Old Home Week 1904

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Souvenir book printed by Pioneer Press, Sanbornville, NH. Includes historical notes, Old Home Week schedule and committee information, photos of places in Madison and Silver Lake, and advertisements for local businesses.

File information: Scanned from original documents in Madison Library’s archive collection. Item was donated to Madison Library by David Wilkins. Scanned by Joyce Stevens, 2012. Analyzed with Abbyy FineReader software to provide file searchability.
File type: Searchable PDF (portable document format), 12.7 MB (for high speed connections only!)
Link to file: Old Home Week 1904

Item information:

From title page: Old Home Week, 1904, Madison, N. H.
Item description: 64-page plus cover booklet, bound with cord on left side
Item size: 7.5″ x 5.5″

Old Home Week 1903

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Souvenir book printed by Pioneer Press, Sanbornville, NH. Includes brief historical notes, Old Home Week schedule and committee information, photos of places in Madison and Silver Lake, and advertisements for local businesses.

File information:
Scanned from original documents in Madison Library’s archive collection. Item was donated to Madison Library by David Wilkins. Scanned by Joyce Stevens, 2012. Analyzed with Abbyy FineReader software to provide file searchability.
File type: Searchable PDF (portable document format), 11.5 MB (for high speed connections only!)
Link to file: Old Home Week 1903

Item information:

From title page: Old Home Week, 1903, Madison, N. H.
Item description: 58-page plus cover booklet, bound with cord on left side
Item size: 7.5″ x 5.5″

Madisonian – Madison High School Yearbooks

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The Madisonian was published from 1922, when a new high school building was completed, through 1948, when the last class was graduated from Madison High School. After 1948, high school students from Madison went to Kennett High School in Conway. We will be adding to this collection as they are scanned.

File information: Scanned from original documents in Madison Library’s archive collection.
Scanned by Joyce Stevens, 2012, and Mary Kennefick, 2013. Analyzed with Abbyy FineReader software to provide file searchability.
File type: Searchable PDF (portable document format)
Links to files:

Item information:
Item description: Each yearbook includes original writing from students. Early editions state on masthead, “Published by the Students of Madison High School Once Each Term, 25c (or 35c) per Copy.” Printed by the Reporter Press in North Conway.
Item size: 6″ x 9″

Alice Ward Madison Town Columns

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File information: Transcriptions
Transcribers: Jo Adams, Donna Hartigan
Proofreaders: Mary Kennefick, Nancy Geissenhainer
File type: searchable PDF (portable document format)
Links to files:

Item information: Transcription of town column manuscripts, written by Alice Ward.

Original manuscripts are part of the archive collection at the Madison Library, and span the time period between June 9, 1974 through July 12, 1987. At this time, the Madison Town Column was published in the Carroll County Independent and the North Conway Reporter (needs verification). Alice Ward served as treasurer for the Library Board of Trustees from 1950 to 1970, and we assume she or her family donated the manuscripts to the library sometime in the late 1980s. The handwritten manuscripts, essentially first drafts, were kept for her own records. Columns were copied by hand and mailed weekly to the newspapers for publication. Originals in the Madison Library collection were written on ruled school paper, on the reverse side of school mimeographed papers, on Clayton and Ward stationery, and for the year 197(?), they were written in a weekly calendar journal for 197(?). Due to the brittle nature of the originals, especially the ruled paper, archival photocopies have been made and filed with the originals.

Old Home Week 2002

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File information:
Scanned from original document in Madison Library’s archive collection. Scanned by Joyce Stevens, 2012. Analyzed with Abbyy FineReader software to provide file searchability.
File type: Searchable PDF (portable document format), 15 MB (for high-speed connections only!)
Link to file: Old Home Week 2002

Item information:
From front cover: 100th Annual Madison Old Home Week, August 3-11, 2002
Compiled by the Town of Madison Old Home Week Committee
Item description: 52-page plus cover booklet
Item size: 5 1/2″ x 8 1/2″

Old Home Week 1976

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File information:
Scanned from original documents in Madison Library’s archive collection. Scanned by Joyce Stevens, 2012. Analyzed with Abbyy FineReader software to provide file searchability.
File type: Searchable PDF (portable document format), 6.2 MB
Link to file: Old Home Week 1976

Item information:
From front cover: Old Home Week 1976, Madison, N.H.
Compiled by the Town of Madison Old Home Week Committee
Item description: 60-page plus cover booklet
Item size: 5 1/2″ x 8 1/2″

Grafton “Frank” Ward interview

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File information: Transcription
Transcriber: Mary Meier
File type: searchable PDF (portable document format), 9 pages
Link to file: GraftonFrankWardinterview

Item information: Transcription of taped interview
Title: Grafton “Frank” Ward interview
Interviewer: Rachel Ward (see her interview notes.)
Date of interview: December 3, 1984
Description: Grafton Ward was a bomber pilot in Europe during World War II

Original cassette tapes are kept at the Madison Library. See letter of donation from Colby-Sawyer College.

Christine Ward interview

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File information: Transcription
Transcriber: Mary Meier
File type: searchable PDF (portable document format), 7 pages
Link to file: ChristineWardinterview

Item information: Transcription of taped interview
Title: Christine Ward interview
Interviewer: Rachel Ward (see her interview notes.)
Date of interview: December 3, 1984
Description: During World War II, Christine Ward was a military nurse in France and Belgium.

Original cassette tapes are kept at the Madison Library. See letter of donation from Colby-Sawyer College.

Ruth Loring interview

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File information: Transcription
Transcriber: Mary Meier
File type: searchable PDF (portable document format), 9 pages
Link to file: RuthLoringinterview

Item information: Transcription of taped interview
Title: Ruth Loring interview
Interviewer: Rachel Ward
Date of interview: December 2, 1984
Description: During World War II, Ruth Loring worked for the Office of Price Administration’s Ration Board, mostly in Center Ossipee, NH. She talks about what it was like in Carroll County during WWII.

Original cassette tapes are kept at the Madison Library. See letter of donation from Colby-Sawyer College.