Museum Catalog

1973.51

Person or Organization

Montpelier

Washington County

Vermont

United States of America

North America

Overall

Wood

Very little survives from Vermont's earliest baseball teams except for their colorful names, such as the Essex Junction Edmonds, the Cambridge Lone Stars, the Jericho Muffs, and the Ridley Sunflowers. This baseball's just barely legible written label reads- "July 4, 1867/score 75-52/…. Champlains vs. …sp BBC." Vergennes fielded both the First Champlains and Second Champlains in the late 1860s. The other team name isn't clear enough to decipher. Does BBC indicate a Burlington Baseball Club? High scoring games like this one, often with over fifty runs, reflected earlier playing styles such as underhanded pitching and barehanded fielding. Connections by railroads and trolleys between towns and on Lake Champlain by ferries made it possible for the players and a growing number of spectators to enjoy what would become a favorite summer pastime, especially on the Fourth of July.

1967.33

1867

Leather

Fabric

2024.16

Honorary Degree, Bowling Green University (1950)

The daughter of lawyer William Batchelder and Elizabeth Kennedy, Ann was tutored as a child before attending Bishop Hopkins Hall in Burlington at the age of 10. By 1900 her family had moved to Woodstock, where she explored career options as a teacher, a bank clerk, and a legal assistant. For several years she lived in Springfield working as a reporter for the Springfield Reporter and subsequently took various jobs in journalism, including police reporter for the Boston Herald and Boston Globe. During this period, she also expanded her legal training by “reading the law.” Batchelder became involved in the suffrage movement in 1917 as publicity chair for the Woodstock Suffrage Study Club. Following the achievement of municipal suffrage for women in Vermont, Batchelder became the first woman in the state to be elected as town grand juror in 1918. She used her legal training to prosecute her first case the next year. During the final campaign to ratify the 19th amendment in Vermont, Batchelder worked closely with organizer Lillian Olzendam of Woodstock. They gathered petitions statewide, educated the public through the press, lobbied legislators, and sought to persuade anti-suffrage Governor Percival W. Clement to call the legislature into special session to approve the amendment, which he refused to do. Batchelder’s fascination with food and cooking stemmed from her early childhood when she caught and cooked a trout on a fishing trip with her father. She began marketing jams through “Ann’s Jam Kitchen,” in a project launched with Lillian Olzendam in 1917. For several years during the 1920s she operated an inn in Hatfield, MA. before she was hired as a food editor at "The Delineator" magazine in 1928. When the publication ceased operation in 1934, the Curtis Publishing Co. hired Batchelder as associate editor of the "Ladies Home Journal." Ann, also known as Anna, Batchelder became a household name in the 1930s and 1940s when her popular food articles, recipes, and “Line a Day” tips sparked her celebrity as an American journalist. Writing with considerable spunk and humor about food and daily life, she received an outpouring of mail from Americans eager to share their domestic frustrations while seeking her culinary advice. A spritely writer and lover of poetry, she published several popular books including: "East of Bridgewater and Other Poems" (1943), "Ann Batchelder’s Own Cookbook" (1941), and "Start to Finish" (1954). In 1950, Bowling Green State University awarded Batchelder an honorary degree in recognition of her journalistic career. During this period, Batchelder wintered in New York City near her office at Rockefeller Center, where her staff multiplied quickly to handle her voluminous correspondence. She returned to her home in Woodstock Village in summer, often speaking locally about her career and her love of Vermont. In 1942 Batchelder broke her hip, which hardly interrupted her career but confined her to a wheelchair for the remainder of her life. After World War II, Batchelder met and befriended Italian refugee Lisa Sergio, a former interpreter for Mussolini. One of the first women to become a European news commentator, Sergio had joined the National Broadcasting Co.; eventually, she taught international affairs at Columbia University. Her status as an enemy alien prompted Batchelder to adopt Sergio as her daughter. After Sergio was accused of being a “Red Sympathizer” and blacklisted during the McCarthy Era, Batchelder spent the next few years attempting to clear her name. The two women returned permanently to Woodstock in 1952, three years before her death at age 74.

Suffragist, Author

2007.12

Perry, Josephine Hovey (1885-1952), Spaulding High School

Barre City

Washington County

Vermont

United States of America

North America

1910

Ebony, Silver, Ivory, Artificial Leather, Fabric

1986.18

Branch, Charles Francis, Sr. (1845-1910), Grand Army of the Republic

Orwell

Addison County

Vermont

United States of America

North America

Overall

Brass

1977.28

Hagerman, Robert, Green Mountain Club

Morrisville

Morristown

Lamoille County

Vermont

United States of America

North America

1974

Dunham's Duraflex

Overall

Leather

University of Vermont (1963)

Sara Gear Boyd was a Republican leader in the Vermont State Legislature and secretary of the Republican National Committee. She was a graduate of the University of Vermont and taught junior high school and nursery school. Boyd was also the founder of two businesses: Impeccable Interiors in 1977 and Gear Country Designs in 1982. In 1984, Boyd entered Vermont state politics and was elected to the Vermont House of Representatives. She served as both the Minority and Majority Leader in the House before being elected to the Vermont State Senate in 1992, where she served as Assistant Majority Leader. In 1994, she became the Senate Majority Leader, making her the first woman in the United States to be elected Majority Leader in both chambers of a state legislature. She did not run for re-election in 1996. Boyd was a member of the Executive Committee of the Vermont State Republican Party and served on the Colchester Town, Chittenden County, and Vermont State Republican Committees. In 2000, Boyd was appointed to the Vermont Hearing Panel for Professional Responsibility of the Vermont Bar Association. Boyd also played important roles in national politics. She was elected Republican National Committeewoman for Vermont in 1992 and served on the Executive, Budget, and Rules Committees. She was re-elected for this position in the years since then, but did not seek re-election in 2008. Boyd served as the Vice Chairman of the 1996 Republican National Convention, Co-chairman of the 1996 Republican Platform Committee and was a delegate to the 1992, 1996, 2000, and 2004 Conventions. In 2003, Boyd was appointed Commissioner of the White House Fellows by President George W. Bush and was elected Secretary of the Republican National Committee. She also served as the Secretary of the 2004 Republican National Convention. In addition to serving Vermont and the United States politically, Boyd remained committed to education and community development. Boyd founded the Vermont Opportunity Scholarship Fund in 1998, which is "the first privately funded scholarship in the country offering public and private school choice to income eligible children." She was a trustee of Covenant Health Systems and the Fanny Allen Foundation. She was a former Director of the following organizations: Vermont Federal Bank, Fanny Allen Hospital, Fletcher Allen Health Care, Vermont Association of Hospitals and Health Systems, Vermont Adult Learning, Vermont Association of Business, Industry and Rehabilitation, Saint Michael's College President's Advisory Council, The Senate Presidents Forum, the National Council of Insurance Legislators, and the Council of State Government: Eastern Region. Boyd served six years as Burlington Police Commissioner and was a member of the Rotary Club and the University of Vermont Alumni Council. Boyd's first husband, Allen F. Gear, died in 1991. She was re-married in 1999 to Joseph Boyd. Sara Gear Boyd died on June 10, 2008 after a struggle with cancer. She is survived by her husband and three daughters.

Nursery School and Junior High School teacher Business owner - Impeccable Interiors and Gear Country Designs Vermont House of Representatives Vermont State Senate

Elgin Female Seminary

Myra Colby Bradwell was the first woman born in Vermont to become a lawyer after a long battle. Starting in 1869 she took her fight from the Superior Court of Chicago to the United States Supreme Court, where the original ruling against her was upheld in 1873. In 1890, the Supreme Court reversed itself and she was finally admitted to the Illinois State Bar. Bradwell was also the founder of the Chicago Legal News, the first paper in Illinois devoted solely to legal news. Myra Colby was born in Manchester, Vermont to Eben and Abigail Colby. Shortly after her birth, the family moved to Portage, New York and then headed west to Chicago. She attended school in Kenosha, Wisconsin and the Elgin Female Seminary in Elgin, Illinois where she obtained a teaching job after graduation. In 1852, she married James Bolesworth Bradwell, and moved with him to Nashville, Tennessee, where the couple taught at their own school. James Bradwell was admitted to the Tennessee Bar and Myra started studying with him before they returned to Chicago, where James was admitted to the Illinois Bar, appointed a county probate judge and elected as a state legislator. Bradwell launched her own career in 1868 with the weekly Chicago Legal News, the first paper in Illinois devoted solely to legal news. She served as editorial and business manager of the paper and it quickly "became the most important legal publication in the western United States." The Chicago Fire of October 1871 destroyed the Bradwell's home, their law library, and the Chicago Legal News. However, her daughter had saved the subcription book, and within a few weeks, Bradwell had the Chicago Legal News up and running again. Bradwell had been studying the law for years with her husband, and in 1869 she passed the qualifying exam and applied to the Illinois Supreme Court for admission to the state bar, but was refused because she was a married woman. She appealed the case and took it to the United States Supreme Court, but in Bradwell v. Illinois (1873), the Court upheld the original ruling. In the meantime, the state of Illinois opened up all professions to women in 1872. Bradwell did not reapply for admission to the bar, but the Illinois Supreme Court took up her application again in 1890, admitted her to the bar and two years later she was given permission to practice before the U.S. Supreme Court. An advocate of women's rights, Bradwell helped organize Chicago's first woman suffrage convention. At this convention she argued for suffrage, women's right to own property, sit on juries, and be admitted to law school. She was also active in the founding of the American Woman Suffrage Association and was a representative of Illinois at the Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia in 1876. Bradwell was a member of the Soldiers' Home Board, the Chicago Women's Club, the Illinois Women's Press Association, served as treasurer of the South Evanston Industrial School and was a delegate to the Prison Reform Congress in St. Louis. Bradwell died in 1894.

