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Gray, Asa, 1810-1888

rscox — Fri, 06 Aug 2010 20:00:37 +0000

The great botanist and early supporter of evolutionary theory, Asa Gray, toured the Florida Panhandle during the spring of 1875, making “a pious pilgrimage to the secluded native haunts of that rarest of trees, the Torreya taxifolia.” His journey took him along the Apalachicola River in search of Torreya, an native yew prized by horticulturists.

This slender manuscript account was prepared by Gray for publication in the American Agriculturist (vol. 43). In a light and graceful way, his “pilgrimage” describes the difficulties of travel in the deep south during the post-Civil War years and his exploits while botanizing. The text is edited in Gray’s hand and varies slightly from the published version.

Crockett, James Underwood

rscox — Fri, 07 May 2010 13:18:53 +0000

The horticulturist, Jim Crockett (1915-1979) earned wide acclaim as host of the popular television show, Crockett’s Victory Garden. A 1935 graduate of the Stockbridge School of Agriculture at UMass Amherst, Crockett returned home to Massachusetts after a stint in the Navy during the Second World War and began work as a florist. A small publication begun for his customers, Flowery Talks, grew so quickly in popularity that Crockett sold his flower shop in 1950 to write full time. His first book, Window Sill Gardening (N.Y., 1958), was followed by seventeen more on gardening, ornamental plants, and horticulture, culminating with twelve volumes in the Time-Life Encyclopedia of Gardening. He was the recipient of numerous awards for garden writing and was director of the American Horticultural Society. In 1975, he was contacted about a new gardening show on PBS, Victory Garden, which he hosted until his death by cancer in 1979.

Documenting an important career in bringing horticulture to the general public, the Crockett Papers contain a mix of professional and personal correspondence and writing by Jim Crockett from throughout his career. The collection includes a particularly extensive set of letters from George B. Williams, Crockett’s father in law, and copies most of his publications.

Urbana Wine Company

rscox — Thu, 15 Apr 2010 20:53:36 +0000

Founded by John W. Davis, H.H. Cook, A.J. Startzer and others in 1865, the Urbana Wine Company was among the earliest and most successful wineries in the Finger Lakes region of New York. Organized in Hammondsport, N.Y., the center of the eastern wine industry, Urbana’s claim to fame was its widely popular Gold Seal Champagne and other sparkling wines and along with Walter Taylor, they dominated regional wine production during the Gilded Age. The winery survived passage of Prohibition in 1919 , both World Wars operating under the Gold Seal label, but was closed by its parent company, Seagrams, in 1984.

The Urbana Records are concentrated in the period 1881-1885, as the company was growing rapidly. Among other materials, the collection includes a range of correspondence, receipts, some financial records, and tallies of grapes. Additional material on the company is located in Cornell University’s Eastern Wine and Grape Archive.

Sears, Fred Coleman, 1866-

rscox — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 20:11:32 +0000

For nearly 30 years, Fred C. Sears served as Professor of Pomology at the Massachusetts Agricultural College. Born in Lexington, Mass., in 1866, Sears was raised on the Kansas prairies and educated at Kansas State College. After graduating in 1892, he taught horticulture in Kansas, Utah, and Nova Scotia before returning to Massachusetts and to MAC in 1907. The author of three textbooks and numerous articles on fruit culture and orcharding, he also developed the successful Bay Road Fruit Farm with his colleagues Frank A. Waugh and E.R. Critchett. Sears died at his home in Amherst in October 1949.

In addition to several offprints, the collection contains a set of articles written by Sears for the Country Gentleman bound with editorial correspondence; the well-edited original manuscripts of Sears’ textbooks Productive Orcharding (1914) and Productive Small Fruit Culture (1920), including correspondence, reviews, and photographs; Reports of the Massachusetts Fruit Growers Association (1911-1912, 1914-1916), and editions of Productive Orcharding (1927) and Fruit Growing Projects (1912) bound with Japanese titles.

Hamilton, Tom Sherman, 1924-

rscox — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 19:16:56 +0000

The horticulturist Tom S. Hamilton was a member of the faculty at UMass Amherst in the Department of Landscape Architecture and Regional Planning. A specialist in ornamental plants, Hamilton worked at UMass from prior to 1950 until his retirement in 1986.

