The Archives and Special Collections houses over 80,000 rare books and more than 11,000 linear feet of archival collections. Archival collections are described in individual Finding Aids found below. These collections include everything from manuscripts and paper records to sound recordings, photographs, posters, artwork, and objects. Manuscript collections are designated by call numbers beginning with MA. The College's institutional records are designated with call numbers beginning in RG.
Rare books, senior theses, and other published works can be found by searching the Library Catalog.
Papers documenting the life of poet Richard Aldridge and his wife, children's author Josephine Haskell Aldridge. Material in the collection includes draft and unpublished writings by Richard Aldridge from childhood on; publication-related materials; a large amount of correspondence from family members and other writers; documentation from the various schools that Richard Aldridge attended, including photographs and memorabilia from Amherst College; and photographs, primarily of Richard Aldridge's childhood and his time in the U.S. Army in Germany in the mid-1950s.
Six spiral-bound class notebooks kept by Robert Allen for courses in Genetics, Organic Chemistry, Embryology and Economics at Amherst College 1953-1955.
Journalist. Contains a draft of Allman's proposed PhD thesis for St Anthony's College, Oxford (never completed) plus his original news dispatches concerning the wars in Indochina, some of which were published in revised form by the Manchester Guardian for which he worked as a stringer at the time. The papers also include correspondence with people at the British Embassy in Vientiane, Laos.
Newsletters, manuals, grant proposals, minutes, correspondence and other documents related to the operations of the Amherst College Academic Computer Center, under the direction of Betty Romer. Includes files on the planning, design and construction of the Seeley-Mudd Building (1980-1984) which has housed many of the offices of the department of Information Technology.
Publications produced by the Amherst College administration for a broad campus audience and administrative publications for a five college audience.The collection includes course cataloges; student, faculty and alumni directories; handbooks; facebooks; calendars; annual reports; and news and outreach publications.
Reports by the Office of Admission at Amherst College for the use of secondary schools. The reports present statistics on the incoming freshman class and information for secondary school principals and guidance councilors. Digitized Collection available through Amherst College Digital Collections.
Includes documents that were recovered from the Black Students' Union space in The Octagon in the Spring of 2016. These documents range from the founding constitutions of both the Afro-American Society and the Black Students' Union to clippings and ephemera produced by allied student groups such as La Causa and the Asian Students Association.
Biographical questionnaires; writings and correspondence by or about alumni, newspaper articles, obituaries, photographs. Also includes some materials pertaining to an entire class, such as class agent records, and copies of class resolutions or class anthologies.
Correspondence, minutes, printed matter, and other administrative records related to alumni relations at Amherst College, 1922-1992.
Portions of the collection are restricted. Please contact Archives and Special Collections for access to this material.
The Amherst College Catalog is a source of information about the growth and history of the College as well as the College's role in adapting to and shaping changes in higher education in the United States. The first Catalog published in March 1822 consisted of 7 pages and provided a list of faculty (4 plus 1 tutor) and students (59); requisites for admission and course of study. Recent catalogs consist of several hundred pages and include information such as the mission statement; academic calendar; lists of member of the corporation, faculty, administrative and professional officers; admissions requirements; courses of instruction; professorships, readerships, and lectureships; prizes and awards; and enrollment. Catalogs frequently discuss the construction of new buildings on the campus. Digitized catalogs available through Amherst College Digital Collections.
Financial records, meeting minutes, correspondence, election records and other records documenting the activities of the Association of Amherst Students, the official student government body of Amherst College.
Programs, photographs, correspondence, press information, newsclippings, and other records and memorabilia documenting the history of intercollegiate and intramural athletics at Amherst College. The collection does not include much material related to physical education; see separate collection. See also: A Glance at Amherst Athletics by Walter L. Tower, 1935.
Materials generated by the Board of Trustees of Amherst College relative to the presidency (1912-1924) and resignation of Alexander Meiklejohn.
The Botany Department Papers consist of 30 unbound volumes of files on specific species of indigenous plants. Each file includes a brief description of the species, its common name, a list of the locations in Massachusetts where it has been studied, and by what herbarium or scientific society. Each file also contains a map of Massachusetts showing the geographic location of the species. The collection seems to have been initially created in 1930, with later updates being entered in 1936.
Records of the Amherst College Centennial Celebration Committee and clippings, programs, ephemera, photographs and scrapbooks related to activities at the College for the celebration in 1921 of the 100th anniversary of its founding.
Autograph, portrait and photograph albums of graduating classes from 1853 to 1909. Also includes several fraternity albums.
Reunion pictures and publications, correspondence, articles written by members of the class, and a scrapbook.
Official records and associated material of Amherst clubs. Includes founding records, minutes, financial records, membership lists, clippings, publications, correspondence, reports, photographs and other materials.
Chronologies, articles, newspaper clippings, and committee reports relating to coeducation at Amherst College and its subsequent anniversaries. The bulk of the collection covers planning for coeducation and responses to coeducation by Alumni, Faculty, Students, Amherst's president John Ward, and the Trustees of Amherst College. This is an artificial collection created by compiling related materials from other collections.
Commencement programs, news articles, speeches, class week programs and schedules of events, tickets for events held during class week and commencement, poems, student addresses and other items relating to commencements. Digitized selections available through Amherst College Digital Collections.
Records of some 200 various Amherst College committees, including draft, interim and final reports, as well as (in some cases) minutes, correspondence and other supporting documents. Some committees are formal standing committees, but the majority are ad-hoc temporary bodies often convened as Presidential advisory committees or task forces.
Records related to advising of Asian Students Association and Other Affiliated Student Organizations.
A guide to this collection is not yet available and portions of the collection are restricted. Please contact Archives and Special Collections for access to this material.
Public minutes of Faculty Meetings and of the Committee of Six.
Records documenting the activities of the Amherst College Department of Hygiene and Physical Education from 1861 to 1933. A significant subset of the collection is material on anthropometry (the study of bodies using detailed measurements) at Amherst College. The collection covers the period from the establishment of the department in 1861 to 1933, when the department was renamed Physical Education Department and underwent a slow, concurrent change to a more modern philosophy of physical education.
General office files concerning corporate relations, fund-raising, capital programs, friends and associations, deceased alumni, the Long Range Planning Committee, and Federal legislation and grants.
Theater programs, scripts, photographs and slides, set and costume designs, publicity material and posters, clippings, audio and video material, and an odd object or two that chronicle the conceptualization, creation, production and review of hundreds of Amherst College dramatic and dance performances over more than 180 years.
Printed material, legal documents, financial records, correspondence and other papers documenting the history of Amherst Academy, its Charity Fund, and the inception and founding of Amherst College. Includes early circulars and catalogues of both Amherst College Academy and Amherst College, as well as papers of several 19th century trustees.Digitized collection available through Amherst College Digital Collections.
Correspondence, petitions, pamphlets and other printed material documenting the early history of the College. The collection was collected and arranged by Mr. and Mrs. E. P. Mellon and given to the College in 1921. Digitized collection available through Amherst College Digital Collections.
Speeches, notes, newsclippings, photographs, invitations, tickets, programs, and guest lists from various Amherst College Inauguration ceremonies dating from 1821 to present.
Approximately 222 bookplates and bookplate designs used in the Amherst College library. The collection also includes information about the history of some of the bookplates; a variety of printing blocks, engravings and other print masters; and a small amount of correspondence.
Correspondence regarding the formation of the group, minutes of meetings, financial and membership records, newsletters, other publications, and information regarding activities sponsored by the Friends of the Library.
Materials compiled by former Librarian Newton F. McKeon. Mr. McKeon assembled these materials to write a history of the Amherst College Library. This history, however, was never written. The Library History Collection includes McKeon's notes, copies of library reports and records, ephemera dating from the 19th century, and published and unpublished articles and reports about the Amherst College Library. Most of the material focuses on the late 1800's through the early 1910's. Reports describing the spatial needs of the library dating from 1937, 1959, and 1961 are also included.
Library records documenting the development of the Amherst College Library. Despite the time span (1833-1977), the records provide incomplete information about the administration of the Library. The records best document the library holdings (1833-1938), and particular functions, such as classification. The Records include correspondence, accession logs, annual reports, in-house manuals and procedures statements, some financial records, printed catalogs, and shelf lists. The administrative files of Librarian Newton F. McKeon (1939-70), Charles Laugher (1970-75), and Willis E. Bridegam, Jr. (1975- ) are not part of this collection.
Correspondence, research notes, news clippings, guest books, exhibition catalogues, monographs, press releases, and photographs. Bulk of collection relates to the Armory Show Retrospective of 1958. Collection also includes several exhibition catalogues.
Photographic slides taken by College photographers documenting various Amherst College events, 1980 - 1990. Slides document development campaigns, commencement, convocation, reunions, athletic events and students.
A guide to this collection is not yet available. Please contact Archives and Special Collections for access to this material.