Teacher Lawyer

Person or Organization

Bachelor of the Arts, University of Vermont (1931) Master's in Education, Columbia University

Edna Hall Brown was born in 1909 in Baltimore, Maryland, to her father, Daniel Brown, who was a widely known and respected dentist, and her mother, Kate Hall. She attended Frederick Douglass High School in Baltimore, which is the second oldest high school created for African Americans. Edna then spent a year at Saint Johnsbury Academy in Vermont, graduating in 1926. After attending high school, Edna went on to attend college at UVM, becoming the first known African-American woman to do so. While in college, Edna excelled in the subjects of math and science, as noted in the UVM publication “The Ariel.” She graduated in 1931, earning her Bachelor’s of Science in Education. After graduating from UVM, she went on to attend a masters program in teaching at Columbia University. After graduating from Columbia, Edna returned to Baltimore and taught math and science in the local public schools. Edna also became involved in many local organizations, serving as president of the DuBois circle, an African-American women’s club, and as the treasurer of the Cooperative Women’s Civic League. She was also involved in the Madison Avenue Presbyterian Church, the first church to be organized for slaves in the United States. She died in 2000, leaving behind a large portion of her estate to help fund minority students’ education. Half of this money was given to the United Negro College Fund, and half to the University of Vermont.

Educator Community Leader

University of Vermont (1979)

Marilyn Cochran Brown is the eldest of three sisters who were spectacular alpine skiers in the 1960's and 1970's. She was on the U.S. Ski Team from 1967-1974, the International Ski Federation Team from 1970-1974, and the 1972 U.S. Olympic Team. She was the US Giant Slalom Champion in 1986 and 1974, World Cup Grand Slalom Champion in 1969, the International Ski Federation World Champion Combined Bronze Medalist in 1970, the French National Champion in 1971 (the first year they allowed international entries), and the US Slalom Champion in 1972. As the Combined Bronze Medalist in 1970, she was the first US woman to finish on the podium since the race began in 1954. In 1978 she was inducted into the U.S. National Ski and Snowboard Hall of Fame. She graduated from the University of Vermont in 1979, and is now a member of the UVM Hall of Fame. She has coached skiing at the University of New Hampshire, the Queechee Ski Club, and Hanover, New Hampshire High School. She currently resides in Norwich, Vermont, with her husband, Chris Brown, with whom she has two sons, Roger and Douglas. Roger won the NCAA Slalom title competing for Dartmouth College in 2003 and was named to the United States Ski Team in 2005. Cochran serves as general manager of the Cochran Ski Area in Richmond, Vermont.

Professional Skier Ski Coach

Mount Holyoke College, 1908

Lucy Mallary Bugbee was a pioneer in Vermont conservation. She worked to preserve bogs, wildflowers, and ferns in Vermont. She grew up in Massachusetts, graduating in 1908 from Mount Holyoke College, where she went to school along with her three sisters. She was a teacher in Massachusetts, and published a book for junior high school students entitled, "Exploratory and General Language". She married Lloyd Bugbee and lived in Connecticut before retiring in Vermont. Bugbee became interested in Vermont ecology and nature. She was the chair of conservation for the Federation of Women's Clubs for a decade. She kept a large garden and wildflower trail. Bugbee frequently gave lectures on Vermont wild flora. Throughout her life, she took over 400 nature photographs which are available at the State Library in Montpelier, the Fairbanks Museum, and at schools throughout the state. Lucy Bugbee is best known for her conservation work. She saved the Stoddard Swamp in Peacham from destruction during the building of Interstate 91. When the New England Wild Flower Society gave the land to the state, the area was renamed, the "Lucy Mallary Bugbee Wild Flower Sanctuary and Natural Area". The New England Wild Flower Society honored Bugbee in 1968 with a conservation award. Bugbee continued to do conservation work, also saving the Victory Bog Basin in Essex County, VT from being destroyed by new dams. This 1500 acre forest and wetlands area has been designated as an Important Bird Area by the Audubon Society, and is also home to rare native plant species.

Conservationist Photographer Teacher Writer

by donor's father

2011.41

Person or Organization

1960-1965

Metal, Wood

2006.45

Publication

Acrylic

Steamboat Chateaugay

Artist

2006

Overall

One of seven children, "Big Joe" Burrell spent his early years in his hometown of Port Huron, Michigan, surrounded by his musical family. At age 10, his mother borrowed $5 to buy him a saxophone which he taught himself to play. When he reached his teens he dropped out of high school to focus exclusively on music. In 1943 he joined the army and played in the military show band. He saw service in Africa, Italy, and the Philippines. Later in life he remarked on the overt racism he experience while serving in the U.S. Army. After a two year struggle with tuberculosis that ended his military career, he moved to Toledo, Ohio, and formed the Red Tops Organ Trio. At a gig in Akron, he met B.B. King and was invited to join the legendary guitarist's band. Burrell spent two years with King before joining Count Basie's Orchestra and then as a musician with the Miller Sisters. From the late 1960s to 1970s Burrell lived in Toronto where he played in Big John Little's jazz band. On his way to New York in 1976 he stopped in Burlington where his nephew taught at UVM and fell in love with the city and its music scene. He decided to stay. For the next three decades Big Joe became a fixture in the Burlington music scene. He formed the Unknown Blues Band and performed in clubs and festivals throughout New England. Their regular gig at Hunt's Club drew standing-room-only audiences and resulted in the album "Live at Hunt's." After Hunt's closed, Big Joe played a gig every Thursday night at Halvorson's Upstreet Cafe until his death in 2005. Big Joe received two keys to the City of Burlington and is honored by the Discover Jazz Festival with the annual Big Joe Burrell Day. In 2010, a life-sized statue of Big Joe by Burlington sculptor Chris Sharp was unveiled on the Church Marketplace.

Musician

1981.42

Home Town Coolidge Club, Coolidge, Calvin (1872-1933)

Plymouth

Windsor County

Vermont

United States of America

North America

The Whitehead & Hoag Co.

1989.32

Coolidge, Calvin (1872-1933), Home Town Coolidge Club

Plymouth

Windsor County

Vermont

United States of America

North America

Metal, Paper

1995.44

Person or Organization

Grafton

Windham County

Vermont

United States of America

North America

Bennington Museum

Overall

Plaster, Paint

1995.44

Person or Organization

Grafton

Windham County

Vermont

United States of America

North America

20th Century

Bennington Museum

Overall

Plaster

Abenaki Cultural Conservancy

Person or Organization

circa 1910

Wood

Abenaki Cultural Conservancy

Artist

Abenaki Cultural Conservancy

circa 1900

Wood

1954.283

Person or Organization

Minnesota

United States of America

North America

Stone

2020.18

Person or Organization

circa 1933

Cracker Jack Co.

Metal

1998.39

Person or Organization

,

1972

Overall

Aluminum

Johnson Normal School (1917)

Flora Coutts was the oldest daughter, (and one of eight children) of Flora Mable Longeway and Robert M. Coutts. Her father emigrated from Scotland and worked as a granite cutter in Hardwick. He died early from "stone cutters' disease", leaving his wife to support all eight children by taking in washing. Born in West Charleston, Vermont, Flora graduated from Hardwick Academy and went on to receive a teaching certificate from Johnson Normal School in 1917. (All of her brothers and sisters also went on to higher education.) She began her career teaching in Vermont and Cleveland, Ohio, but moved to Korea from 1922 to 1925 to teach at the Pyengyang Foreign School, sponsored by the Presbyterian Church of the USA. Coutts returned to Vermont in 1925 where she worked for the Vermont Extension Service as a Club Agent from 1925-1936. She also ran her own business from 1936-37. Coutts was elected to the Vermont Senate from Orleans County for two terms (1937-8, 1939-40). After that, Coutts was the Executive Secretary of the Orleans County Development Association and the Vermont Association for the Crippled. During WWII, Coutts worked for the American Red Cross in India and China (1943-45). This time, when she returned from being abroad, she became the first Executive Secretary of the Northeastern Vermont Development Association. She also served six terms in the Vermont House of Representatives from 1961-72. Coutts held office in many groups including: President of the Vermont Business and Professional Women's Club; Assistant Director of the 350th Champlain Valley Festival; Vice Chair of the Vermont Republican Party Executive Committee, and a delegate to the 1940 Republican Convention in Philadelphia. Coutts maintained a substantial collection of photographs, postcards, and letters from both her trips abroad and her life in Vermont. She also collected many pieces of Vermont memorabilia related to the special occasions and celebrations she participated in as a legislator and civic leader. This collection, which also includes diaries, letters and notebooks, is housed at the Vermont Historical Society.