The Hamilton Papers contain three works on ornamental plants published by the Dept. of Landscape Architecture, along with a mimeographed laboratory manual that Hamilton used in his courses on landscape operations in 1979.

Historical Note

Scope and Contents of the Collection

Information on Use

Terms of Access and Use

Restrictions on access:

The collection is open for research.

Preferred Citation

Cite as: Tom S. Hamilton Papers (FS 065). Special Collections and University Archives, W.E.B. Du Bois Library, University of Massachusetts Amherst.

History of the Collection

Gift of Tom S. Hamilton, 1965-1979.

Processing Information

Processed by Dex Haven, July 2009.

Additional Information

Language

English

Contents List

Hamilton, Tom S., Hardiness adaptability of some selected ornamentals 1965

1965

27 p.

Hamilton, Tom S., 1966 Suitability trials of some selected ornamentals

1966

33 p.

Hamilton, Tom S., 1967 Suitability trials of some selected ornamentals

1967

42 p.

Hamilton, Tom S., Laboratory manual for landscape operations S07

1979 Nov. 15

69 p.

Livers, Susie D.

rscox — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 19:37:29 +0000

Susie D. Livers arrived at Massachusetts Agricultural College in 1903 as a member of one of the college’s first co-ed classes. After graduating in 1907, Livers worked at Ginn & Company Publishers in Boston and then as a Detail Officer at the State School for Girls in Lancaster, Massachusetts.

Included in the scrapbook are handwritten personal correspondence in the form of letters, postcards, holiday cards, and telegrams; unidentified photographs; MAC report cards dated 1904 and 1907; class papers and a class notebook; and programs and tickets for sporting events, weddings, and campus socials. In the back of the scrapbook are 35 herbarium samples which include dried plants with notations of plant names as well as dates and locations indicating where the plants were found.

Franklin, Henry James, 1883-

rscox — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 13:02:29 +0000

H.J. Franklin was an expert cranberry grower and a trained entomologist, whose research centered on the bumble bee. Franklin would wed these two interests in his career at the University, where he studied the cranberry pollination habits of the bumble bee and oversaw the cultivation of cranberries at the University’s Cranberry Experiment Station at Wareham, which Franklin founded and directed from 1909 until he retired in 1953. Born in Guildford, Vermont in 1883, Franklin moved to Bernardston, Mass. when he was eleven, eventually attending the University of Massachusetts, where he earned his B.S in 1903, and Ph.D in 1912. Franklin spent his career and life with cranberries, owning and managing his own bogs in three eastern Massachusetts counties and working with cranberry producers to develop the industry. Franklin died in 1958 in Wareham, Mass.

The H.J. Franklin Papers document his research on the bumble bee as well as his work with cranberry producers. In the collection are reports from the cranberry grower’s association, published articles by Franklin on cranberries and the Bombidae, and reports from the State Agricultural Board on cranberry production.

Clark, Orton Loring

rscox — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 12:13:59 +0000

Orton Loring Clark was an associate professor of botany and biology at the University of Massachusetts. After earning his B.A. in 1908 from the University, then the Massachusetts Agricultural College, Clark studied at the University of Strasbourg, where he earned his doctorate. He joined the faculty of his alma mater in 1913, specialized in plant physiology, and taught until his retirement in 1946. Known as a great teacher and fine artist, Clark was active in Amherst town politics. He passed away in 1965 at the age of 79.

Orton Loring Clark’s collection includes several notebooks of research notes, data, and hand-drawn field diagrams. The notebooks date from his student years in Germany to his first several years on the faculty at the Massachusetts Agricultural College. The collection also includes one letter from 1922.

Baker, Hugh Potter, 1878-

scua — Sun, 16 Dec 2007 15:00:30 +0000

Hugh Baker served as President during most of the existence of Massachusetts State College, taking office in 1933, two years after it changed name from Massachusetts Agricultural College, and retiring in 1947, just as the college became the University of Massachusetts. A forester by training, Baker began his career as a professor, and later dean, in the College of Forestry at Syracuse University. In 1920, he left Syracuse to become Executive Secretary of the American Paper and Pulp Association, and for nearly a decade, he worked in the forestry industry. He returned to academia in 1930, when he resumed the deanship at the New York State School of Forestry. During his presidency at Massachusetts State College, Baker oversaw the construction of improved housing and classroom facilities for students, a new library, the expansion of the liberal arts curriculum, and a near doubling of student enrollment. Further, chapel services were reorganized to be voluntary, and a weekly convocation was initiated. Baker also founded popular annual conferences on recreation and country life.