31 typed transcriptions of recorded interviews with Amherst College professors emeriti, staff members, and other notable members of the Amherst community. All of the interviews were conducted between 1977 and 1982. The collection also includes 42 audiocassettes of the interview recordings. Some transcripts lack the original audio recordings.
Items are cataloged individually in the online library catalog.
Primarily 35 mm black and white negatives documenting Amherst College events, people and places taken by the College Photographer for the Office of Public Affairs, circa 1962-2005.
This collection, a part of the President's Office Records, contains the manuscripts, correspondence, and printed addresses of Edward Hitchcock while he served as Amherst College's third president.
This collection, a part of the President's Office Records, contains the correspondence, administrative material, addresses, and sermons of Heman Humphrey while he served as Amherst College's second president.
This collection, a part of the President's Office Records, contains the correspondence, addresses, and sermons of Zephaniah Swift Moore while he served as Amherst College's first president.
Posters, flyers and announcements related to activities and services sponsored by the Queer Resource Center (QRC), a college-sponsored support center for queer students at Amherst College.
Manuscript record volumes documenting various visitors and activities at the College during the 19th century; largely administrative in nature.
A collection of literary, humor and news publications, largely written and edited by Amherst College students and alumni, but also including Five-College publications and publications edited by the college for students and alumni. Digitized Collection available through Amherst College Digital Collections.
Minutes, financial records, correspondence, reports, and various printed matter documenting the activities of student government at Amherst College, 1917-1975 (with gaps), including budget allocations to student clubs and organizations, election of officers, and administration of the honor system.
Study abroad handbooks, policies, minutes, statistics and participation lists related to the Twelve College Exchange for study abroad.
Correspondence, manuscript documents, printed ephemera, diaries, and books that document the life and career of William Pitt Amherst, Second Barron Amherst of Montreal and First Earl Amherst of Arracan (1773-1857). Documents to and from Lord Amherst largely document his time as ambassador to the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies (1890-1812) and his embassy to China (1815-1817). The diaries kept by Lady Sarah Archer Amherst cover the entirety of their stay during Lord Amherst's appointment as Governor-General of British India (1823-1828). The collection also includes two Persian manuscripts given to Lord Amherst while in India.
Chiefly handwritten letters exchanged between Jeffery Amherst and British army officials or government authorities; also, engraved portraits of General Amherst, newspaper clippings and a set of eight medals commemorating British victories in the wars in North America. Digitized collection available through Amherst College Digitized Collections.
Typescripts, galleys, proofs, and publicity material for Joseph Amiel's novels Hawks, Birthright, Deeds, Star Time, and A Question of Proof, published 1979-1993. Also included are four screenplays written by Amiel, 1970-1994, and class notes taken by Amiel for history and English courses at Amherst, 1956-1959.
Manuscript volumes and fragments in Arabic from the 9th to 19th centuries.
Correspondence, photographs, diaries, journals, publications and vital and legal documents dealing with Armstrong's days at Amherst college, Harvard University, his foriegn language studies and finally, the trip to Africa on which he died. The collection also includes the papers of Catherine M. Armstrong relating to her son's death, including correspondence with the families of Armstrong's fellow travelers, official correspondence relating to the investigation, notes on her trip to Paris to visit the family of Tommy-Martin and notes of sympathy following her son's death.
Papers Related to the Vietnam War, "Winter Soldier," and the Civil Rights Movement.
The papers of George W. Bain, geologist and professor of geology at Amherst College from 1926 to 1966. The papers include teaching materials, writings, published works, correspondence, notes and research materials.
Papers documenting the personal and professional life of Theodore Baird, Amherst College English professor, 1927-1969. Consists chiefly of correspondence between Baird and former students and colleagues. Some of the correspondence and other writings in the collection discuss the Bairds' house, which was designed by Frank Lloyd Wright. Also included is a small amount of material from Frances Titchener Baird, Theodore Baird's wife.
Correspondence, french road maps, french song sheets, and a military citation covering the time Ingham C. Baker served as an ambulance driver for the American Field Service and U.S. Army Corps from 1916 to 1919. The bulk of the collection consists of letters from Ingham C. Baker to his family, particularly his parents Asa George Baker (Amherst 1888) and Lucy C. Baker, and his brother Walton C. Baker (Amherst 1919). It also includes letters to Ingham C. Baker from his parents and two letters from his friend Arthur Hazeldine (Amherst 1919 non-graduate).
The bulk of this collection consists of correspondence from Leslie S. Baker to his parents (Elwood and Sallie) during World War I. Baker joined the war in 1917, served as a machine-gunner in France, and in 1920, while still a student at Amherst College, published a book about his company, The Company History: The Story of Company B, 106th Machine Gun Battalion, 27th Division, U.S.A. The collection includes a small amount of miscellaneous additional material by and about Baker, including some of his drawings.
Personal papers of three Amherst College alumni, the Rev. Albert H. Ball (AC 1866) and his two sons Allan (AC 1892) and Walter (AC 1897). The collection includes alumni notes, notebooks, manuscript writings, and printed matter.
Photographic negatives depicting local places and events taken by photographer Lincoln Wade Barnes and his staff, chieifly at Amherst College, circa 1927-1965.
The collection contains assorted Whitman manuscripts, portraits, and various printed material, collected by William E. Barton. The collection also contains Barton's research notes, transcriptions, and correspondence. Digitzed collection available through Amherst College Digital Collections.
Correspondence, manuscripts, legal documents, certificates, contracts, awards, medals, exhibition brochures, newspaper clippings, magazines, photographs, printed materials, and 3 scrapbooks relating to George Bellows and his family. Much of the collection consists of correspondence, this includes letters between George Bellows and Emma Story Bellows and others. The bulk of the manuscripts and printed materials relate to Bellow's work, and include speeches, articles, and biographies. There is also a large section of photographs both personal and of his paintings. See also: Charles H. Morgan Papers on George Wesley Bellows.
Cuban-born writer and intellectual; professor of Spanish at Amherst College, 1983-2005. Chiefly printed printed matter by and about Benítez-Rojo's literary work, book covers, flyers and posters of conferences given or attended by him, photographs, and videotapes of some of his lectures.
Amherst College alumnus Class of 1943, instructor and later professor of physics at Amherst College, 1947-1990. Collection includes Benson's class notes and exams from college and graduate school; teaching notes and assignments from courses he taught at Amherst; draft articles about physics that he wrote, along with reprints of his published articles; material from college-wide faculty committees on which he served; and a small number of photographs and pieces of incoming correspondence.
Professor of Music at Amherst College. Letters, postcards, photographs, drawings, sheet music, certificates, receipts, passports, manuscripts, music programs, and other materials documenting the professional and personal life of Professor Bigelow and his wife Jane Ball Bigelow.
Field journals of the noted inventor, naturalist and businessman Clarence Birdseye. This collection consists of 13 field journals, 12 of which were written by Clarence Birdseye and one by Perry W. Terhune. The dates of the journals are from 1910 Nov 9 to 1916 Jul 20.
Approximately 3,500 alternative "underground" newspapers published chiefly in the United States, circa 1967-1989, most originally compiled by Liberation News Service as record copies from its subscribers. Also included is a much smaller collection of glossy magazines for gay men, circa 1967-1992.
Poet and editor. Collection consists of correspondence, drafts of poems, prose, short stories, and translations, lectures, teaching notes, news clippings, journals and notebooks documenting Bogan's career from 1930 until her death in 1970; and also includes some family correspondence and photographs.
Mainly teaching notes and classroom materials from Walter Boughton's approximately thirty years teaching and directing theatre at Amherst College. Also contains notes schoolwork done by Boughton while attending Brown University.
Combined papers of the families of Samuel Bowles II and III, the founder and editor of the Springfield Republican, and Judge Ebenezer Rockwood Hoar of Concord, Mass. The families are connected through the marriage of Judge Hoar's daughter Elizabeth to Samuel Bowles IV. The collection is currently being processed, with items occasionally featured on blog posts for "The Consecrated Eminence" and pages within the Archives and Special Collections section of the Library's website.
Headmaster of Deerfield Academy (Deerfield, Mass.), 1902-1969. Collection consists of Boyden's correspondence concerning Amherst College, his Class of 1902, his fraternity, Class reunions and other general correspondence.
Short story writer, playwright, and novelist, wife of Amherst professor Arthur John Hopkins (for his papers, see separate finding aid). Collection includes copies of published short stories, correspondence, and manuscript writings, including Briscoe's unfinished memoirs.
Sidney Brooks of Harwich attended Phillips Academy in Andover before attending Amherst College from 1837 to 1841. His papers include thirty-five letters, a ledger of his expenses, and writings from his school days. Digitized collection available through Amherst College Digital Collections.
Mathematician. Contains mathematical notes, correspondence, article reprints and other materials documenting his research in mathematics. Includes correspondence with Neal H. McCoy.
