The Team
The 1853 Collection began as an Undergraduate Research initiative at Southern New Hampshire University in 2013. Dr. Susan Cook and archivist Chris Cooper developed the collection with the goal of providing an opportunity for undergraduates to experience working with rare materials.
In 2019, Dr. Liz Henley joined the team as we undertook a new phase of the project, and we invited students to join in digitizing, transcribing, and visualizing the collection. Undergraduates Lauren Borry, Ian Hamblen, River Matis, Abby Roderick, and Ryan Turner began working on the project in the fall of 2019.
Collection Contents
Periodicals
- Bleak House, No. VIII, October
- Harper's New Monthly Magazine, June, 1852
- Household Words, September 11, 1852
- The Illustrated London News, January 10, 1852
- The Illustrated London News, June 18, 1853
- Medical Times & Gazette, September 30, 1854
- The Supplement to The Illustrated London News, June 18, 1853
- The Times, August 11, 1853
Photographs
Miscellaneous
Bound Volumes
- The Art of Landscape Painting in Oil Colours, 1852
- Bleak House, Charles Dickens, privately bound, 1853
- Bleak House, Charles Dickens, bound by the publisher, 1853
- The Bleak House Advertiser, privately bound, 1853
- Cakes and Ale, Douglas Jerrold, 1852
- Englishwoman's Domestic Magazine, Volumes I and II, 1852-1853
- An Essay on the Evils of Popular Ignorance, John Foster, 1853
- European Life and Manners, Henry Coleman, Volumes I and II, 1850
- Little Women from the Bleak House of Charles Dickens, Dame Durden
- London Labour and the London Poor, Henry Mayhew, Volume I, 1851
- Mr. Sponge's Sporting Tour, Robert Smith Surtees, 1853
- The Pearl of Days, Barbara H. Farquhar, 1850
- Punch, January - June 1853