The Baker Papers include correspondence with college, state, and federal officials, college suppliers, and alumni; speeches and articles; reports and other papers on topics at issue during Baker’s college presidency, 1933-1947, particularly the building program. Also included are several biographical sketches and memorial tributes; clippings and other papers, relating to Baker’s career as professor of forestry at several colleges, trade association executive, and college president.

Biographical Note

1878	Born January 20 at St. Croix Falls, Wisconsin, the fifth of six sons of Joseph S. and Alice (Potter) Baker.
1894-1895	Attended Macalester College.
1897	Entered Michigan Agricultural College.
1901	B.S., Michigan Agricultural College; worked briefly with K.L. Butterfield.
1904-1907	Assistant and Associate Professor of Forestry, Iowa State College.
1904	Master of Forestry, Yale University; married Fleta Paddock of Three Oaks, Michigan, December 27.
1907-1912	Professor of Forestry, Pennsylvania State College.
1910	Doctor of Economics, University of Munich.
1912-1920	Dean, New York State College of Forestry, Syracuse University.
1920-1928	Executive Secretary, American Paper and Pulp Association.
1928	First wife died.
1928-1930	Manager, Trade Association Dept., U.S. Chamber of Commerce.
1929	Married Richarde Sahla of Buckeburg, Germany, November 27
1930-1933	Dean, New York State College of Forestry, Syracuse University.
1931-1932	Member, advisory committee, Timber Conservation Board.
1933	LL.D., Syracuse University.
1933-1947	President, Massachusetts State College.
1942	LL.D., Rhode Island State College.
1944	President, New England Forestry Foundation.
1945	D. Sc., Boston University.
1947	Massachusetts State College renamed University of Massachusetts; LL.D., Amherst College; LL.D., University of Massachusetts; Resigned presidency of University of Massachusetts, effective in Sept.
1950	Died May 24 at Orlando, Florida.

Scope and Contents of the Collection

The Hugh P. Baker Papers, 1919-1951, are made up of biographical materials, copies of some of Baker’s writings, and administrative and official papers from his presidency at the Massachusetts State College, which began in 1933, soon after the institution had been renamed Massachusetts State College in 1931, and ended a few months after the institution became the University of Massachusetts, in 1947.

The papers consist of correspondence and memoranda exchanged with members of the faculty and staff and with state and federal officials, as well as reports on problems connected with the fiscal drought of the Great Depression of the 1930s and the labor-short and student-short period of World War II. The bulk of the administrative papers document the College building program in which Baker’s administration brought several new buildings to the campus and launched the planning of a number of others. Some construction was funded from federal sources, while other building was financed by the Massachusetts State College Building Association, which the General Court chartered in 1939. The activities of the Building Association in particular alleviated the shortage of student housing on campus, which had long been the major barrier to the expansion of the College’s educational program. The building program not only accommodated the moderate growth of the College’s enrollment during the 1930s, but laid the foundation for the rapid expansion of the institution which began with the end of World War II and continued into the 1970s.

The papers also include correspondence and other materials related to the donation and manufacture of the Old Chapel Chimes, installed in 1937; the celebration in 1938 of the 75th anniversary of the founding of the College; the dispute between the State Commission on Administration and Finance, and College and federal authorities over the use of Federal Land Grant Funds; and the development of the School of Home Economics.

Further information on the course of affairs at the institution during Baker’s tenure may be found in the published Annual Reports of the institution in RG 1/00/2, and in the papers of other college officials of his day, such as those of Dean William L. Machmer, in RG 6/1.

Some Baker correspondence, probably related to his roles at the Syracuse University School of Forestry and the American Paper and Pulp Association, are in the Ralph S. Hosmer and the National Forestry Program Committee papers in the archives and manuscripts collections of the Cornell University Library.

This collection is organized into two series:

Series 1. Subject Files, 1919-1951
Series 2. Massachusetts State College Administrative Papers, 1933-1947

Information on Use

Terms of Access and Use

Restrictions on access:

The collection is open for research.