American journalist and newspaper editor. Correspondence, notebooks, manuscripts of his journalistic writings, photographs and other personal and professional papers.
Mostly writings and photographs documenting Butts' trip to the Mediterranean, Asia and North Africa, 1909-1910. Also included are a speech before an Amherst College alumni group and correspondence about a scholarship he established there.
Drama professor and director. Collection includes course and lecture notes, as well as some correspondence, newspaper clippings, framed portraits and photographs, and material for Canfield's books.
Nineteen framed portraits of Amherst College alumni, faculty and staff, by the Italian-born portraitist.
The Charles Drew Memorial Cultural House is an Amherst College residential theme house founded in 1984 to celebrate the achievements of black people and to explore the cultures of Africa and the Diaspora at large. The collection includes photographs and miscellaneous material documenting the members of Drew House and House special events from 1986-1992.
Correspondence of Aurin Moody Chase (AC 1896) during his years as a student at Amherst College.
Professor of English at Amherst College, 1903-1925, and Member of the Massachusetts State Senate, 1917-1920. Correspondence, lectures, class materials, manuscripts, pamphlets, newspaper clippings, and photographs by or about Churchill. The bulk of the collection is made up of professional documents: lectures, undergraduate papers, class materials and manuscripts. A number of speeches and articles relating to his substantial political career are also included. The collection contains some correspondence between Churchill and his wife and between Churchill and acquaintances, mostly between 1891 and 1894.
Writer. Collection includes signed typescripts or photocopied typescripts of six stories, one unpublished story, an unpublished speech, an interview, a biographical sketch, and a bound volume of part of the novel Caramelo, distributed to friends for comment.
Correspondence, clippings and other material on the major activities of Evans Clark's career. Some clippings are by Clark, presumably the editorials written while he was with the New York Times.
Papers of Charles Wiggins Cobb (AC 1897), Professor of Mathematics at Amherst College, 1909-1941, including manuscripts of unpublished books, data and reports on U.S. manufacturing, reports done for Mathematics classes, data on industrial materials and copies of letters.
Papers of Joseph Gerald Cole (AC 1915) relating to his military service in World War I and his later life. Includes diaries, photographs, correspondence, certificates, clippings, and ephemera.
The collection contains mainly production material related to John Coles' directing career in feature films and television movies and series. Also included is Coles' personal research material for an unproduced documentary on the Young Lords, a Puerto Rican nationalist group.
Intramural handbooks from 72 American colleges and universities. They were collected and exhibited at the College Physical Education Association meetings held in Chicago, Ill, December 27-28, 1948, by Albert E. Lumley, chairman of the College and University Intramural Division for 1948-1949.
Papers documenting the professional life and career of Henry Steele Commager, 20th century historian, public intellectual, and engaged citizen. They include the extensive letters received from historians, congressmen, educators, journalists, jurists, publishers, as well as former students, and the general public. Commager's writings and public appearances reflect his active professional life as well as his influence within the profession. The papers document a wide variety of issues of 20th century American society, including the interventionist role in Europe; civil liberties; academic freedom; the loyalty oath; nationalism; the American military in Vietnam; the expansion of executive power; changing views of foreign policy; and the purpose and role of education in society.
Consists of material related to American poets Vachel Lindsay and Robert Frost which was collected by a mutual friend of theirs, writer and English professor Lawrence H. Conrad. The collection includes correspondence, manuscript and typescript poems by Lindsay and Frost, programs and pamphlets produced by Lindsay, and press clippings and scholarly writings about the two poets.
Harry J. Danos participated in the "C" Pre-Meteorological Training Program at Amherst College, from February 1943 to February 1944. The program aimed to quickly produce qualified meteorologists to meet military demand. This collection consists of Harry Danos's coursework while in the program as well as miscellaneous related materials.
Ambassador to Venezuela and Mexico, Asst. Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs. Contains materials relating to his diplomatic career in Latin America, including news clippings, business and personal documents, appointment books, photographs, speeches, transcripts of interviews, and government reports.
The papers of Eli W. Debevoise document his position as the deputy general counsel with the High Commission for Germany-Office of General Counsel (HICOG-OGC) from 1950-1953 and his ongoing interest in US-German affairs. While the Debevoise Papers include personal and professional correspondence, appointment calendars and other administrative material, memoranda, and speeches, the majority is published material relating to post-World War II Germany.
The bulk of the collection is made up of diplomas and certificates awarded by Amherst College to Amherst Graduates, as well as honorary degrees awarded to individuals associated with the college. The remainder of the degrees and certificates were awarded to Amherst College Alumni by other institutions both educational and civic.
The Beeckman Jousseaum Delatour (AC 1911) Papers contain letters from Beeckman Delatour to his parents, Albert J. and Susie S. Holcomb Delatour, during his undergraduate years at Amherst College (1907-1911), his medical school years at Johns Hopkins University (1911-1915), and his service in France during World War I (1917-1919). There is a small amount of associated ephemera, but the bulk of the papers document the maturation of a youth of the early twentieth century.
444 photochrom images of American landmarks, both natural and man-made, dating from 1898 to 1908. Scenes of Mexico and Cuba are depicted as well. The majority of the photographs were taken by William Henry Jackson while employed by the Detroit Publishing Comapny, with the rest being taken by other photographers working for the company.
The Dicken-Statham Family Papers document four generations in the life of the family of Henry Heathcote Statham (1839-1924) and his wife, Florence Dicken Statham (1856-1938). Statham was an architect, author, and musician. He edited the journal "The Builder" for 20 years and was the author of several books, including a long-used textbook about architecture. Florence Dicken Statham was born in India to William Stephens Dicken, Deputy General Inspector of Hospitals for the East India Company in the middle of the 19th century. She raised a family of six children and wrote her own children's book, "Flix and Flox," a copy of which is in the collection. The papers cover topics such as the British Raj, World War I (the Stathams lost two sons, Arthur and Noel, in war), and family life in England across two centuries. The collection contains correspondence, photographs, journals (including W.S. Dicken's original journal of a voyage to India), and other unique documents that illustrate the family's history.
Mainly correspondence, materials relating to Porter Dickinson's family and the town of Amherst, photographs, and objects that reflect the many of his interests (particularly mountaineering and the White Mountains). Correspondents include Robert Francis, Professor E. Kimball Morsman, and Walter Hendricks.
The collection documents the creative work and personal life of Emily Dickinson, spanning her lifetime, from 1830 to 1886; her family and friends; and the early publication history of her work. It also includes material from Dickinson scholars Mabel Loomis Todd, Millicent Todd Bingham, Jay Leyda, and others. The collection includes original poems, manuscripts, and letters from Dickinson to family and friends; images of the poet, including the daguerreotype and silhouette; physical artifacts related to Dickinson; manuscript transcriptions; printers' copies and proofs; Mabel Loomis Todd's correspondence, research indices, and writings; and material from or about Dickinson's friends and family, including correspondence, photographs, objects, and scrapbooks. For a brief overview of our holdings see: Emily Dickinson at Amherst College.
Digitzed collection available through Amherst College Digital Collections.
The collection consists primarily of printed matter associated with Emily Dickinson, her life and work, her home, her family, and any other topics associated with the poet.
The Daniel and Tammy Dickinson Family Papers document the lives of three generations of the Daniel Dickinson (1793-1874) and Tammy (Martha) Eastman Dickinson (1801-1887) family. The papers date from 1818 to 1901 and are comprised almost entirely of correspondence, mostly incoming to Daniel and Tammy from siblings, children, grandchildren, friends, acquaintances, and business contacts. Topics in the letters include family news, religion, the Civil War, and western migration. The last two folders of the collection contain photocopies of miscellaneous background papers, including a selection of genealogical research reports with information about people mentioned in the collection.
Urban planner and 1940 graduate of Amherst College. Collection contains correspondence with friends and family, photographs and newspaper clippings relating to Amherst College alumni reunions and theater productions.
Correspondence, ephemera, photographs, printed matter and media documenting the long-standing connection between Doshisha University in Kyoto, Japan and Amherst College. Digitized selections available through Amherst College Digital Collections.
Chiefly a collection of primary and secondary research materials compiled by John W. Dower in the course of several decades of teaching, research, writing and publication on the history of Japan, particularly with regard to World War II and its aftermath, popular media and racial representation. It includes articles, archival source material, correspondence, photographs, research notes, and draft manuscripts for several of Professor Dower's publications.
The bulk of the papers consist of Dyer's many articles and stories. These published works are from the following magazines: Household, The Art World, Country Life in America, the Country Gentleman, The Antiquarian, The Fine Arts, Yankee, Antiques, Our Dumb Animals, Colliers, Holland's Magazine, Top Notch, The Woman's Magazine, The American Magazine, Own Your Own Home, The Bookman, The Adult Bible Class Magazine, Home Magazine, House Beautiful. The papers also include many book reviews of Dyer's works.
