Online Exhibits

In 1958, Albert Lee, class of 1887 and the managing editor at Collier’s Weekly, gave the Academy Library a truly wonderful gift — the handwritten journal of the Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen. Written by Amundsen soon after his discovery of the Northwest Passage (the long sought after sea route between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans) and sent directly to Collier's for publication, the journal is as profound as it is unique.  More...

The Exeter Remembered exhibit was originally created in 1980 with funding from the N.H. Council for the Humanities, to acquaint the citizens of Exeter and New Hampshire with the way we were at the turn of the century. The prints gathered together in this exhibition represent the best of over four thousand glass plate negatives. These fragile images, the personal work of Albert C. Buzell, Edwin L. Cunningham and his son Edward W. Cunningham, constitute an invaluable social documentary.  More...