Abbot Block
Accidents
Advertising (3)
African American
All American City Award Ames Hill

Animals
Aqueduct System
Arch Street
Archaeological Projects/Bradley Lot Archery Building
Architecture
Armory, The
Art
Auditorium/Town Hall
Automobile History
Aviation
Aviation (Brattleboro)
Ballad of Vermont
Bandstand – Common
Banks – See List
Beal House
Before Our Time (2)
Belle of Brattleboro
Black Brattleboro History – (See African American)
Black Mountain Estates
Boating on the Connecticut River
Books
Bookmobile
Bradley House
Brattleboro Anniversary (250th) Brattleboro Country Club
Brattleboro 1852 (Rice File)
Brattleboro General Info (2)
Brattleboro Government [incl. charter] Brattleboro Grand Lists
Brattleboro Guides
Brattleboro History – Miscellaneous Brattleboro Hist – Newspaper Clippings Brattleboro History – Personal Histories Brattleboro Housing Authority Brattleboro Municipal Center

FILE BOXES INDEX

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Brattleboro Museum & Art Center Brattleboro P.H.O.T.O.S. Brattleboro Plaza
Brattleboro Town Planning, (1, 2) Brattleboro Town Surveys, (1, 2) Bridges (1, 2)

Brooks House
Brooks Library – AB-35
Brookside Park
Buildings
Businesses [see separate listing] Carriage Hill
Cemeteries, Miscellaneous (PHC AB41) Centreville
Central Vermont Public Service Chamber of Commerce
Chelsea House (AB-44 in backroom) Chestnut Hill
Churches (see separate listing)
Civil War
Civil War Hospital
Civil War Monuments
Clark-Canal Historic District
Clock, Main Street
Collyer Collection—Box alone Communes
Connecticut River
Cooking
Crown Collection—Box alone
Currency and Coins
Curtains
Dairies
Diners
Downtown Brattleboro
Driscoll Fund
Drop-In Center – see Groundworks Dummerston [incl. Dummerston Hill] Eastman House daguerreotypes Entertainment
Envelopes
Epidemics
Esteyville (Holden Collection), 1, 2

–Boxes alone

Last printed 12/2/21

Fairgrounds
Fallout Shelters
Famolare, Joseph, Vt. Agric. Bus/Educ. Farms
Festivals (Book Fairs, Lit Fests, etc.) Fire Information
Fire Stories
Flood Plain Information
Forest Square
Fort Dummer, 1, 2
Fresh Air Children
Funeral Homes
Gas Works Information Geology—Windham County Goodenough Collection—Box alone Groundworks Collaborative
Guilford
Harris Hill—See skiing
Hayes Bigelow Collection Hayes-Noyes-Mead Collection
Hayes Tavern
High Point Estates
Hinsdale, NH
Hippie Culture
Hogback Mountain
Holbrook Foundation
Holbrook Notes from Cabot Books Holidays
Holton Memorial Home
Horticulture
Hospital, Brattleboro Memorial, 1, 2, 3 Hotels – See Lodging
Houses (see separate listing – box alone) Immigration
Indentures
Indian History
Industries
Insurance
Integration – Racial
Interstate 91
Invitations
Irish Americans
Island Park
Justices of the Peace
Kane Pine
Kipling/Naulakha – Box Alone

Kit Houses
Korean War
Labor
Land Conservation
Land Records
Legal, 1, 2, 3
Letters, 1, 2, 3
Library, Brooks Memorial, 1, 2. 3 Licenses

Lighting
Lindenhurst
Living Memorial Park Lodging
Log Cabin Trucks Logging
Maple Syrup
Maps
Marlboro
Medical
Melrose Hotel/Hospital

[See Village Green file] Menus
Military
Mills

Mountain Stone
Murders
Music
Music Concerts
Mutual Aid
Mysteries
Naulakha – see Kipling box Newfane, Vermont Newspapers Information Octagon Houses

Pageant – AB-79
Parades
Pay As You Throw/Trash Pepe, Faith (Transcriptions) Photography
Photos
Pines Cabins, The
Pine Heights
Police Information
Politics
Post Office
Printing, Brattleboro

