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View of the Barre-Montpelier Road looking toward Montpelier, 1990. Many traffic lights and directional signs hang overhead. Sings for McDonald's, Firestone, Harry's, Burger King, and a Chrysler/Plymouth/Dodge dealer can be seen.

Three army general hospitals operated in Vermont during the Civil War to provide care to wounded Vermonters away from the battle lines. One was the Sloan U.S. Hospital on the high plateau to the east side of Montpelier. The medical notebook of Henry…

A photograph of women, either members of the Philomathean Club (a collegiate literary society) or the Clio Club (a group dedicated to social and literary advancement), wearing men's suits. A list of the women in this photograph is in the repository.

This more modern color postcard features the first covered bridge you drive through on Cox Brook Road, which wends its way over to Moretown. The bridge was built in 1872 and spans the Dog River. On the back of the postcard someone has written that a…

A photograph of members of the Improved Order of Red Men, an organization that claims direct descent from the Sons of Liberty, and the Pocahontas Drill Team, their sister order. List of names in repository.

Color postcard of The Wayside Restaurant on Route 302 in Berlin, Vermont. The photograph features wood siding on the left side of the restaurant, large windows, the Wayside lettering on the brick chimney, along with an empty parking lot and hillside…

Color postcard with two images of Arnholm's Motel Antiques on the Barre-Montpelier Road/US Route 302 in Barre, Vermont. The postcard is portrait orientation, with the top half depicting an interior of a motel room. The walls are wood-paneled and…

Pioneer Mills from old Country Club Road, c. 1890.

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…

An enormous steel tank is shown in an alley next to the Smith & Cumings store at 305 North Main Street (since renumbered 297), Barre. The Paige & Campbell insurance agency is now (October 2017) located here. The Scampini Block can be seen at the…

DeSoto Plymouth dealer, 265 River Street, Montpelier, Vermont. Texaco gasoline bought by Donald Walker in 1953.

Red Arch Bridge from Berlin side of the Winooski River, c. 1899. Built in 1825, torn down in 1899. Montpelier Manufacturing Building is on the left