[ A ][ B ][ C ][ D ][ E ][ F ][ G ][ H ][ I, J ][ K ][ L ][ M ][ N ]
[ O ][ P, Q ][ R ][ S ][ T ][ U ][ V ][ W ][ XYZ ]

P

Pagan Association, UMass (Religious Groups) (1989- )

RG-45/70/P3

Paintings

see Portraits (Iconographic Materials) RG-182/2

see also Water Color Paintings (Memorabilia, general) RG-183/5

Pakistani Student Association (PSA) (1996- )

RG-45/40/P2

Pan Hellenic Council (1959-1983)

RG-45/90/P3

see also Social Union (1872-1940) RG-45/90/S6

Pandemonia (1971-1972)

RG-25/S7/00

Panoramic Photos

RG-170

PAP

see Photo Archives Project (PAP) RG-172

Parachute Club, Sport (1975-1995)

RG-45/40/P3

Parchment, The Sylvan

see Sylvan Parchment, The (1976) RG-45/00/S11

Parents Day (Official University Committee) (1925)

RG-40/2/P2

Parents Newsletter (1962-1968)

RG-1/00/4

Parking and Transportation Council (1972-1975)

RG-40/2/P3

see also Traffic and Parking Appeals Board (1972- ) RG-40/2/T7

Parking Appeals Board, Traffic and

see Traffic and Appeals Board (1972- ) RG-40/2/T7

Parking Coordinator, Transportation

RG-30/20

see also Transit Service (Student Senate Committee) RG-45/7/T7

and

Parking Services (1994- ) RG-35/21

Parking Enforcement

see Parking Services RG-35/21

Parking Office

see Parking Coordinator RG-30/20

Parking Services (1994- ) RG-35/21

Parking Services (1994- )

RG-35/21

Pass-Fail, ad hoc Sub-Committee on (Faculty Senate, 1967)

RG-40/2/A3

Patent Review Committee (Faculty Senate, 1986-1987)

RG-40/2/A3

Pau, France–UMass Summer School at

see French and Italian Department–Pau, France (UMass Summer School) RG-25/F9

PAUMA

see Professional Association of the University of Massachusetts at Amherst (PAUMA) RG-40/5/P7

see also Professional Staff Organization (PSO) RG-40/5/P7.7

PAUMA Bulletin (1987-1989)

RG-40/5/P7

Payroll, Personnel

see Personnel, Payroll (Human Resources Office) RG-35/2

Peace and Justice in the Middle East, UMass Faculty and Staff for (unofficial organization) (1990-1991)

RG-40/3/P1

Peace Corps (UMass Training Program, Africa) (1962)

see International Programs RG-6/4/9

Peace in Central America, Faculty and Staff for (unofficial organization)

RG-40/3/P2

Peacemakers, UMass (1982-1984)

RG-45/80/P4

see also Peacemakers Records (1963-1990) MS309

Peer Sex Education Program RG-30/15/2/2

Pelham Quarry

see Quarry, Pelham (Physical Plant) (1866) RG-36/50/Q8

People for A Socially Responsible University (PSRU)(Student Social Action Group) (1989-1990)

RG-45/80/P5

People For Choice (Student Social Action Group) (1989)

RG-45/80/P6

People’s Gay Alliance

see Gay Alliance, People’s (Lesbian, Bisexual and Gay Alliance) RG-45/40/G3

People’s Market (1974- )

RG-45/40/P4

People’s Market — Collective Works (2002)

see Collective Works (People’s Market) (2002) RG-45/00/C4.9

People’s News-Stand (1975-1977)

RG-45/40/P4.5

PERI

see Political Economy Research Instiute (PERI) (1998- ) RG-25/E1.6

Personnel Affairs, ad hoc Committee on (Faculty Senate, 1971)

RG-40/2/A3

Personnel and Financial Services, Director of

see Business Office, Director of Personnel and Financial Services RG-35/3

Personnel, Assistant Vice President for Labor Relations

see Assistant Vice President for Labor Relations and Personnel RG-3/17/1

Personnel Office Newsletter (1962, 1966-1968, 1972-1975)

RG-35/2

Personnel-Payroll (Human Resources Office)