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Printing, History, Hildreth
Printing, History, Holbrook/Fessenden Programs
Prohibition
Property Appraisal Disputes
Protests
Publications
Putney, Vermont
Railroads, 1, 2
Real Estate
Receipts – Old
Recreation
Refuge Grove
Reminiscences of Brattleboro, 1866 Rescue Inc.
Retreat, Brattleboro, box & 2 books River Garden, Gibson
Rivers
Sanborn Maps
Scholarships
Scott Farm
Senior Scope
Skiing – Harris Hill
Snow Angel
Solar Hill
Soldiers’ Monument
Spirit of Life
Sports, 1, 2
Stamps
Stock Certificates
Stories
Storms – Box alone
Street Beat
Streets and Blocks
Strolling of the Heifers
Taxes
Telephone/Telegraph
Temperance
Terraces of the West River
Theatres
Theatre, The Little
Theatre, Paramount
Thompson Nursing School
Thompson Trust
Thunderbolt
Tools

Torch, The Olympic
Town Appointments
Town Bonds
Town Clerk Correspondence Town Crier

Town Farm (See Farms) Townshend, VT
Town Hall (See Auditorium) Transportation

Tri-State Pictorial
Trolleys
Tuberculosis Camp
Tusk, The
Underground Railroad, 1, 2 Union Station—Box Alone U.S.S. Vermont

Valley Fair, 1, 2
Vermont – Windham Co. – History

(box alone)
Vermonter, The
Vernon Dam
Veterans Housing
Village Green
Visitors – Special
Vital Records
Voting Information
Walking Tours
Wantastiquet Golf Club
War Memorial
Watercure Info – box alone (1&2) Watercures – AB-2 Wesselhoeft Water Department, 1, 2

Water Wheels/Steam Engines- See Mills Wedding Info
Wellman Items
Wells Fountain

Wells Fountain Park
West Brattleboro
West River Valley
Whetstone Brook
Whitingham, Vermont
Wilder Building
Wilder Farm (See Clapp Family) Windham County

Windham, Windsor Housing Trust Women in Vermont

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Womens’ Land Army
World War I
World War II – Box Alone
Yesterday and Today –Then and Now Sr. Scope – 1907 calendar

List of Banks

Bank of Brattleboro
Brattleboro Savings Bank Brattleboro Savings & Loan Brattleboro Trust Company
First National Bank of Brattleboro First Vermont Bank
Peoples National Bank
Vermont Peoples National Bank Vermont Bank & Trust Co Vermont National Bank
Vermont Savings Bank
West River Bank
Windham County Bank

Businesses

R. M. Alexander Plumbing American Optical
Avenue Grocery – Closed Bakers – Closed

Barrows Coal Co.
Berkshire Hathaway, Inc.
Bickford Knitting Machine Co. Bloomer/Chatterton, Inc.
Boise Cascade
Book Cellar
C.E. Bradley
Brattleboro Co-op.
Brattleboro Creamery
Brattleboro Development Credit Corp. Brattleboro Drug Company Brattleboro Gas & Light Co. Brattleboro Granite Company Brattleboro Jelly Company Brattleboro Public Market
Brattleboro Sewing Machine Co. Brattleboro Tool Company
Brown & Roberts Hardware
Brown Photography, Lewis

Buddington Grist Mill Bushnells Store
Carpenter Organ Company Cersosimo Lumber Company Cheney & Clapp

C.F. Church Manufacturing Co. Clawson-Hamilton Co.
F. Coombs and Son
Cotton Mill

Crosby Milling Company Crystal Springs Ice
C & S Grocers, Inc. Custom Laundry

DeWitt Grocery Company Dunham Brothers
Dutch Bake Shop
C.H. Eddy Co.