Preferred Citation

Cite as: Hugh P. Baker Papers (RG 3/1/1933). Special Collections and University Archives, W.E.B. Du Bois Library, University of Massachusetts Amherst.

History of the Collection

Processing Information

Processed by W. B. Cook, Jr., 1982.

Additional Information

Sponsor

Encoding funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

Language

English.

Series Descriptions

Series 1. Subject Files	1919-1951	1 box, 0.5 linear feet
Scope and content: The subject files of the Baker papers include general biographical materials and a variety of addresses and short articles he wrote between 1930 and 1947. The biographical materials extend from 1930 to 1951, and include biographical sketches and memorial tributes, materials related to degrees both earned and honorary, memorabilia, and several folders of newspaper and magazine clippings on his activities from 1930 to 1947. Related material: For photographs of Baker see RG 110/1.

Series 2. MSC Administrative Papers	1933-1947	9 boxes, 4 linear feet
The administrative papers of the President’s Office generated while Hugh P. Baker held the office from 1933 to 1947 make up this series. They includes memoranda and correspondence with college, state and federal officials, with the College’s suppliers and alumni, and reports and papers generated by College administrators and faculty, all on a variety of topics at issue during Baker’s presidency. The papers came primarily from the Secretary’s papers. These files had been managed by Secretary Robert D. Hawley until he became the College’s Treasurer in 1939, then by James W. Burke, who succeeded as Secretary in 1939 and held the post until his retirement in 1958, and then by Secretary and Liaison Officer Robert McCartney, who died in 1975. As received, the papers were filed largely by subject, and the arrangement used here is representative of that found in the original files. Although materials on many specific projects and problems Baker dealt with are found here, his papers do not seem to be as broadly representative of the issues he dealt with as the corresponding papers of earlier presidents. The bulk of the administrative papers deals directly or indirectly with the College’s building program, the pace of which picked up under Baker in spite of the Great Depression of the 1930s and World War II. Federal money for buildings was channeled through the Massachusetts (State) Emergency Public Works Commission (folders 54-56), and money for other improvements in the physical plant became available through the U.S. Works Projects Administration (folders 111-119). Even U.S. Emergency Relief Administration funds, generally used to enhance payrolls and student aid funding, were occasionally mobilized for grounds projects (folders 103-104). Further, after two campaigns, [see Mass. (State) Legislation (folders 57-63)], the M.S.C Building Association (folders 45-46) was chartered to fund the construction of dormitories and other income generating buildings. Further information on the building program under Baker is found under the headings Buildings (folders 11-19), and Women’s Program (folders 120-128). The following items from this subseries are located in map case 2, drawer 3: a 1933 organization chart in blue print of the College; plans for buildings 25, 33 and 35; diagrams of two projects at the Experiment Station at Waltham; and plans for a proposed armory and for road construction connected with project ST 5, both of which were proposed to the U.S.W.P.A., but only the latter was funded. Other highlights of this series include correspondence and/or papers connected with the donation and manufacture of the Old Chapel Chimes, installed in 1937 (Chimes–Old Chapel, folders 20-21); the celebration in 1938 of the 75th anniversary of the founding of the College (Diamond Jubilee, folders 28-29); the lengthy dispute between the State Commission on Administration and Finance on one hand, and College and federal authorities on the other, over the use of Federal Land Grant Funds, folders 41-44; the dispute between State authorities and the College over its management of revolving funds and endowments (Mass. (State) Auditor, folder 48; Mass (State) Legislation, folders 57-63; and Trust Funds and Scholarships, folders 88-100); the hearings in 1938 following the firing of chief engineer Howard Bidwell (Personnel, folders 65-7-1); the Lotta Crabtree Agricultural Fund and the Hood Foundation scholarships (Trust Funds and Scholarships. folders 88-100), and the development of the School of Home Economics (Women’s, Program, folders 120-128). Other headings include Administrative Planning; Alumni; Appointments; Associations; Chapel; Conferences and Summer Schools; Course of Study; Departments; Extension Service; Gifts, Solicitations, etc.; Graduate School; Grounds; Inauguration; Mass. (State) Attorney General; Public Relations; Report to Board of Trustees; Resignation; Sigma Xi; Student Matters; Tuition and Fees; U.S. Bureau of Education; and U.S. Funds.

