http://www.library.umass.edu/spcoll/umarmot the Catablog Wed, 18 Nov 2009 22:47:13 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en MassEquality Records, ca.1993-2008. 25 boxes (40 linear foot). In the late 1990s, MassEquality was formed as a coalition of advocacy groups that sought to build legislative support for same-sex marriage and gay rights in Massachusetts. Formally incorporated as a 501(c)4 advocacy organization in late 2001, the coalition hired its ... http://www.library.umass.edu/spcoll/umarmot/?p=998 Jonathan Evan Maslow Papers, ca.1978-2008. 15 boxes (30 linear foot). A man of diverse and interests, Jon Maslow was a naturalist and journalist, an environmentalist, traveler, and writer, whose works took his from the rain forests to the steppes to the salt marshes of his native New Jersey. Born ... http://www.library.umass.edu/spcoll/umarmot/?p=996 Frederick V. Waugh Collection, 1917-1919. 6 items (0.25 linear foot). In July 1917, prior to the American entry in the First World War, Frederick Vail Waugh joined a group of about fifty residents of Amherst, Mass., who enlisted for duty in the Ambulance Service of the French Army. From ... http://www.library.umass.edu/spcoll/umarmot/?p=995 Association for Gravestone Studies Collection Phil Kallas Collection, ca.1915-2000. 1 box (0.25 linear feet). A former guest editor of the Association for Gravestone Studies Newsletter and member of the Wisconsin Old Cemeteries Society, Phil Kallas has researched and written on Wisconsin gravestones and stonecarvers. The Kallas collection contains 37 postcards of cemeteries ... http://www.library.umass.edu/spcoll/umarmot/?p=990 Association for Gravestone Studies Collection Robert Bayard Severy Photograph Collection, 1980-2007. 5 boxes (5.5 linear feet). Dorchester North Burial Place,Capt. Elisha Davis, d. Oct. 10, 1778 A local historian from Dorchester, Mass., and an official in the Dorchester Historical Society, Robert Bayard Severy is an avid photographer. Over the years he ... http://www.library.umass.edu/spcoll/umarmot/?p=993 Association for Gravestone Studies Collection Susanne S. Ridlen Photograph Collection, 1985-1991. 11 boxes (5.5 linear feet). In Memory of the Orphans,Mt. Hope Cemetery, Logansport, Ind. A folklorist at Indiana University Kokomo for many years, Susanne S. Ridlen is noted for her research on grave markers in the Midwest. Her dissertation at ... http://www.library.umass.edu/spcoll/umarmot/?p=992 Association for Gravestone Studies Collection Markers, 1980- . The annual journal of the Association for Gravestone Studies, Markers, features definitive illustrated articles on cemetery and gravemarker topics as well as an extensive annual international bibliography of recent scholarship. We have digitized back issues and made them available through the Internet Archive ... http://www.library.umass.edu/spcoll/umarmot/?p=991 Association for Gravestone Studies Collection Daniel and Jessie Lie Farber Photograph Collection, 1973. 3 boxes (2.75 linear feet). Gravestone of Jonathan Butterfield,Chelmsford, 1750 A businessman from Worcester, Mass., Daniel Farber (1906-1998) was among the best known photographers of early American gravestone art. Over the course of twenty years beginning in about ... http://www.library.umass.edu/spcoll/umarmot/?p=989 Association for Gravestone Studies Collection Frank Calidonna Photograph Collection, 1991. 1 box (0.25 linear feet). Charles A. Jones monument, 1858 A teacher at the New York State School for the Deaf since the 1970s, Frank Calidonna is a professional photographer based in Rome, N.Y. A long-time member of the Association for ... http://www.library.umass.edu/spcoll/umarmot/?p=988 Association for Gravestone Studies Collection Edwin S. Dethlefson Photograph Collection, ca.1965-1970. 1 box (0.25 linear feet). Gravestone of Abigail HolmanMilton, Mass., March 1703Edwin S. Dethlefson and his colleague James Deetz did pioneering work in the historical archaeology and material culture of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century gravestones in New England. Through a ... http://www.library.umass.edu/spcoll/umarmot/?p=987