Twenty-nine letters from Alfred Ely, Trustee of Amherst College from 1825-1854 and pastor of the Congregational Church in Monson, MA, to Simeon Colton, a Congregational and Presbyterian minister in North Carolina. This collection also contains one letter from an unidentified sender to Simeon Colton and one letter from Daniel Johnson to Simeon Colton.
Primarily family correspondence saved by Margaret Randolph Hitchcock Emerson from the year 1934, in which her mother (Mary Waters Bryan Hitchcock) died. There is a small amount of correspondence from other years, as well as a random collection of writings, ephemera, and publications.
Educator, writer, musician. Papers include correspondence and a corrected typescript of Erskine's book The Memory of Certain Persons.
Poet, social activist, educator. Contains correspondence, poetry manuscripts and galley proofs, news clippings, contracts, posters, notebooks, photographs, video and audio recordings, and other materials documenting his literary career, personal life and social activism, 1957-2006. Includes translations of some of his poetry into other languages, especially Spanish.
Soldier, lawyer. Various documents relating to John Fairbank's life and career, and those of his parents, sisters, and other members of his family.
New York merchant. Court statements, orders and records; and correspondence involving the court cases brought by Fayerweather's legatees against his executors over the settlement of his estate.
Papers documenting the professional activities of writer and curator Thomas Weston Fels (AC 1967), including research, writing, correspondence, and exhibition planning documents and notes from throughout his professional education and career. Also included are materials relating to his book Farm Friends: from the late sixties to the west seventies and beyond.
Oriole Farb Feshbach Records of the Master Institute of United Arts, Inc.
Includes the records of the Master Institute of United Arts, Inc. and the Riverside Museum in New York, NY, founded in 1922 by Nettie and Louis Horch.
Sermon and anniversary celebration programs, correspondence, newspaper clippings, photographs, and other records documenting activities of the First Congregational Church in Amherst, Massachusetts, chiefly 1829-1939.
Amherst College professor, 1824-1847. Chiefly notes by Fiske on Greek language and literature, mental and moral philosophy and American history.
American dramatist and graduate of Amherst College in the Class of 1886. Correspondence, annotated play scripts, scrapbooks, newspaper clippings, articles and photographs documenting the literary career, works, and personal life of Clyde Fitch (1865-1909). Correspondents include Robert Browning, Richard Harding Davis, William Dean Howells and William Lyon Phelps.
Irish-American novelist and professor of English. Literary manuscripts, correspondence, photographs and related materials documenting the professional career of Thomas Flanagan.
Amherst College Professor of Romance Languages. Papers include his dissertation (Harvard University, 1933), "Francesco d'Antonio da Fiorenza, Cieco," as well as extensive notes, a few articles and some miscellaneous photographs, newspaper clippings, greeting cards and correspondence.
Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and longtime managing editor of the Washington Post. Collection consists of correspondence and writings by Friendly, including columns written for the Washington Post or for other publications, manuscripts, and various other endeavors.
Contains published articles by or about Robert Frost.
Fuess was an educator, historian and author, commissioned by businessman Frank Stearns to write a biography of Stearns himself, a project which was abandoned after Stearn's death. Collection includes unfinished typescript chapters of the biography, along with various biographical materials about Stearns and some of his personal papers.
Business correspondence (30 items) written to George and Charles Merriam, booksellers in Springfield, Mass., 1833-1852, from people associated with Amherst College and the town of Amherst.
The collection contains correspondence, papers, essays, pamphlets, notes, notebooks and diaries relating to the personal and professional life of Charles Edward Garman, Professor of Moral and Mental Philosophy at Amherst College. His teaching career is represented by the printed pamphlets he distributed in his classes and by lecture notes taken by his students.
Chemist, former Amherst College president. Papers consist mainly of papers, abstracts, articles and lecture notes on topics in physical chemistry, and correspondence with colleagues.
Diaries kept in secret by Katrin Janecke (later wife of Sheridan de Raismes Gibney (AC 1925)) during her years living in Berlin and working at die neue linie magazine and at an assigned job in the German Propaganda Ministry during World War II and in the period immediately following the German surrender. Also an unpublished memoire by Katrin Gibney based on the diaries, titled "Angels Forbidden". Diaries and memoire are both in English.
Chiefly play scripts and dramatic treatments written by Gibney for stage and television, 1925-1980; personal and professional correspondence, 1920-1962; the manuscript of an unpublished novel, Flatbush Man, ca. 1979-1985; and various papers related to his undergraduate years at Amherst College and his receipt of an honorary degree in 1939.
Scrapbook, journal, herbarium, photographs and college notebooks of various members of the Gillett family, many members of which attended Amherst College: Edward Bates Gillett (AC 1839), Frederick Huntington Gillett (AC 1874), Arthur Lincoln Gillett (AC 1880), and Robert Swift Gillett (AC 1916). The herbarium is believed to have been kept by Lucy Douglass Fowler Gillett.
One notebook of published and unpublished poems, a notebook containing Driver's reflections on various interests, and six volumes of "Driver's Own Encyclopedia," an alphabetical index of Driver's original notes, writings, and research. This collection also contains a manuscript copy of Fare of Poems, his book of poetry, mostly typewritten, with corrections, manuscript inserts, notes, marginalia, and tearsheets.
Collection consists chiefly of correspondence but also passports, contracts, tickets, official proclamations, and other documents relating to childrens' writer Samuel G. Goodrich's (pen name Peter Parley) life and literary work.
Chiefly selected job files related to the commercial work of the Oliphant Press, a New York City printing and graphic design firm founded by Ronald Gordon (AC 1965) in 1966, containing corres-pondence, sketches and intermediate designs, invoices, finished press specimens, etc. Clients include a wide variety of mostly New York City-based cultural and educational institutions, but also largely featuring Amherst College. Jobs included broad¬sides, book-lets, keepsakes, bookplates, bookmarks, holiday cards, invita¬tions, and stationery, as well as glossy softcover editions. Also, printed ephemera produced by and for the Press itself, as well as Ron Gordon's personal family holiday greeting cards and invitations.
Correspondence, photographs, articles, awards and other materials documenting the academic and professional life of Werner L. Gundersheimer, educator, European historian and past Director of the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, D.C.
Chiefly Hagstrom's correspondence with poets Hall, Moore, Smith and Wilbur, as well as with numerous publishers, scholars, librarians and book dealers, mainly concerning his collection of these writers' works. Also included are critical and bibliographical reviews, invoices, etc.
Materials was assembled by Jack W. C. Hagstrom in the course of writing a bibliography of poet Dana Gioia (Dana Gioia: A Descriptive Bibliography with Critical Essays; Parrish House, 2002). Includes publications containing writing by and about Gioia; correspondence between Gioia and Hagstrom; and Hagstrom's notes, correspondence, and typescripts for the bibliography.
Materials assembled by Jack W. C. Hagstrom in the course of writing a bibliography of poet James I. Merrill (James Ingram Merrill: A Descriptive Bibliography; 2009). The collection includes periodicals containing writing by and about Merrill; correspondence between Merrill and Hagstrom; Hagstrom's notes, correspondence, and typescripts for the bibliography, and copies of Merrill's correspondence with select other people.
Materials assembled by Jack W. C. Hagstrom in the course of writing a bibliography of poet Thom Gunn (Thom Gunn: A Bibliography 1940-1978; 1979). An update to the book was published in issues of the Bulletin of Bibliography between 1992 and 1994 as Emendations to Thom Gunn: a bibliography 1940-1978 (Part I-[V]). The collection includes publications containing writing by and about Gunn; correspondence between Gunn and Hagstrom as well as Gunn and other people; and Hagstrom's notes, correspondence, and typescripts for the bibliography.
A representative but incomplete collection of the once popular "Little Blue Books," a series of small, very inexpensive staple-bound books that were published by the Haldeman-Julius Publishing Company of Girard, Kansas between 1919 and 1978. The works covered include many classics of Western literature, but also practical how-to manuals alongside frank writings on controversial or emergent social themes. The name of the series changed over the first few years, known as the People's Pocket Series, the Appeal Pocket Series and the Ten Cent Pocket Series, before finally attaining the name that persisted, Little Blue Books.
Anthropology research materials relating to historical-demographic studies in various parts of the former Yugoslavia, chiefly 1961-62, including code books, code sheets and bound print-outs. The bulk of the collection consists of print-outs of email and Internet postings from various news sources concerning the wars in the former Yugoslavia.
Printed ephemera produced by the Harbor Press, a commercial printing and design firm in New York City from 1925 to 1942, founded by John Fass and Roland Wood (AC 1920). The collection includes broadsides, invitations, announcements, cards, brochures, programs, menus, bookplates, keepsakes, memorial tributes, letterheads, certificates, advertisements, etc., produced for the Press's mostly New York City clientele, and sometimes for itself.