Contents List

Series 1. Subject Files	1919-1951	1 box, 0.5 linear feet
Addresses	1932-1938		Box 1:1
Addresses	1939		Box 1:2
Addresses	1940-1941		Box 1:3
Addresses	1942-1947		Box 1:4
Addresses	n.d.		Box 1:5
Articles and Pamphlets	1919-1945		Box 1:6
Baker House Dedication	1951		Box 1:7
Biographical Material	1933-1946		Box 1:8
Biographies and Memorials	1932-1951		Box 1:9
Dedication — “Shorthorn”	1939		Box 1:10
Degrees and Honorary Degrees	1910-1947		Box 1:11
Memorabilia	1930-1937, n.d.		Box 1:12
Newspaper-Clips and Extracts	1930-1933		Box 1:13
Newspaper-Clips and Extracts	1935-1941		Box 1:14
Newspaper-Clips and Extracts	1942-1947, n.d.		Box 1:15

Series 2. MSC Administrative Papers	1933-1947	9 boxes, 4 linear feet
Administrative Planning	1933-1944		Box 2:1
Alumni	1933-1942		Box 2:2
Appointment	1932		Box 2:3
Associations: American Council on Education	1933-1941		Box 2:4-55
Associations: Ass’n of Governing Boards	1934-1947		Box 2:6-9
Associations: New England Council	1940		Box 2:10
Buildings: #’s 25, 33 and 35	1947		Box 2:11
Buildings: #’s 25, 33 and 35: Cornerstones and Dedications	1934-1941		Box 2:12
Buildings: #’s 25, 33 and 35: Dormitory Building	1932-1937		Box 2:13
Buildings: #’s 25, 33 and 35: General	1933-1947		Box 2:14
Buildings: #’s 25, 33 and 35: Dormitories for Veterans	1945-1946		Box 2:15
Buildings: #’s 25, 33 and 35: Dormitory Operations	1935-1941		Box 2:16
Buildings: #’s 25, 33 and 35: Heating Plant and Repair Shop	1943-1945		Box 2:17
Buildings: #’s 25, 33 and 35: Skinner Hall	1944-1948		Box 2:18
Buildings: see also M.S.C. Building Ass’n; Mass.(State), Emergency Public Works Commission; Mass. (State) Legislation; W.S.W.P.A. and Women’s Program			Box 2:19
Chimes – Old Chapel Conferences and Summer Schools	1936-1937		Box 2:20-21
General	1933-1946		Box 2:22
Country Life Conference	1934		Box 2:23
Course of Study: B.A. Degree Comm.	1937-1938		Box 2:24
Course of Study: Public Health	1939-1942		Box 2:25
Departments: Military	1936-1945		Box 2:26
Departments: Veterinary Science	1946-1947		Box 2:27
Diamond Jubilee – Committee minutes	1937-1938		Box 2:28-29
Extension Service	1933-1944		Box 2:30
Extension Service: Publications	1934-1935		Box 2:31
Gifts, Solicitations, etc.	1933-1943		Box 2:32
Gifts, Solicitations: Use of	1940		Box 2:33
Gifts, Solicitations: Proceeds			Box 2:33
Gifts, Solicitations: Booklets	1933, 1940		Box 2:34
Graduate School	1937-1945		Box 2:35
Grounds: General	1932-1934		Box 2:36
Grounds: Blundell Report “Campus Planting-Arboretum”	1933		Box 2:37
Grounds: Waltham	1943		Box 2:38
Inauguration	1933		Box 2:39
Inauguration: Papers, Invitations, etc.	1933		Box 2:40
Land Grant Funds: Correspondence	1933-1942		Box 4:41
Land Grant Funds: Leading Documents	1926-1942		Box 4:42
Land Grant Funds: Papers	1935-1937		Box 4:43
Land Grant Funds: Policy and Procedure	1926-1942		Box 4:44
M.S.C. Building Association: Correspondence	1939		Box 4:45
M.S.C. Building Association: Papers	1940-1946		Box 4:46
Note: Mass. (State) Advisory Comm. on the Establishment of a Veterinary College see Departments: Veterinary Science
Mass. (State)- Attorney General	1935-1946		Box 4:47
Mass. (State)- Auditor	1933-1944		Box 4:48
Mass. (State)- Commission on Administration and Finance	1941-1947		Box 4:49
Mass. (State)- Commission on Administration and Finance	1936-1937		Box 4:50
Mass. (State)- Commission on Administration and Finance	1933-1935		Box 4:51
Mass. (State)- Commission on Administration and Finance	1938-1940		Box 4:52
Mass. (State)- Commission on Administration and Finance	1943		Box 4:53
Mass. (State) Emergency Public Works Comm., Thatcher Dorm and Goodell Library	1933-1934		Box 4:54-55
Mass. (State) Emergency Public Works Comm.	1935-1948		Box 4:56
Note: see also Buildings
Mass. (State) Legislation:- “Dormitory Bill” Corr.	1933		Box 5:57
Mass. (State) Legislation – “Dormitory Bill” Papers	1932-1933		Box 5:58
Mass. (State) Legislation – “Dormitory Bill” Corr.	1938-1939		Box 5:59-60
Mass. (State) Legislation -Revolv. Fund	1938		Box 5:61-62