RG-35/2

Personnel-Payroll (Human Resources Office)–Classified Employment Opportunities

see Classified Employment Opportunities ("Yellow Sheet") RG-35/2

Personnel-Payroll (Human Resources Office)–Employment Opportunities

see Employment Opportunities ("Beige Sheet") RG-35/2

Personnel/Payroll (Human Resources Office)–Personnel Office Newsletter

see Personnel Office Newsletter RG-35/2

Personnel Policies ad hoc Committee on, Multicampus Academic (1974-75)

see Inter-Campus Committees (2-campus and 3-campus) RG-3/100

Personnel, Vice President for Labor Relations and, Assistant

see Vice President for Labor Relations and Personnel, Assistant RG-3/17/1

Perspectives (Housing Services) (1980-1985)

RG-32/00

Pest Control Guide for Commercial Growers in Massachusetts and Connecticut

see Extension Service, Cooperative– Pest Control Guide for Commercial Growers in

Massachusetts and Connecticut (1971-1975) RG-15/8

Pesticide Chemical Information Center

RG-25/E4.9

Phi Alpha Theta (Honor Society)

RG-45/60/P2

Phi Beta Kappa (Honor Society) (1932- )

RG-40/3/P3

Phi Beta Kappa News Bulletin (1937-1965)

RG-40/3/P3

see also Key Reporter, The (1936-1963, 1974-1978) RG-40/3/P3

Phi Beta Kappa Visiting Scholar Program

see Phi Beta Kappa RG-40/3/P3

Phi Beta Sigma (1985-1989)

RG-45/90/P4

Phi Delta Kappa (1984, 1993)

RG-45/90/P5

Phi Eta Sigma (Honor Society)

RG-45/60/P5

Phi Kappa Phi (Honor Society) (1904- )

RG-40/3/P4

Phi Mu Delta (1980-1993)

RG-45/90/P5.2

Phi Sigma Alpha (Honor Society)

RG-45/60/P6

Phi Sigma Delta (1978, 1985)

RG-45/90/P5.5

Phi Sigma Kappa (1873-1973)

RG-45/90/P5.6

Phi Sigma Pi (1996)

RG-45/60/P6.25

Philosophy Department

RG-25/P2

Phonodiscs (Sound Recordings)

RG-185/1

Photo Archives Project (PAP)

RG-172

Photo Center (Photographic and Motion Picture Services)

RG-5/7

Photo Center Slide Collection

RG-187/2

Photo Collection, Fred Moore

see Fred Moore Photo Collection RG-173

Photo Negatives Collection

see University Photo Negatives Collection RG-171

Photographer’s Association (1962-1973)

RG-45/40/P5

Photographic and Motion Picture Services

see Photo Center (Photographic and Motion Picture Services) RG-5/7

Photographic Services (University Relations and Development)

see Photo Center RG-5/7

Photographs

RG-100 thru RG-176

Photographs (proof sheets)

see Proof Sheets (photographs) RG-176

Photography Club, University

see Photographer’s Association RG-45/40/P5

Photos, Oversize

see Oversize Photos RG-175

see also Lithographs RG-182/1

Photos, Panoramic

see Panoramic Photos RG-170

Physical Education, Men’s Department

RG-25/P3.1

Physical Education, Professional Preparation in

RG-25/P3.3

Physical Education, School of

see School of Physical Education RG-18

Physical Education, Women’s Department (WOPE)

RG-25/P3.2

Physical Plant (Department)

RG-36

Physical Plant Department, Director

RG-36/1

Physical Plant Publications

RG-36/00

see also Mainstay (Physical Plant) (1969-1978) RG-36/00

Physical Plant Subject Files

RG-36/50

Physical Sciences Library (1961- )

RG-8/3/10

Physics and Astronomy–Cognitive Development Project

RG-25/P3/3

Physics and Astronomy Department

RG-25/P3

See also collections relating to members of the Physics Department

Physics and Astronomy–Five College Astronomical Society

RG-25/P3

Physics and Astronomy–Five College Radio and Astronomy Observatory

RG-25/P3

Physics and Astronomy–Scientific Reasoning Research Institute

RG-25/P3/3

Pi Beta Phi (1964-1966)

RG-45/90/P5.7

Pi Kappa Alpha (PIKE) (1988)

