.
Title Sargent’s Women: Four Lives Behind the Canvas
Publisher W.W. Norton & Company New York, 2017
Chapter on Lucia Fairchild Fuller, Lucia Fuller
Location Cornish Colony Shelves “Ornis”: painted plaster cast by Annetta J. St. Gaudens, c. 1913
10 ¼” by 9 ½”; 13 3/8” by 11 ¼”(framed)
Eleanor Wilson as Ornis, flanked by children dressed as birds, in Percy MacKaye’s Sanctuary: A Bird Masque donor James B. Atkinson and Gretchen B. Holm location Middle Room
Title The Black and White Work of Maxfield Parrish, 1896-1905
Edited by Fershid Bharucha Text by Rosalie Gomez
Publisher Pomegranate Artbooks Petalumam California, 1992
Donor James B. Atkinson and Gretchen B. Holm
Location Cornish Colony Shelves Top Hat Made with Beaver Skin
Given by Ruth Wood to Polly Rand who made the donation, 2018 location Meetinghouse
Davidson Documents
19th Century Documents relating to taxes, probates, and correspondence compiled by James Monroe Davidson, 1817-1881, a Selectman, and his son, Paul Davidson, 1858-1943, Town Clerk(for 41 years)
Donated by Becky Fitts Rylander, President, Sunapee Historical Society, 2018
Location Storage, Rear Room Author Hard, Walter
Title The Connecticut
Connecticut River
Publisher Massachusetts Audubon Society, Lincoln, Massachusetts, 1998; Reprint of 1947 edition
Location Book Shelves
Dodge, Andrew Family
Vertical File Material
Location Vault Admiral Folger: Top Hat and Case
Donor Mr. and Mrs. Robert Stringer, June, 2018
Stringer Funeral Home, Claremont, NH
Items were found when the Stringers purchased the Blondin Funeral Home in Claremont. The Blondin building was at one time Huntley’s Inn. Possible that the Folger items were left at the Inn.
Location Front Room Yatsevitch
Vertical File
Location Vault
See also Framed Map of Yatsevitch Forest, Front Room
Agriculture, see Vertical Files for Farming
Transportation, see Vertical Files for Highways, and for Connecticut River
Title Consuming Views: Art & Tourism in the White Mountains, 1850- 1900
An Exhibition at the Museum of New Hampshire History, September 16, 2006 – May 6, 2007
New Hampshire Historical Society, Concord, New Hampshire, 2006
Location Vault, with issues of Historical New Hampshire
Author Mackenzie, Katherine
Title Indian Ways to Stagecoach Days: New Hampshire > Vermont > Quebec
Highways, Turnpikes
Pigwidgeer Press, Quebec, 1996
Location Book Shelves Plainfield Garden Tour
Sponsored by the Plainfield Historical Society, June 30, 2018
Tour included the Ellen Shipman garden
Brochure is in the Vertical File for Plainfield Historical Society Ellis Family
Vertical File Material
Location Vault
Chadbourne Family
Vertical File Material
Location Vault
Poppy Squash
Poppy Squash Hill, a district in Cornish, now part of Corbin Park
Name was used by two establishments at 56 School Street in Cornish Flat, present Ackerman home
1/ Poppy Squash (Arts and Crafts): in operation in early 1970’s; Information supplied by Polly Rand who donated two bags of potpourri that were for sale, August 2018; bags are in an envelope in the Vault with the Notebooks
2/ There was also an art gallery run by an artist named Romano; information supplied by Nancy Wightman, August 2018 35 mm Slides Donated by John Rand, Polly Rand, August, 2018
Cornish Rescue Squad: River Rescue with Sue McKenzie; McKenzie led the drill; May 1988
Local Scenes: Kimball Union Academy, Cornish-Windsor Covered Bridge; Feb 1988
Joe Brasside, Cornish Flat: Brasside may have led the drill for the Cornish Rescue Squad for rescuing a driver in a damaged car; No date
Cornish Flat: Dodge Hollow; Charlie Stone’s horses; Oct 1987
Cornish Fire Department, 1986
Location: Vault, with Notebooks South Cornish School: Photograph District 10 Rt. 120, South of Stone House Now a private residence
One-Room Schoolhouse
Location Front Room
Percy MacKaye
Tin container given by Polly Rand, August, 2018, with the following on the container:
“Percy M-K Studio Cornish Original MSS”
Location Meetinghouse WWII Memorabilia
Donated by Patrick Pinkston-Burke
Material from father, referred to as “Liberator of Auschwitz”
Location Vault Unidentified Photographs, probably of the Bugbee Family
Donated by Ginny Wood, 2018
Location Vault, with notebook
Benjamin Harlow
Vertical File Material
Benjamin Harlow was a Cornish Selectman during the 1880’s. Our cemetery records show he and his wife were buried in Comings Cemetery with unmarked graves. But Karen Corbett, a Harlow descendant, visited from Texas and found their marked graves in the Union Cemetery, Claremont. Karen emailed CHS a photograph of the tombstone(September, 2018) and it is included in the VF.