Teacher American Red Cross Vermont State Representative and Senator Executive Secretary of the Northeastern Vermont Development Association

2016.51

Person or Organization

,

Overall

Ceramic

1999.23

Event

Person or Organization

Montpelier

Washington County

Vermont

United States of America

North America

Overall

Wood, Paper, Metal

2005.21

Person or Organization

,

1910-1930

Overall

Ceramic

South Burlington

Chittenden County

Vermont

United States of America

North America

B.A., Radcliffe College (1920) M.S., Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1922)

The daughter of a professor of Russian at Harvard University, she was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts on March 23, 1902. She received her B.A. from Radcliffe in 1920 and her M.S. from MIT in 1922. She married Carroll W. Dodge, who was a Botanist and Emeritus Professor at UVM, in 1925. They had two daughters, Anne and Mary. For the majority of her life, Dodge taught high school and college science courses. She also ran a radio program for a year in the St. Louis City Hospital. Other accomplishments include her work as an International Institute Board Member from 1956 to 1959, along with her membership in the National Writers' Club and the Society of Technical Writers. Some of her works include: "Plants that Changed the World", "Hands that Help", "Potatoes and People", "Tales of Vermont Ways and People", "Story of Inscription Rock", and "Road West: Saga of the 35th Parallel", among other short stories. Dodge spoke Spanish and German and read Portuguese and French. She traveled a great deal around Latin America and her collection of Guatemalan Indian weaving has been the subject of exhibits in several museums.

High School science teacher College Professor of Science Writer

2004.32

Person or Organization

1983

Overall

Porcelain, Nylon

2004.32

Person or Organization

1983

Overall

Wool, Polyester, Porcelain

2004.32

Person or Organization

1983

Wood, Synthetic

Middlebury Female Seminary Troy Conference Academy

Julia Caroline Ripley Dorr was a famous Vermont author and poet, and one of the first female literary figures in Vermont. She published many novels, poems, and books on travel and advice. Born in Charleston, South Carolina, Dorr lived with her widower father in New York City for a brief time before moving to Middlebury, Vermont, where her father was remarried. She had some schooling at the Middlebury Female Seminary and the Troy Conference Academy. Julia Dorr was happily married to Seneca M. Dorr, a lawyer and legislator, in 1847. Together they had five children. They settled in Rutland, and lived in a home called "The Maples" on the bank of the Otter Creek. Dorr was first published after becoming a wife and mother. Her family provided support for her writing ambitions. Her husband helped to publish her first novel, "Farmingdale", in 1854, under the pseudonym, Caroline Thomas. She had two more novels, "Lanmere" (1856) and "Sybil Huntington" (1869), published under this name. From 1873 on, she produced publications under her own name including, "Expiation" (1873), "Bride and Bridegroom" (1873), "In King's Houses" (1898), ten volumes of verse, and three travel books, among others. Her novels often "portrayed young women lifting themselves from poverty through education and persistence". Her work appeared in such publications as, "Harper's", "Scribner's", and "The Atlantic". Dorr was honored as the state's "unofficial poet laureate" and asked to write the Centennial Poem in 1877. The 337-line "Centennial Poem" likened Vermont to, "Woman form, majestic, strong, and fair". Julia Dorr was an active member of the Rutland community. She was a founder of the Rutland Free Library. She was President of the Rutland Fortnightly Club for thirty years. Her children and nephew were regarded as artistically talented as well. Two of her sons, Henry Ripley and Russell R., paid her tribute at Rutland's Centennial celebration. Julia Dorr's father built (and rebuilt after a fire) the Rutland Opera House. Julia Dorr composed an ode for the reopening of the Opera House. Julia Dorr gained the respect and friendship of many of the era's famous male literary figures including: Longfellow, Lowell, Holmes, Whittier, and Emerson. In 1910, Dorr received an honorary Doctorate of Letters from Middlebury College. The College stated, "...you have written the peace and beauty of our northern valleys...you have sung your quiet way into the hearts of Vermont men and women."

Writer Poet

Dress

Fabric

Rayon

Female

1976.9

1920-1929

Ph.B. (Bachelors of Philosophy), University of Chicago, (1904).

Shirley Farr was born to Vermont natives and spent her early years mostly in Illinois and Wisconsin. She was raised by her grandparents for several years in Ripon, WI after her mother's death. Farr earned a Ph.B. from the University of Chicago in 1904. From 1907-1909, she taught French and history at Ripon College. After her father's death in 1913, she succeeded him as a member of the Board of Trustees at Ripon College and held this post until her death. She was a history instructor at the University of Chicago from 1914-1918. From 1929-1934, she was a counselor in the history department. Shirley Farr traveled to France as peace was declared at the end of WWI. She worked with wounded American soldiers at a base hospital in Hiers. She had attended undergraduate school in Paris and worked as a researcher in the Paris Archives. She became involved with the newly formed organization, The Women's Overseas Service League, which provided support to needy overseas volunteers. For a time she was this organization's national president. Farr then lived in Washington D.C. from 1921-1922 at the club house of the American Association of University Women (AAUW) and had a position as assistant editor of the "American Historical Review". She served as vice-president and committee member of the AAUW, and was a member of the Rutland Branch. Shirley Farr is best remembered in Vermont for her contributions to the town of Brandon. In 1920, the year that women won the right to vote, Farr registered to vote in Brandon, and voted there every November thereafter. From 1942 on, she lived year-round in a family home in Brandon. She represented the town in the state legislature in 1945 and 1947. She served as a Vermont Elector during President Eisenhower's first election. Shirley Farr served as a board member of several businesses: the Vermont Children's Aid Society, The Vermont State Symphony Orchestra, and the Brandon library. Knowingly or unknowingly, Farr's funding of the Vermont Children's Aid Society indirectly supported Vermont's Eugenics Survey in the late 1920s. Farr is remembered for her generous philanthropy. She gifted Branbury Beach and nearby forest lands, which are now the site of a state park. She also made it possible for many students to receive an education, contributing scholarship money to Ripon College, the University of Vermont, and the AAUW.

Educator Writer Legislator Civic Leader

BA, Ohio State (1899) Doctorate, French, Columbia University (1904) Honorary Doctorates, Middlebury College (1921), University of Vermont (1922), Dartmouth College (1922)

Dorothy Canfield Fisher was born in Lawrence, Kansas to parents of Vermont descent. Her father's family had settled in Vermont shortly after the French and Indian War. As a child, Fisher was an avid learner, and traveled often with her family to Europe to study the arts. She attended a boarding school in Paris. Her father, James, became Chancellor of the University of Nebraska, and later, president of the National Education Association. When he became president of Ohio State University, the family moved again to Columbus. Fisher's family believed women should have the same educational opportunities as men. She attended Ohio State, and graduated with a bachelor's degree in 1899. She then attended graduate school in Paris, studied German in Hanover, and worked at the British Museum. On returning from Europe, Fisher lived with her family in New York City, where her father now worked as librarian for Columbia University. Here, Fisher began writing articles for publications such as, "The Outlook", the "Times", and "Harper's Bazaar". While studying for her doctorate in French, she alternated terms in European universities with terms in New York at Columbia University. She received her PhD in French in 1904. In 1907, Dorothy married John Fisher, a law student from New York. The couple moved to Arlington, Vermont that year to pursue careers as free-lance writers. They had two children, Sally and James. Dorothy Canfield Fisher was the author of many novels and short stories throughout her lifetime. Some of these include: "Hillsboro People" (1915) (which is set in Arlington, VT), "The Bent Twig" (1915), several books influenced by Italian educator, Dr. Maria Montessori, including, "The Montessori Mother" (1912), three volumes of short stories influenced by her family's experiences in the French war camps and clinics of WWII including, "Home Fires in France" (1918), home and family novels including, "Her Son's Wife" (1926), and several historical children's books such as, "Paul Revere and the Minute Men" (1950). Dorothy Canfield Fisher was a member of the first board of the Book-of-the-Month Club, where she played an important role in promoting such noted writers as Pearl Buck, Isaac Dinesen, and Richard Wright. She was also a member of the Vermont Historical Society, which she joined in 1921. Fisher is credited with bringing the Montessori Method of teaching to the United States from Europe, and being the first woman to serve on the Vermont Board of Education. Eleanor Roosevelt named Fisher one of the ten most influential women in the United States. Fisher is remembered for her activism in war-related causes, such as her work with war blind in France. She established the Fund to Aid French Children. She helped children of refugees by providing them with summer homes. She also worked with the Children's Crusade for Children, and was recognized by several organizations for her humanitarian work. Much of her humanitarian work was done through written contributions that raised awareness in the U.S. about the war in Europe. She contributed to works such as, "The City of Man: A Declaration on World Democracy" and "America Organizes to Win the War". Fisher was honored with many Doctor of Letters degrees, including those from Middlebury College (1921), the University of Vermont (1922), and Dartmouth College (1922). The Dorothy Canfield Fisher Book Award was established before her death in 1958.