Mass. (State) Legislation -General	1938-1945		Box 5:63
Personnel: General	1933-1947		Box 5:64
Personnel: Bidwell Case:-General and Reports	1930		Box 6:65
Personnel: Bidwell Case:-General	1933-1937		Box 6:66
Personnel: Bidwell Case:-Corr. re:Proced.	1938		Box 6:67
Personnel: Bidwell Case:-Employees Petitions; Time and Pay	1938		Box 6:68
Personnel: Bidwell Case:-Notes on Reqs. and Inventory	1933-1937		Box 6:69
Personnel: Bidwell Case:-Administrators Briefs and Notes	1938		Box 6:70
Personnel: Bidwell Case:-his Testimony	1938		Box 6:71
Personnel: Bidwell Case:-Transcript of Hearing V.1	1938		Box 6:72
Personnel: Bidwell Case:-Transcript of Hearing V.2	1938		Box 6:73
Personnel: Bidwell Case:-Transcript of Hearing V.3	1938		Box 6:74
Personnel: Bidwell Case:-Transcript of Hearing V.4	1938		Box 6:75
Personnel: Retirement System	1940-1945		Box 7:76
Personnel: Retirement System: Retirements	1936-1944		Box 7:77
Public Relations	1937-1945		Box 7:78
Report to Board of Trustees (draft)	1945		Box 7:79
Resignation	1947		Box 7:80
Sigma Xi: Faculty Honorary Society- Pet.	1935		Box 7:81
Sigma Xi: Faculty Honorary Society- Pet.	1937-1942		Box 7:82
Student Matters: Fraternities, etc.	1934-1935		Box 7:83
Student Matters: Fraternities, etc.: General	1933-1946		Box 7:84
Student Matters: Fraternities, etc.: Org. of Athletics	1935		Box 7:85
Student Matters: Fraternities, etc.: Revolving Funds	1937		Box 7:86
Student Matters: Fraternities, etc.: Tau Kappa Alpha debating fraternity	1934-1936		Box 7:87
Trust Funds and Scholarships:- General	1938-1947		Box 7:88
Trust Funds and Scholarships:- General Report on Endowed Funds	1933-1937		Box 7:89
Trust Funds and Scholarships:- Crabtree	1934-1939		Box 7:90
Trust Funds and Scholarships:- Crabtree	1940-1943		Box 7:91
Trust Funds and Scholarships:- Greene	1939		Box 7:92
Trust Funds and Scholarships:- Hood Dairy Foundation	1933-1936		Box 8:93
Trust Funds and Scholarships:- Hood Dairy Foundation	1937-1940		Box 8:94
Trust Funds and Scholarships:- Hood Dairy Foundation	1940-1946		Box 8:95
Trust Funds and Scholarships:- Pinkerton Scholarships	1934-1937		Box 8:96
Trust Funds and Scholarships:- Plumb Fell.	1939		Box 8:97
Trust Funds and Scholarships:- Sessions Fund	1937		Box 8:98
Trust Funds and Scholarships:- Student Loan Funds	1938		Box 8:99
Trust Funds: Trustee Comm. on Finance – Extracts of Minutes	1875-1934		Box 8:100
Tuition and Fees	1933-1944		Box 8:101
U.S. Bureau of Education	1933-1936		Box 8:102
U.S. Emergency Relief Admin. – Employment	1935		Box 8:103
U.S. Emergency Relief Admin. – General	1934-1935		Box 8:104
U.S. Funds: Bankhead-Jones Corr.	3/1935–7/1935		Box 8:105
U.S. Funds: Bankhead-Jones Corr.	8/1935-1936		Box 8:106
U.S. Funds: Bankhead-Jones Papers and Mem.	1935-1937		Box 8:107
U.S. Funds: Jones Papers and Mem.	1937-1941		Box 8:108
U.S. Funds: Thomas Bill (Extension Serv)	1944		Box 8:109
U.S. Funds: Hatch Act (Political Activ)	1940		Box 8:110
U.S.W.P.A.: Corr. and Circulars	1935-1941		Box 9:111
U.S.W.P.A.: Grounds Projects	1935-1938		Box 9:112
U.S.W.P.A.: Project ST-5 (Road)	1935-1936		Box 9:113
U.S.W.P.A.: Projected Buildings	1934-1936		Box 9:114
U.S.W.P.A.: Projects M.S.C. 11 and 18 (roads)	1938		Box 9:115
U.S.W.P.A.: Proposed Armory Corr.	1940-1941		Box 9:116
U.S.W.P.A.: Proposed Armory Papers	1940-1941		Box 9:117
U.S.W.P.A.: Steam Lines (Charles T. Main)	1933-1935		Box 9:118
U.S.W.P.A.: “White Collar Projects”	1938-1939		Box 9:119
Advisory Council of Women: Corr. A-C	1933-1941		Box 9:120
Advisory Council of Women: D-G	1933-1941		Box 9:121
Advisory Council of Women: H-L	1933-1941		Box 9:122
Advisory Council of Women: M-W	1933-1941		Box 9:123
Women’s Program-General	1933-1945		Box 9:124
Women’s Program-Mailings	1933-1939		Box 10:125
Women’s Program-Meetings 13-25	1933-1940		Box 10:126
Women’s Program-Meetings 26-32	1941-1946		Box 10:127
Women’s Program-Home Economics Building	1939-1941		Box 10:128
World War II and its Aftermath	1941-1946		Box 10:129
World War II Veterans	1944-1946		Box 10:130