Location Vault Author Gilbert, Alma
Title The Case of the Purloined Identity
Clark Rockefeller
Publisher Alma Books & Publishing, San Pedro, California
Donated by Stuart and Mauri Hodgeman, 2018
Location Book Shelves
Author MacKaye, Percy
Title Weathergoose – Woo!
Publisher Longmans, Green And Co. London, New York, Toronto, 1929
Donated by Stuart and Mauri Hodgeman, 2018
Location Cornish Colony Shelves
Author MacKaye, Percy
Title Tall Tales of the Kentucky Mountains
Publisher George H. Doran Company, New York, 1926
Donated by Stuart and Mauri Hodgeman, 2018
Location Cornish Colony Shelves
Huggins Family
Vertical File Material
Location Vault Cribs To Crayons
Child Care Center
Shalha Caffrey, Kristen Balser
Vertical File Material
Location Vault
Author: Kirn, Walter
Title: Blood Will Out
Clark Rockefeller
Publisher Liveright Publishing Corporation, New York, 2014
Location Book Shelves
Charles Chase
Document: petition by Selectmen of Cornish to arrange for a guardian for Charles Chase, 1836; see Child’s History of Cornish under Charles Chase
Vertical File
Location Vault
Title: Connecticut River Byway Travel Guide
Publisher: Connecticut River Byway Council, coordinated by the Southern Windsor County Regional Planning Commission no date
Location Reference Title: Echoes of the Fuller Sisters
“As Repeated by Alice Mansur”
A Cornish Library Leaflet, Number Twelve; Introduction by Katherine Ellis Barrett, April 1920
Description of Fuller Sisters in Cornish
Location Cornish Colony Shelves, Top
Lucia Fairchild Fuller Lucia Fuller
Vertical File Material
Location Vault
Author Heald, Bruce D.
Title New Hampshire and the American Revolutionary War
American Revolution
Published by The History Press, Charleston, South Carolina, 2013
Location Book Shelves
Author Morison, Elizabeth Forbes Morison, Elting E
Title New Hampshire: A Bicentennial History
Published by American Association for State and Local History, Nashville, Tennessee, and W.W. Norton, New York, 1976
Location Book Shelves
Author Russell, Howard S.
Title A Long Deep Furrow: Three Centuries of Farming In New England
Agriculture
Published by University Press of New England, Hanover, New Hampshire, 1976
Location Book Shelves
Author Duncan, Frances
Title My Garden Doctor
Novel, set in Cornish with a fictional name of Enderby
Published by Grosset & Dunlap, New York, 1913
Location Book Shelves Henry Cummings
Cited in a Valley News article(Dec. 8, 2018, p. C-1) as being from Cornish and having served as the Commander of Claremont’s 15th Regiment; relating to document from 1845
Location Vertical File, Vault
Author Russell, Howard S.
