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Horse and wagon in front of current Catholic Church at 123 Main Street and Ellis house at 119 Main Street, 1899.

Postcard shows some of the damage that took place when Barre was flooded after heavy rainfall on April 7, 1912. Businesses reported significant losses from flooding. The photograph was taken across from "Union Clothing Co." and "Boston Fruit Store"…

Postcard shows men lined along the sidewalks on the business section of Main Street in Barre, Vermont. A car's wheels are immersed in water as it travels down the flooded street, while drawing the attention of onlookers.

The postcard shows the flooding that took place at Vermont Gas, situated at the back of Granite Street in Barre, Vermont, in 1912. The flood appears to have immersed the road entirely and to have flooded the lower level of surrounding buildings.

Recent scholarship has uncovered the lives of Black soldiers, farmers, landowners, voters, and taxpayers who were as much a part of the early history of this country and this state as the founders. John and Judith Lynde are not unique, and similar…

"Frog spit" in the Stone Bridge Brook. (Royce Nitrate V-53b)

"Frog spit" in the Stone Bridge Brook. (Royce Nitrate V-53a)

George Gilbert and family in his horse-drawn wagon behind Hunt Gilberts home on the Dorset (Vt) West Road.

Two photographs of the center of Barre taken forty years apart in 1881 and 1921 from the same spot behind the Congregational Church, accompanied by a description of the buildings in the earlier photograph. Note that the steeple of the church was…

Poster shows a soldier holding up a book and calling out, "Hey Fellows!", with a sailor sitting on the ground at his feet, reading. The soldier seems to be issuing a general call to both his fellow servicemen to come get books, as well as to his…

This 1914 article explains the notorious case of the Selectmen of Windsor v. Stephen Jacob, Esq. The defendant had held a negro woman, Dinah, as a slave for many years but when she became infirm the town became responsible for her care. The…

Bumper sticker created by a private enterprise for Madeleine Kunin's 1984 gubernatorial campaign. Although the sticker uses her trademark exclamation point, the "for VT" message and two lines were non-standard.