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Subjects

Baker, Hugh Potter, b. 1878.
Clock chimes–Massachusetts–Amherst–History–Sources.
College buildings–Massachusetts–Amherst–History–Sources.
Massachusetts State College. School of Home Economics –History–Sources.
Massachusetts State College–Anniversaries, etc.
Massachusetts State College–Buildings.
Massachusetts State College–History–Sources.
Massachusetts State College–Presidents–Archives.
Massachusetts State College–Student housing.
Massachusetts–Politics and government–1865-1950–Sources.
Old Chapel (Amherst, Mass.)–History–Sources.
Student housing–Massachusetts–Amherst–History–Sources.
University of Massachusetts (Amherst campus)–History–Sources.

Banfield, Walter

rscox — Sun, 16 Dec 2007 06:00:19 +0000

The plant pathologist Walter M. Banfield joined the faculty at UMass Amherst in 1949 after service in the Army Medical Corps during World War II. A native of New Jersey with a doctorate from the University of Wisconsin, Banfield’s research centered on diseases affecting shade trees in the United States, and he is widely credited with identifying the origin of Dutch elm disease. As early as 1950, he emerged as a prominent advocate for the protection of open space and farmland, becoming a founder of the Metacomet-Monadnock Trail. An avid hiker and canoeist, he remained in Amherst following his retirement. He died at age 95.

The Banfield Papers include records from his Army service, family records, and professional and family correspondence – particularly between Banfield and his wife Hertha whom he met in Germany during WWII. The professional correspondence documents Banfield’s commitment to land preservation, and include many applications for land to be set aside for agricultural or horticultural use. Banfield was also a talented landscape photographer, and the collection includes a large number of 35mm slides reflecting his varied interests, including images of Europe at the end of World War II and various images of landscape, trees, forests, and other natural features that he used in teaching.