Dudley Leavitt (1772-1851) was a New Hampshire educator, newspaper editor, and polymath, who was the publisher of the Leavitt's Farmers Almanack -- one of America's earliest almanacs. Levitt's papers reside in the NH State Library. The documents represented in KSCommons were selected for use in the NH Citizen Archivists' Initiative.
The Holocaust and Genocide Studies Collection is compilation of original manuscript and printed materials that document primarily the Holocaust in Europe. The materials come from a variety of donors and sources that include Norma Shaken, Katherine Larrabee Foster, Bonnie Insull, and Mary Baldwin. The collection serves as study collection for faculty and students interested in studying the holocaust.
Photocopies of letters, notes, manuscripts, and drawings of the work of Hrolf Vaughan-Stevens researcher of the Orang Asli in the late 1800's and early 1900's.
The papers of Dr. James Smart, Emeritus History Professor of Keene State College. Smart was the author of Striving: Keene State College, 1909-1984: The History of a Small Public Institution. The papers mostly represent material on the college, primarily the History Department.
The manuscript collection of Jeffrey Friedman, Keene State College professor and poet. Included in the collection are multiple manuscripts from his books, Black Threads, Price of a Kiss, Taking Down the Angel, and Working in Flour.
Jennifer Duguid worked at the Rumah Sakit Orang Asli for one year beginning in September of 1965. This hospital, located in Gombak, Malaysia, is dedicated to serving the Orang Asli people. Before working in Malaysia, Duguid was employed as an Occupational Therapist at the Belfast City Hospital in Northern Ireland. While working at the Rumah Sakit Orang Asli, Duguid set up a school for the relatives of patients, where she taught reading, writing, and arts and crafts. She also assisted in teaching English to the Orang Asli Field Staff. The hospital also provided a home to a small number of paraplegic patients. When a new telephone exchange was installed at the hospital, Duguid arranged to have two of the paraplegics trained as operators. After returning to the Belfast City Hospital, Duguid took a community based position in a mainly rural area of South Antrim, which led her to train as a social worker. She worked in the capacity for several years until she married and raised her family. This collection contains the photographs and artifacts of Jennifer Duguid, collected during her time at the Rumah Sakit Orang Asli in Gombak, Malaysia. Included are 36 black and white photographs and 48 color slides.
Joan Flood Swetz was raised in suburban Philadelphia, PA. She received her B.S. in Nursing from Villanova University. Swetz was the third Peace Corps nurse to work at Rumah Sakit Orang Asli in Gombak, Malaysia, under the direction of Dr. Malcolm Bolton. She worked at the hospital between October 1964 and July 1966. Most patients treated at the hospital were affected by non-acute, chronic conditions, such as tuberculosis, malaria, or parasites. Swetz's duties were similar to those of Head Nurse, and included supervising the staff, performing special procedures, record keeping, ordering supplies, health and nutrition education, and some work in out-patient clinics. She married Frank Swetz, a Peace Corps Volunteer teaching in Malaysia. This collection was compiled by Joan Flood Swetz. The contents document Swetz's work as a nurse in the Peace Corps at Rumah Sakit Orang Asli, a hospital dedicated to serving the Orang Asli people in Gombak, Malaysia. Included are 110 black and white photographs, 7 color photographs, 11 articles from newspapers and magazines, 2 letters of correspondence, and 23 typed pages of excerpts from Dr. Malcolm Bolton's journal. Some photographs are accompanied by descriptions by Swetz. Also included are two typed pages written by Swetz. One page includes biographical information on Angan binte Botek, a patient with a cardiac condition who travelled to the United States for possible treatment. The second page includes biographical information about Swetz's time as a Peace Corps Volunteer Nurse and information about Dr. Bolton's work at the hospital.
John Henry Brandt was a professional career officer with the U.S. State Department, the U.S. Public Health Service and the U.S. Military. His government service includes eight years spent working in Southeast Asia in the 1960's, three years in the Micronesian Islands and ten years in the United States, primarily among the Navajo, Ute, Dakota, Chippewa, Pueblo and Apache. During his service overseas he collected ethnological materials in New Guinea, Micronesia and Southeast Asia. These collections were deposited in the American Museum of National History, the Milwaukee Museum, the Kenosha Museum, the Anthropology Museum of Mexico and the Royal Ontario Museum. John H. Brandt has published widely in scientific journals on ornithology, entomology, ethnology and epidemiology. His anthropological publications include "The Negrito of Peninsular Malaysia", Journal Siam Society 49: 123-158 and "The Southeast Asian Negrito", Journal Siam Society 53: 27-43, 1965. A member of the Inter-University Southeast Asia committee during the Vietnam War period, he is currently a member Emeritus of the Explorers Club/NYC and a Research Associate with the Denver Museum of Natural History.
Files pertaining to Keene resident and civil rights martyr Jonathan Myrick Daniels. The collection contains his personal writings, research material on him and his family, correspondence by Daniels and about him, clippings, and other artifacts.
Kathryn J. Henderson was born on September 20th, 1944 in Utica, NY and attended the School of Nursing in Marcy, NY. At the age of 22, she spent two years as a teaching nurse at the Gombak Aborigine Hospital in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. During this time she also travelled to China, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Cambodia, Thailand, and much of Europe. When she returned to the US, she earned her BA in Nursing from Syracuse University and later a Master's degree in Nursing from the University of Maryland and a Master's in Theology from St. Mary's Seminary. She lived in Maryland for 34 years and worked as a HIV Coordinator and RN for the Baltimore VA Medical Center for 23 years. In 2006, she moved to Cold Brook, NY where she worked on land preservation. She passed away on October 1st, 2013.
The papers of Marie Harris, former poet laureate of the state of New Hampshire. Included in the collection is correspondence, poetry and prose writing, papers related to her published works, clippings, and her planners and journals among many other series.
The papers of Patricia Fargnoli, former New Hampshire Poet Laureate (December 2006 to March 2009) and professor at Frost Place Poetry Festival, New Hampshire Institute of Art, and the Lifelong Learning Program at Keene State College.
