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Table of Contents:
Introduction -- Selected verses from 'John Brown's body' -- Roster: PEA alumni at Gettysburg -- Biosketches of alumni at Gettysburg -- Naval battle: USS Kearsarge and CSS Alabama -- Roster: PEA alumni in the Union navy -- Ships…

This item is a scanned copy of the first issue of the Exonian, the Academy student-run newspaper.

A photo montage showing the players of the 1913 football team (unidentified) and the game-winning ball from the 1913 Exeter v. Andover football game.

The 1921 Crew Team standing in front of the Exeter River.

A four-page letter dated December 2, 1860 from Robert Todd Lincoln, Class of 1860, to his mother, Mary Todd Lincoln. Robert, the son of Abraham Lincoln, wrote the letter while he was visiting Exeter some months after his graduation from the Academy.…

A photograph of a class in the Thompson Science Building, originally published in the Academy's 1934 View Book.

This series of images shows students sitting at study carrels in the academy's library.

An exterior view of the 2nd Academy Building that was built in 1794 (the "wings" on either side were added in 1821). Fire destroyed the building on December 18, 1870.

A postcard, printed sometime between 1903 and 1914, showing the third Academy Building and Alumni Hall (currently the Frederick R. Mayer Art Center).

Two images of the old wooden benches in the Assembly Hall in the Academy Building. It was perfectly acceptable for boys to carve their names or initials into the wooden benches, as well as Harkness tables. The benches were replaced with padded…