The Fosdick Beach Harrison (AC 1890) Papers is comprised of five folders documenting Harrison's time at Amherst College. The collection includes diaries, correspondence, and photographs.
School principal and superintendent, businessman. Papers consist of essays written for classics and English literature courses at Amherst College, 1907-1909, and Amherst College debate teams. Three articles that may have been written later in Hartin's life are included in the final folder.
American Christian missionary in Japan. Letters, diaries, photograph albums, color slides, sermons, memorabilia and other materials documenting her career in Christian ministry in Vermont and (from 1952 to 1981) Hiroshima, Japan.
Doshisha Fellow for one year after graduation from Amherst College. Teaching records, printed matter, photographs, and other materials documenting her year as a teacher of English and peer mentor, as well as information on Amherst House at Doshisha and various university activities.
Poetry notebooks and manuscript poems by Vermont poet, teacher, and political activist James Hayford, 1933-1993. There is also a small amount of prose writing, including the text of his Bond oration at Amherst College in 1935, his M.A. thesis (1942) on Robert Frost, and an unpublished short novel. A small amount of correspondence is also included.
Correspondence, certificates and licenses, lectures, sermons, and other writings by Hickok. Sermons make up the bulk of the collection. Much of the correspondence in the collection concerns Hickok's uneasy career at Union College, from his appointment as Vice President to his resignation in 1866. The collection also contains some correspondence between Hickok and his family, including his wife, Elizabeth Taylor Hickok.
Family legal papers. Consists mainly of deeds that document the exchange of property in Massachusetts and Connecticut. Also includes two wills and miscellaneous legal papers.
Correspondence and literary manuscripts - mostly orations, disputations and essays - written by Amherst College alumni. The collection includes materials of such individuals as Henry Ward Beecher, John Quincy Adams, William Austin Dickinson, and Edward Hitchcock.
Correspondence, drawings, legal documents, sermons, drafts of published and unpublished works, printed articles, autographs, artwork, and images relating to the professional activities and some of the personal life of Edward Hitchcock, Orra White Hitchcock, and their family. The material spans the years 1804-1910, with the bulk of the material falling into the period 1820-1864. Edward Hitchcock's work as a minister and nationally noted geologist is well documented in the papers. Orra White Hitchcock is less thoroughly represented. The collection contains the diaries she kept when she accompanied her husband on their European trips, along with her ad hoc sketches.
Papers documenting the professional activities and personal life of Edward "Doc" Hitchcock, Mary Judson Hitchcock and the Hitchcock and Judson families. "Doc" Hitchcock's papers include letters, published and unpublished writings, travel diaries, and manuscript and printed music used by Hitchcock while playing the cello. They reflect his roles and interests as an educator in physical education and hygiene, a faculty member, physician and family man. Papers of his wife, Mary Judson Hitchcock, include letters, legal records and photographs documenting her roles as wife, mother, member of the College and town community, and genealogist. Also included are letters and other personal papers of the Hitchcocks' children Edward, Caroline, Lucy, Jane, John and Albert, as well as genealogical information on the Hitchcock and Judson families. The papers include letters written to Mary W. Bryan Hitchcock in 1898 by her husband John Sawyer Hitchcock (AC 1889) and brother-in-law Albert Hitchcock while serving in Cuba during the Spanish American War, where they contracted malaria.
Chiefly correspondence and photographs, 1855-1869 documenting Howell's early life, student days at Amherst College, and military service in 31st Regiment of Massachusetts Volunteers during the Civil War. Correspondence includes letters to and from Luther Clark Howell, his family members and friends. Civil War letters describe battles, forts, and travel during the Civil War. Photographs include portraits of Civil War officers and Amherst College classmates.
Correspondence, reports,and two photographs from circa 1864 to 1909, chronicling A.W. Hubbard's graduate years at Princeton until several years after his death in 1899. The bulk of the collection represents personal correspondence among Albert Wells Hubbard, his wife Emma Roxanna Spencer Hubbard, and their immediate family. A large portion of the material documents his years as a missionary in Turkey between 1873 and 1899.
Personal and professional papers of an Amherst College professor of History and American Studies. The collection includes correspondence, manuscripts, diaries, committee records, course materials, general printed matter, and audiotapes.
Educator, Congregational clergyman, and the second President of Amherst College (1823-1844). Collection consists of Humphrey's holograph sermons and one bound volume of sermons published as pamphlets between 1813 and 1861. The collection includes Humphrey's printed sermons on temperance, slavery and Native American rights.
Chiefly of correspondence, manuscript drafts, typescripts and galley proofs documenting the career of Rolfe Humphries as a poet, translator, teacher, editor, and reviewer. Correspondents include Louise Bogan, David Ferry, Richard Gillman, Donald Hall, Ezra Pound, Theodore Roethke, and E. Merrill Root. Poetry manuscripts include material that was unpublished or appeared later in substantially different form. Also included are reviews of Humphries' work and general articles about him as well as a small amount of family papers, including an autobiography of his mother, Florence Yost Humphries.
Chiefly scholarly notebooks and manuscripts by Sir Richard Claverhouse Jebb on topics in ancient Greek poetry and drama. The collection also includes one letter from W. G. Headlam and one published article concerning Jebb's personal library.
American physician; first American to be airborne. Includes a letter dropped from Jeffries' balloon during his historic flight, as well as clippings, correspondence and other materials about the letter.
Jenkins was a Congregational pastor who formed a friendship with poet, novelist and folk singer Carl Sandburg. Collection contains correspondence between Sandberg and Jenkins, articles on Sandburg by Jenkins, other news clippings, photographs, notes, and related letters from Sandburg's literary contemporaries.
Charles L. Kades (1906-1996) was a lawyer and U.S. army officer who served in the Government Section of the General Headquarters of the Supreme Commander of the Allied Powers (SCAP) in post-war Japan. He is best known for his role in drafting Japan's post-war constitution. The collection includes original and photocopied memoranda, drafts, and correspondence documenting the constitutional drafting process. It also includes contemporaneous translations of the Japanese parliamentary debates on the constitution. Additional material includes interview transcripts, correspondence with researchers, and other retrospective material on the constitution and on post-war Japan. A small amount of material documents Kades's work as a lawyer for the U.S. Public Works Administration, U.S. Treasury Department, and the New York law firm of Hawkins, Delafield, and Wood.
Correspondence, press releases, news clippings, photographs and other materials documenting President John F. Kennedy's visit to Amherst College on October 26, 1963 for a special convocation at which he and poet Archibald MacLeish were awarded honorary degrees, and for a groundbreaking ceremony for the Robert Frost Library. Related item: "The President and the Poet: John F. Kennedy at Amherst, 1963. " Web exhibition, 2003.
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Professional and personal correspondence, lecture notes and other course materials, and speeches and writings related to his career as a professor of philosophy at Amherst College. Letters are mostly incoming correspondence from former students, fellow faculty members and administrators at Amherst. Correspondents include Profs. Theodore Baird, William Pritchard, Jerold Rothstein Presidents Calvin Plimpton and John William Ward; from former students, David Foster Wallace (AC 1985). Also included are Professor Kennick's 6-volume typescript on the history of philosophy and a binder of printed material entitled collectively "A Gallimaufry of Materials for Use in My Philosophy Courses." Among his writings are published articles and a personal memoir. The collection also includes approximately 40 letters of condolence to Mrs. Nancy Kennick after her husband's death in 2009.
Librarian and member of Amherst College Class of 1919. Collection includes notes from classes, papers and letters related to various library organizations, letters and other printed matter related to the Class of 1919, and a book of tributes to Kiley upon his retirement.
Businessman and former President of Amherst College. Correspondence, speeches, articles, scrapbooks, awards, photographs and other materials documenting his personal and professional life and that of his wife, Margaret P. Jackson King. Correspondents include Newton D. Baker, Ernest M. Hopkins, Felix Frankfurter and Frederick J. E. Woodbridge.
Minutes, correspondence, publications, and posters related to the activities of La Causa, a student group on campus. The material covers the 1970s through the present.
Professor of Political Science, Amherst College, 1948-1977, who was active in Democratic Party politics. Correspondence, lecture and research notes, publications.
Poet. Papers include correspondence, cards, newspaper and magazine clippings, programs, and a photograph, mostly sent to Eugenia Graham.
