Manuscript Finding Aids
Below is a list of major manuscript collections, some with links to finding aids. However, this list is by no means exhaustive; hundreds of smaller collections, not listed here, are indexed and described in a card catalogue in the department.
Terminology: "Collection" refers to an artificial, often growing body of materials from diverse sources; "papers" refers to materials that were created by one family or individual; "records" refers to official records created and maintained by an organization or business.
Amherst, Lord Jeffery, 1717-1797. Papers
Amherst Authors Collection
Amherst Record Photograph Archive. See Photograph Collections
Baker, Ray Stannard ("David Grayson"), 1870-1946. Papers
Barnes, Lincoln, 1879-1966. See Photograph Collections
Boltwood Historical and Genealogical Collections
Boltwood, Lucius Manlius, 1825-1905. Papers
Burgess, John William, 1844-1931. Papers
Burgess, Ruth Payne, 1865-1934. Papers
Dakin, Winthrop S. and Janet Wilder Papers
Dickinson, Emily, 1830-1886. Collection
Field Family Papers, 1820-1949
Francis, Robert, 1901-1987. Collection
Frost, Robert, 1874-1963. Collection
Gates, Winifred Carpenter. See Photograph Collections
Goodell/Goodale Family Papers, ca. 1750-1905
Grayson, David see Baker, Ray Stannard
Green, Charles R., 1876-1968. Collection
Hardy, Donald E., 1883-1979. Papers
Howes Brothers. See Photograph Collections
Jackson, Helen Hunt, 1830-1885. Papers
Johnson, Clifton, 1865-1940. Collection
Jones Family Papers
Lacroix, Donald, 1899- . See Photograph Collections
Lankes, J. J., 1884-1960. Collection
Lester, Julius, 1939- . Collection
Lovell, John L., 1825-1903. See Photograph Collections
McClung, Robert M., 1916- . Papers, 1925-1997
Newspaper Collection
Nutting Family Papers, 1833-1957
Photograph Collections
Puffer, Stephen. See Photograph Collections
Rand, Frank Prentice, 1899-1971. See Photograph Collections
Scott, Edgar, 1858-1940. See Photograph Collections
South Congregational Church. Records, 1824-
Stone Family Papers, 1891-1991
Tilley, Nathan S. See Photograph Collections
Unitarian Universalist Society of Amherst. Records, 1894-
Walker Family Collection
Waugh, Frank, 1869-1943. See also Photograph Collections
Waugh, Sidney Biehler, 1904-1963
Webster, Noah, 1758-1843