S.W. Edgett & Co.
S. H. Edwards Manufacturing Emerson & Son
Estey Organ [see separate listing] Fishers Market
Fleming Oil Co.
Furgat Tractor & Equipment Co.
Gas House
Haskins and Schwenk, Attorneys
E. L. Hildreth & Co.
Holden Martin Lumber Co. Holstein-Friesian Association (2) Hooker Corser, Mitchell Overhall Co. Carl S. Hopkins – Seed Gardens Houghton Simonds Store
The Old Jelly Mill
Johnson & Hallgren Painting
Latchis Theater
Lawton Quality Cleaners
J.E. Mann, Inc.
Marsh Brick Yard
Milk Plant, The
Minshall Organ Company Montgomery Ward Company
Pages Ice Cream
Purebreed Livestock Sales Co. Richards Group
R.S. Roberts
Rockwell & Sherwin

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Roots Pharmacy
Rule Factory
Sam’s Outdoor Outfitters
Schorling, Carl
Smith, Charles Alvah, Clock Maker S. A. Smith Manufacturing Company Spencer Press
S.M. Spencer Stencils
Stephen Greene Press
Stevens & Associates
Stockwell Store
Superior Material Spreader Company Templeton Furniture Company
I.N. Thorn
Van Doorn, Anthony
Vaughn and Burnett
Vermont Country Deli
Vermont Loan & Trust Co.
Vermont Printing Company
Vintons Paper Mill
White River Chair Company Miscellaneous Businesses (2)

Churches

Advent (Seventh Day)
Baptist, West Brattleboro
Centre Congregational, 1, 2
Community Bible Chapel
First Baptist, Main Street, 1, 2
First Church of Christ Scientist
First Congregational, W. Brattleboro,1, 2 First United Methodist

St. Michaels Catholic
St. Michaels Episcopal
Swedish Congregational, Strand Avenue Tent Tabernacle
Trinity Lutheran
Unitarian/Universalist
Miscellaneous Churches

Genealogy (Notebooks are in small bookcase in front of desk)
Arey
Bailey, Farmer – notebook

Balestier Barrett

Barrows/Cox
Beal
Bliss
Briggs
Brungardt – notebook Burnett

Butterfield Cabot Carpenter Chamberlain Chase

Clapp (Notebook) (folder) Colburn
Cook
Corse

Cox ( see Barrows) Crosby (Notebook) Crown (Notebook) – 2 Crowningshield Cushman

Deyo
Dickinson
Drown
Eames (Notebook) Ellis

Elmer
Esterbrook Farnum
Folsom
Fuller (Notebook) Gates

Goodhue (Notebook) Harris
Haskell
Heaphy

Hildreth Holden Holland Holton Hopkins Horton Houghton How/Howe Hunt Johnson Kathan

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Knapp (Notebook) Leach
Long
McCune

Minihan
Moon
Newton
Nye
Parker
Patrick
Plummer
Potter
Powers
Rice
Richardson – see also Esterbrook Robbins

Sawtell
Sawyer
Shelley
Smith, Carrie
Smith, John Stanly/Standley
Staples
Stockwell (also Notebook) Stoddard (Notebook) Thomas

Thurber
Thurston
Wales & May Warren Wateroff/Longfellow Whitney

Wilder Williams Wright

Houses

Atwood
Averill
Beal
Blake
Bradley Brookside Terrace Burnham

Caruso Childs

Cobblestone Crosby Diamondstone Dickinson Dunham Estey

Folsom House Goodhue House Greene
Grout

Holbrook
Hooker
Inwood
Locke
Octagon Houses (see in Houses file) Parkinson

Red Cross (Crosby) Red House, The Reed Castle
Slack

Starr Stockwell Stoddard (2) Terrace (The) Tyler

Organizations

American Legion
The Banjo Ukulele Club
B.P.O.E.
Better Brattleboro Campaign Bratleboro Civic Improvement League Brattleboro Historical Society Brattleboro Outing Club
Brattleboro Rifle Club
Brattleboro Womans Club
Business & Professional Womens Club Chautauqua
Civilian Conservation Corps (C.C.C.) Colonial Dames
D.A.R.
Eastern Star
Exchange Club
Farm Bureau
Grand Army of the Republic
Grange (see boxes AB-63, St.Rm.2)

