Norwich University Archives & Special Collections

05/29/2026

May's Mining for Old, Sharing with Care, is available: https://guides.norwich.edu/miningforold

Try to find the note that explains what these random images have in common!

05/18/2026

This 1939 video from the Porter Hartwell Adams Papers has a most intriguing title card: The Donor of 16mm Film Reel equipment, President Adams, shoots the custodian, who in turn gets the donor and "Pat" Carleton.

After watching the video, the description still doesn't make much sense. Students appear to be surveying, then a cut to a basketball game. Any guesses?

Dr. Charles S. Carleton, class of 1896, taught civil engineering at Norwich for nearly half a century and was popularly known as "Pat" to generations of NU students.

05/12/2026

05/12/2026

May is National Wildfire Awareness Month. Even with all our rain and snow in Vermont, we still get wildfires. Here are some images from Spring 1968 labeled "Fire Fighting" in our Norwich University Photograph Collection. Although if you look closely at the group shots, they may have been having more fun playing around than working hard...

04/30/2026

Our latest Mining for Old Blog is out! The Chameleon: Preserving Norwich's Artistic Voice explains the work we have been doing to digitize is valuable piece of NU's past and present, the special role it plays in our history, and what you might be able to do to help us complete our collection.

https://guides.norwich.edu/miningforold

04/28/2026

Every semester we add a question to our white board in the Archives. This semester: What NU sport do you follow? We had great responses and here are some photos from the Archives to match. We do not have anything for Drone Team yet!

04/21/2026

The Archives has been proud to support the Partridge School of Outdoor Learning as they have developed courses and gathered materials to coincide with our founding principles. As our provost, Dr. Williams, stated in Carrying on the Partridge Idea in the Reveille, "the University’s pilot program for summer 2026, combines academic exploration, practical leadership development, and civic responsibility through immersive outdoor education. Building upon Partridge’s vision of educating “citizen-soldiers,” it integrates Norwich’s military heritage with contemporary outdoor education to create citizen-leaders prepared for both civilian and military service."



https://home.norwich.edu/on/academics/outdoor-school
https://www.norwich.edu/news/carrying-partridge-idea

04/01/2026

We have posted our latest blog: https://guides.norwich.edu/miningforold

"The Norwich University Archives is proud to collect the correspondence of our alumni and families throughout the decades and battles. We're showcasing just a few here from the Vietnam War."

03/19/2026

We are proud of NU hockey! We currently have an exhibit in the Archives of images from the 60s and 70s. Come up and check them out.

03/04/2026

It is easy to come across fun stuff in the Archives when you are researching something else. These photos are from late 70s era Vermont College taken during Mountain Day. The September 1980 Record described it:

Every fall classes come to a halt at Vermont College on
one special day - Mountain Day. It's a traditional VC outing
to Mount Mansfield and Spruce Peak located in Stowe, Vermont.
Faculty, staff and students climb the mountains, ride
down the famed Alpine Slide and enjoy an old-fashion,ed picnic. This year 175 members of the Vermont College community
journeyed to the mountains and a good time was had by
all.