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Historical Lawrence now available online

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The digitized, searchable, historical database of

Lawrence head

…is here!

Check out more than 125 years of Lawrenceville history as seen through the eyes of student writers by going to digitalarchives.lawrenceville.org. Alumni, take a walk down memory lane of Lawrenceville as it was in your senior year — or experience the school in the time of your parents or grandparents!

Thank you, John Stephan ’59 and Barbara Stephan, for supporting what we hope to be the first of several digitization projects for The Lawrenceville School Archives.

Comments and questions should be directed to Jacqueline Haun, School Archivist, at jhaun (at) awrenceville.org.

University of Wisconsin digitizes papers of Aldo Leopold, L. 1905

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The following news comes from The National Historical Publications and Records Commission concerning the papers of Aldo Leopold, Lawrenceville Class of 1905, whose papers are held by the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s University Archives.  Leopold was a ground-breaking environmentalist and author of A Sand County Almanac.
“There are some who can live without wild things, and some who cannot. These essays are the delights and dilemmas of one who cannot.”

So begins the Foreword of “A Sand County Almanac by Aldo Leopold, which he dated as March 4, 1948. Six weeks later, Leopold, one of the most influential natural conservationists of the 20th century, passed away.

Leopold’s legacy spans the disciplines of forestry, wildlife management, conservation biology, sustainable agriculture, restoration ecology, private land management, environmental history, literature, education, esthetics, and ethics.

Through a grant from the NHPRC, the Aldo Leopold Foundation contracted with the University of Wisconsin Digital Collections Center (UWDCC) to digitize the Leopold papers. The Leopold Collection (http://uwdc.library.wisc.edu/collections/AldoLeopold/project) houses the raw materials that document not only Leopold’s rise to prominence but the history of conservation and the emergence of the field of ecology from the early 1900s until the middle of the 20th century.

– Courtesy of the  National Historical Publications and Records Commission

For more background on this particular project, see this 2007 news article.

The digital collections themselves may be searched here.

Let it snow!

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With what is promising to be another intense snowstorm moving onto the East Coast, the Stephan Archives pulled out some of the photos from past historical snowstorms that have hit Lawrenceville, including one in 1902 and the renown Blizzard of March 1914.

Photo taken on Main Street looking South following 1902 snowstorm.

Photo taken on Main Street looking South following 1902 snowstorm.

Undated early snowstorm photo in the village of Lawrenceville, c. 1900

Undated early snowstorm photo in the village of Lawrenceville, c. 1900

Looking up Green Street following the March 1914 blizzard.

Looking up Green Street following the March 1914 blizzard.

We have no idea who "Mr. Woods" is, but we do know this photo is from the blizzard that struck New Jersey in March 1914.

We have no idea who “Mr. Woods” is, but we do know this photo is from the blizzard that struck New Jersey in March 1914.

Photos from the Coachman collection

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While researching another topic, archives staff “discovered” the Coachman collection, a seris of candid travel photos taken by brothers Walter Fossin Coachman L 1913 and Charles Rogers Coachman L 1917.  The photos appear to have been taken on various summer trips between 1913 and 1920 and feature such locales as Glacier National Park, Atlantic City and Woodstown, New Jersey. A few of the most interesting photos have been scanned and uploaded here.