British Museum Writer Activist Humanitarian

LL.B., Boston University (1920)

Lena Giudici was born in Barre, VT. She graduated from Spaulding High School in 1917 and then went on to Boston University where she studied law and accounting. She graduated from Boston University in 1920 and became the first woman admitted to the Massachussetts Bar. She then moved to Vermont in 1921 where she became the third woman admitted to the Vermont Bar. Lena Giudici rarely practiced law, but remained a member of the Bar. She primarily did accounting work for granite firms. She served on the Board of the Office of Price Administration, which was set up to monitor prices at the end of World War II. Giudici also served as President of the Barre Branch of the Vermont Federation of Professional and Business Women's Club, and was Treasurer of the Vermont State Federation. She attended several conferences through the Federation and organized the State Federation convention that was held in Barre on May 22-23, 1929.

Lawyer Accountant

Material

Female

2021.22

Kirk, Gertrude Mackie (1895-1984), Barre Country Club

Barre City

Washington County

Vermont

United States of America

North America

circa 1920

2009.1

Person or Organization

South Burlington

Chittenden County

Vermont

United States of America

North America

2006

Overall

Wood

Hair receivers were used to store hair removed from brushes and combs. The hair could be recycled by using it to stuff small bags called "rats" that were used to give body to large hairstyles.

2005.21

Person or Organization

White River Junction

Hartford

Windsor County

Vermont

United States of America

North America

1910-1930

Overall

Ceramic

1976.9

Person or Organization

Montpelier

Washington County

Vermont

United States of America

North America

Wool, Silk, Elastic

1976.9

Overall

Leather, Brass

1966.17

Peck & Snyder

Steel

2010.19

Person or Organization

Burlington

Chittenden County

Vermont

United States of America

North America

Plastic

Shirt

All base material of the jersey is a white nylon (this also lines the neckline and the sleeve lines). All seams and hems in white thread while securing in green thread decorations in same fabric as white but in green. Fabric is semi-stretchy for athletic wear.

Green

Nylon

Male

Small

2024.16

BA, MA, PhD, Northwestern University

Eleanor M. Luse founded the Speech and Hearing Clinic at the University of Vermont in 1953. Eleanor Luse was born in Chicago, Illinois and received her Bachelor's, Master's, and Doctorate degrees from Northwestern University. She taught at Coe College in Iowa, the Boston School of Physical Education and Wells College in New York. While on sabbatical from Wells College, she received her Doctorate in voice and speech pathology. In 1947, she came to the University of Vermont, where she was given the task of starting a program for voice and speech pathology. She founded the Speech and Hearing Clinic in 1953, which was renamed the Eleanor M. Luse Center for Communication Disorders in 1973. Luse worked with people who had a variety of disorders, including stuttering, deafness, cleft palates and those recovering from laryngectomies. She tested her own theories on patients and found that one particularly helpful technique was to release the tension in the larynx and build breath support for vocalization. In addition to teaching, doing research, and working with patients, Luse also spoke at clubs and schools about the need to recognize and treat speech difficulties. As a result of her awareness programs, speech and hearing services were established at all schools in Vermont. For her efforts in voice rehabilitation, Luse received a Service Award from the American Cancer Society and was elected as a Fellow of the American Speech and Hearing Society. She also received the Gamma Phi Beta Service Award and Carnation Award, and was presented with honorary degrees from Northwestern University and the University of Vermont. Luse retired in 1970, but didn't stop teaching at UVM until 1975. For many years after her retirement, she served as a consultant at the Center. Luse eventually moved to California to be near her sisters and passed away on November 19, 1997.

Speech and Voice Pathologist

Bennett Junior College, Millbrook, New York University of Connecticut, graduate programs in genetics

Gertrude Robinson Mallary (1902-2002) was born August 19, 1902, in Springfield, Massachusetts, and attended Bennett Junior College, in Millbrook, New York. She married DeWitt Mallary September 15, 1923. After their decision to become serious farmers, she took a dairy herd management course at University of Connecticut. With no farming background, Gertrude became a recognized authority on dairy cattle breeding. While she sought good advice and used it, she, in turn, advised many breeders throughout North America as evidenced by her voluminous correspondence. Mrs. Mallary was active in many community, professional, and political organizations. A Republican, she served in the Vermont House of Representatives, 1953-1957, and in the Vermont Senate, 1957-58. Among other activities, she was president of the Vermont Holstein Club, secretary of the New England Holstein Breeders Association, and editor of the New England Holstein Bulletin. Mrs. Mallary was an avid collector of Vermont books and manuscripts. A bibliography of her collection, The Vermont Library of Gertrude Mallary, was published in 1989.

Volunteer social worker Holstein cattle breeder Vermont state legislator

2020.13

Overall

Wood, Tortoiseshell, Metal

Mandolin-Guitar Club

2020.13

circa 1900-circa 1910

C. Bau's Studio

Overall

1991.19

Person or Organization

Montpelier

Washington County

Vermont

United States of America

North America

Cardboard

2004.64

Person or Organization

Vergennes

Addison County

Vermont

United States of America

North America

1955-1965

Closed

Paperboard

1992.10

Person or Organization

,

Atlas/Diamond

Cardboard

Tuskegee Institute Philips Andover Academy Harvard Boston University Law School

William Clarence Matthews was born in Selma, Alabama and attended Tuskegee Institute under the direction of Booker T. Washington. Washington help Matthews gain admittance to Philips Andover Academy, where he was the only black student, and later Harvard University. At all three schools Matthews showed great skill at baseball, ultimately starting at short stop all four years at Harvard. The summer after graduating Harvard, William Matthews was hired by the Burlington Baseball Club to be their starting second baseman in the Northern League. On July 4, 1905, he stepped onto the diamond at the old Burlington Athletic Field and broke the color barrier in professional baseball. He played the entire season and endured racism from fans and other players alike. When playing some teams, his manager had to move him to the outfield so that he wouldn't be intentionally spiked by white players sliding into second base. Players of southern background refused to take the field against him. During that summer, a rumor started that he would be hired to play for Boston's National League team, the Boston Beaneaters. This quickly ended when a number of southern teams stated they would refuse to play if he was hired. That fall, Matthews left professional baseball to enroll at Boston University School of Law. He coached high school teams in Boston to put himself through school and ultimately passed the bar exam in 1908. William Matthews served as the U.S. Attorney for Boston and the legal advisor to Marcus Garvey. When Calvin Coolidge ran for his first full-term as president, Matthews worked enthusiastically on his campaign. He was appointed an assistant attorney general and tried a number of high-profile cases before dying tragically of a perforated ulcer in 1928 at only 51 years old.

Professional Baseball Player Attorney

1994.53

Event

Hall, Edwin C. (1845-1913), Grand Army of the Republic

Brookfield

Orange County

Vermont

United States of America

North America

Overall

Metal, Silk

1992.87

Person or Organization

Barre City

Washington County

Vermont

United States of America

North America

1939

Metal

2011.68

Person or Organization

Barre City

Washington County

Vermont

United States of America

North America

1967

Russell Badge Manufacturing Company

Overall

Metal

1992.87

Person or Organization

,

1969

Metal

2020.8

Person or Organization

Barre City

Washington County

Vermont

United States of America

North America

1983

Metal

1992.87

Person or Organization

,

Metal

2004.72

Person or Organization

The Whitehead & Hoag Co.

Metal, Paper

2013.27

Person or Organization

Barre City

Washington County

Vermont

United States of America

North America

1955

Universal Badge Company

Overall

Metal, Plastic

2013.27

Person or Organization

Barre City

Washington County

Vermont

United States of America

North America

1966

Russell Badge Manufacturing Company

Overall

Plastic, Metal

by someone in donor's family

2013.27

Person or Organization

Barre City

Washington County

Vermont

United States of America

North America

1950-1960

Overall

Plastic, Metal

2013.27

Person or Organization

Barre City

Washington County

Vermont

United States of America

North America

1973

Plastic, Metal

2020.8

Person or Organization

Barre City

Washington County

Vermont

United States of America

North America

1963

Metal

2021.3

Person or Organization

2020

Metal, Enamel

2006.65

Person or Organization

Barre City

Washington County

Vermont

United States of America

North America

1940

Overall

Gold

1962.12

Young Men's Republican Club of Vermont, Depew, Chauncey Mitchell (1834-1928)

St. Albans City

Franklin County

Vermont

United States of America

North America

1895

The Whitehead & Hoag Co.