Title Indian New England Before the Mayflower
Native Americans
University Press of New England, Hanover NH, 1980
Location Book Shelves
A Tribute to Cornish Farming
Sculpture by Suzanne Lupien using the ancient Lost Wax Method
Donated by Connie Kousman who also donated a photograph of Lupien at her forge
Location: Exhibit, Town Office, Second floor
Author William H. Child
Title Autobiography and Memoirs of William H. Child: Written 1912-13 And Revised in 1917
Transcribed from ledger books by Barbara Child, 2014; Published privately 2015
Location Book Shelves
Author Homeyer, Henry
Title Notes from the Garden: Reflections and Observations of an Organic Gardner
Publisher: University Press of New England, Hanover, N.H., 2002
Donated by Laird Klingler, with an inscription by Henry Homeyer
Location Book Shelves
Hartland, Vermont
Vertical File Material
Contains a piece by the Hartland Historical Society on David Hubbard Sumner
Location Vault
Charlestown, New Hampshire
Vertical File Material
Location Vault
Parry Family
Vertical File Material
Location Vault Rook Family
Dale Rook, Judy Rook
Vertical File Material
See also interview with the Rooks, part of the CHS Film Interview Project; see also Vertical Files(printed and digital) for Cornish Fire Department and Cornish Rescue Squad)
Location Vault
Post Card Album
Post cards for New England sites, dating back to early 20th Century with some from late 19th Century
Donated by Polly Rand, March 2019; belonged to her grand-mother and great grand-mother: Hattie Marshall Fitzgerald, and Hattie Jane Marshall
Holiday Greeting Post Cards are in a separate folder in the Vault location Vault, with Notebooks Cornish Fire Department: Album
Newspaper articles and photographs dating from the time when John Rand was Fire Chief; created by Polly Rand, John Rand
Location Vault, with Notebooks
Comings – Rand House
John and Polly Rand
Vertical File
Location Vault
Floor Tile from Barrett Glass House Discovered 1993 or 1994 on walk by W.B. Johnson, V. Colby G. Holm, J. Atkinson
Foundation Brick from Barrett Glass House Acquired on walk by Larry Duval, Laird Klingler, 2019
Along with photographs of Glass House
Location Middle Room, Display Area opposite Vault
Title A Space for Faith: The Colonial Meetinghouses of New England
Photographs by Paul Wainwright; with essay by Peter Benes
Publisher Jetty House, Portsmouth, NH 2009
Signed by Wainwright who gave a presentation to CHS, May 14, 2019; Wainwright donated a CD on subject
Location Book Shelves
Cornish-Windsor Covered Bridge
Survey by Historic American Engineering Record, National Park Service, Department of the Interior, 2004
Search also under Cornish-Windsor Bridge
Location Book Shelves under Cornish-Windsor
Site Surveys of Historic Places in Cornish
From the Emmit database, New Hampshire Division Of Historical Resources
Includes: 1/ Elmhurst Barn; 2/ First Baptist Church – Meetinghouse; 3/ Salmon Portland Chase, Boyhood Home; 4/ Old Selectmen’s Office, Cornish Historical Society History Center; 5/ Louis St. Gaudens, House and Studio; 6/ Atwood House, Edson; 7/ Dingleton Hill Covered Bridge; 8/ Trinity Church; 9/ Blacksmith Covered Bridge; 10/ Cornish-Windsor Covered Bridge
Location On top of Book Shelves
1989 Directory of the United Church of Cornish
Features over 45 photographs of Cornish residents
Donated by Shirley Bladen, June, 2019
Location Book Shelves, under United… Barton, Ethel Rose Barton, Cyrus
Vertical File Material
Location Vault Aldrich, George
Vertical File Material
Location Vault Newton Home, Cornish Flat
History of Ownership
Includes Newton Whittlesey, Abe Jackson
Vertical File
Location Vault “Portrait of Priscilla Tracy” 1913, Plaster Bust
By Anne Bogardus Parrish, 1876-1966
Donated by Stuart and Mauri Hodgeman, from their Collection, June 2019
Location Rear Room
Photo-Album: “Snaps of High Water During Spring Flood of 1936”
Donated by Wayne Elliott, June 2019
Location Display Table, Opposite Vault
Photographs donated by John and Polly Rand, 2018
Arranged selectively by subject in Vertical Files and Rand Fire Department Photo Album; both in Vault
Hamlin, Jane
Horses
Vertical File Material
location Vault
Opera North
At Blow-Me-Down Farm, Saint-Gaudens National Park
Vertical File material
Location: Vault Song Garden
Vertical File Material
Location Vault
Cornish Fair – Exhibit
Vertical File Material from “Sugaring in Cornish,” CHS Exhibit at the Cornish Fair, 2019
Maple Syrup; Maple Sugar
Included: Lukash, Newbold, Cornish Woods, Beardslee, Sullivan, Yatsevitch. Jaarsma; included also is a digital file, compiled by Steve Bobin, of photographs used in the Exhibit.
