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Amherst College -- Alumni and alumnae

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 116 Collections and/or Records:

Alfred Friendly (AC 1933) Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MA.00161
Abstract

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.

Dates: 1911-1983; Majority of material found within 1927-1982

Alfred Sherwood Romer (AC 1917) Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MA.00194
Abstract

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.

Dates: 1913-1977

Allan W. Forbes (AC 1908) Photograph Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MA.00309
Abstract

Photographs taken by Allan W. Forbes (AC 1908) largely of Amherst College and the surrounding area during his time as a student.

Dates: 1905-1911

Allison W. "Eli" Marsh (AC 1913) Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MA.00109
Abstract

Publications, photographs, clippings, letters, memorabilia, academic regalia and other materials documenting "Eli" Marsh's career as a soccer coach and professor of Physical Education, chiefly at Amherst College, 1917-1958, but also at Ohio State University, 1915-1917.

Dates: 1857-1979

Allison W. Marsh (AC 1913) Physical Education Department Records

 Collection
Identifier: MA.00302
Abstract

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.

Dates: 1875-1959

Amherst College Alumni Biographical Files

 Collection
Identifier: MA.00053
Abstract

Biographical questionnaires; writings and correspondence by or about alumni, newspaper articles, obituaries, photographs. In rare instances, the collection includes some materials pertaining to an entire class, such as class agent records, and copies of class resolutions or class anthologies.

Dates: 1821 - circa 2012

Amherst College Alumni Office Historical Records

 Sub-Group
Identifier: RG 004-001-001
Abstract

Minutes, reports, correspondence, programs, scrapbooks and other materials documenting official activities of Amherst College alumni, including Alumni Council meetings, dinners and conferences and the activities of regional alumni associations.

Dates: 1848-1955

Amherst College Alumni Office Public Records

 Collection
Identifier: MA.00046
Abstract

Correspondence, minutes, printed matter, and other administrative records related to alumni relations at Amherst College, 1922-1992.

Dates: 1922-1992

Amherst College Class of 1902 Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MA.00007
Abstract

The Class of 1902 Papers consist of reunion pictures and publications, correspondence, articles written by members of the class, and a scrapbook.

Dates: 1932-1967

Amherst College New Year Greeting Cards Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MA.00160
Abstract

Collection consists of New Year greeting cards sent to Amherst College alumni by the College, as well as several scrapbooks of the cards and related correspondence. Cards often contain artistic scenes from the campus or reproductions from the collection of the Mead Art Museum.

Dates: 1921-1990

Amherst College Record Books

 Collection
Identifier: MA.00208
Abstract

Autograph books, registers, record books and logs relating to Amherst College students, alumni, administration and various college events and topics from the founding of the College to the early 20th century.

Dates: 1801-1967; Majority of material found within 1825-1908

Amherst College Reunion Trophy Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MA.00159
Abstract

The Reunion Trophy of Amherst College was presented annually to the alumni class having the largest percentage of living members present at Commencement. Collection consists of letters and documents related to the Reunion Trophy.

Dates: 1873-1955
Digital Collection: Amherst College Scrapbooks Collection (Selections)
Digital Collection: Amherst College Scrapb...

Amherst College Scrapbooks Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MA.00099
Abstract

Scrapbooks containing programs, souvenirs, photographs, newspaper clippings, college papers, letters and ephemera relating chiefly to student life at Amherst. Includes both personal and institutional scrapbooks.

Dates: 1834-1983

Anson D. Morse (AC 1871) Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MA.00036
Abstract

Historian and political thinker. Contains notes, manuscripts, articles, notebooks, newspaper clippings, and correspondence relating to his work as Professor of History at Amherst College.

Dates: circa 1870-1916

Arthur John Hopkins (AC 1885) Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MA.00090
Abstract

Correspondence, draft writings, articles, notes and other materials documenting the career of Hopkins as a scientist and professor of chemistry at Amherst College. His scientific notes and writings chiefly document research in the field of alchemy, but there is also some material on the calculation of latitude and longitude. In addition, the papers include some correspondence of his wife, Margaret Briscoe Hopkins, as well as genealogical information.

Dates: 1846-1939

Bailey LeFevre Brown (AC 1924) Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MA.00034
Abstract

Mathematician. Contains mathematical notes, correspondence, article reprints and other materials documenting his research in mathematics. Includes correspondence with Neal H. McCoy.

Dates: 1930-1964

Bruce B. Benson (AC 1943) Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MA.01016
Abstract

Amherst College alumnus (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.

Dates: 1939-1988

Calvin Plimpton (AC 1939) Presidential Speeches

 Collection
Identifier: MA.00083
Abstract

Physician and former Amherst president. Collection contains proofs of The Spoken Word a collection of his speeches; and also includes other speeches and articles by Plimpton.

