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The Archival Collections
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The archival collections consist of thousands of original manuscripts, diaries, orderly books, maps, and photographs. The manuscript collection includes correspondence of both officers and common soldiers who served at Fort Ticonderoga in the eighteenth century. Found within this collection are the letters, reports and returns of Ethan Allen, George Washington, Benedict Arnold, James Abercromby, the Marquis de Montcalm, Robert Rogers, John Burgoyne, Philip Skene and Jonathan Potts, surgeon to the Northern Department of the Continental Army. Thirty journals and orderly books contain first-hand accounts and day-to-day orders of an army at Fort Ticonderoga and the Lake George/Champlain valleys during the Seven Years’ War and War for American Independence.
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| Another focal point
of the rare book collection are the original seventeenth,
eighteenth, and early nineteenth century military manuals. Here are
found most of the major French, English, and American works on the art
of war, military discipline and fortification. These include the works
of Belidor, Bland, Coehorn, Muller, St. Remy, Saxe, Stevenson, Steuben
and Vauban. The museum’s collection of eighteenth century English and
American newspapers and literary magazines is an additional valuable
resource. The London Magazine and
Annual Register cover the
Seven Years’ War and American War for Independence in their entirety.
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| Original maps, engraved
portraits and photographs provide a visual link to the past. The
museum’s collection of maps documents change in the landscape from the
1690s to the mid-nineteenth century. Engraved portraits bring you
face-to-face with the key figures involved in the conflicts for North
America. The photographic collections document the preservation and
reconstruction of Fort Ticonderoga beginning with the earliest known
photograph of the Fort taken c. late 1840s to today. |
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