Location Vault “Augustus Saint-Gaudens: A Personal Retrospective, August 24-September 23, 2007”; created by Henry Duffy
Guide to Exhibit
Location Cornish Colony Shelves
“Two Sides to Every War, A Braunschweig Soldier’s Journey To Cornish, NH: The Story of Johann Jacob Salge 1752-1835”
Presentation notebook for talk by Jennifer Bartlau to the Cornish Historical Society, at the meeting on 9/10/19
Location Book Shelves
Framed Photographs of Judge John L. Putnam and wife Adeline Sumner Putnam
Parents of Haldimand Sumner Putnam
Location Civil War Display Area opposite Vault, Under Table
Film: ”Enchanted Hills: Legacy of an Art Colony”
Cornish Colony
Film created by Fern Meyers who also donated copies of the DVD To CHS
Location Vault
Painting by Mariet Jaarsma depicting, on West Pass Gate Road leading to what is now Corbin Park, the oldest stone Bridge in Cornish
Donated by Mariet Jaarsma, October, 2018
On Display in the Front Room of the History Center, along With a photograph of the Stone Bridge, by Deanna Meadow, from the 250th Book
Papers: Elmer Wood Bartlett
Donated by Cheston and Nancy Newbold, October, 2019
Papers include: drawings(preliminary sketches); cemetery plates; Paints; ledger book for agricultural sales(many egg transactions with Evarts family in Windsor); teaching material for his school classes; song folios, hymn books; yearly-daily diaries; correspondence; social security card; purchases from Hillside Creamery; family hair; poll tax receipts for voting
These items, in two boxes, have been placed in Storage at the Meetinghouse.
Some items have been placed at the History Center. Photographs are in the Bartlett Vertical file. A new VF heading has been created for Bartlett - Drawings. One is of the Cornish-Windsor Bridge. Three others are signed and of Cornish homes: 1/ “Lyman Bartlett Homestead” (his uncle); 2/ “Henry Walker Home”(not the Colony artist); “Distler Home, Cornish Center, NH” dated Aug 2, 1957
Huggins Family Documents
In Cornish Historical Society Notebook, numbers 1 and 2
Location Vault Richardson: Title Search
Title search beginning with Gendron property on what was once land belonging to the Richardson family
Photograph of stone foundation for barn supplied by Dick Gendron, 2019
Location Vertical File Slides Taken by Hugh Mason Wade
5 boxes of photographs mainly of home on Butternuts Drive, property around it, and travels primarily in northeastern Canada location Storage, Meetinghouse Title: Celebrating Augustus Saint-Gaudens: The Pageants of 1905 & 2005
“A Masque of Ours: The Gods And The Golden Bowl”; with original script
“Masque of the Golden Bowl”
Published by Saint-Gaudens Memorial; printed in Warner, NH by R.C. Brayshaw Printers location Cornish Colony Shelves
Cornish Turnpike Toll Board
Wooden sign, approximately 3” by 3” showing items/fees charged for usage
Cornish Turnpike ran to Newport to link up with the Croydon Turnpike; 1809
See also Vertical File for Highways, Turnpikes
Location Cornish Library
Cornish Fair Stationery
Pen and Ink drawing by Nancy Wightman
Location Package, Front Room
Neidecker, Anthony B.