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I.O.O.F.
Knights of Columbus
Ladies Enterprise Society Masonic
Rebekahs
Red Cross
Rotary Club
Round Table of Unity
Social Security
Stamp Club
Sunshine Society Tuberculosis Camp
V.F.W.
Vermont Wheel Club (1, 2) Y.M.C.A.
Y.W.C.A.
Miscellaneous Organizations

Personalities

Abbott Family
Aiken, George Anderson, George Riley Allis, Marguerite Austine, Col. William Bailey, Emma
Bailey, George “Farmer” Baker, Edward
Baker, James
Banslaben, James Barber, Merrill “Mezzy” Belogour, Paul
Berman, Leo
Boyden, Sarah Osgood Bradley, Richards Brasor, Charles J. Brasor-Pratt, Harriett Brattle, William Brosnahan, John R Brooks, George Jones Brooks, William S. Brown, Raymond L. Bunker, Ellsworth Burnett, Dr. Grace Bussino, Melinda
Cabot, Mary R. – AB-16

Cabot, William Brooks – AB-15 Campbell, Bruce
Cappy, Annette
Carbone, Jerry

Carnahan, John
Casey, Mary Cersosimo, Tony Chapman, Judge Ralph Cheney, Walter Childs, Walter H. Clapp Family

Clark, Evelyn
Community Leaders, 1939-40 Conant, William
Coolidge, Pres. Calvin
Cox, Douglas
Croker, Gertrude
Crosby Family
Crowell, George E.
Crown, Benjamin (see Crown coll) Culbertson, Ely
Cummings, Charles
Davenport, Chas Newton DeAngelis, Joseph
Diamondstone, Peter
Dickerman, Dr. Lemuel
Dummer, William
Dunklee, Ernest W.
Eames Collection
Easterly, Thomas Martin Eastwood, Rev. James
Eaton, Dorman B.
Edwards, Clarissa
Edwards, Edward
Elliot, Samuel
Elmer, Stella
Evans, Emery
Fairbanks Family
Farr, Lovell
Fisher, Alvan
Fisher, Jean Pratt
Fisk, Col. James, Jr.
Fisk, Wilbur
Freeman, Mary Wilkins
Freme, Martha
French, George

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French, William
Frost, Chas. C.
Fuller, Abby
Fuller, Ida Mae
Fuller, Levi K.
Gannett, Robert T.
Gibbs, “Ellie”
Gibson Family
Gilbert, Kyle
Gilfeather Family
Goddard Family
Green, Hetty
Greene, Stephen
Greenleaf, Stephen
Grout, Rev. Lewis
Gunzinger, August
Hamilton, Richard
Hansen, Fran Lyngaard
Hardie, Robert Gordon
Harris, Fred (Scrapbooks AB-1) Haskins, Carroll

Hayes, Rutherford B. Hendricks, Walter Henkel Family Hertzberg, Gustav Hesse, Karen

Hines, Alonzo H.
Hogle, Dr. John R.
Holbrook, Frederick, Gov. Holbrook, John, Deacon Hooker, Col. George
Houpis, John Jr.
Houghton, Fred
Howe, C.L.
Howe, Mary (Scrapbook AB-14) Howell, William Dean
Hughes, Orrin Burton
Hunt Family (Jonathan/Arad) Hunt Family (Richard Morris/

William Morris/Leavitt) James, T. E.

Johnson, Amy
Juscen, Stanley
Kipling, Rudyard – see Kipling box

see Naulakah box Lacoy, Albert

Lamour, Dorothy
Lawrence, Charles and Frank Mayor, Archer
Mead, Larkin G., Jr.
Mellen, Helen
Merriam, Dr. S.D.
Michelman, Richard E.
Miller Family
Mitchell, Richard
Moody, Malcolm
Moyse Family
Newton, William Sawyer Nichols, Clarina Howard Nichols, Joann H.
O’Connor, Thomas
O’Connor Family
O’Keefe, Patrick
Patch, Bob
Pepe, Faith
Perkins, Charles
Pestle, Ray
Pettee Family
Phelps, Gen. John
Powers, Jennie
Pratt, Col. Walter
Randall, Robert
Raymond, Charles
Remillard, Bernard
Rice, Howard C. / Howard C., Jr. Rice, Marion McCune Richardson, Wm Henry
Robb, Herman
Root, Frederick E.
Rumler, Robert
Runnion, Norman
Schroeder, Janet
Schuster, C.F. Family
Serkin, Rudolf
Sherri, Madame-AB-6,7 Simonds, Charles F.
Slason, Mary E.
Smith Family
Smith, George H.
Snow, Dan
Stark, Molly
Stearns, Dr. Samuel