Silk, Metal

1962.12

Person or Organization

St. Albans City

Franklin County

Vermont

United States of America

North America

1895

The Whitehead & Hoag Co.

1992.72

Person or Organization

Camp Waubanong

Brattleboro

Windham County

Vermont

United States of America

North America

circa 1935

Overall

Wool

AA, Colby Junior College (1963) BS, University of Vermont (1975)

Gretchen Morse served as Secretary of the Vermont Agency of Human Services under Governor Madeleine Kunin. Morse was born in Hyannis, Massachusetts and graduated from Colby Junior College in 1963. She gained administrative experience with the Polaroid Corp in Cambridge, Massachusetts and the Museum of Science in Boston. After moving to Vermont in 1971, she received her B.S. in Human Development from the University of Vermont (1975). She served four terms in the Vermont State Legislature as a Representative from 1977-1985. Morse was Chair of the Health and Welfare Committee (1983-1985) and Chair of the Education Committee (1981-1983). In 1985, she was appointed the Secretary of the Vermont Agency of Human Services by Governor Madeleine Kunin. This agency oversees mental health, social welfare, public health, corrections, and rehabilitation services. Morse was the only Cabinet secretary to remain on board throughout all of Governor Kunin's three term administration. In 1991, she became the Executive Director of the United Way of Chittenden County. Morse has been a member of the Vermont Commission on Women, the Governor's Commission on Children and Youth, the Juvenile Justice Delinquency Prevention Advisory Group and the National Council of State Human Services Administrators. She serves on the Board of Directors of the Lake Champlain Regional Chamber of Commerce, the Board of Vermont Health Foundation, the Wake Robin Board of Directors and is a member of the Burlington Rotary Club. Morse received the Distinguished Service Award from the University of Vermont College of Education and Social Services in 1983.

Politician Executive

2024.6

Person or Organization

Oil on Canvas

Mount Tom

Artist

2001.5

Person or Organization

Long Trail

Vermont

United States of America

North America

1999

Whirley

Plastic

2016.17

Event

Jones, Maurice Taylor (1922-2016), Central Vermont Squares, Inc., Vermont Square Dancing Association

Montpelier

Washington County

Vermont

United States of America

North America

1976

Western Plastic Products

Overall

Plastic, Metal, Paper

Watchman’s Club, 1935-1936 Harry L. Hall (1878-1956) West Rutland, Vermont Burned wood Gift of William Hall, #2018.19 The lengthy and violent Vermont Marble strike of 1935 and 1936 gained national attention and, though the strikers gained no concessions, led to federal labor legislation. Harry Hall served as a night watchman at the West Rutland facility during the time of the strike. He vividly documented the strike on his “billy club” with a woodburning tool. Imagery shows bridges dynamited, strikers beaten, trains derailed, and the leader of the company and strikers depicted as a pig and rat respectively. A summary of the strike can be found near the handle of the club and reads, “power lines blasted, RR track blasted, bridge blasted, windows stoned, property damaged, street fights, heads cracked, a good time had by all.”

2018.19

Vermont Marble Company, Hall, Harry L. (1878-1956)

Proctor

Rutland County

Vermont

United States of America

North America

1935-1936

Hall, Harry L. (1878-1956)

Overall

Wood, Leather

The club was owned by Suel Taylor Howard of Danby. He enlisted in December 1863 during the Civil War. Howard served as a Private with Company E of the U.S. Sharpshooters until July 1968.

2006.57

Event

Person or Organization

Andover

Windsor County

Vermont

United States of America

North America

1862

Overall

Leather, Brass, Wood

1984.11

Person or Organization

Ink

Shows Dug Out #9 in South Barre, Vermont, owned by Dug Out Dan (Dana H. Smith)

Artist

Sep 1922

Overall

Lilian Herrick Marble was the twelfth and youngest child of Elizabeth Woodard and Liberty Bates Marble, a successful mill owner in Woodstock. Lilian graduated from Woodstock High School, studied music in Boston, and became an accomplished pianist. She taught music before her marriage to clothing manufacturer Louis Herman Olzendam, a graduate of Massachusetts Institute of Technology. At the turn of the century, the couple moved to New York City, where Louis worked in the textile business, and the couple raised two children, Roderic M. and Therese E. Olzendam. In the mid-1910s Lilian and her daughter Therese became involved in the woman suffrage movement. Therese, who had learned typesetting and press operation in Woodstock, became circulation manager at The Suffragist, the newspaper of the National Woman’s Party in Washington, D.C. Returning to Woodstock in mid-1917, Lilian became an officer of the Vermont Equal Suffrage Association (VESA) and president of the Woodstock Suffrage Club in 1918. The National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA) hired her as an organizer for Vermont, and she attended the association’s conference in St. Louis in 1919 to report on the state’s progress. The same year VESA leaders appointed Olzendam to lead the campaign to ratify the 19th Amendment. She successfully gathered petitions from women and enough pledges from Vermont legislators to support suffrage and a special legislative session to ratify the amendment, which would make Vermont the “Perfect 36” or final state needed for ratification. In the process, she took a historic auto tour with Marion Stone Pelley to visit every newspaper editor and as many politicians as she could locate to sign a petition urging Governor Percival W. Clement to call legislators into session. When he continued to resist, Olzendam organized a mass protest of suffragists at the State House to speak with him. Traveling through snow and sleet, women in the “March of 400,” otherwise known as the “Green Mountain Girls,” participated in the state’s largest political protest to date. Despite this effort and the intervention of national Republican leaders, Clement refused, claiming that ratification required a statewide referendum as per the Vermont Constitution. After Tennessee became the final ratifying state and women had voted in the 1920 election, Vermont legislators finally approved the amendment in 1921. In September 1920, Olzendam helped organize the League of Women Voters of Vermont and was elected its first chair. That fall she also campaigned for the Republican Party, attended the state convention, and was elected a Presidential elector. In the 1921 legislative session, she advanced women’s reforms and wrote a special report for newly elected Governor James Hartness on conditions for women at Windsor Prison, urging their removal from the institution. Noted for her prominence as a woman in Vermont politics, Olzendam retreated from public life in the summer of 1921. During this period, Olzendam was separated from her husband and lived in Woodstock and Burlington. In 1924, she wrote a musical score for “Song of Vermont,” published in Boston with lyrics originally written as a poem by Justice Wendell Phillips Stafford. During the 1930s, Olzendam spent winters in New York City, where she boarded at the American Woman’s Club. She returned to Woodstock regularly to visit her large family and purchased her own residence in the 1940s. Her daughter, Therese, worked for the advertising firm, J. Walter Thompson Co., in New York City until 1951, and her son, Roderic, a writer in his youth, settled in Tacoma, Washington, where Lilian died at the age of 89 in 1958.

Musician, Suffragist

1987.18

Mould, Fred, Green Mountain Club

Overall

Ash Splint, Cotton

Coat

Material

Unisex

1994.30

Burlington High School, United States Eastern Amateur Ski Association

Burlington

Chittenden County

Vermont

United States of America

North America

1955

Overall

2008.77

Person or Organization

Mount Mansfield

Underhill

Chittenden County

Vermont

United States of America

North America

2007

Nylon

Edging with bright red topstitching thread, perfectly preserved as if new. Entire shield filled with image of competitive ski jumper in bright colorful threads, each shape outlined with thin black lines in thread. All stitching is crisp and tight.

White

Green

Beige

Color

Sewing Stitch Count

2024.16

2007.26

Person or Organization

Long Trail

Vermont

United States of America

North America

2010.19

Person or Organization

Burlington

Chittenden County

Vermont

United States of America

North America

Cotton

1987.42

Valley Rotary Club, Rotary International

Harris, Paul P. (1868-1947)

Artist

1986

Advertise/promote a business in Barre.

Charles Albisetti

Barre City

Washington County

Vermont

United States of America

North America

Plastic, Metal, Rubber, Sand

2006.73

Phipard, Charles Willard (1916-2002), Boy Scouts of America

Felt

2006.73

Person or Organization

Felt

2006.73

Phipard, Charles Willard (1916-2002), Boy Scouts of America

Felt

2005.57

Person or Organization

Montpelier

Washington County

Vermont

United States of America

North America

1980-1990

Gemaco

Overall

Paperboard, Plastic

1976.43

Overall (each)

Paper

1976.43

Overall

Paper

1976.43

Overall

Paper

1976.43

Overall (each)

Paper

1976.43

Overall (each)

Paper

1976.43

Overall (each)

Paper

2009.14

Person or Organization

Long Trail

Vermont

United States of America

North America

2000-2009

Badge-a-Minit

1957.25

Person or Organization

Hartland

Windsor County

Vermont

United States of America

North America

Satin Weave

Overall

Silk

Created by a student during printing classes held at the Austine School for the Deaf.

