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Manuscript Collections
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 catalog 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.
Major Manuscript Collections
Description | Type |
---|---|
Amherst, Lord Jeffery, 1717-1797 | Papers |
Amherst Authors Collection | Collection |
Amherst Record Photograph Archive. See Photograph Collections | Collection |
Baker, Ray Stannard ("David Grayson"), 1870-1946 | Papers |
Barnes, Lincoln, 1879-1966. See Photograph Collections | Collection |
Boltwood Historical and Genealogical Collections | Collection |
Boltwood, Lucius Manlius, 1825-1905 | Papers |
Broad/Brown/Gaskill Family |
Papers |
Burgess, John William, 1844-1931 and Burgess Ruth Payne, 1865-1934 |
Papers |
Dakin, Winthrop S. and Janet Wilder Papers | Papers |
Dickinson, Emily, 1830-1886 | Collection |
Field Family Papers, 1820-1949 | Papers |
Francis, Robert, 1901-1987 | Collection |
Frost, Robert, 1874-1963 | Collection |
Garden Club of Amherst |
Records |
Gates, Winifred Carpenter. See Photograph Collections | Collection |
Goodell/Goodale Family Papers, ca. 1750-1905 | Papers |
Grayson, David see Baker, Ray Stannard | Papers |
Green, Charles R. 1876-1968 | Collection |
Hardy, Donald E. 1883-1979 | Papers |
Howes Brothers. See Photograph Collections | Collection |
Howland Family Photographs |
Collection |
Jackson, Helen Hunt, 1830-1885 | Papers |
Johnson, Clifton, 1865-1940 | Collection |
Jones Family Papers | Papers |
Jones Library Collection |
Records |
Kanegasaki Sister City Committee |
Records |
Lacroix, Donald, 1899- . See Photograph Collections | Collection |
Lankes, J. J. 1884-1960 | Collection |
Lester, Julius, 1939- | Collection |
Lovell, John L. 1825-1903. See Photograph Collections | Collection |
McClung, Robert M. 1916-2006. 1925-1997 | Papers |
Newspaper Collection | Collection |
Nutting Family Papers, 1833-1957 | Papers |
Photograph Collections | Collection |
Puffer, Stephen. See Photograph Collections | Collection |
Rand, Frank Prentice, 1899-1971. See Photograph Collections | Collection |
Scott, Edgar, 1858-1940. See Photograph Collections | Collection |
South Congregational Church. 1824- | Records |
Stone Family Papers, 1891-1991 | Papers |
Tilley, Nathan S. See Photograph Collections | Collection |
Unitarian Universalist Society of Amherst. 1894- | Records |
Walker Family Collection | Collection |
Waugh, Frank, 1869-1943. See also Photograph Collections | Collection |
Waugh, Sidney Biehler, 1904-1963 | Papers |
Webster, Noah, 1758-1843 | Collection |