Founded in 1977, the Association for Gravestone Studies (AGS) is an international organization dedicated to furthering the study and preservation of gravestones. Based in Greenfield, Mass., the Association promotes the study of gravestones from historical and artistic perspectives. To raise public awareness about the significance of historic gravemarkers and the issues surrounding their preservation, the AGS sponsors conferences and workshops, publishes both a quarterly newsletter and annual journal, Markers, and has built an archive of collections documenting gravestones and the memorial industry.

The AGS Books Collection contains scarce, out of print, and rare printed works on cemeteries and graveyards, epitaphs and inscriptions, and gravemarkers, with an emphasis on North America. The collection is divided into two series: Series 1 (Monographs and Offprints) and Series 2 (Theses and Dissertations).

Horace Mann Bond, ca.1930

Educator, sociologist, scholar, and author. Includes personal and professional correspondence; administrative and teaching records; research data; manuscripts of published and unpublished speeches, articles and books; photographs; and Bond family papers, especially those of Horace Bond’s father, James Bond. Fully represented are Bond’s two major interests: black education, especially its history and sociological aspects, and Africa, particularly as related to educational and political conditions.

Correspondents include many notable African American educators, Africanists, activists, authors and others, such as Albert C. Barnes, Claude A. Barnett, Mary McLeod Bethune, Arna Bontemps, Ralph Bunche, Rufus Clement, J.G. St. Clair Drake, W.E.B. Du Bois, Edwin Embree, John Hope Franklin, E. Franklin Frazier, W.C. Handy, Thurgood Marshall, Benjamin E. Mays, Pauli Murray, Kwame Nkrumah, Robert Ezra Park, A. Phillip Randolph, Lawrence P. Reddick, A.A. Schomburg, George Shepperson, Carter G. Woodson and Monroe Work.

A voice of the radical working class during the Great Depression, Jack Conroy was the son of a union organizer, born and raised in the mining camps near Moberly, Mo. His novels The Disinherited (1933) and A World to Win (1935) were among the best known works of “proletarian” American fiction to appear in the 1930s.

The Conroy Collection includes a series of 24 letters from Jack Conroy to Lewis Fried, a professor of English at Kent State University and UMass PhD, along with a small number of letters by associates of Conroy, and a selection of publications associated with or including work by him. Of particular interest are Fried’s oral history interviews with Conroy (1971) and Sally Goodman (1978).

A political scientist, writer, and government consultant, John P. Roche was born in Brooklyn, N.Y., on May 7, 1923, the son of a salesman. A liberal Social Democrat and fervent anti-Communist, Roche spent his academic career at Haverford College and Brandeis and Tufts Universities, writing extensively on American foreign policy, constitutional law, and the history of political thought in America, and maintaining a strong interest in the history of the American left. During the 1960s and early 1970s, he served as an adviser to the Kennedy, Johnson, and Nixon administrations.

The Roche Collection consists of over 300 publications pertaining to the political left in the United States, with a smaller number of works from the radical right and from European Socialists and Communists. Concentrated in the years spanning the Great Depression, the Second World War, and the McCarthy hearings, many of the works were produced by formal political parties in response to particular political campaigns, current events, or social issues, with other works geared primarily toward consciousness raising and general political education on trade unionism, fascism, war and peace, American foreign policy, and freedom of speech and the press.

Educator, rhetorician, author, President of the Speech Association of America in 1954, and Professor of Speech at the University of Massachusetts Amherst from 1968-1973.

Includes the accumulated research notes and materials written and used by Wallace in his career as a teacher and author; drafts, reprints, and proofs of his speeches, papers, articles, and books, both published and unpublished, often with accompanying correspondence, research notes, and/or contracts; lecture notes and classroom materials dating from his years as a student through those as a teacher; drafts and reprints of papers and articles by students and colleagues; correspondence; the reports, memoranda, correspondence, resolutions, agenda, notes on meetings, minutes, committee recommendations, position papers, newsletters, audit reports, budget recommendations, membership lists, itineraries, and programs indicative of his leadership and active participation in the Speech Association of America and other professional organizations, conferences, and university committees.

A sparsely populated rural community in eastern Franklin County, Massachusetts, the town of Wendell was incorporated in 1781, when it was separated from parts of the adjacent towns of Shutesbury and Erving. Primarily a farming community throughout its history, with only light manufacturing, Wendell remains one of the state’s least populous communities.

