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John W. Dower (AC 1959) Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MA.00288
Abstract

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.

Dates: 1850-2010; Majority of material found within 1941-2010

John William Ward Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MA.00087
Abstract

Educator 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.

Dates: 1952-1985

Joseph Amiel (AC 1959) Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MA.00110
Abstract

The bulk of the collection consists of typescripts, galleys and proofs of five of Joseph Amiel's novels, 1979-1993. Also included are class notes taken by Amiel for history and English courses at Amherst, 1956-1959.

Dates: 1956-1993

Joseph B. Eastman (AC 1904) Papers

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Identifier: MA.00197
Abstract

Correspondence, diaries, diplomas, newspaper clippings, photographs, speeches, reports, miscellaneous printed matter and memorabilia chiefly documenting Eastman's 25-year career in the U.S. Interstate Commerce Commission (ICC), 1919-1944, as well as memorabilia and other materials related to Eastman's personal life.

Dates: 1837-1960; Majority of material found within 1904-1944

Joseph Gerald Cole (AC 1915) Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MA.00271
Abstract

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.

Dates: circa 1919-1945

Joseph Hardy Neesima (AC 1870) Collection

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Identifier: MA.00355
Abstract

The material in the Joseph Hardy Neesima Collection consists mostly of secondary source material created about Neesima in the twentieth century.

Dates: 1870

Joseph Moncure March (AC 1920) Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MA.00210
Abstract

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).

Dates: 1896-1999; Majority of material found within 1917-1977

Josiah B. Woods Family Papers

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Identifier: MA.00359
Abstract

The Josiah B. Woods Family Papers are comprised of a selection of materials from and about multiple members of the Woods family of Enfield, Massachusetts. The papers include promissory notes, partnership papers, deeds, correspondence, photographs, and objects.

Dates: circa 1815-2016

Journals of Edwin Elisha Bliss (AC 1837) and Isabella Holmes Porter Bliss

 Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: MA.00322
Abstract

The collection contains several bound journals documenting aspects of the lives of Turkey missionaries Isabella Holmes Porter Bliss and Edwin Elisha Bliss (AC 1837) and one folder of related material.

Dates: circa 1840-1862

Julian H. Gibbs (AC 1947) Papers

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Identifier: MA.00113
Abstract

Mainly papers, abstracts, articles and lecture notes on topics in physical chemistry, and correspondence between Gibbs and his colleagues.

Dates: 1954-1985, undated

Julius Hawley Seelye (AC 1849) Papers

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Identifier: MA.00031
Abstract

The Julius Hawley Seelye Collection contains 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 Seelye.

Dates: 1824-1898

Justin Perkins (AC 1829) Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MA.00153
Abstract

Educator, minister and missionary to Persia beginning in the 1830s. Collection includes: correspondence with others in his field; manuscript sermons; lectures and notes; newspaper clippings and pamphlets, and seven volumes of bound manuscripts - mostly letters and journals.

Dates: circa 1830-1869

Kaelan McCone (AC 2019) Digital Photographs of Amherst Uprising

 Collection
Identifier: MA.00386
Scope and Contents

This collection contains approximately 600 digital photographs taken by Kaelan McCone during the course of the Amherst Uprising, November 2015.

Dates: 2015 November

Karl Loewenstein Papers

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Identifier: MA.00206
Abstract Materials produced and collected by Karl Loewenstein (1891-1973) over the course of his long career as a 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...
Dates: 1822-1977 1908-1973

Katrin Janecke Gibney Papers

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Identifier: MA.00306
Abstract

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 the German Propaganda Ministry during World War II and in the period immediately following the German surrender. Also an unpublished memoir by Katrin Gibney based on the diaries, titled "Angels Forbidden". Diaries and memoir are both in English.

Dates: 1941-1991

Kendall Company Historical Records

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Identifier: MA.00370-b
Scope and Contents This collection documents the Kendall Company from 1924 through its sale to Colgate Palmolive in 1972, with a few later items. It includes company annual reports (1955-1971) and executive and Board of Directors records and correspondence (primarily 1960-1972). The collection also includes company histories, informational publications, and advertisements as well as records of employee events, information about a number of Kendall mills, and a few samples of the company's products....
Dates: 1924-2012; Majority of material found within 1924 - 1972

Kendall-Plimpton Family History Collection

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Identifier: MA.00370-g
Scope and Contents This collection contains genealogical records, writings, documents, correspondence, photographs, biographical information, correspondence, family Bibles, and ephemera of the Kendall and Plimpton families. It includes genealogical documentation of the ancestry of Henry P. Kendall on both the paternal (Kendall) and maternal (Plimpton) sides; histories of the Kendall and Plimpton families; letters, books and memorabilia of family members of several generations; writings and records of the Rev....
Dates: 1830-1988
Digital Collection: Kennedy Convocation Collection (Selections)
Digital Collection: Kennedy Convocation Co...