Materials produced and collected by Karl Loewenstein (1891-1973) over the course of his long career as a German-born emigré political scientist, professor, lawyer, and government advisor. The papers include professional and personal correspondence, manuscripts, lecture notes, reports, memoranda, legal documents, diaries, lecture and interview transcripts, photographs, recordings, and printed material. The bulk of the collection documents Loewenstein's long academic career, which began in Munich and continued at Yale and Amherst (1936-1961) after his emigration to the United States in 1933. His work as an advisor for the Emergency Advisory Committee for Political Defense of the American Republics (1942-1944) and for the U.S. Office of Military Government for Germany (1945-1946) is also well documented. Notable correspondents included Thomas Mann, Max Weber, Lyonel Feininger, Otto Kollreuter, Theodor Maunz, Otto Crusius, Julien Reinach, Lavinia Mazzucchetti, and Mina Tobler. Pre-1933 materials include correspondence, manuscripts, and family papers. The collection also includes small amounts of material belonging to Loewenstein's wife, Piroska (Rona) Loewenstein, and other family members. See also: "Karl Loewenstein and the American Occupation of Germany," an online exhibition prepared by members of Prof. Catherine Epstein's Nazi Germany class with assistance of Amherst College Academic Technology Services Digitized selection available through Amherst College Digital Collections.
Amherst College professor of biology, comparative anatomy, mineralogy and geology. Correspondence, typescripts and scientific articles related to biological and archaeological expeditions that Dr. Loomis made to Patagonia, South America, 1911-1912; the Big Badlands in South Dakota; the Wasatch Basin in Wyoming; Converse County in Wyoming; Sioux County in Nebraska; and other expeditions to Maine, Colorado, Arizona, New Mexico, and Florida.
Professor of German. Letters regarding his appointment to the faculty of Amherst College; notes for, and draft of, an uncompleted memoir.
Poet, essayist and Hollywood screenwriter who is best known for his long narrative poems The Wild Party and The Set-Up. Collection includes literary manuscripts, film-scripts, personal and professional correspondence, and other material (including motion pictures, recordings and works of art).
Records from Professor A. W. Marsh, including correspondence, reports, forms, publications, newspaper clippings, ephemera, and blueprints from Amherst College (and some material from other colleges and universities) regarding physical education, athletics, health, and Physical Education departmental business.
Political scientist and 18th President of Amherst College. Notes, printed matter, and audiocassette recordings related to Marx's comparative research on race and civil rights (particularly education) in South Africa, Brazil and the United States. This research resulted in the publication of the books Lessons of Struggle : South African Internal Opposition, 1960-1990 (1992) and Making Race and Nation : a Comparison of South Africa, the United States, and Brazil (1998).
Working papers, correspondence and memoranda, speeches, scrapbooks, photographs, legal documents, printed material, and memorabilia documenting McCloy's varied career as lawyer, banker, U.S. government official (including Assistant Secretary of War during World War II and High Commissioner of Germany after the war), negotiator, and behind-the-scenes presidential advisor on national security and foreign policy issues. The papers include very little personal or family-related material.
The collection consists of notes, drafts, correspondence, annotated copies of published bibliographies of Frost, slips and card files, and other miscellaneous materials produced or collected by Newton McKeon in the course of work toward a comprehensive bibliography of Robert Frost.
Solicitor General for the Office of Strategic Services (OSS) during World War II, career diplomat, Ambassador to Romania (1969-1973). Unprocessed collection.
Newspaper clippings and one scrapbook documenting the crisis in the presidency of Alexander Meiklejohn, 1923-1924, which led to his resignation in 1923 and the appointment of George D. Olds as his successor.
Notes and other documents from the Merrill Center for Economics, a conference hosted every summer at the Southampton, New York, estate of Charles Merrill (AC 1908). The eight week conference was attended by eminent national and international economists and focused on various economic and policy questions.
Documents relating to the granting activities over the lifetime of a charitable trust established after the death of Charles E. Merrill (AC 1908) according to instructions laid out in his will. The bulk of the collection consists of bound volumes of financial updates and funding recommendations that were sent to trustees prior to their meetings.
The Merrill-Magowan Family Papers document the activities and relationships of three generations of Merrill and Magowan family members, dating from 1880 to 2002. Family correspondence makes up the largest portion of the material, with business records appearing in bulk in the papers of Charles Edward Merrill (AC 1908), founder of Merrill Lynch & Co. These materials are supplemented with artworks, diaries, memorabilia, photographs, writings and newspaper clippings, and a set of family heritage albums. Genealogical research material and notes can be found throughout the collection.
Vietnam War soldier, business administrator. Contains mainly letters written home to family members during Marine Corps basic training and combat duty in Vietnam, 1965-1968.
Research materials documenting the scholarly work of Ivor L. Miller in cultural studies on graffiti writers for his 2002 book Aerosol Kingdom: Subway Painters of New York City, and the cultural relationships of West Africa and its Diaspora in the Americas, particularly Cuba. Especially significant is a collection of over 200 LP music recordings produced in Cuba and largely unavailable elsewhere.
Correspondence, literary manuscripts and other materials of literary, scientific, or historical significance that are generally unrelated by provenance and do not fit into any other existing manuscript collections. The material has been gathered together into a single collection for ease of access and for preservation.
Clippings, printed matter, photographs and administrative records related to four separate moratoria held at Amherst College to protest and discuss current events.
Professor of Art and director of the Mead Art Museum at Amherst College, 1949-1969. Contains correspondence regarding Bellows, transcripts of letters between Bellows and other individuals, documents concerning Bellows, and catalogues of exhibitions showing Bellows' work. Includes a number of draft manuscripts of Morgan's book George Bellows - Painter of America. Addendum I includes correspondence concerning the Bellows book written after publication.
Professor of Art and director of the Mead Art Museum at Amherst College, 1949-1969. Contain notes, drafts and illustrations for Morgan's book The Byzantine Pottery, a study of pottery found in Corinth, published in 1942.
Professor of Art and director of the Mead Art Museum at Amherst College, 1949-1969. Papers contain manuscript and typescript drafts of Professor Charles H. Morgan's book The Life of Michelangelo, published in 1960.
Extensive correspondence; memoranda and reports; subject files; meeting minutes; speech transcripts and printed articles; scrapbooks; clippings files; family financial records; photographs; and some artifacts. The material dates from 1877 to 1954, with the bulk of the collection dating from 1900 to 1931. The papers document the professional, public service, and personal activities of Dwight W. Morrow (1873-1931). They reflect Morrow's multiple roles and commitments as lawyer, international financier, statesman, public servant, alumnus, board member, and family man. The papers' fullest coverage is of Morrow's work as a partner at J.P. Morgan & Co. (1914-27) and as ambassador to Mexico (1927-30).
The Mount Pleasant Classical Institution opened in 1827 as a school for boys aged 4 through 16. It closed five years later in 1832. A second school on the same site was founded by Rev. John A. Nash in 1846 as The Mount Pleasant Boarding School for Boys; after several name changes, it closed in the early 20th century. Collection consists chiefly of printed catalogues and ephemera; catalogues include complete lists of students and description of curriculum.
Professor of Philosophy and Religion at Amherst College, and Minister to the College. Teaching materials, research notes, scholarly writings.
The collection comprises orginal pencil sketches, story scripts and illustration scripts for the Prince Valiant comic drawn and written by Hal Foster, plus original illustrations by John Cullen Murphy, as well as a Stan Drake original comic strip.
The material in the Joseph Hardy Neesima Collection consists mostly of secondary source material created about Neesima in the twentieth century.
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The Paris Press was founded in 1995 with the mission of publishing "groundbreaking yet overlooked literature by women." Paris Press authors include: Muriel Rukeyser, Virginia Woolf, Emily Dickinson, Bryher, Ruth Stone, Zdena Berger, and Elizabeth Cady Stanton. In 2018, the Press was acquired by Wesleyan University. The collection consists of the working records of the press pertaining to book projects and general operations.
American music books and scores, comprising chiefly sacred music but also including some popular songs and airs.
Clergyman and English professor. Correspondence and news clippings, mainly regarding Parsons' dismissal from Colorado College; diaries; scholarly notes and papers on John Milton; and miscellaneous booklets.
Manuscript poems, outgoing correspondence, and scrapbooks about English Romantic poet William Wordsworth (1770-1850). Digitized collection available through Amherst College Digital Collections.
Educator, minister and missionary to Persia. Collection includes correspondence with others in his field, manuscript sermons, lectures and notes, some newspaper clippings and pamphlets, and some bound manuscripts, mostly letters and journals.
59 spoken word phonograph recordings, commercially produced, which include poetry readings primarily featuring the work of notable American authors, speeches and interviews. Authors include Emily Dickinson, Robert Frost, James Joyce, George Bernard Shaw, Dylan Thomas, John Updike and Frank Lloyd Wright.
Two albums of photographs of the Great Nobi Earthquake (also known as the Great Mino-Owari Earthquake), 1891, and the Great Kanto Earthquake, 1923. Compiler(s) unknown.
A collection of 1429 plays, largely from nineteenth century American and British popular theater.Note: These plays are all cataloged in the Amherst College online catalog. To find the complete listing, do a basic keyword search for "Plimpton collection of dramas". Individual plays can be searched by title and author.