2024.16

Metal is the material of the block itself while ink would have been applied for the act of printing.

Metal, Ink

Prize Medal, 1886 Metal, silk In memory of J. Brooks Buxton, 2018.18.2ab In 1886, the Vermont Coasting Club hosted a Winter Carnival in Burlington that boasted an attendance of 40,000. One of the highlights of the weekend--which also featured tobogganing, parades, concerts, ice yachting, and trotting races--was an exhibition hockey game between two clubs. The visiting team was the Montreal Crystals, a club team, and they faced a group of local Vermonters sponsored by a hotel called the Van Ness House. They played two ten-minute games and the Vermont team lost badly both times, but it was enough to go down in history as the first international hockey game played in America. It was also the beginning of a long tradition of hockey in Vermont.

2018.18

Person or Organization

,

1886

Overall

Silver, Gold, Fabric, Metal

2008.56

Barre City

Washington County

Vermont

United States of America

North America

2003

Winter, Susan

Overall

Metal

2003.89

Event

Barre City

Washington County

Vermont

United States of America

North America

Metal

Teaching Certificate, Plymouth State Normal School (1909)

Born to Charles and Rose Quimby of West Stewartstown, New Hampshire, Hortense Quimby grew up spending the summers at her father's growing camp complex on the shores of Little Leach Pond (now called Forest Lake) in the unincorporated town of Averill, Vermont. After obtaining the property in 1894, Charles Quimby had a vision for a "Maine Style" hunting and fishing retreat for well-to-do gentlemen. He spent much of the early years stocking various types of game fish throughout the area lakes and ponds as well as developing primitive tent platforms and cabins for the clientele. Through this early exposure, Hortense became an early advocate for sport fishing in the northern Vermont woods. Hortense Quimby attended the State Normal School at Plymouth, New Hampshire, and graduated with a teaching certificate. She relocated to New Jersey where she lodged with relatives and taught school for about ten years. Her father died unexpectedly in late 1919 and Hortense moved back to the Northcountry to take over management of her family's Cold Spring Camp. However, her vision for the camp went beyond a rustic hunting and fishing retreat on five leased acres. She wanted a camp that would be noted throughout the U.S. as a family fun resort with fishing, sports, games, and camaraderie for all ages. In the winter of 1927 she served as a hostess on a Raymond Whitcomb tour of South Africa. The cruise also included stops in numerous islands, African ports, London, Naples, and Paris. She was quoted as crediting this experience as foundational to the development of her own resort. She expanded the original small camp to over 900 privately held acres, installing trails for horseback riding and hiking. She replaced the tents with private cabins and a main lodge and employed many local families in what we would now call a farm-to-table experience. By 1934, the resort hosted over 1,000 guests including Governor George Aiken and his guest Gov. Alfred Landon, the 1936 Republican presidential nominee, and actor Henry Fonda, and his children Peter and Jane. One of Hortense's often-quoted mottos was, "Roughing it with comfort." Hortense Quimby was also a fish culturist, and was know throughout the state for her lobbying during the legislative session on behalf of measures beneficial to fishing in the state. In 1923 she created the first commercial fish hatchery in Vermont on a tributary of Big Averill Lake, raising Lake Trout, Salmon, and Brook Trout. Later, this fish "station" became a public-private partnership with the State of Vermont. In addition to stocking lakes and ponds, Hortense also lobbied for scientifically based bag limits to make sure fish thrived for future generations of anglers. Hortense Quimby served as an informal ambassador for the State of Vermont, exhibiting at sports shows throughout the United States in the off-season and enticing visitors of all stripes to experience Vermont. Once enrolled in camp, most families returned year-after-year and generation-upon-generation. Never marrying, Hortense Quimby managed and grew the Cold Spring Club from a very small operation into one of Vermont's premier summer resorts on her own. After falling ill in 1965 she sold the club to a group of regular guests who operated the camp as Quimby Country, Inc., named in her honor. Hortense Quimby died in 1967, yet the camp she developed for over half-a-century is still in operation today.

Resort Owner Teacher

2024.16

Very very small textile made of sturdy dark royal blue ribbon with a silky sheen into the weaving.

The ribbon refers to the largest piece of material in the whole object which is the ribbon itself. This is secured to a small cardboard card in the back using a type of snap-like metal fastening (that is too tarnished at present to identify exact material of metal). The card is made of a thin cardboard-like material in order to be written on by a type of pen or ink writing.

Ribbon, Metal, Cardboard

Abenaki Cultural Conservancy

circa 1870

Wood

1957.25

Person or Organization

1823

Niles, Nancy (1814-1888)

Linen, Silk, Cotton

Leroy Satchell was born in Elizabethtown, New York, to William Satchell and Sophronia Davis. William formerly enslaved in North Carolina and joined the Union Army in 1864 serving as a cook until the war's end. He and his wife moved north to New York, later moving their young family to St. Albans, Vermont. Leroy lived amongst a thriving Black community in St. Albans where he tried his hand at many jobs throughout his life. He was a laborer and a boot black; he operated a car wash station and served as a chauffeur. His prowess as a boxer and the leading hitter for the local baseball team was noted regularly in the papers. Despite his athletic success, Leroy's true passion and calling was as a musician. Leroy was a gifted drummer and percussionist. He performed with the St. Albans Brigade Band and played timpani for the St. Albans Symphony Orchestra. He played regularly at dances, glee club events, winter pageants and ceremonies. He made his living at the time by accompanying silent films with a small orchestra at two of St. Albans silent movie theaters, the Bellevue and Empire Theatre. It was here that he met Ora, Lorenzo, and Sterling Weed, the leaders of Weeds Imperial Orchestra, a jazz band of some note. As a member of Weeds Imperial Orchestra, he traveled around Northern New England, Southern Quebec, and up and down the East Coast playing music for thousands at local dances and events. As with many musicians, he supplemented his evening work by giving drum lessons during the day to young up-and-coming percussionists. After an automobile accident in 1930 left him unable to play or travel for a number of months, he brought in a young protege named Robert Williams to substitute for him so that Weeds Imperial Orchestra could fulfill it's performance schedule. Robert Williams, a young Black man with whose family Leroy had boarded in his younger days, was a student of Leroy's. Eventually the two men would trade dates with the group back and forth until the band stopped playing in the 1950s with the onset and popularity of "cowboy music". In his later years, Sterling Weed recalled Leroy as an "artist on the drums whose playing was distinctive and very musical." Leroy died on July 9th, 1962, but his student, Robert Williams, went on to play with Weeds Imperial Orchestra after it regrouped in the 1970s and 1980s.

The Mount Mansfield Ski Club (originally the Stowe Ski Club) was incorporated in 1934. Its ski program trained and mentored thousands of young skiers, many of whom became Olympic team members and medalists. This sign incorporates the distinctive "Stowe" logo created in the 1950s by artist Sasha Mauer, and now utilized by the town and many businesses in the area. The "S" in Stowe is a swoosh made from the tracks of a skier.

2008.79

Person or Organization

Stowe

Lamoille County

Vermont

United States of America

North America

circa 1980

Overall

Wood

Trail Map, 1940 Elton Ray Beal (1897-1971) Burlington, Vermont Paint on board Gift of Merlin Lloyd Acomb, #1989.1.2 An employee of UVM’s engineering school, Elton Beal spent free time as a volunteer with the Green Mountain Club. Though posted trail maps are common at all trail heads today, this type of information was not as readily available in the early years of the Long Trail. This hand-painted sign shows much of the Mount Mansfield section with lodges and side trails noted.

