Caledonia Sugar Mill

The Scotsman John Thomson is considered one of the fathers of social documentary photography and a pioneer in the photography of southeast Asia. Between 1861 and 1872, he traveled extensively in Asia, documenting the scenery and people of modern day Malaysia, Cambodia, Thailand, Indonesia, and China.

The collection includes eight albumen prints from wet-plate collodion negatives taken early in Thomson’s photographic career. The images of Penang, Malaysia, are all signed by John Thomson, with five dated November 1863. Subjects include Malay people, a native infantry regiment, sugar mill, temple, and Thomson’s widely reproduced image of tree ferns.

Tanah Abang House, ca.1866

In the late 1850s and early 1860s, the pioneering British photographer Walter Woodbury captured images of Java, and especially its capital city Batavia (modern day Jakarta). Working in partnership with James Page, the two established a photographic firm that continued to produce and sell images long after Woodbury’s return to England in 1863.

Consisting of 42 albumen prints, the Woodbury Collection includes numerous images of the landscape and colonial buildings in Batavia, Buitenzorg (Bogor), and Surabaya. A few photographs capture images of the European community in Java, and local Javanese residents.

Deerfield, Mass.

Influenced by the arts and crafts movement, Frances and Mary Allen began taking photographs of their native Deerfield, Mass., in the mid-1880s. Displaying a finely honed pictorialist aesthetic, the sisters specialized in views of Deerfield and surrounding towns, posed genre scenes of life in colonial times, and the local scenery, earning a reputation as among the best women photographers of the period.

The Allen sisters photograph album contains ten gelatin developing out prints of street scenes in Deerfield, ca.1900-1910. Among these are two shots of the house they inherited from their aunt Kate in 1895, which thereafter became their home and studio.

Vietnamese soldiers, ca.1973

A graduate of the Northfield Mount Hermon School, Wake Forest University, and the University of Massachusetts Amherst (MA, 1966), Barr Gallop Ashcraft (1940-2005) lived what he called a “gypsy” life in the late 1960s, traveling through the Middle East, Africa, and Asia, and eventually settling on a career in photojournalism. As a stringer for news organizations and magazines, he covered the war in Vietnam, Cambodia, and Laos from 1972 to 1975, taking other assignments throughout Asia for magazines ranging from Life to National Geographic, Newsweek, and Time. For several years, he lived in Japan, working as a teacher, but returned to Amherst to join his father in the building trade. He remained in Amherst, lecturing occasionally on his experiences as a war correspondent, until his death at his home in Belchertown in 2005.

The Ashcraft Photograph Collection represents a small fraction of the images he took as a free lance photographer in southeast Asia during the early 1970s. In both black and white and color prints, the collection provides stark and often graphic evidence of the destruction of the war in Vietnam, emphasizing its latter years and the period of Vietnamization, but also includes documentary work on Cambodia. The remainder of Ashcraft’s 22,000 negatives and accompanying notes were destroyed in a house fire in 1995.

Soule Fishwing

Peter Benes might be called the father of the Association for Gravestone Studies (AGS). In 1976, he organized a meeting in Dublin, New Hampshire, of people interested in colonial gravestones, naming the group the Dublin Seminar. Following a committee meeting in December 1976, the group met again in the summer 1977 to organize as the AGS. Benes served as Treasurer in 1977 and Archives Officer in 1978. He received the Forbes Award of the AGS in 1979 for his role in founding the organization and in recognition of the contributions made to gravestone studies by his first book, The Masks of Orthodoxy: Folk Gravestone Carving in Plymouth County, Massachusetts, 1689-1805 (1977). He is currently (2009) Director of the Dublin Seminar for New England Folklife at Boston University.

The Benes Collection contains 2,826 black and white photographic prints documenting a majority of the eighteenth century grave markers in southeastern Massachusetts, taken for his book The Masks of Orthodoxy. The images were taken in Plymouth and surrounding counties.

A.C. Bent, 1929

An avid birder and eminent ornithologist, Arthur Cleveland Bent was born in Taunton, Massachusetts, on November 25, 1866. After receiving his A.B. from Harvard in 1889, bent was employed as an agent for the Safety Pocket Company and from 1900 to 1914, he was General Manager of Mason Machine Works. His passion, however, was birds. An associate in Ornithology at the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard University, Bent became a collaborator at the Smithsonian and president (1935-1937) of the American Ornithologists’ Union. The culmination of his research was the massive, 26 volume Life Histories of North American Birds (1919-1968).