Kept in standard double column format, the Wendell Treasurer’s account book was approved and settled annually by the town selectmen. Although accounting practices varied, the treasurers of the mid-nineteenth century typically provided somewhat greater detail in detailing income and expenditures. Prominent among the signatories are Judge Joshua Green and the Treasurers Samuel Brewer, George W. Fleming, and Franklin Howe (and other members of the Howe family).

Born in 1902, Solomon Barkin was an economist, education director for the Textile Workers Union of America (TWUA ), and from 1968 to 1978 a professor at the University of Massachusetts and research associate at the Labor Center.

The bulk of the Barkin collection, over 10.5 linear feet, consists of bound notebooks containing speeches, typescripts, and printed versions of articles, book reviews, congressional testimony, forewords, and introductions — nearly 600 in all — written by Barkin. One box (0.5 linear foot) contains correspondence, bibliographies, tributes and awards, and a biography. Generally, the collection illustrates Barkin’s life as both a union organizer and an economist. His writings reflect his attempts to create “a system of trade union economics” as a counterpoise to standard “enterprise economics,” as well as his belief that labor should not be viewed as a commodity.

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A significant African American poet of the generation of the 1960s, Dudley Randall was an even more significant publisher of emerging African American poets and writers. Publishing works by important writers from Gwendolyn Brooks to Haki Madhubuti, Alice Walker, Etheridge Knight, Audre Lorde, Amiri Baraka, Nikki Giovanni, and Sonia Sanchez, his Broadside Press in Detroit became an important contributor to the Black Arts Movement.

The Broadside Press Collection includes approximately 200 titles published by Randall’s press during its first decade of operation, the period of its most profound cultural influence. The printed works are divided into five series, Broadside poets (including chapbooks, books of poetry, and posters), anthologies, children’s books, the Broadside Critics Series (works of literary criticism by African American authors), and the Broadsides Series. . The collection also includes a selection of items used in promoting Broadside Press publications, including a broken run of the irregularly published Broadside News, press releases, catalogs, and fliers and advertising cards.

Kenyon L. Butterfield

President of both the Massachusetts Agricultural College and Michigan Agricultural College, writer, lecturer, editor, and member, organizer, and chairman of many commissions and councils such as the Rural Life Movement.

The Butterfield Papers contain biographical materials, administrative and official papers of both of his presidencies, typescripts of his talks, and copies of his published writings. Includes correspondence and memoranda (with students, officials, legislators, officers of organizations, and private individuals), reports, outlines, minutes, surveys, and internal memoranda.

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D

Dairy Control Series

see RG-15/2.2 Experiment Station (1888- )–Dairy Control Series (1914-1973)

Dairy Digest, Massachusetts

see Extension Service, Cooperative–Massachusetts Dairy Digest (1936-1985) RG-15/8

Dairy Farm

see Veterinary and Animal Science, Department of–Dairy Farm RG-25/V2

see also Farm (College of Food and Natural Resources) RG-15/7

Dairy Industry, Department of

see Stockbridge School of Agriculture (Two Year School) RG-15/5

Dames Club (1956)

RG-45/40/D3

Dance Department

see Music and Dance, Department of RG-25/M9

see also Hicks, Adeline RG-40/11

Dartmouth, UMass

see Southeastern Massachusetts University (SMU) RG-55/5

Data Bank, Information

see Information Data Bank (IDB) RG-30/2/4

Data Processing Center (DPC)

RG-35/7

Data Processing Center Newsletter (DPC) (1987-1993)

RG-35/7

Day Care Center

see Commuter Student Affairs–Day Care Center RG-30/25

Day School, University

see Nursery School RG-25/H9.5

Day Teacher Preparation Program

see Teacher Education, Center for–Day Teacher Preparation Program RG-13/3/21/5 and

RG-13/3/23/4

Deaf, Media Center for the (Northeast Regional)

see Media Specialists for the Deaf, Center for (School of Education) RG-13/3/21/9

