Letter from William Croswell to James White, 1807 March 6

One-page draft of a letter from Croswell, in Liverpool, to James White of London requesting help in finding work.

Letter from Daniel White to his preceptor at Atkinson Academy, July 13, 1793

The name of Jabez Kimball is written on the verso, though it seems unlikely that he was White's preceptor, as they graduated in the same class from Harvard College.

Phi Beta Kappa dissertation on the study of history at Harvard, by Daniel White and John Collins Warren, February 21, 1797

This dissertation, apparently delivered at a Phi Beta Kappa assembly on February 21, 1797 by Warren and White, concerns the study of history at Harvard College at the time they were students. In this manuscript version of their dissertation, Warren and White bemoan the insufficient attention paid to the discipline of history by the students and faculty at Harvard.

Railway map of routes to the White Mountains, New Hampshire 1859 (Raster Image)

This layer is a georeferenced raster image of the historic paper map entitled: Railway map of routes to the White Mountains, by Harvey Boardman. It was published in 1859 by J.H. Bufford's Lith. Scale not given. Covers New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island, and portions of Maine, New York, and the province of Quebec, Canada. The image inside the map neatline is georeferenced to the surface of the earth and fit to the USA Contiguous Albers Equal Area Conic projection (Meters). All map collar and inset information is also available as part of the raster image, including any inset maps, profiles, statistical tables, directories, text, illustrations, or other information associated with the principal map. This map shows features such as roads, railroads, railroad stations, drainage, selected cities, towns, villages, and points of interest (hotels, houses, etc.), state boundaries, and more. Relief shown by hachures. Includes text on routes in margins. This layer is part of a selection of digitally scanned and georeferenced historic maps of New England from the Harvard Map Collection. These maps typically portray both natural and manmade features. The selection represents a range of regions, originators, ground condition dates, scales, and purposes.