Hotchkiss School Archives and Special Collections

Each with its own collecting goals, Hotchkiss Archives and Special Collections provides a research laboratory for Hotchkiss’s students, faculty, staff, administrators, alumni, and its wider community. The School’s Archives serves as its institutional memory, the repository of records, documents, publications, photographs, audiovisual recordings and other archival materials related to School life since 1891. Special Collections, including the fine and decorative arts, sculpture and rare books, exists because the School has long believed enjoyment, engagement and appreciation of the visual and decorative arts deepen our understanding of the world and ourselves.

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Joan H. Baldwin

A former museum director, Joan H. Baldwin is the Curator of Special Collections at The Hotchkiss School. She holds an A.B. from Kenyon College and an M.A. in American Studies/Museum Studies from Case Western Reserve University. She is co-author of Leadership Matters (Rowman & Littlefield, 2013) and Women in the Museum: Lessons from the Field (Routledge, 2017), and co-founder of the Gender Equity in Museums Movement. Locally, she serves on the board of the Salisbury Historical Society.

Rosemary Davis

Rosemary Davis holds a Master's degree in History from Colorado State University and a Master of Library and Information Science from the University of Wisconsin. She served as a Processing Archivist at the American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress and as the Archivist at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. Before coming to Hotchkiss she was the Curator of Collections and Exhibitions at the Sharon Historical Society.

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The Hotchkiss School Archives & Special Collections staff looks forward to assisting with your research regarding our collections.
Please fill out contact form completely. Provide your research topic, the materials you'd like more information about, and any special questions you have so we can answer as fully as possible. Staff will make every effort to respond as quickly as possible. We recommend researchers make an appointment.