RG-45/90/P5.9

Pi Tau Sigma (Honor Society)

RG-45/60/P6.5

Picketing, ad hoc Committee on (Faculty Senate, 1967-1971,1987)

RG-40/2/A3

Picketing and Recruitment, Committee on (Faculty Senate, 1987)

RG-40/2/A3

Pierce College (School of Management)

RG-12/6

PIKE

see Phi Kappa Alpha (PIKE) RG-45/90/P5.9

Pistol Team

see Sports-Men’s Pistol Team (1966) RG-18/2

Placement Files (Microfilm)

RG-190/9

Placement Service, Career Planning and

see Career Planning and Placement Service RG-30/9/5

see also Placement File (Microfilm) RG-190/1

Planning

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

Office of Institutional Research and Planning (OIRP) RG-4/3/4

Planning and Budget, Office of

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

Planning and Facilities Development, Office of

RG-36/3

Planning and Resource Development Series

see Holdsworth Natural Resources Center–Planning and Resource Development Series (#’s 1-28) RG-15/3

Planning Committee (Faculty Senate, 1970-1980)

RG-40/2/A3

see also Campus Planning Committee (Faculty Senate, 1956-1960, 1974-1975) RG-40/2/A3

Campus Physical Planning Committee (Faculty Senate, 1974- ) RG-40/2/A3

Master Planning Committee (Faculty Senate, 1961-1974) RG-40/2/A3

Long Range Planning Committee, ad hoc (Faculty Senate, 1966-1971) RG-40/2/A3

Planning Office (1965- )

RG-6/15/4

Planning, Project

see Director of Business Procedure and Project Planning RG-3/4/5

Planning, Vice President for

see Vice President for Planning RG-3/7

Plans (Cartographic Materials)

RG-181/4

Plant and Soil Sciences Department

RG-25/P4

Plant Biology

RG-25/P4.5

Plant Pathology Department

RG-25/P5

Plant Pathology–Florists’ and Gardeners’ Club

RG-25/P5

Plaque (Student Publication) (1939)

RG-45/00/P4

Plaques (Memorial)

see Memorial Stones and Plaques (Physical Plant) RG-36/50/M4

see also Plaques (Memorabilia, General) RG-183/3

Plaques (Memorabilia, general)

RG-183/3

see also Memorial Stones and Plaques RG-36/50/M4

Plato User’s Group Newsletter, UMass

see Massachusetts CAI Consortium Newsletter (1985- ) RG-29/00

Plays, Films and (Posters)

see Films and Plays (Poster Collection) RG-180/4

Poetry Circular (Student Publication) (1963)

RG-45/00/P5

Pointers for Pork Profits

see Extension Service, Cooperative–Pointers for Pork Profits (1949, 1954, 1968-1974) RG-15/8

Police

RG-30/18

Police Officers, International Brotherhood of

see International Brotherhood of Police Officers (NAGE) RG-40/5/P6

Political Economy Research Institute (PERI) (1998- )

RG-25/E1.6

Political Science Department

RG-25/P6

Political Science Department–Public Administration, Graduate Program

RG-25/P6/1

Polity (Political Science Department) (1968- )

RG-25/P6/00

Polo Team

see Sports-Men’s Polo Team (ca. 1896) RG-18/2

Polymer Research

see Center for University of Massachusetts-Industry Research on Polymers (CUMIRP) RG-25/P7.5

Polymer Research Institute

RG-9/8

see also Polymer Science and Engineering Program RG-25/P7

Polymer Science and Engineering Program

RG-25/P7

Pomology

see Plant and Soil Sciences RG-25/P4

Pond, Campus

see Campus Pond and Isle of View (Physical Plant) RG-36/104/P6

Poor Women’s Task Force (Everywoman’s Center)

RG-7/2/2/4

Population Studies, Certificate Program in

RG-25/P6.2

Portraits (Iconographic Materials)

RG-182/2

Portuguese Club (1976-1977)

RG-45/40/P6

Portuguese Department

see Hispanic Literature and Linguistics RG-25/H4

Post-War Period, Massachusetts State College in the

see Massachusetts State College in the Post-War Period (Official University Committee) (1944) RG-40/2/M4.5

Poster Collection

RG-180

Poster Collection, Miscellaneous/Art

RG-180/5

Poultry Club (1927-1954)