Kennedy Convocation Collection

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Identifier: MA.00121
Abstract

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 ground breaking ceremony for the Robert Frost Library.

Dates: 1962-2003

Kim Townsend Papers

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Identifier: MA.00226
Abstract

Kim Townsend taught English at Amherst College from 1962 until his retirement in 2008. The Kim Townsend Papers consist of research materials for his two major publications: 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 War US.

Dates: 1985-1998

Laurens Perseus Hickok Papers

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Identifier: MA.00088
Abstract

The collection includes 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 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.

Dates: 1822-1875; Majority of material found within 1830-1845

Lawrence H. Conrad Collection of Vachel Lindsay and Robert Frost Material

 Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: MA.01014
Abstract

The Lawrence H. Conrad Collection of Vachel Lindsay and Robert Frost Material 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.

Dates: 1918-1966; Majority of material found within 1928-1934

Leonard Daniel (Dan) Wickenden (AC 1935) Papers

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Identifier: MA.00033
Abstract

The Wickenden Papers span the years 1921-1989, with the bulk falling between the 1950s and the 1970s. Materials include 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.

Dates: 1921-1989; Majority of material found within 1953-1979

Leonard R. Weitzel, Jr. and Madeleine DeBarthe Schuermann Correspondence Collection

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Identifier: MA.00382
Abstract

The Leonard R. Weitzel, Jr. and Madeleine DeBarthe Schuermann Correspondence Collection is comprised largely of correspondence from Weitzel to DeBarthe (later Schuermann). Schuermann was the companion of Robert Frost's illustrator Julius J. Lankes during the last twenty years of his life, and Weitzel was her cousin and, for a time, a romantic interest. The collection contains approximately 300 letters and several photographs.

Dates: 1925-1958

Leslie Stuart Baker (AC 1921) Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MA.00367
Scope and Contents

Two boxes of materials including correspondence, maps and illustrations, photographs, and ephemera. The collection largely pertains to Baker's time serving in WWI, although his high school and college years are also documented.

Dates: 1909-1967; Majority of material found within 1918-1919

Lincoln Wade Barnes Photographic Negatives Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MA.00253
Abstract

Photographic negatives depicting local places and events taken by photographer Lincoln Wade Barnes and his staff, chiefly at Amherst College, circa 1927-1965.

Dates: 1927-1965

Louis P. Dolbeare (AC 1940) Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MA.00122
Abstract

1940 graduate of Amherst College; urban planner. Collection contains correspondence with friends and family, photographs and newspaper clippings relating to Amherst College alumni reunions and theater productions.

Dates: 1934-1998; 1934-1965

Louise Bogan Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MA.00085
Scope and Contents The collection consists of correspondence, manuscript drafts of both published and unpublished poems, prose, short stories, and translations, lectures, teaching notes, news clippings, journals and notebooks documenting Bogan's career as poet, translator, critic, teacher and editor from 1930 until her death in 1970. Documentation of her personal affairs includes family items, diaries, awards and honors, contracts with publishers, copyrights, financial records, photographs, and material...
Dates: 1930-1970

Lucy Wilson Benson Family Papers

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Identifier: MA.00406
Abstract

The papers of Lucy Wilson Benson, who served as president of the National League of Women Voters (1968-1974), secretary of human services for Massachusetts (1975-1977), and U.S. undersecretary of state for security assistance, science and technology (1977-1980). The papers also include material from and about other family members. This is an unprocessed collection.

Dates: 1942-1997

Luther Clark Howell (AC 1864) Papers

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Identifier: MA.00091
Abstract

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.

Dates: 1855-1874

Manuel Cuéllar Vizcaíno Collection

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Identifier: MA.00185
Abstract

Books, magazines, manuscripts, speeches, news clippings and photographs that document Manuel Cuéllar Vizcaíno's career as a Cuban writer and teacher, chiefly from the 1940s through the 1950s. All of the materials are in Spanish.

Dates: 1909-2002