The Bent collection is a glimpse into the birding life of a remarkable amateur ornithologist. It contains the field notebooks of his collaborator, Owen Durfee (1880-1909), his own journals (1887-1942), photographs and negatives (1896-1930), correspondence concerning the photographs (1925-1946), and mimeographed and printed material. Bent’s records cover nest observations, egg measurements, bird sightings, and notes on specimens provided to organizations such as the Massachusetts Audubon Society, the Bristol County Agricultural School, and the United States National Museum.

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 Gravestone Studies, Calidonna has a long standing interest in Victorian cemeteries and, among other projects, made a photographic study of the Victorian Mount Cemetery in Rochester, N.Y., in 1991.

The Calidonna Collection contains 55 black and white prints (5×7″) taken of monuments and gravestones in Mount Hope Cemetery, ca.May 1991, documenting the stylistic variation, ranging from high Victorian to relatively recent. The collection also includes two brochures for Mount Hope.

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B

Baccalaureate Day

see Press Information (Commencement) RG-1/7/1

Bachelor’s Degree with Individual Concentration (BDIC)

RG-11/4

Bachelor’s Degree with Individual Concentration Newsletter (1973- )

RG-11/4

Baha’i Club (Religious Club) (1972-1997)

RG-45/70/B3

Bands (Music and Dance Department)

RG-25/M9.2

Banqueteer, Aggie

see Aggie Banqueteer RG-45/00/A2

Baseball (Men’s)

see Sports-Men’s Baseball (1868- ) RG-18/2

Basketball (Men’s)

see Sports-Men’s Basketball (1898- ) RG-18/2

Basketball (Women’s)

see Sports-Women’s Basketball (1978- ) RG-18/2

Bathrooms, Coed (Physical Plant) (1981)

RG-36/50/B3

see also Office of Residential Resource Management RG-30/21/1

Baton Twirling

see Sports-Women’s Baton Twirling (1973) RG-18/2

Bay State Ruralist (1912-1917)

RG-45/00/B2

BCC

see Boston Church of Christ (1990- ) (Religious Group) RG-45/70/B6

BCP

see Bilingual Collegiate Program (BCP) (1974- ) RG-6/4/6.5

BDIC

see Bachelor’s Degree with Individual Concentration (BDIC) (College of Arts and Sciences) RG-11/4

BDIC Newsletter (1973-1987)

RG-11/4

Beacon (1970- )

RG-13/00

Beautification Committee, Campus

see Campus Beautification Committee RG-40/2/C.6

Beef and Sheep Highlights (Extension Service, Cooperative) (1958, 1967-1975)

RG-15/8

see also Sheep Shearing (1947, 1954-1955) RG-15/8

Behavior Program, Neuroscience and

see Neuroscience and Behavior Program RG-25/N5

Behavioral Biology, Department of

see Psychology–Behavioral Biology, Dept. of RG-25/P8

Behavioral Sciences Faculty

see Social and Behavioral Sciences Faculty RG-11/30

Berkshire County Cooperative Extension (1915-1989)

RG-15/8/.81

Beta Alpha Psi (Honor Society)

see Accounting Department–Beta Alpha Psi RG-25/A2

Beta Gamma Sigma

RG-45/60/B2.5

Beta Kappa Phi (1985-1996)

RG-45/90/B4

Beta Theta of Sigma Gamma Epsilon

see Sigma Gamma Epsilon (1949- ) RG-45/90/S5.35

Bibliofile, The (1987, 1994)

RG-45/00/B4

Bibliography, Faculty/Staff

see Faculty/Staff Bibliography (collective) RG-40/4

Bibliography Library Collections

see Collection Development (Library) RG-8/2

Bibliography, Organization Charts (University as a Whole) (1949- )

RG-1/00/1

Bicentennial Committee

see Inter-Campus Committee RG-3/100

Bi-Cultural Education

see Bi-Lingual, Bi-Cultural Education, Center for RG-13/3/21/6

Biff, The Weekly

see Weekly Biff, The (1910) RG-45/00/W4

Bilingual Collegiate Program (BCP) (1974- )