1989.1

Person or Organization

,

1940-1950

Overall

Wood, Paint

Clara E. Sipprell is best known for her work as a portrait photographer during the pictorialist movement. She proved to be one of the leading practitioners in the United States of this aesthetic art form, which involved creating photographs with a soft focus, giving them the visage of a painting. She received numerous awards in exhibitions and published works in United States and European magazines. Sipprell often took photographs of prominent people in the arts and government, in addition to the many individuals she encountered in her worldly travels to Yugoslavia, Russia, Italy, Mexico, and Sweden. Some of her most famous subjects were the members of Stanislavsky's Moscow Art Theatre, King Gustav of Sweden, Albert Einstein, Robert Frost, Edwin Markham, and Pearl Buck. Born in Tilsenburg, Ontario in 1885, Sipprell moved with her mother at the age of ten to Buffalo, New York where her brother Francis James Sipprell owned a portrait studio. It was here where she began her life's work, leaving school at the age of sixteen to devote all of her time to the studio,eventually becoming a partner in the business. During this period, artificial lighting was growing in popularity among photographers, including her brother. However, many sources indicate that Sipprell developed her own standards as she continued using natural light, never cropping her photographs, or retouching her negatives. She used a large 8" by 10" camera, usually with a soft-focus lens. Unlike many modern photographers who take hundreds of photographs and then choose the best, Sipprell "stalked" her subjects, studied them and then shot only when she really felt she had caught the "moment of light." Sipprell won numerous prizes through the Buffalo Camera Club at a time when women were forbidden to have membership. At the age of thirty, in 1915, Sipprell moved to New York City with Jessica Beers and opened her own photographic studio in Greenwich Village. She also became the contract photographer for the Ethical Culture School, where Beers worked as a principal. She gained considerable technical knowledge during her time in New York City through contact with leading photographers in the city. She joined the Pictorial Photographers of America, the Royal Photographic Society of Great Britain, and the Arts Club of Washington. The 1920s and 1930s were a period of high acclaim for Sipprell, as she received many prizes from various exhibitions at home and abroad for not only her portraits, but also her still-lifes and landscapes. Her cityscape, "New York - Old and New" was one of the first photographs obtained by the Museum of Modern Art in the 1930s. Throughout her stay in New York City, Sipprell spent her summers in Vermont. Her connection with Thetford began in 1917 when she took a series of photographs for Camp Hamoum, a girls' overnight camp located on Thetford Hill. Two years later, she illustrated the Camp's catalog. She maintained a studio in Thetford for seventeen years. The Thetford phase of Sipprell's career was probably her most productive. During those years she participated in nearly a hundred exhibitions and illustrated many magazine articles. In 1954, Sipprell moved her studio to Manchester, Vermont and lived with Phyllis Fenner, a writer, librarian, and anthologist of children's books. It was here that Sipprell died at the age of 89 in 1975. Her ashes are buried in Manchester. In 1974 Sipprell received the Vermont Governor's Award for Excellence in the Arts. Recent solo exhibits of her work were at the Albright-Knox gallery in Buffalo, New York, the Vermont Historical Society in 1988, the Amon Carter Museum in Forth Worth, Texas in 1990, and at the Thetford Historical Society in 1993. Two books about her work have appeared: her own "Moment of Light" (1966) and Mary K. McCabe's "Clara Sipprell, Pictorial Photographer" (1990).

Photographer

Skirt

Material

Female

2014.60

Person or Organization

Barre City

Washington County

Vermont

United States of America

North America

circa 1900

Skis, circa 1909 Owned by James P. Taylor (1872-1949) Saxtons River, Vermont Gift of Clarence P. Cowles, #1954.2 Proponent of the Long Trail and founder of the Green Mountain Club, James P. Taylor was a true cheerleader for Vermont outdoor recreation. As early as 1909 he used these skis to lead tours of southern Vermont backcountry.

1954.2

Person or Organization

Saxtons River

Rockingham

Windham County

Vermont

United States of America

North America

circa 1910

Overall

Wood

Sweater

Black

Knit

2024.16

Shirt

Fabric

Material

Unisex

Large

1976.37

Person or Organization

Long Trail

Vermont

United States of America

North America

1976

B. V. D.

Shirt

Fabric

Material

Unisex

Medium

1976.37

Person or Organization

Long Trail

Vermont

United States of America

North America

1976

B. V. D.

Elizabeth Taylor, artist, writer, botanist and explorer, was born in Columbus, Ohio on January 8, 1856. The fifth daughter of Chloe (Langford) and James J. Taylor, American Consul in Winnepeg (1870-1893), experienced her first trip at the age of six months when the family moved to St. Paul, Minnesota, her father's home state. Taylor was raised with education and adventure. Accompanying her father on frequent business trips throughout Canada, Minnesota and Washington, Taylor developed a love for nature and the great outdoors. Taylor attended art school, first in New York and later in Paris, and continued private endeavors in Venice, Florence and other locations. During her father's twenty-year tenure as consul to Manitoba, she traveled (often alone) under the protection of the Catholic Church and experienced the wild grandeur and the then untouched beauty of the Canadian Northwest. Taylor attended the last great Sun Dance allowed to be given by the Indian tribes of Canada and was the first white/Caucasian/non-native woman to accompany the Hudson Bay Fur Company on a fur-gathering expedition down the MacKenzie River to its delta " the land of the Eskimo. Later trips took her to Alaska and in 1893 she toured Norway on ponyback, "traversing Hardanger Vidda, the upland summer pastures, throughout its greatest length and over its highest ridges." In 1895 while headed to Iceland to study Eider Duck farms, Taylor's boat stopped at Thorshavn, capital city and principal port of the Danish Faroe Islands. After one look at this desolate spot with its little sod-roofed wooden houses, Taylor knew she would return. Five years later, in May of 1900, Taylor returned to the islands for an almost six-year stay, "always curious about nature and mankind, feeling that no hardships were too great if she could catch an elusive fish, get a glimpse of a certain rare flower or watch the great whale hunts." Taylor would next return to these same islands in early 1914, and was effectively "marooned" throughout World War I, performing relief work among an almost starving people who expected at any time to fall under the German army. She studied plant and bird life and immersed herself in the folklore, superstitions, customs and dances of the Faroes. As an amateur botanist, she was the first to discover and record two unknown insects, one of which was given her name, Pseudosiana Taylori. Taylor wrote of her amazing and oftentimes harrowing experiences, submitting her stories to British and American newspapers and magazines. However, "writing did not come easy to Mistela (as the Faroe Islanders called her) -- one short article would take months of study and of concentrated and conscientious labor." In July 1919, at the age of sixty-three Taylor said goodbye to her beloved Faroe Islands for the last time. Five years later found her in Rochester, having visited Vermont in 1888 and again, in 1908 when she had spent part of a summer in Dorset. In 1909 she had been in Windham and Bennington giving club talks about her Faroe Island adventures. For the following two summers she was a summer boarder at the small Rochester North Hollow farm of Mrs. Blanche Dunham Hubbard, doing a little painting and writing two articles for the Atlantic Monthly. But it wasn't until many years later in 1924 that Taylor returned permanently to North Hollow and built a rather primitive two-room cabin on the Hubbard property. Her love of flowers resulted in beautiful flower and rock gardens at Wake Robin Cabin, where today many of those flowers still return each Spring. Taylor died on Tuesday, March 8, 1932 at 6:00 in the evening.

Explorer Artist Journalist Botanist

2022.59

Brass

Could be used as proof of membership in the order, souvenirs, or for gambling within the club.

1953.24

Person or Organization

White River Junction

Hartford

Windsor County

Vermont

United States of America

North America

19th Century

Overall

Brass

Could be used as proof of membership in the order, souvenirs, or for gambling within the club.

1953.24

Person or Organization

Newport

Orleans County

Vermont

United States of America

North America

19th Century

Overall Notes:

Copper

Could be used as proof of membership in the order, souvenirs, or for gambling within the club.

1953.24

Person or Organization

Newport

Orleans County

Vermont

United States of America

North America

19th Century

Overall Notes:

Aluminum

Could be used as proof of membership in the order, souvenirs, or for gambling within the club.

1953.24

Person or Organization

Newport

Orleans County

Vermont

United States of America

North America

19th Century

Overall

Copper

Could be used as proof of membership in the order, souvenirs, or for gambling within the club.

1953.24

Person or Organization

19th Century

Overall

Aluminum

Could be used as proof of membership in the order, souvenirs, or for gambling within the club.

1953.24

Freemasons, Rugg, Harold Goddard (1883-1957)

White River Junction

Hartford

Windsor County

Vermont

United States of America

North America

19th Century

Overall Notes:

Copper

Could be used as proof of membership in the order, souvenirs, or for gambling within the club.

1953.24

Person or Organization

White River Junction

Hartford

Windsor County

Vermont

United States of America

North America

19th Century

Overall

Metal

Could be used as proof of membership in the order, souvenirs, or for gambling within the club.

1953.24

Person or Organization

Poultney

Rutland County

Vermont

United States of America

North America

19th Century

Overall

Aluminum

Could be used as proof of membership in the order, souvenirs, or for gambling within the club.

1953.24

Person or Organization

Newport

Orleans County

Vermont

United States of America

North America

19th Century

Overall

Silver

Could be used as proof of membership in the order, souvenirs, or for gambling within the club.

1958.1

Person or Organization

Rutland

Rutland County

Vermont

United States of America

North America

Overall

Copper

Could be used as proof of membership in the order, souvenirs, or for gambling within the club.

1953.24

Person or Organization

Poultney

Rutland County

Vermont

United States of America

North America

19th Century

Copper

Could be used as proof of membership in the order, souvenirs, or for gambling within the club.

1953.24

Person or Organization

Newport

Orleans County

Vermont

United States of America

North America

19th Century

Overall

Bronze

Could be used as proof of membership in the order, souvenirs, or for gambling within the club.

