Almeda M. Walker, Class of 1927, holding a raccoon The Department of Special Collections and University Archives has digitized over 13,000 photographs and other works of art from its collections documenting the history of the University of Massachusetts Amherst community, and thousands more depicting individuals, organizations, and localities within its broader collecting scope.

The search box below may be used to locate images of UMass Amherst, while the image galleries present a highly selective and eclectic sampling of other areas of interest in our collections.

Digital copies of any images from SCUA collections are available for a modest fee. Additional information about our collections can be obtained by contacting our reference staff.

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Image galleries
Bennett Labor Collection Assorted images from the John W. Bennett Labor Collection, including convention badges, buttons, ephemera, watch fobs, and other memorabilia relating to the American labor movement.	Brown (Brotherhood of the Spirit) Collection Images of the Brotherhood of the Spirit commune (1968-1973), Metelica's Aquarian Concept (1973-1978), the Renaissance Community (1975-1983), and reunions (1992-2002) taken by Dan Brown and other members of the community.
Du Bois Photographs 840 photographs from the Du Bois Papers, including images of Du Bois's family, friends, colleagues, historic events, and material used during his tenure as editor of the Crisis.	Enfield: A Quabbin town 109 photographs of Enfield, Massachusetts, a town inundated by the Quabbin Reservoir in the late 1930s.
Mange Collection Selected photographs taken by Arthur Mange, UMass Professor of Biology.	Metelica Photograph album Images taken of Michael Metelica, his family, and the Brotherhood of the Spirit commune, ca.1955-2000. From the Beth Hapgood Collection
Science Fiction Society Collection A sampling of illustrated covers from the thousands of issues of science fiction magazines accumulated by the UMass Amherst Science Fiction Society from the late 1940s to the 1990s.	UMass Amherst (Thomas H. Bott Collection), 1952 Images of the campus at UMass Amherst, 1952, taken by Thomas H. Bott, class of 1953.
Jozef Obrebski in Macedonia Ethnographic images of Macedonian peasants taken by the ethnographer Jozef Obrebski in 1931 and 1932.	Joel M. Halpern in Macedonia Ethnographic images of village and urban life in Macedonia taken by the anthropologist Joel M. Halpern, 1954-1978.