RG-6/4/6.5

Bilingual Collegiate Program–Springfield/UMass Minority Achievement Program (SUMMA)

RG-6/4/6.5

Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (1991)

RG-25/B5

Biodiversity Conservation Program (1990)

RG-25/F6/3

Biographies (Alumni)

see Obituaries, Biographies (Alumni) RG-50/00/2

Biography, Lists, Directories, Faculty/Staff

see Faculty/Staff Biography, Lists, Directories (collective) RG-40/10

see also Individual Members of Faculty and Staff RG-40/11

Biological Hazards Committee (Research and Graduate Studies)

RG-9/1/2/4

Biological Sciences Library (1962- )

RG-8/3/9

Biology

RG-25/B6

see also Zoology Department RG-25/Z5

Botany Department RG-25/B8

Biology, Plant

see Plant Biology RG-25/P4.5

Biomedical Research Support Grants

see Faculty Research Grant, Biomedical Research Support Grant (F RG/BS RG) (Research and Graduate Studies) RG-9/2/3

Biopharmaceutical Research Unit

see Public Health, Division of–Biopharmaceutical Research Unit RG-17/1

BIOrhythms (1997- )

RG-25/B6/00

Biosci Journal (1995- )

RG-25/B6/00

Note: A journal of undergraduate research at UMass/Amherst.

Biostatistics Technical Reports (1977)

see Public Health, Division of–Biostatistics Technical Reports

RG-17/1

Biotechnology Program

RG-25/B7

Biotechnology Program Committee (1985- )

RG-40/2/B5

Bisexual Concerns

see Gay, Lesbian and Bisexual Concerns, The Chancellors Task Force on (1993- ) RG-40/2/G2

Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual Concerns, Support Group for RG-40/2/G3

Programs for Gay, Lesbian and Bisexual Concerns RG-30/2/6

Bits and Bytes (1965-1989)

RG-29/00/1

Black and other Minority Students, Committee for the Collegiate Education of

see Committee for the Collegiate Education of Black and other Minority Students (CCEBMS) (1967- ) RG-6/4/12

Black Culture Center (New Africa House)

RG-30/26

Black Mass Communications Project (BMCP) (1968- )

RG-45/30/B4

Black Repertory Theatre

RG-25/T3.6

Black Student Union

RG-45/19

Black Students at UMass and in Western Massachusetts

RG-45/15

see also Protests and Demonstrations RG-45/101

Student Life RG-1/204

New Africa House RG-36/100

Lecturers from outside the University RG-1/12

Black Studies, Contributions to

see Contributions to Black Studies RG-60/5/00

Black Studies Program

see Afro-American Studies, W.E.B. Du Bois Dept. of RG-25/A4

see also Five College Cooperation RG-60/5

Five College Black Studies RG-60/5/3

Blue Prints (Cartographic Materials)

RG-181/1

Blues Band (1985- )

RG-45/40/B4

BMCP

see Black Mass Communications Project (BMCP) (1968- ) RG-45/30/B4

Board of Control Annual Report (Experiment Station) (1888, 1893, 1894)

see Experiment Station (State Station, 1882-1895)–Board of Control Annual Report (1888, 1893, 1894) RG-15/2.1

Board of Control Meetings (Experiment Station) (1882-1895)

see Experiment Station (State Station, 1882-1895)–Board of Control Meetings (1882-1895) RG-15/2.1

Board of Governors

RG-37/11

Board of Higher Education (1996- )

see Higher Education Coordinating Council (1991-1996) RG-1/5

Board of Higher Education, Massachusetts

see Massachusetts Board of Higher Education RG-1/3

Board of Regents (1980-1991)

RG-1/4

see also Massachusetts Board of Higher Education RG-1/3

Higher Education Coordinating Council RG-1/5

Board of Trustees

see Trustees RG-2

Board of Trustees, Faculty Delegate to the

see Faculty to the Board of Trustees (Faculty Senate, 1971-1972) RG-40/2/A3

Boarding Club, MAC (1884)