RG-45/40/P6.5

POWER

see Progressive Organization of Women’s Rights (POWER) (1989) RG-45/80/P7

Pow-Wow (Student Publication) (1948)

RG-45/00/P6

Precisionettes (Special Student Interest Group) (1946-1965)

RG-45/40/P7

Pre-Law Association (1966-1986)

RG-45/40/P7.4

Pre-Medical Society (1982)

RG-45/40/P7.5

President, Selection Committee to Advice on (Faculty Senate, 1969)

RG-40/2/A3

President, Selection of a (Official University Committee) (1927, 1932-1933, 1968-1969)

RG-40/2/P6

President’s Cabinet

see Cabinet, President’s RG-3/12

Presidents, Individual (1864- ) RG-3/1

see also Presidents (Photographs) RG-110/1

President’s Office

RG-3

President’s Office, Organization Charts (1967- )

RG-3/00/1

President’s Office, Publications (1948- )

RG-3/00

Presidents Photographs

RG-110/1

Press, Committee on Faculty Senate (Faculty Senate, 1962- )

RG-40/2/A3

Press Information (Commencement)

RG-1/7/1

Press, UMass

see University Press RG-10/4

Principal Investigators, Faculty Group of (1978)

RG-40/3/P7

Print Shop (Campus Center)

RG-37/6

Printed Materials (Oversize Materials)

RG-184

Printout (Massachusetts Data, Center for) (1983-1984)

RG-15/8.3

Privacy Task Force

see Committees in Student Affairs–Privacy Task Force RG-30/1/3

Prize Essays

see Awards, Prizes RG-1/11

Prizes

see Awards, Prizes RG-1/11

Process Design and Control, Center in, Industry/University

see Chemical Engineering Department–Industry/University Center In Process Design and Control RG-25/C2/3

Procurement

RG-35/6

Production

see Design and Production RG-39/6

Professional Association of the University of Massachusetts at Amherst (PAUMA)

RG-40/5/P7

Professional Association of the University of Massachusetts at Amherst–Bulletin (PAUMA)

see PAUMA Bulletin RG-40/5/P7

Professional Employees, Union of

see Union of Professional Employees (UPE) RG-40/5/P8

Professional Personnel, Chancellor’s Committee on (1966-1972)

RG-40/2/P7

Professional Preparation in Physical Education

see Physical Education, Professional Preparation in RG-25/P3.3

Professional Schools, Associate Provost for

see Provost for Professional Schools, Associate (1971-1976) RG-6/14

see also Schools themselves RG-12 thru 18

Professional Staff Appeals Committee

RG-40/5/P7.5

Professional Staff Organization (PSO) (1984- )

RG-40/5/P7.7

Professors, American Association of University

see American Association of University Professors (AAUP) RG-40/5/A2

Program and Budget Council of Faculty Senate (Faculty Senate, 1973- )

RG-40/2/A3

Program for Gay, Lesbian and Bisexual Concerns (1986- )

RG-30/2/6

see also People’s Gay Alliance RG-45/40/G3

Lesbian Union RG-45/40/L4

Program Groups (Student)

see Fine Arts/program groups (Student) RG-45/45/50

Programs, Academic

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

Programs (School of Education) (1967-1977)

RG-13/3/25

Progress Report (Experiment Station, 1888- )

see Experiment Station (1888- )–Progress Report (1962- ) RG-15/2.2

Progressive Candidates Pool

RG-45/13

Progressive Organization of Women’s Rights (POWER) (1989-1996)

RG-45/80/P7

Progressive Student (Student Publications) (1984)

RG-45/00/P7

Project ABLE (Affirmative Business Leadership Education) (School of Management)

RG-12/2

Project Bridge (1968)

RG-40/2/P8

Project I Can (College of Arts and Sciences) (1992)

RG-11/8

Project Pulse

see Student Affairs Research and Education Office (SAREO) RG-30/27

Project STRIDE (Springfield Teacher Recruitment to Increase Diversity In Education (1996- )

RG-13/1/2

Project 10, Inquiry Program

RG-32/5

see also Inquiry Program (School of Education) RG-13/4/2/1

Proof Sheets/Contact Sheets (Photographs)

