Welcome to the Keene State College Archive and Special Collections website!

 

COLLEGE ARCHIVES

College Archives collects and preserves the records of Keene State College that document the history of the school from its inception in 1909 and up the present. The records include administrative and department records, reports and publications, photographs and scrapbooks, and school memorabilia. The Archives also holds a collection of course catalogs, school yearbooks, and student newspapers. 

 

SPECIAL COLLECTIONS

The Special Collections consists of rare and unique books, papers, and manuscripts that were acquired for their historical, cultural, and scholarly importance and to support the college curriculum and undergraduate research. The Special Collections features a rare book library that includes the Preston New Hampshire History Collection and the Frank Shuffelton Modern Poetry Collection. The holdings also include the papers of political activist Doris “Granny D” Haddock, civil rights activist Jonathan Daniels, award-winning journalist William Seamans, NH film producer Louis de Rochemont, and NH Poet Laureates William Butts, Patricia Fargnoli, and Marie Harris. The Special Collections also houses the internationally-recognized Orang Asli Archive, a research collection dedicated to preserving the history and culture of the indigenous peoples of Peninsular Malaysia.

 

DIGITAL COLLECTIONS

KSCommons is a digital resource tool used to collect and archive the electronic records of enduring value produced by the academic and administrative departments of the College. KSCommons also provides a means to accumulate and share the research, scholarly, and artistic output of the Keene State academic community.

 

CONTACT

Mailing Address:

College Archives & Special Collections

Wallace E. Mason Library

Keene State College

229 Main Street / MS 3201

Keene, New Hampshire  03435 USA

 

Telephone Number:

+1(603)358-2717

 

Email Address:

archivist (at) keene.edu

  • Sitting on stairs to house
    On reverse: Detail of Semai house (1). Porch and stairs. Note the flattened bamboo wall and the sliding door of bamboo slats. Porch and door are optional. The woman on the steps is playing the Karab, a two-stringed lute. Chaba' Jinter, Pahang, 1962.
  • Building house
    On reverse: Building the house (5) Laying the floor
  • Goat house
    On reverse: Goat house (3) A side view of the second goat house. Notice the wing on the house in background. Such wings are a frequent feature of Semai houses in this area, representing an intermediate form between the longhouses of the Temiar to the north and the nuclear family. one-pitch houses of Perak.
  • Goat house
    On reverse: Goat house (2) The other goat house at Chaba' Jinter. Front view. 1962.
  • Detail of house
    On reverse: Detail of Semai house (3) Interior of S's old house after the thatch had been removed.
  • Kids on porch
    On reverse: Details of Semai house (2) Floor, porch and stairs. Chaba Jinter, 1962.
  • Detail of house
    On reverse: Detail of Semai house (4). Another view of S's old house. Bamboo water tubes are stacked in one corner. A backbasket (raga') lies on the floor. A water gourd (labu' teio, Lagenaria vulgaris; also called labu' s l in a a cultivar whose fruit and leaf are eaten) is on a shelf in the background. Seed maize hangs from the rafters. An earthen hearth is in the right foreground.
  • Houses along river
    On reverse: Semai houses (1). The northern part of the settlement at Chaba Jinter whose southern half is pictured in Dentan (1968:16). Two men in the foreground are poling a raft (rakid) to the settlement across the Telom River. 1962.
  • Houses along river
    On reverse: Semai houses (3) The small settlement across the Telom from Chaba Jinter. Rafts in foreground.
  • Semai houses
    On reverse: Semai houses (2) Looking northward in Chaba' Jinter. Notice that the roof poles in the farthest house extend to the ground and that smoke billows from its chimneyless roof. 1962.
  • Semai house
    On reverse: Semai houses (5) Endview of a longhouse at Chaba' Jinter. 1962
  • Semai house
    On reverse: Semai houses (4) A nuclear family house at Chaba' Jinter. The poles extending from the roof offset the steep slope to the river. 1962
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