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Folger Shakespeare Library

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Found in 5 Collections and/or Records:

Folger Shakespeare Memoranda, 1931 - 1932

 Item — Volume 53
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Ledgers, account books, correspondence and other financial records relating to Amherst College scholarships, loans, tuition payments, special funds, and investments, dating chiefly from circa 1830-1900.

Dates: 1931 - 1932
Found in: Amherst College Archives and Special Collections / Amherst College Financial Record Books

Folger Shakespeare Memorial Check Register Investment Income Cash Receipts, 1931 September-1933 June

 Item — Volume 54
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Ledgers, account books, correspondence and other financial records relating to Amherst College scholarships, loans, tuition payments, special funds, and investments, dating chiefly from circa 1830-1900.

Dates: 1931 September-1933 June
Found in: Amherst College Archives and Special Collections / Amherst College Financial Record Books

John William Ward, Former President of the College, 1979 June 19

 File — Multiple Containers
Scope and Contents Subject coverage: On coming to Amherst, Started professional career in English; reasons for switching to History, Demands of presidency preempt ability to maintain scholarly study, Opportunities, as president, to meet variety of people, Reaction on being invited to become president, Effect of coming to the post from the faculty, Some pleasant aspects of being president, Reflections on proposing the admission of women, Effects of coeducation on the College, some disadvantages of being...
Dates: 1979 June 19
Found in: Amherst College Archives and Special Collections / Amherst College Oral History Project Records

Stanley King (AC 1903) Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MA.00056
Abstract

Former Amherst College President. 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.

Dates: 1880-1967; Majority of material found within 1895-1967
Found in: Amherst College Archives and Special Collections

Werner L. Gundersheimer (AC 1959) Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MA.00277
Abstract

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.

Dates: 1940-2004
Found in: Amherst College Archives and Special Collections

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Archival Object 3
Collection 2
 
Subject
Amherst College -- Students 2
Amherst College -- Alumni and alumnae 1
Amherst College -- History 1
Amherst College -- Presidents 1
Coeducation 1
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College presidents 1
Jews -- United States 1
Renaissance -- France 1
Renaissance -- Italy 1
Vietnam war, 1961-1975 -- Protest movements 1
World War, 1914-1918 1
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