RG-176

Property and Receiving

RG-35/13

Protests and Demonstrations, Student

see Student Protests and Demonstrations RG-45/101

Provost

see Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost RG-6/1

Provost, Assistant to the

RG-6/1/1

Provost for Faculty Relations, Associate (1983-1989)

RG-6/8

Provost for Professional Schools, Associate (1971-1976)

RG-6/14

see also schools themselves RG- 12-18

Provost for Special Programs, Associate (1968-1982)

RG-6/4

see also departments RG-25/A-Z

Provost for Undergraduate Education, Associate (1972-1973, 1981- )

RG-6/10

Provost for University Outreach, Interim Vice

RG-6/6

Provost for Women and Minority Groups, Associate (1968-1981)

RG-6/13

see also Affirmative Action Office RG-4/7

Everywoman’s Center RG-7/2

Provost’s Administrative Council

see Deans Council; Provost’s Administrative Council; Academic Deans Meeting (1955-1972) RG-6/2

Provost’s Task Force on Academic Computing

see Computing, Provosts Task Force on Academic (1984-1985) RG-40/2/C6.7

PSA

see Pakistani Student Association (PSA) (1996- )

Psi Chi (Honor Society) RG-45/60/P7

PSO

see Professional Staff Organization (PSO) (1984- ) RG-40/5/P7.7

PSRU

see People for a Socially Responsible University (PSRU) (Student Social Action Group) RG-45/80/P5

Psychological Services Center

RG-25/P8.4

Psychology Department

RG-25/P8

Psychology Department–Behavioral Biology, Dept. of

RG-25/P8

Psychology Department–Cognitive Science Society

RG-25/P8/3

Psychology Newsletter (1987- 1990)

RG-25/P8/00

Psychometric and Evaluation Research, Laboratory of (School of Education)

RG-13/3/23/3.1

Public Administration, Bureau of

see Bureau of Public Administration RG-25/P6.4

Public Administration, Graduate Program in

see Political Science Department–Public Administration, Graduate Program in RG-25/P6

Public Affairs

RG-5

see also Public Affairs (President’s Office) RG-3/10

Public Affairs (President’s Office)

RG-3/10

see also Public Affairs RG-5

Public Affairs, Director of

RG-5/1

Public Affairs Publications

RG-5/00

Public Art Sites, Galleries and

see Galleries & Public Art Sites (Physical Plant) RG-36/50/G2

Public Health Center, Northeast Regional Environmental

see Northeast Regional Environmental Public Health Center RG-17/1/1

Public Health, Division of

RG-17/1

see School of Public Health and Health Sciences RG-17/1

Public Health, Division of–Biopharmaceutical Research Unit

RG-17/1

Public Health, Division of–Biostatistics Technical Reports

RG-17/1

Public Health, Division of–Newsletter (1984-1987)

RG-17/1

Public Health, School of (1989-1993)

see School of Public Health and Health Sciences (1993- ) RG-17

Public Higher Education, Campus Convention on the Future of, Coordinating Committee on the

see Campus Convention on the Future of Public Education, Coordinating Committee on (1995- ) RG-40/3/C2

Public Information (President’s Office)

RG-3/20

Public Information, Office of (Public Affairs)

RG-5/3

see also Vice Chancellor for University Relations and Development, RG-39/1.

Public Manager’s Notebook (1981-1988)

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

Public Policy and Administration, Center for

see Center for Public Policy and Administration (CPPA) (1997- ) RG-25/P6.3

Public Policy Committee (Student Senate) (1986- )

RG-45/7/P8

Public-Private Records, Student Affairs Task Force on (1974- )

see Committee in Student Affairs–Privacy Task Force RG-30/1/3

Public Relations, Publications and

see Publications and Public Relations (1954-1956) RG-40/2/P9.2

Public Safety (Department)

RG-30/17

see also Campus Safety News RG-30/17

Public Safety Department (Photographs)

RG-143

Public Safety Monthly Summaries (1973-1990)

RG-30/17

Public School Partnership (Five-College Inc. Program)

RG-60/5/2

Public School Students, Tutoring Enrichment Assistance Model for

see Tutoring Enrichment Assistance Model for Public School Students (TEAMS) RG-7/12