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Stellman, Maxine
Stockwell, “Aunt” Sally
Stowe, Harriet Beecher
Sugland, John G.
Tarbox, Jessie
Tasker Family
Taver, Charles Warde Thayer-Deyo Families
Thayer, Porter
Thompson, Thomas
Thoreau, Henry D.
Thornfield, Anna
Toedt, H.F.C.
Traver, Charles
Tudor, Tasha
Tyler, Jane Miles
Tyler, Royall
Waite, Silas
Walker, Robert W.
Warren Family Info
Waterman Family Info
Watson, James
Wellman, Richard
Wells, Rev. William
Wells, Samuel
Wheeler, Dr. Philip
Whitney, Edwin
Wilder Farm [See Clapp Family] Withington, Nelson
Yauvey, Leslie
Miscellaneous Personalities

Schools

Academy
Austine
Brattleboro Academy
Brattleboro Business Institute Brattleboro High (Annual Reports AB5) Burnside Military
Canal Street
Clawson-Hamilton Business
Esteyville
Free Kindergarten
Glenwood Ladies/Classical Seminary Grammar School, West Brattleboro,

Elementary

Green Street
High Street
Kurn Hattin Homes
Mark Hopkins College
Sarah Hunt School
Marlboro College
Melrose Seminary
North Street
Oak Grove
P.T.A.
Reed Street School
St. Michaels High
S.I.T. (School for International Training) Amelia Tyler School Windham/Landmark College
Windham Regional Career Center
The Winston Prouty Center Miscellaneous Schools
School District Reports

Telephone Directories, 1919-1998

Bottom shelf

Town Reports, 1875-2008 – Boxes in right back room

Miscellaneous Boxes – Bottom Shelf

Brattleboro Outing Club, 1, 2, 3, 4 Photo Journal Material
Then and Now
Vermont History ] filed on west Winter Carnival, 1, 2 ] window sill Yesterday & Today/Plus Misc.

Top Shelf Collections

Collyer Crown Goodenough

Estey Boxes Index
Box 1
Advertising
Articles About
Baptist Church
Benefit Association Booklets/Brochures (small)

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Burdett vs. Estey
Cancelled Checks
Employees
Estey Co. Correspondence/Personal

Box 2

Estey Fest
Estey Genealogy (Miscellaneous) Estey Guard/Fuller Battery/

National Guard of Vermont Estey Hall—Shaw University,

North Carolina Estey Homes

Estey Letters (and stock certif.) Estey Mansion (Florence Terrace) Estey Organ Corp. (Del.-1957 Estey Organ Museum

Estey Piano Company Exhibit at BMAC Factory, The

Box 3

Family Information I
Family Information II
Fire, Estey Buildings, 1991
Fire, Melodeon Factory, 1864 Haskell, Charles S./William Hewitt, Elroy E.
Hewitt and Wessel
History of the Company
Music Trade Review
Organ Info Misc., Esteys
Organ Info Misc., Not Esteys Organ Installations, Esteys
Organ Photos, Miscellaneous Pigeon Correspondence, J.J. Estey Pipe Organs
Reed Organs

Box 4

Renaud, Hyacinth Material Sikes, Genevieve Collection Tuning Forks
“250,000” Celebration

Responses to the Invitations “250,000” Organ Celebration

Waring Dissertation Wessell, John

Box 5

Booklets/Brochures (large) End of Estey (notebook)

Box 6

Miscellaneous Estey Papers

ES-1

Pipes, clamps, etc.

ES-2

Misc. Artifacts – larger box

ES-4

Misc. paper items – flat

ES-6

Estey Banner Fuller Flag

ES-7

Charles Henkel drawings

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