Lab exercises, lecture topics, outlines, lecture notes, examinations, and correspondence relating to Anthropology and Evolution courses taught at Amherst by Professor Harold H. Plough. Anthropology materials cover a number of courses from the period of 1939 to 1958. Evolution materials cover the course "Evolution of the Earth and Man" from 1947 to 1957.
Primarily letters, typescripts, scrapbooks, articles and clippings documenting Pohl's writings and research on varied historical/biographical subjects, as well as correspondence and travel ephemera.
An artificial collection of engravings and photographs, predominantly portraits of a variety of individuals, as well as reproduced signatures. Subjects include American presidents, British monarchs, famous actors, Lord Jeffery Amherst, and others.
George D. Pratt was an industrialist, conservationist, and trustee and benefactor of Amherst College. These papers consist chiefly of incoming correspondence, mostly during his undergraduate years and after, as well as a photograph album of family travels and vacations, a diary from 1886 and a small amount of other material.
A collection of letters and documents containing the autograph signatures of all signers, each accompanied by engraved portraits of each man. The volume is prefaced by a series of six letters from George Washington to James Madison discussing the ratification of the Constitution.
Reports, correspondence, clippings, photographs, field notebooks and catalogues related to the various natural history collections formerly held in the Pratt Museum, as well as expeditionary field work undertaken to develop those collections. Also includes some records of the Amherst College department of Geology.
The Hugh B. Price Papers contain material documenting Price's career from the 1970s through the 2000s. Included are correspondence, manuscript drafts, speeches, memoranda, position papers, press coverage and interviews. The bulk of the material was generated during Price's tenure as president of the National Urban League in the 1990s. Price also held positions at the Rockefeller Foundaton, the Brookings Institution, and Princeton University.
Correspondence, clippings, photographs and other material relating to Romer's Amherst career, his service in WWI France, and his later activities as President of the Class of 1917 and as Chairman of the Phi Alpha Psi Fraternity Corporation.
Corrsepondence from Viola Roseboro' to Gertrude Hall Brownell spanning the last decade of Roseboro's life and reflecting Roseboro's views on literature, politics, current events, shared acquaintances, and her health.
Historian and professor at Amherst College. Contains professional correspondence, manuscripts, course materials and research materials documenting his career.
Histories, correspondence, articles and photographs relating to the statue Sabrina, donated to Amherst College in 1857 and the object of pranks and interclass rivalry for much of the time since.
Business administrator. Collection consists of correspondence, mostly personal. Correspondents include Paul Abbott, James Hayford, Gail Kennedy, Sterling Lamprecht, David Morton, James Notopoulos and Arthur Stanley Pease.
Letters of commendation and formal greeting, proclamations and certificates presented to Amherst College on special occassions by other colleges and universities, as well as other cultural institutions.
The Samuel French Company Theater Collection is more than four hundred and fifty linear feet of material including thousands of plays and publications, photographs, costume design illustrations, theatrical ephemera, and documentation of the Samuel French Corporation's business transactions dating back to the mid 1800s.
Contains correspondence to John E. Sanford (1830-1907) from his parents, Reverend John Sanford (1788-1866) and Sophia Loud Sanford (1790-1869). The bulk of the correspondence is from Reverend Sanford. Frequent topics include the health of the parents and their advice to John about his; money matters; Amherst news, and the personal and professional lives of both young John and his older brother, Baalis (AC 1845). The last folder in the small collection contains miscellaneous correspondence to and about John E. Sanford.
Biologist in the field of experimental morphology, experimental embryology, endocrinology and regeneration. Collection consists of research papers consisting of laboratory notes, tabulations and drafts of publications.
Contains a limited group of papers related to poet David Schubert, including letters to, from, and about David Schubert from family, friends, teachers, and administrators. The collection includes a selection of published versions of his poetry as well as orginal manuscripts and typescripts.
Clergyman, educator, author and politician; 5th President of Amherst College, 1876-1890. Chiefly correspondence, sermons, notes, journals, speeches and articles. The bulk of the collection is family and other correspondence, although it also includes many sermons and writings by Seeyle.
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Botanist, mineralogist, natural historian. Collection consists primarily of letters regarding Shepard's mineral collection, and also includes a few notebooks, a bound volume of pamphlets and miscellaneous other materials.
Anthropologist. Contains Sherman's notes from his coursework and studies at Amherst College and Cornell University; field notes for and drafts of his book Rice, Rupees and Ritual (1990); published articles and public lectures; and extensive background and lecture notes related to the anthropology courses he taught.
Approximately 335 letters, bills, receipts, accounts, contracts, deeds and insurance documents, largely addressed to or concerning George Sibbald (circa 1756-1830) and his commercial affairs. There are also 36 printed items and five maps (one of lands in Geogia and four concerning property in New York City). Subjects include import and export in the early and post-Federal periods and there are trade records for a variety of goods all up and down the East Coast, throughout the Mediterranean, and from Surinam, Greenock, London, Amsterdam, Hamburg, Cassel, and Lucca. Letters and reports deal with the outfitting of ships, and land speculation and development in Georgia and Florida. The Georgia Asylum Land Company (speculation in 500,000 acres of pine barren land in Georgia) is represented among these papers, as are dealings with the North American Land Company. Although for the most part the papers are signed by commercial figures whose names have not otherwise been recorded, there are several items signed by or concerning such people as Robert Morris, Oliver Phelps, Charles Carroll of Carrollton, and Clement Biddle. The collection is also has philatelic interest, in connection with the cancellations and postmarks of early post offices.
Pamphlets, publicity material, mailings and other ephemera relating to small presses in the United States, United Kingdom and elsewhere.
Chiefly printed ephemera of Professor Francis H. Fobes' Snail's Pace Press, including pamphlets of Greek and Roman texts, college examinations, certificates, light verse, and holiday greetings. Also, a small amount of correspond­ence of Fobes and others regarding the Press, and a biographical remembrance of Fobes.
Notebooks, correspondence, architectural and mathematical drawings, College account records, scientific papers and photographs of Ebenezer Strong Snell (1801-1876; AC Class of 1822) and his wife, daughters, parents and sisters. The papers chiefly document Snell's family and personal life but also Ebenezer Snell's career at Amherst College as Professor of Mathematics and Natural Philosophy. The 19th century history of Amherst College and the teaching of science, including astronomy, meteorology and physics, are also documented. The family papers provide insight into family life in Amherst in the mid-to-late 1800's and include correspondence, diaries and journals, household account books and photographs.
The Ethel "Sandy" (Beach) Socolar Family Papers (circa 1880-2015) contain correspondence, photographs, and scrapbooks related to the lives of Ethel "Sandy" (Beach) Socolar and her family, especially her mother, missionary-educator Ruth Porter (Ward) Beach, and sisters, Frances Helen (Beach) Bingham and Elizabeth Waterbury (Beach) Keller. The bulk of the material dates from about 1910-1950.
Richard L. Soffer (AC 1954) has formed a remarkable and extensive collection of books about birds, with particular attention to the various methods and techniques that have been used to reproduce illustrations of birds. The books in the collection provide examples of every type of illustrative technique: hand painting, woodcut and wood engraving, etching and engraving, lithography, and modern photomechanical methods.
SASA was a summer program for minority students from the Springfield, Mass. area. The collection includes application forms; curriculum materials including worksheets, "pre-tests" and tests; directory of participants; "SASA family alumni list"; and evaluations.
Clergyman and 4th President of Amherst College, 1854-1876. The collection contains several folders of correspondence among Stearns family members, especially between about 1830-1865. There is also some professional correspondence to and from Stearns including a group of anti-slavery letters and documents, as well as some religious documents pertaining to Stearns's ministry in his Cambridgeport church. The bulk of the collection consists of Stearns's sermons in manuscript form.
Bertrand Snell Professor of Political Science at Amherst College (1967-). Research materials, notes, correspondence and drafts of Taubman's Pulitzer Prize-winning biography of Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev, Khrushchev: The Man and His Era. Included are photocopies of many declassified American and Soviet government documents relating to Khrushchev and his time in power. The papers also contain a wide variety Russian and English-language books, periodicals, memoirs, articles, clippings, scholarly papers, conference proceedings and documents. Taubman's own detailed research notes, as well as his correspondence with scholars, experts, archivists, and Khrushchev family members, are interspersed throughout.
A representative but incomplete collection of several series of books published by the firm of Bernhard Tauchnitz from 1829 to 1954. The books in this collection, all inexpensive, paperbound editions, were a direct precursor to mass-market paperbacks.
Willard Long Thorp (1899-1992; AC 1920) was a pioneer statistician, economist, domestic and foreign policy advisor, international development expert, and private business consultant. Thorp's papers document the role of a key U.S. government figure during periods marked by political and economic turbulence. As Assistant Secretary of State for Economic Affairs from 1946-1952, he played a critical role in the design and implementation of the Marshall Plan and of the Truman administration's Point IV program of international aid. He also held a number of United Nations appointments and was Director of the Merrill Center for Economics. Thorp also taught Economics at Amherst College. The collection documents all of these activities and many more. It also partially documents his partnership with Clarice Brows Thorp (1912-2003) and her career as a lawyer and civil rights advocate prior to their marriage in 1947.