RG-45/40/B6.2

Bologna, UMass Program at

see French and Italian Department–Bologna, UMASS Program at RG-25/F9/3

Boltwood Project (Social Action Group) (1983- )

RG-45/80/B6

see also Belchertown State School Friends Association (BSSFA) MS302

Bond Center for Equal Education

see Horace Mann Bond Center for Equal Education RG-13/4/10

see also Status Report–Reports to Chancellor (1982) RG-4/00

Book Club, MAC (1908-1925)

RG-45/40/B6.4

Book for Little Loving Children Needing Guidance (1+1=/=3) (1973)

RG-45/00/B6

Books for College Libraries (Library) (1967-1974)

RG-8/4/2

Boston Church of Christ (BCC) (Religious Group) (1990-1993)

RG-45/70/B6

Boston Library Consortium (1975- )

RG-8/10

Boston, UMass

see UMass Boston (1964- ) RG-55/3

Boston University Combined Degree, Granting with UMass and Simmons College

RG-60/4

Botanic Garden (Physical Plant)

RG-36/104/B6

Botany

RG-25/B8

Botany News (1981-1988)

RG-25/B8/00

Bowl Team, College

see College Bowl Team RG-45/40/C5

Boys’ and Girls’ Series (Extension Service, Cooperative)

see

Extension Service, Cooperative–Boys’ and Girls’ Series RG-15/8

Brain Theory Newsletter (1978)

RG-25/C9/00

Broadcast Board, Student Publications and

see Publications and Broadcast Board, Student RG-45/30/P8

Brochures (Public Affairs)

RG-5/00/4

BRSG

see Faculty Research Grant–Biomedical Research Support Grant (F RG-BRSG) RG-9/2/3

Budget

see Budget Documents RG-4/2

Office of Budget and Institutional Studies (OBIS) RG-4/3/2

Office of Planning and Budget (OPB) RG-4/3/3

Capital Outlay Budgets and Priorities Lists RG-6/15/4

Vice Chancellor for Administration and Finance RG-35/19

Budget and Finance

RG-32/6

Budget and Finance, Committee on (Faculty Senate, 1980-1981)

RG-40/2/A3

Budget Committee (Faculty Senate, 1969-1973)

RG-40/2/A3

see also Program and Budget Committee (1975- ) RG-40/2/A3

Budget Committee (Student Senate) (1981-1993)

RG-45/7/B8

Budget Documents (1908- )

RG-4/2

Budget Office (Administrative Services)

RG-35/20

see also Budget Documents–Newsclippings RG-4/2

see also Office of Planning and Budget (OPB) RG-4/3/3

Budgeting and Institutional Research

see Office of Budgeting and Institutional Studies (OBIS) RG-4/3/2

Budgeting and Institutional Studies, Office of

see Office of Budgeting and Institutional Studies (OBIS) RG-4/3/2

Budgeting, Institutional Research and Planning

seeOffice of Budgeting and Institutional Studies (OBIS) RG-4/3/2

Budgets, Capital Outlay

see Planning Office RG-6/15/4

Building Association

RG-36/22

Building Authority

RG-36/21

see also Financial Reports RG-3/4/3

Building Materials Technology and Management Program

RG-25/B9

Building Ventilation Working Group, Campus

see Campus Building Ventilation Working Group RG-30/15/1

Buildings and Grounds

RG-36

see also Buildings and Grounds (Photographs) RG-150

Panoramic Photos RG-170

Buildings and Grounds (Photographs)

RG-150

see also Panoramic Photos RG-170

Buildings and Grounds, Campus (Films and Videotapes)

see Campus Buildings and Grounds (Films and Videotapes) RG-186/4

Buildings and Grounds Committee (Faculty Senate, 1968-1969, 1980)

RG-40/2/A3

Buildings or parts of campus, specific

see Specific buildings or parts of campus RG-101 thru 104

Buildings Proposed But Not Built

RG-36/103

Buildings, Residential

see Residential Buildings RG-36/102

Buildings Specific (except residential)

RG-36/101

see also Residential Buildings RG-36/102

Buildings proposed but not built RG-36/103

Bulletin Series

see Catalogs (Bulletin Series) (1901- ) RG-1/00/4

Bulletin, University (Catalog Series)

see RG-1/00/4 Catalogs (Bulletin Series ) (1901- ), General Information Bulletins (1898-1978)