Tony Niedecker
Vertical File Material: obituary
See also Vertical Files for Historic District and for Chaseholme; An article on Chaseholme has been scanned and is available Online in Vertical File 1 at the Town Website
Location Vault Armstrong, David Maitland
Friend of Augustus Saint-Gaudens
Vertical File Material
Location Vault Saint-Gaudens Commemorative Stamp
Vertical File: Saint-Gaudens - Stamp
Location Vault Saint-Gaudens: Baker Library Papers
Material relating to Saint-Gaudens at the Baker Library, Dartmouth College
Vertical File
Location Vault Old Photograph of Huggins Folly Before Being Rebuilt by Saint-Gaudens
Location 1/ Vertical File at History Center under Saint-Gaudens; 2/ Available in digital form at CHS Collection Page in Old Photographs Of Historic Cornish Homes and Buildings file; 3/ Framed Photograph at History Center, Front Room, Cornish Colony Shelves Frank Applegate
Applegate instructed Paul St. Gaudens in ceramics
See Vertical File for Paul St. Gaudens Cornish, N.H. – Windsor, VT. Covered Bridge Survey
Vermont Agency of Transportation, New Hampshire Department Of Public Works and Highways
Public Informational Meeting No. 1, October 20, 1981(Second Copy in Vertical File under Cornish-Windsor Covered Bridge)
Public Informational Meeting NO. 2, September 14, 1983
Location Book Shelves under Cornish…
Cornish-Windsor Covered Bridge
Photo-Album
Taken or scanned from Vertical File
Location Front Room Title: Soils and Their Interpretations for Various Land Uses Town of Cornish, Sullivan County, New Hampshire
With map
Official Copy 16 or 25
U.S. Department of Agriculture, Soil Conservation Service In cooperation with the Sullivan County Conservation District, January 1973
Also 1983 survey
Location Map drawer, opposite Vault Author Barrett, Katherine Ellis
Title FROM FULL MOON TO FULL MOON With a Pack Outfit
Camping, hiking in the Sierra Madre with her husband, Robert Barrett
Self-printed
Location Storage, Rear Room Author McAuley, William Curator, Francestown Heritage Museum
Title A Journey Along The Second New Hampshire Turnpike
2nd New Hampshire Turnpike
Printed summary of a program presented by the Francestown Heritage Museum and the Mount Vernon Historical Society, February 23, 2020 at The Francestown Town Hall
Location Vault
Duckworth Museum
Vertical File Information
Article about Cornish Colony Exhibit
See also Mastlands
Location Vault
Cornfield Bird Club
Vertical File Information
Location Vault Temple of Justice, The Appellate Division Courthouse
An Exhibition, June 24-July 22, 1977
Cornish Colony, Kenyon Cox
Location Cornish Colony Shelves Panama-Pacific International Exposition
Temporary Catalogue of the Department of Fine Arts, 1915
Cornish Colony, Lucia Fuller, Henry Fuller
Vertical File
Location Vault Cornish Discussion Club: By-Laws
In Cornish Colony Vertical File
The Coffee House, New York City, List of Members, 1918 Cornish Colony people listed
In Cornish Colony, Vertical File “Three-Corner Round Cook-Book by the Quartet-Mistress”
Katherine Barrett, Cornish Library
Location Storage, Rear Room, with Katherine Barrett material Noble, Bill
Bill Noble
Vertical File Material
Location Vault Bone Builders
Vertical File Material
Location Vault Newspaper Clippings
Newspaper clippings covering Cornish History donated by Judy Rook, April, 2020. In three notebooks, the articles cover developments from 1958 to 2020. Some articles have been inserted by subject in the CHS Vertical Files.
Location Vault
Barber, Julie
Julie Barber
Vertical File Material
Location Vault Ranney Jan Ranney, Justin Ranney
Coldwell Banker
Vertical File Material
Location Vault Grace Ray Grace, Teri Grace
Vertical Material
Location Vault
Cornish Hens Cornish Hen Party
Vertical File Material
Location Vertical File Song Garden
Peggy Ogilvy, Dan Hertzler
Vertical File Material
Location Vault Atkinson, James B.
