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Image collections
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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.
Digital copies of images from SCUA collections are available for a modest fee. Additional information about our collections can be obtained by contacting our reference staff.
| Image galleries | |
 Bennett Labor CollectionAssorted 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) CollectionImages 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 Photographs840 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 town109 photographs of Enfield, Massachusetts, a town inundated by the Quabbin Reservoir in the late 1930s. |
 Mange CollectionSelected photographs taken by Arthur Mange, UMass Professor of Biology. |
 Metelica Photograph albumImages taken of Michael Metelica, his family, and the Brotherhood of the Spirit commune, ca.1955-2000. From the Beth Hapgood Collection |
 Science Fiction Society CollectionA 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), 1952Images of the campus at UMass Amherst, 1952, taken by Thomas H. Bott, class of 1953. |
 Jozef Obrebski in MacedoniaEthnographic images of Macedonian peasants taken by the ethnographer Jozef Obrebski in 1931 and 1932. |
 Joel M. Halpern in MacedoniaEthnographic images of village and urban life in Macedonia taken by the anthropologist Joel M. Halpern, 1954-1978. |