1953.24

Person or Organization

Newport

Orleans County

Vermont

United States of America

North America

19th Century

Overall

Aluminum

Could be used as proof of membership in the order, souvenirs, or for gambling within the club.

1953.24

Person or Organization

Newport

Orleans County

Vermont

United States of America

North America

19th Century

Overall Notes:

Bronze

Could be used as proof of membership in the order, souvenirs, or for gambling within the club.

1953.24

Person or Organization

White River Junction

Hartford

Windsor County

Vermont

United States of America

North America

19th Century

Overall

Metal

Could be used as proof of membership in the order, souvenirs, or for gambling within the club.

1953.24

Person or Organization

Newport

Orleans County

Vermont

United States of America

North America

19th Century

Overall Notes:

Aluminum

1963.62

Paperboard, Wood

2016.42

Person or Organization

Barre City

Washington County

Vermont

United States of America

North America

1934

Bechard Trophies

Overall

Metal, Plastic

1994.54

Person or Organization

Brandon

Rutland County

Vermont

United States of America

North America

1914

Wilcox Silverplate Co.

Overall

Silverplate

Smith College (1902)

Berenice R. Tuttle devoted much of her life to community service and to running the family business, Tuttle Publishing. Born into the prominent Tuttle family of Rutland, she worked for the family's printing and publishing business as a young woman. She graduated from Smith College in 1902, having spent her summers working in the company's editorial department. After graduation, she worked for the company and for two years in the editorial department at the American Society of Mechanical Engineers in New York. In 1935, at the age of fifty-five, she became president of the Tuttle Company, when it was one of the largest publishers of genealogies in the country. Tuttle Publishing is still in business today. Beyond her family's business, Tuttle's two major interests in life were welfare work and women's clubs. One of the founders of the Rutland Woman's Club, she became president of the club from 1914-1916 and was president of the Vermont Federation of Woman's Clubs in 1931-1933. In addition, she served as one of the directors of the National Federation of Woman's Clubs and served as Vermont's parliamentarian. Tuttle's interest in child welfare led to her appointment as chair for Vermont's "Children's Year" in 1917. She helped organize the Vermont Conference of Social Work, served as president, and founded the Vermont Children's Aid Society. Tuttle's extensive civic involvement also included membership in the League of Women Voters, the American Association of University Women, and the Rutland Playground Association. She served on the Rutland school board for sixteen years, was the first commissioner of Girl Scouts in Rutland, founded the Zonta Club (a service organization for women), and served as director of the Vermont Tuberculosis Society and secretary of the Ladies' Hospital Aid Society. With a colonial ancestry, Tuttle was also regent of the Ann Story Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution, a member of the Vermont Society of Colonial Dames, and secretary of the Daughters of Colonial Wars. She contributed articles to various journals and magazines and became a member of the Vermont Writers' League. Tuttle was listed in Who's Who of New England Women and Who's Who of American Women. In 1920, Tuttle served as Secretary of the Republican State Convention and as an alternate to the Republican National Convention, which chose Warren G. Harding as presidential nominee and Calvin Coolidge as vice-presidential nominee. Tuttle also was involved with the Rutland Baptist Church, where she taught Sunday School, the Sunset House, a home for the elderly, and the Mid-Vermont Artists' Association. Devoted to making Vermont a better place, Berenice Tuttle was described in the Vermonter magazine in 1933 as "vigorous in administration, buoyant, irrepressible, adored."

Executive Editor

1971.30

Person or Organization

Burlington

Chittenden County

Vermont

United States of America

North America

Leather

Operated by two people: one who cranked the wheel to generate suction, and one who held the cleaning wand.

1947.12

Artist

1910

2017.19

Oil

Artist

1970-1980

B.A., M.M. and D.M.A. degrees in Music Composition from Brown University and the Hartt School for Music

Gwyneth Van Anden Walker, originally from New Canaan, Connecticut, is an eleventh-generation Quaker. She holds B.A., M.M. and D.M.A. degrees in Music Composition from Brown University and the Hartt School of Music. Walker taught for fourteen years at Hartt, the Hartford Conservatory and Oberlin College before she decided to compose music full-time in Braintree, Vermont. Walker recalls falling in love with music at the age of two, when her older sister began to take piano lessons. By the first grade, she had taught herself to put notes on a staff, and had begun composing her first pieces of music. Today, her instrumental and choral publications include more than one hundred and sixty commissioned works. She writes for solo instruments, chamber ensembles, full orchestras and bands. Adept at translating the words and sounds of poetry to music, she has composed works based upon texts ranging from the Bible to E. E. Cummings to traditional folk songs and ballads. Walker composes during the day and manages the business end of making music at night. In 2000, the Vermont Arts Council recognized Walker with its Lifetime Achievement Award. During 2005 and 2006, Walker traveled across the United States working with a variety of musicians as they premiered and recorded her works. The areas of focus were choral, chamber and orchestral music. She also worked on a project that created orchestral accompaniments for a number of choral and vocal works in her catalog of pieces. The "Songs for Women's Voices," "I Thank You God," "I Will Be Earth" and the song cycle, "No Ordinary Woman!" have all been orchestrated and were performed twice at Carnegie Hall during the 2005-6 season. Walker is currently working on several choral works: New England Journey (musical settings of the poetry of New England Poets for the Worcester, Mastersingers), A Heart in Hiding: The Passionate Love Poems of Emily Dickinson (for the Thomas Circle Singers - Washington, DC) and Songs to the Lord of Peace (on texts by Thomas Merton for the Fairfield University Glee Club - Fairfield, CT). The year 2007 is Walker's "60th Celebration Year".

Teacher Composer

2022.20

Person or Organization

Lake Champlain

Burlington

Chittenden County

Vermont

United States of America

North America

2021

Coach New York

Leather

BA, Middlebury College (1909) MA, Middlebury College (1942)

Hazel McLeod Wills was born in Goldsboro, North Carolina in 1886. She moved to Vermont when she was two years old. After attending Bennington High School, she went to Middlebury College where she was a 1909 Phi Beta Kappa graduate. She received an honorary M.A. degree from Middlebury in 1942. She supported the founding of Bennington College and served as a trustee to the school from 1946 to 1953. Wills was also a trustee at the University of Vermont for several years and was also awarded an honorary PhD from UVM. Hazel McLeod married William Wills in 1914. William Wills served as Governor of Vermont from 1941 to 1945. Together, they had one daughter, Annie Wills Pike. Wills was involved in numerous organizations including the United Counseling Service Board of Directors, the Vermont Association for the Crippled, the Vermont Council on World Affairs, the Vermont Historical Society, the Elizabeth Lund Home, and the Eastern Star. She also served as a director of Station WRY in Schenectady, New York. From 1937 to 1941 and from 1953 to 1955, Wills served as the state president of the American Association of University Women. William Wills died in 1946, but Hazel remained active in Republican Politics and the Republican Women's Club in Bennington County. In 1960, she was persuaded to run for the Vermont Senate, and she served one term. Wills also enjoyed writing and was the author of "Bill Wills & Co.", along with a weekly column in the Bennington Banner. At her death in 1969, the AAUW chapter of Vermont was given money to establish a scholarship in her name.

Philanthropist Director Politician

BA, Mount Holyoke (1936) Bank Street College of Education (1937)

Marguerite (Maggie) Hurrey Wolf was born in Montclair, New Jersey. She graduated from Mount Holyoke College and then did a year of post-graduate work at the Bank Street College of Education in New York City. She taught for five years at the Flank Street Nursery School and for two years at the nursery school at Sarah Lawrence College. She married George Wolf, a medical student at Cornell in 1939. Together, they had two daughters, Patty and Debbie. In 1948, they bought a small farm in Jericho Center, Vermont and became summer residents. When George became Dean of the College of Medicine at the University of Vermont, they purchased a house in South Burlington. In the attic of that house, they found a collection of historic letters and newspapers. All the letters were written to or by John Fay, whose father John, was the first American killed in the Battle of Bennington. John Jr. married Susannah (Sukey), and it was her story that started Wolf on her writing career. After seeing Wolf's story in the April 1958 issue of the Vermont Historical Society's News and Notes, Dorothy Canfield Fisher wrote to Wolf, encouraging and praising her. Since then, Wolf had more than 200 articles published in magazines such as Yankee, Vermont Life, Saturday Evening Post, Parents, Resident and Staff Physician, Early American Life, and others. Two of her books, "I'll Take the Back Road," and "Sheep's in the Meadow, Raccoons in the Corn" were chosen for Christian Herald's Family Book Club Selections. Her other books include: "How to be a Doctor's Wife Without Really Dying," "Vermont is Always With You," "Seasoned in Vermont," "At Home in Vermont," "Postmark Vermont," and "Window on Vermont." She was a guest columnist for Elders' Advocate, a publication of the Champlain Valley Agency on Aging and wrote the popular column, "Isn't Pushing 90 Exercise Enough?"

Teacher Author