Dates: 1960-1971

Charles Foster Weeden, Jr. (AC 1916) Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MA.00298
Abstract The Charles Foster Weeden, Jr. (AC 1916) Papers document the personal and early professional life of Charles Foster Weeden as a member of the Near East Relief in Urfa, Turkey between 1919 and 1920. Most of the collection consists of Weeden’s outgoing correspondence to his family and his writings about his work in the Near East Relief. There is a smaller amount of incoming correspondence from family and friends. Two photograph albums and a file of loose photographs also document his work in...
Dates: circa 1916-1983

Charles Upham Shepard (AC 1824) Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MA.00075
Abstract

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.

Dates: 1826-1881

Charles Wiggins Cobb (AC 1897) Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MA.00354
Abstract

Papers of Charles Wiggins Cobb (AC 1897), 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.

Dates: 1939-1956

Clarence Birdseye (AC 1910) Field Journals

 Collection
Identifier: MA.00169
Abstract

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 November 9 to 1916 July 20.

Dates: 1910-1916

Class of 1869 - Elijah Winchester Donald, 1896-1904

 Item — Volume 7: [Barcode: Scrapbooks 7]
Scope and Contents From the Series:

Series 1: Personal Scrapbooks - consists of scrapbooks created by individual Amherst College students and alumni. The majority of the scrapbooks in this series were created during the compiler's time as a student at Amherst. A small number of scrapbooks in this series have an Amherst student or alumnus as their subject and were created by an unknown compiler. Scrapbooks are arranged chronologically by class year.

Dates: 1896-1904

Class of 1878 - Frank Stearns - clippings, 1925-1945

 Item — Volume 27: [Barcode: Scrapbooks 27]
Scope and Contents From the Series:

Series 1: Personal Scrapbooks - consists of scrapbooks created by individual Amherst College students and alumni. The majority of the scrapbooks in this series were created during the compiler's time as a student at Amherst. A small number of scrapbooks in this series have an Amherst student or alumnus as their subject and were created by an unknown compiler. Scrapbooks are arranged chronologically by class year.

Dates: 1925-1945

Class of 1878 - George Thomas Eaton, 1874-1880

 Item — Volume 23: [Barcode: Scrapbooks 23]
Scope and Contents From the Series:

Series 1: Personal Scrapbooks - consists of scrapbooks created by individual Amherst College students and alumni. The majority of the scrapbooks in this series were created during the compiler's time as a student at Amherst. A small number of scrapbooks in this series have an Amherst student or alumnus as their subject and were created by an unknown compiler. Scrapbooks are arranged chronologically by class year.

Dates: 1874-1880

Class of 1878 - William Lyman Cowles, 1874-1878, 1898

 Item — Volume 21: [Barcode: Scrapbooks 21]
Scope and Contents From the Series:

Series 1: Personal Scrapbooks - consists of scrapbooks created by individual Amherst College students and alumni. The majority of the scrapbooks in this series were created during the compiler's time as a student at Amherst. A small number of scrapbooks in this series have an Amherst student or alumnus as their subject and were created by an unknown compiler. Scrapbooks are arranged chronologically by class year.

Dates: 1874-1878; 1898

Class of 1879 - Naibu Kanda, 1871-1879

 Item — Volume 29: [Barcode: Scrapbooks 29]
Scope and Contents From the Series:

Series 1: Personal Scrapbooks - consists of scrapbooks created by individual Amherst College students and alumni. The majority of the scrapbooks in this series were created during the compiler's time as a student at Amherst. A small number of scrapbooks in this series have an Amherst student or alumnus as their subject and were created by an unknown compiler. Scrapbooks are arranged chronologically by class year.

Dates: 1871-1879

Class of 1880 - George Grindley Spence Perkins, 1860-1936

 Item — Volume 33: [Barcode: Scrapbooks 33]
Scope and Contents From the Series:

Series 1: Personal Scrapbooks - consists of scrapbooks created by individual Amherst College students and alumni. The majority of the scrapbooks in this series were created during the compiler's time as a student at Amherst. A small number of scrapbooks in this series have an Amherst student or alumnus as their subject and were created by an unknown compiler. Scrapbooks are arranged chronologically by class year.

Dates: 1860-1936

Class of 1880 - Luther Denny Whittemore, 1874-1932

 Item — Volume 34: [Barcode: Scrapbooks 34]
Scope and Contents From the Series:

Series 1: Personal Scrapbooks - consists of scrapbooks created by individual Amherst College students and alumni. The majority of the scrapbooks in this series were created during the compiler's time as a student at Amherst. A small number of scrapbooks in this series have an Amherst student or alumnus as their subject and were created by an unknown compiler. Scrapbooks are arranged chronologically by class year.

Dates: 1874-1932

Class of 1882 - Enoch Hale Burt, 1877-1882, 1932

 Item — Volume 37: [Barcode: Scrapbooks 37]
Scope and Contents From the Series:

Series 1: Personal Scrapbooks - consists of scrapbooks created by individual Amherst College students and alumni. The majority of the scrapbooks in this series were created during the compiler's time as a student at Amherst. A small number of scrapbooks in this series have an Amherst student or alumnus as their subject and were created by an unknown compiler. Scrapbooks are arranged chronologically by class year.

Dates: 1877-1882; 1932