Dean of Academic Support Services

see Academic Support Services, Dean of RG-30/4

Dean of Administration

see Vice Chancellor for Administrative Services RG-35/1

Dean of Students

RG-30/2

Dean of Students, Assistant

RG-30/2/1

Dean of Students–Student Personnel Administrative Council

RG-30/2

Dean of the College (MSC)

see Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost RG-6/1

Dean of Women

RG-30/3

see also Dean of Women, Helen Curtis (1902-1993) available online (Five College Archives Digital Access Project )

Deans Council; Provost’s Administrative Council; Academic Deans Meeting (1955-1977) RG-6/2

see also Campus Management Council (1984-1989) RG-6/2.5

Deans Meeting, Academic

see Deans Council; Provost’s Administrative Council; Academic Deans Meeting (1955-1977) RG-6/2

see also Campus Management Council RG-6/2.5

Debate (Communication Studies)

RG-25/C7.4

Debate Club

see Debate (Communications Studies) RG-25/C7.4

Debate Union Alumni Newsletter (1979-1982)

RG-25/C7.4/00

DEFA Film Library

see Deutsche Film Aktien- Gesellschaft (DEFA) Film Library (1998- ) RG-25G6.1

Degrees

see Enrollment, Degrees, Courses, Curriculum RG-1/206

see also Honorary Degrees RG-1/7/2

Degrees, Honorary Degrees

see Honorary Degrees (1927- ) RG-1/7/2

Delta Chi (1961- )

RG-45/90/D4

Delta Phi Alpha (1916- )

RG-45/90/D4.3

Delta Phi Gamma (1985)

RG-45/90/D4.6

Delta Sigma Phi (1995)

RG-45/90/D4.7

Delta Sigma Theta (1991-1992)

RG-45/90/D4.725

Delta Upsilon (1988-1989)

RG-45/90/D4.75

Delta Zeta

RG-45/90/D4.8

Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) (1989)

RG-45/80/D4

Democrats, University

see University Democrats RG-45/80/U6

Democrats, Young

see Young Democrats RG-45/80/Y6.2

Demographic Research Institute, Massachusetts

see Massachusetts Demographic Research Institute (Research and Graduate Studies) RG-9/10

Demography Group (1982- )

RG-40/3/D4

Demonstration Alcohol Education Project

RG-30/15/2/3

Demonstrations, Student Protests and

see Student Protests and Demonstrations RG-45/101

Dental Hygiene Committee (1962)

RG-40/2/D4

Departmental Activities (Photographs)

RG-160

Department Libraries

see Libraries Departmental (1880, 1958-1978) RG-8/3/11

Departments, Academic

see Academic Departments, Programs, Institutes, Centers RG-25

Deputy Chancellor

see Chancellor, Deputy RG-4/18

Design and Production (University Relations and Development)

RG-39/6

Designs for Effective Learning Cluster (School of Education)

RG-13/3/23

Deutsche Film Aktien-Gesellschaft (DEFA) Film Library (1998- )

RG-25/G6.1

Development Advisory Council (1969)

RG-40/2/D5

Development and Alumni Affairs

see Alumni Office (Office of Development and Alumni Affairs) RG-50/1

Development Council

see Development Advisory Council (1969) RG-40/2/D5

Development, University Relations and

see University Relations and Development RG-39

Devens, Fort

see Fort Devens (1946-1949) RG-55/1

DGK Fraternity (1875- )

RG-45/90/D5

DIAL

see Digital Image Analysis Laboratory (DIAL) RG-29/2

Digital Image Analysis Laboratory (DIAL)

RG-29/2

Digital Initiatives News (UMass Amherst Libraries) (1999- )

RG-8/00/D3

Digital Photographic Laboratory (Research and Graduate Studies)

RG-9/3/2

Dining Services (Campus Center, Student Union)

RG-37/2

Diploma

see Insignia, Diploma, Motto, Mascot, Mace, etc. RG-1/6

see also Diplomas (Printed materials, oversize) RG-184/6

Diplomas (Printed materials, oversize)

RG-184/6

Directions

see Handbook–Directions (Student Affairs) RG-30/00/2

Directories (Alumni)

