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Exhibits online
Tulip poplar leaves
Photograph by Arthur Mange
Photograph by Arthur Mange
Drawing upon the unique materials under their care, the staff of the Department of Special Collections and University Archives organize two exhibits a year in their reading room and work regularly with their colleagues in the general library to prepare other exhibits for display on the Lower Level of the W.E.B. Du Bois Library. SCUA also coordinates the traveling exhibit on the life and legacy of W.E.B. Du Bois.
| Exhibits online | |
 UMass: A Scrapbook
A visual reminiscence of UMass Amherst centered on its geographic heart, the campus pond. An exhibit by Michael Milewski.
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 Du Bois: The Activist LifeAn online exhibit on the life and legacy of W.E.B. Du Bois based on his papers. |
 Herbals and InsectsA selection of rare botanical and entomological books from the SCUA collections. |
 Apiculture and cultureBooks on bees and beekeeping. An exhibit by Richard A. Steinmetz.
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 Fifteen lettersConrad D. Totman’s letters home from Korea, 1954-1955. An exhibit by Alex McKenzie.
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 Union: The AFL and CIO Merge in MassachusettsA history of the merger of the AFL and CIO in Massachusetts, 1954-1958. An exhibit by Elena Mitchell.
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| 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 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 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. |