Bulletins

see Weekly, University, Executive Bulletins RG-5/00/3

Bulletins, Alumni

see Alumni Bulletins RG-50/00/3

Bulletins, Experiment Stations

seeExperiment Station (1882-95)–Bulletin (#’s 1-57) (1883-1895) RG-15/2.1

and

Experiment Station (1888- )– Bulletin (#1- ) RG-15/2.2

Bulletins, General Information

see Catalogs (Bulletin Series), General Information Bulletins RG-1/00/4

Bureau of Government Research

RG-25/P6.5

Bureau of Government Research Bulletin (1959-1969)

RG-25/P6.5/00

Bureau of Public Administration

RG-25/P6.4

Bursar

RG-35/16

Bursars Office (Microfilm)

RG-190/17

Bus Service, Student Senate

see Student Senate Bus Service RG-45/7/T7

Business Administration, School of

see School of Management RG-12

Business Affairs

see Vice President for Management and Business Affairs RG-3/11

Business Affairs–Office of (Business Manager and Staff) (Research and Graduate Studies)

RG-9/4/1

Business Affairs, Office of (Research and Graduate Studies)

RG-9/4

Business and Economic Report, Massachusetts

see Massachusetts Business and Economic Report RG-12/3/B8

Business and Economic Research, Center for

RG-12/3

see also Massachusetts Business and Economic Report RG-12/3/B8

Business Club

RG-12/4

Business Development Center

see Massachusetts Small Business Development Center (MSBDC) RG-12/10

Business Leadership Education, Affirmative

see Project ABLE RG-12/2

Business Office, Director of Personnel and Financial Services

RG-35/3

Business Procedures and Project Planning, Director of

RG-3/4/5

Businesses Student

see Co-ops and Businesses, Student Run RG-45/40/C6.5

ButterMeter News (1985)

RG-45/00/B8

Henry Messinger, 1686,
The Granary, Boston

Michael Cornish first became interested in gravemarkers while writing a senior thesis at the Massachusetts College of Art, and since that time, he has prepared numerous exhibitions of his photographic work and conducted important research on colonial markers. Widely known for his work on the carver Joseph Barbur of West Medway, Mass., and a group of “tendril carvers” in southeastern Massachusetts, Cornish speaks frequently to historical societies around Massachusetts, delivering slide shows tailored to the particular area. An inventory photographer for the City of Boston’s Historic Burying Ground Initiative, he has also consulted for several towns regarding the preservation and rehabilitation of their burying grounds. As a member of the AGS Board of Directors, Cornish has worked in various capacities and played an active role in organizing and participating in the annual conventions, programs, exhibits, and tours.

The Cornish Collection includes many thousands of photographs and direct rubbings of early New England gravestones, primarily in Massachusetts and Connecticut, focusing on their beauty and artistic merit. Originally inspired by the work of Harriette Merrifield Forbes, and encouraged by Dan and Jessie Farber, Cornish photographed in a variety of formats, including Kodachrome transparencies, black-and-white negatives, and black-and-white prints. The collection also includes research notes relating to his work on Barbur and other stonecarvers.

Joan of Seabrook

Born and raised in France, the photojournalist Lionel Delevingne studied education at l’Ecole Normale in Paris, but settled permanently in the United States in 1975. Based at first in Northampton, Mass., he became a prolific photographer of American social movements while working for the Valley Advocate and other publications, covering the early years of the Clamshell Alliance and the antinuclear movement in considerable depth. His work has been exhibited frequently and published widely in the mainstream and alternative press, including the New York Times, Le Figaro Magazine, Die Zeit, Newsweek, Washington Post Magazine, Mother Jones, and Vanity Fair.

The Delevingne collection includes remarkable visual documentation of the antinuclear movement of the 1970s and beyond, including some of the its most iconic images. Beginning with coverage of the Seabrook occupation, Delevingne covered the movement as it spread throughout the northeastern U.S. and internationally. The collection includes exhibition prints, prints for publication, and digitized images ranging in date from the mid-1970s through 1990s. Copyright in the images has been retained by Delevingne.