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The archival collection,
compiled by
the Society for over seventy years, consists of documents and records related
to the people and town of Sandwich, New Hampshire. These include: scrapbooks,
letters, ledgers and account books, diaries and journals, church records, club
records, institutional records, maps, photographs, oral histories (both audio
and video), and other family manuscripts. In addition, files on family
genealogy, deeds, museum records, town records and a general subject file
category fills out this large and important collection.
Many of the documents in the archives have important state
and national relevance. In 2006, the Sandwich Historical Society co-sponsored a book which drew from
Corporal Lewis Smith’s 1864 diary, and 125 letters from the Society's collection which
detailed both family life in Sandwich and the 14th Regiment of NH
Volunteers’ experiences in Washington, New Orleans, on the Mississippi, in
Virginia’s Shenandoah Valley, and Savannah, Georgia.
The archives also hold original documents and records
from the Samuel H. Wentworth Library, Sandwich Home Industries (League of NH
Craftsmen), Sandwich Town Hall, the Federated Church of Sandwich, the North
Sandwich Friends, and historical
documents from the Leonard Boyd Chapman Wildbird Sanctuary.
The initial phases of the Archival Project have been to
focus on the reorganization of the Sandwich Historical Society documentary collection. Work to date has
been on the Family Papers and Collections, Town Records, Local Organizations and
Ledgers and Account books. The Archival Project committee will continue work
this year on the Map Case, the Small Collections, the Sandwich Historical
Society records, the Clippings
and Scrapbooks and the Genealogy Files.
Our non-circulating reference
library has holdings centered on Sandwich people and
history, in genealogy family and local history, town and state records,
manuscripts, documents, publications, and photographs of use to private and
professional researchers. A photocopier is available.
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