The collection consists of papers dating back more than a century and covering five generations in the family of Charles Hansen Toll (1882-1972) and Mayes Martin Toll (b. 1888-1974). The bulk of the collection dates from 1906 – 1973, when Charles "Carl" Toll was a professor or professor emeritus at Amherst College. The Toll family lived in Amherst for more than 60 years and was active in the affairs of the College and the town. The collection is comprised chiefly of correspondence, but there are also diaries, postcards, children's drawings, and travel ephemera. The Toll Family Papers are stored off-site, please contact us in advance of your visit.
The personal and professional papers of Dudley H. Towne, Professor of Physics at Amherst College from 1952 to 1997. The papers include course materials, his letters home during WWII, unpublished reminiscences on his life from childhood to the end of his life with a focus on his experience as a gay man and various other materials.
Professor of English, Amherst College, 1970-2008. Chiefly research materials related to Townsend's work on his books Sherwood Anderson, a 1987 biography of the American author, and Manhood at Harvard, a 1998 book discussing the development of gender roles and norms in the post-Civil WarUS.
The Israel E. Trask Papers document the professional and personal life of Israel E. Trask (1773-1835), early Amherst College Trustee (1821-1835) and Mississippi plantation owner.
Documents related to the families of Margaret Tuckerman Clark (including her father, mother, grandparents, aunts and uncles) and her husband Orton Loring Clark (primarily papers related to Clark himself). The collection includes correspondence, photographs, unique documents, and genealogical material (especially for the Tuckerman line). Notable among the collections are items associated with Margaret Clark's grandfather, poet Frederick Goddard Tuckerman, and his brothers Edward Tuckerman, a lichenologist, and Samuel Parkman Tuckerman, an organist and composer.
Literary and social organization for local women founded in 1883. Official organizational records, photographs, news clippings, and other materials documenting the activities of the Tuesday Club, a women's club in Amherst,Mass. founded in 1883. Organizational records include a constitution, meeting minutes and programs, copies of papers delivered at club meetings, membership information, and correspondence.
Philosopher. Collection includes genealogical notes on Tufts, Warren and Chapin families; family correspondence; and articles by Tufts.
Professor of Latin and Greek Languages and Literature, Amherst College, 1836-1893. Family correspondence; manuscript essays by Tyler and by his brother Wellington H. Tyler; addresses; articles; notes; diaries; photographs of Tyler and of his wife; pamphlets by Tyler; funeral orations; and lectures given by him throughout his life.
World War I ambulance unit, recruited in Amherst, Massachusetts in June 1917 from Amherst College students and local residents. Collection consists of clippings, photographs, a photograph album, maps, books, correspondence, pay and enlistment records, and other materials documenting the activities of the U.S. Army Ambulance Service Section 539, also called S.S.U. 539, in France during World War I.
The Uchimura Collection contains material related to the life of Uchimura Kanzō, including biographical information, typescripts and reproductions of correspondence, and commemorative items.
Most of the collection consists of pencil sketches and watercolors of scenery, people and objects, chiefly Turkish but also some American. In addition, a small amount of personal papers include passports related to his travel as a missionary in Turkey, a notebook of sermons written by Van Lennep in Armenian, and portrait photographs.
Correspondence, legal documents, news clippings, journal articles, one book and one map relating to the professional activities and personal life of Edwin St. John Ward. The bulk of the material falls into the years 1915-1918, when Dr. Ward was in service to the American Red Cross in Turkey, Palestine and France.
Educator, historian and 14th President of Amherst College. Collection consists of speeches, lecture notes and course syllabi, articles and other papers documenting Ward's career as teacher, scholar and administrator at Princeton University and Amherst College.
Papers documenting the personal and professional life of educator Paul Langdon Ward, including materials relating to his many articles and lectures, as well as to his research interests. Includes a smaller amount of material relating to his childhood as the son of medical missionaries in the Middle East.
Papers documenting the personal and professional lives of multiple generations of Ward and Bliss family members, dating from 1791 to 1977. Family correspondence makes up the largest portion of the material, supplemented with work records, diaries, memorabilia, photographs, writings, genealogical materials, and newspaper clippings.
Letters, legal and business papers, journals, photographs and other materials belonging to Noah Webster and four generations of his descendants. Consists mainly of correspondence concerning lexicographer Noah Webster's life and work. Some papers relate to the work of educators Rev. Henry and Eliza Jones and of businessman Robert Day.
Correspondence, photographs, and family memorabilia of the Whicher family. The bulk of the correspondence is between George Meason Whicher and his wife Lillian Hope Frisbie Whicher. Other correspondents include Alvah Lillie Frisbie and George Frisbie Whicher.
Novelist and editor. Includes typed original manuscripts, galley proofs, correspondence to and from Dan Wickenden, literary reviews, printed materials, theatrical photographs, a small number of personal items, and a scrapbook containing newsclippings and reviews. They primarily document Wickenden's literary and professional career.
Poet and teacher. Worksheets, notes, typescripts, and galley proofs for published poems (sometimes together with associated correspondence), poetry translations and prose pieces by Richard Wilbur.
Correspondence, poetry, and other materials owned by Thomas Wilcox (AC 1942). Much of the correspondence is from Richard Wilbur (AC 1942) and his wife Charlotte "Charlee" Wilbur, dating from the World War II era. Also included are poems by Richard Wilbur and photos of the Wilbur family. Other correspondence in the collection is from Wilcox family members and Amherst College notables including Armour Craig and Theodore Baird.
Correspondence and papers documenting the personal life and career of Emma Hart Willard, a pioneering advocate of educational equality for women, including material on the Troy Female Seminary (later the Emma Willard School) when it was founded and administered by Emma Hart Willard. In addition, papers of her son John Hart Willard, his wife Sarah L. Willard and his daughter Emma Willard Scudder. Also included are papers and correspondence related to Willard Scudder, Henry Joel Scudder and Hewlett Scudder and the Willard, Scudder and Keyes families. There is correspondence from Timothy Dwight, Henry Barnard, A. S. Barnes, Almira Phelps (Mrs. Lincoln Phelps) and L. H. Sigourney.
Professor of physics, Amherst College, 1924-1947. Includes drafts of manuscripts, reprints, bound volumes, printers' proofs, publishers' prospecti, correspondence, research notes, photographs, drawings, plans, and reports relating to his teaching and research in physics, as well as a small amount of personal papers documenting his private life. His extensive correspondents are listed in the appendix.
Reporter for the New York World, 1873-1877, Washington correspondent for the New York Sun, 1877-1879, and editorial writer for the Springfield (Mass.) Republican, 1879-1881 and the Philadelphia Press, 1881-1912; director of the Pulitzer School of Journalism, Columbia University, 1912-1919. The collection consists mainly of correspondence to and from Talcott Williams, and to and from his wife Sophia.
The Williams-Chambers-Blaisdell Papers ("the Blaisdell Papers") contain correspondence, photographs, scrapbooks, and documents from the family of missionaries William Nesbitt Chambers and Cornelia Pond Williams Chambers and their children, especially their daughter Dorothea Nesbitt Chambers (later Blaisdell). The papers include material (primarily correspondence) from other family members such as Nesbitt and Cornelia's siblings and relatives. The bulk of the material dates from about 1885-1930, and there is much correspondence from the era of World War I.
The Williams-Chambers-Seelye Family Papers consist primarily of the correspondence of three generations of the family of William Frederic and Sarah Pond Williams with relatives and friends during the family's residence in the Ottoman Empire between 1848 and 1933, when they were missionaries working for the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions and (later) educators at various institutions. The collection also contains documentation relating to the personal and professional lives of these family members. A manuscript by Dorothea Seelye Franck, the great-granddaughter of Frederic and Sarah Williams, is also in the collection. Bulk dates are 1850-1930.
The Williams-Chambers-Seelye-Franck Family Papers ("the Franck Papers") include correspondence, photographs, juvenilia, memorabilia, manuscripts, teaching materials, and publications relating to several generations of missionaries, educators, public servants, and artists. In addition to describing the lives of multiple members of the family, subjects include missionary work in Turkey in the late 19th century into the 20th century; World War I and Armenian history in the period as reported by missionaries and educators in Turkey; life at the American University of Beirut from about 1920-1935; religious and intellectual life in the first half of the 20th century, and many other topics. The collection also includes a section devoted to the life and career of dancer Mary-Averett Seelye. The material dates from about 1850-1988, with the bulk of the material dating from about 1890-1940.
Writer, editor; professor of English, Amherst College, 1937-1946; . Notes, working drafts and published works. Also included is his business and personal correspondence.