RG-50/00/1

see also Directories, Mugbooks, Catalogs of Graduates, etc. (General Catalogs,

All-University Lists of Students) RG-1/00/5

Directories, Faculty and Staff

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

Directories, Mugbooks, Catalogs of Graduates, etc. (General Catalogs,

All-University Lists of Students) (1867- ) RG-1/00/5

see also Directories (Alumni) RG-50/00/1

Disability Services

see Handicapped Student Affairs, Office of (1973- ) RG-30/29

see also Abilities Unlimited (Student Interest Group) (1986- ) RG-45/40/A2

Disadvantaged Students Program

see CCEBMS RG-6/4/12

Disarmament Study Group (1981)

RG-40/3/D5

Discipline Board (Faculty Senate, 1965-1972)

RG-40/2/A3

Dispatches (1982) (School of Education)

RG-13/1

Dispute Resolution

see Center for Information Technology and Dispute Resolution (CITDR) (2001- ) RG-25/L7.5

Dissertations and Theses (Films and Videotapes)

see Theses and Dissertations (Films and Videotapes) RG-186/2

Dissertations, Doctoral

see Doctoral Dissertations (1911- ) RG-46/1

see also Theses and Dissertations (Films and Videotapes) RG-186/2

Distinguished Architecture (Physical Plant) (1966)

RG-36/50/D5

Distinguished Faculty Lecture Series

see Lectures (Faculty) RG-40/1/2

Distinguished Faculty Lecture Series (Films and Videotapes) (1986- ) RG-186/7

Distinguished Faculty Lecture Series Videotapes (1986- )

RG-186/7

see also Lectures (Faculty and Staff) RG-40/1/2

Chancellor’s Lecture Series (1975-1986) RG-186/1

Distinguished Teaching Awards

see Awards, Prizes RG-1/11

Distinguished Visitor’s Program (DVP) (1960-1996)

RG-45/50/D5

Diversity and Development, Center for

see Center for Diversity and Development (CDD) (1996- ) RG-45/80/C4

Diversity and Social Justice, Counsel on Community

see Counsel on Community, Diversity and Social Justice (1997) RG-4/17

Diversity Office, Equal Opportunity and

see Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity and Diversity Office RG-4/7

Divine Light Club

see Divine Light Mission RG-45/70/D5

Divine Light Mission (Religious Group) (1973- )

RG-45/70/D5

Doctoral Dissertations (1911- )

RG-46/1 [see UMass Library catalog for holdings

see also Theses and Dissertations (Films and Videotapes) RG-186/2

Documents, Government (Library) (1955- )

RG-8/3/3

Donahue Institute

see Institute for Governmental Services (IGS), Donahue RG-3/8

Dormitory and Area Government

see Housing Services RG-32

DPC

see Data Processing Center (DPC) RG-35/7

Dr. Suess Club (1956)

RG-45/40/D7

Draft Counseling Services (1981)

RG-45/80/D7

Dramatic Society

see MAC Dramatic Society RG-45/40/M3

Drill Team, Equestrian

see Equestrian Drill Team RG-45/40/E6

Drop-Out Problem, Student

see Retention Committee–Student Drop-Out Problem (1985- ) RG-40/2/R5

Drug Drop-In Center

see Room to Move RG-30/10

Drum (1970-1988)

RG-45/00/D7

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DSA

see Democratic Socialist of America (DSA)

DTA

see Awards, Prizes (Distinguished Teaching Awards) RG-1/11

Du Bois Department of Afro-American Studies, W. E. B.

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

Duplicate Collection

RG-99

Duplicate Collection, Alumni Materials

RG-99/1

Duplicate Collection, Annual Reports (1863-1989)

RG-99/2

Duplicate Collection, Buildings and Grounds (Distinguished Architecture for a State University) (1966)

RG-99/3

Duplicate Collection, Catalogs (Bulletin Series) (1914- )

RG-99/4

Duplicate Collection, Chancellors Lecture Series (1974-1978)

RG-99/5

Duplicate Collection, Histories of Campus (1917, 1933, 1963)

RG-99/6

Duplicate Collection, The Index (1871- )

RG-99/7

Duplicate Collection, Missions and Goals, A Report of the Commission on (1976)

RG-99/8

Duplicate Collection, Stosag (Stockbridge School) (1961- )

RG-99/9

Duplicating (Administrative Services)

RG-35/9

Durfee Garden (Physical Plant) (1993- )

RG-36/104/D8

DVP

see Distinguished Visitors Program (DVP) RG-45/50/D5

Dyslexic Student Organization

see Communication Skills Center RG-6/4/15