Jim Atkinson
Vertical File Material
See also Vertical File for Cornish Historical Society; See also Film Interview Project, Collection Page for CHS at Town website
Location Vault
Masons
Vertical File Material
Contains article about a wallet and baseball glove, belonging to Warren Houghton seventy years ago when he was a student at the Cornish Flat School now the home of the Masons. Discovered by the Masons during a renovation project
Location Vault Baillargeon, Jeffrey
Vertical File Material
Includes photographs of barn made by James Tasker, “c. 1864”
Location Vault Auten, Hanford
Vertical File Material
Location Vault
Patterson, Family
Includes obituary for Lyle Patterson
Vertical File Material
Location Vault
One-Room Schoolhouses
Vertical File
Includes article about former schoolhouse, District #10, at the corner of Rt. 120 and Jackson Road; owner Debbie Birch and family impacted by mold
Location Vault
Black Lives Matter
Vertical File Material
Location Vault
Hearse House
Vertical File
Contains articles about old herbicide being stored there
Location Vault
Dance Hall
Kibbey’s Dance Hall
Contains sign for the Dance Hall and information about it.
Vertical File
Location Vault Jacquier’s Overledge Campsites
Jacquier
Established 1972-1987
Included in publication Cornish 1983, see Vertical File Separate photographs included
Location Vault
Hiatt, Andrew
Andrew Hiatt and wife Chris purchased the Nathan Smith House on 12A
Vertical File Material
Location Vault Ayers Family
Includes Mr. and Mrs. George H. Ayers
Vertical File Material
Location Vault Cornish Historical Society – History Center
Former Selectmen’s Office
Vertical File Material
Location: Vault Cornish Flat
Vertical File Material
Location Vault
Volunteers In Action
Vertical File Material
Includes Linda Leone
Location Vault Ruggles – Clark
Vertical File
Contains photocopy of a photograph of the Ruggles Home, a Boarding House for many Cornish Colony members; from Bea Clark material donated by Sarah Gillens, August, 2021
Location Vault
SAMPLER
By Martha Gerald Chase 1826, Age Nine
Donated by Bill Ladd
Photograph in Sampler VF
Location Front Room
Saw-Mill
Vertical File
Copied from photograph supplied by Bill Ladd
Saw-mill shown on home now owned by Ladd
Approximate date taken from 1892 Map showing Site of a saw-mill on property owned by Whittaker
Location Vault
Mourning Doves
Article by Peter Burling
Vertical File
Location Vault Trinity Church
Items collected by Stephen Parrish; donated to Cornish Historical Society by Peter and Jean Burling; compiled into A notebook by the Society
Includes materials relating to the cessation of religious Services at the Church and inclusion into the National Register of Historic Places
10/20
Location Vault
DeCamp, Joseph
Joseph DeCamp
Vertical File Material
Location Vault Cornish Fire Department
Materials donated by Bob and Linda Rice
Compiled by Cornish Historical Society into two notebooks: one for articles, one for photographs; 9/2020 location Vault
“Beat the Blues”
Cornish School
Materials relating to show put on by Friends of the Library, October 1982, to raise money for the Cornish Public Library.
Donated by Kathi Patterson, Library, 2020
Location Vertical File, Vault, under Variety Show
Ten map notebooks used for lessons, Cornish School, by Students to learn to read topographic maps, 1917
Donated by Kathi Patterson, Library, 2020
Location Storage, Rear Room
Card Case belonging to Robert Barrett when he travelled to China.
Donated by Kathi Patterson, Library, 2020
Location Storage, Rear Room
Title: A Letter From George Innes To Ripley Hitchcock
Hitchcock, on his mother’s side, was descended from Rev. James Wellman; Ripley’s wife, Helen Sargent Hitchcock, Gave this work to the Cornish Library, 1955. In a letter Given with the book, she states that her husband spent Time in Cornish as a young boy
Location Book shelves under Hitchcock
Kiely, Henry
Henry Kiely
Vertical File Material
Location Vault Tewksbury Family
John Tewksbury
Vertical File Material
Location Vault
Painting: Austin Farm, c. 1895
Donated by Peter and Jean Burling
Location Front Room