Public Service Council (1968)

see Inter-Campus Committees–Public Service Council RG-3/100

Public Service Fund

see Healy Endowment/Public Service Fund (Research and Graduate Studies) RG-9/2/4

Public Services (Library)

RG-8/3

Public Services Office (Library) (1953- )

RG-8/3/1

Public Student Coalition (Student Association) (1976)

RG-45/45/P8

Publications (Official University Committee) (1916-1927)

RG-40/2/P9

Publications and Broadcast Board, Student (1966, 1969)

RG-45/30/P8

Publications and Public Relations (Official University Committee) (1954-1956)

RG-40/2/P9.2

Publications Committee (Faculty Senate, 1970)

RG-40/2/A3

Publications Department

RG-39/8

Publications Office (Public Affairs)

RG-5/4

Publications, Official

see Printed, mimeos, etc. (University as a Whole) RG-1/00

Publications Policy (Official University Committee) (1949-1950)

RG-40/2/P9.1

Publications, Student

see Student Publications RG-45/00

Publicity

see UMass News (Release) RG-5/3

Publicity (Official University Committee) (1926-1927)

RG-40/2/P9.5

Publicity about UMass (Public Affairs)

RG-5/10

Histories and historians ‘ files (1898- ) RG-1 201

Pulse, Project

see Student Affairs Research and Education Office (SAREO) RG-30/27

Q

QTV Fraternity (1869-1997)

RG-45/90/Q8

Quarry, Pelham (Physical Plant) (1866)

RG-36/50/Q8

Quarterly, The (1958-1959)

see Collegian Quarterly (1938-1962) RG-45/00/C6.2

Quest Program, The (Chancellor’s Office) (1985- )

RG-4/9/1

Questor (Student Publication) (1974)

RG-45/00/Q8

Quilt Project, AIDS Memorial

see AIDS Memorial Quilt Project (1992- ) RG-11/20

Nina, Smoky, Chuck, Janis (Smoky and Nina on bikes)

A wave of experimentation in communal living in New England reached a peak in the late 1960s and early 1970s, with dozens of communities spread across the landscape of western Massachusetts and Vermont. Nina Finestone joined the Johnson Pastures in Guilford , Vermont, in 1969, however after the main house there went up in flames on April 16, 1970, killing four people, she joined a number of its residents who moved to the nearby Montague Farm in Montague, Massachusetts. Nina married a fellow Montague farmer, Daniel Keller, and the couple moved to Wendell in 1980.

Providing exceptional visual documentation of life at Johnson Pasture, the Montague Farm, and Wendell Farm between 1969 and 1990, the Finestone collection is centered on the lives and family of Daniel and Nina Keller. All images were taken by Roy Finestone, Nina’s father, with a medium format camera using color transparency film.

Nancy E. Foster

For the better part of four decades, Nancy E. Foster was active in the struggle for social justice, peace, and political reform. From early work in civil rights through her engagement in political reform in Amherst, Mass., Foster was recognized for her work in the movements opposing war, nuclear power, and the assault on civil liberties after the September 11 terrorist attacks. Locally, she worked with her fellow members of the Unitarian Universalist Society of Amherst and with interfaith coalitions to address problems of hunger and homelessness.

Centered in western Massachusetts and concentrated in the last decade of her life (2000-2010), the Nancy Foster Papers includes a record of one woman’s grassroots activism for peace, civil liberties, and social justice. The issues reflected in the collection range from the assault on civil liberties after the 9/11 terrorist attacks to immigration, hunger and poverty, the Iraq Wars, and the conflict in Central America during the 1980s, and much of the material documents Nancy’s involvement with local organizations such as the Social Justice Committee of the Unitarian Universalist Society of Amherst. The collection also contains a valuable record of Nancy’s participation in local politics in Amherst, beginning with the records of the 1972 committee which was charged with reviewing the Town Meeting.

Aurin and Izetta Hill at Lake Pleasant,
ca.1928

The self-styled “insane architect” Aurin F. Hill (b. 1853) was a free thinking carpenter and architect in Boston who waged a concerted campaign for his vision of social reform at the turn of the twentieth century. A Spiritualist, social radical, and union man, Hill carried the torch for issues ranging from the nationalization of railroads and corporations to civil rights and women’s rights, and joined in opposition to vaccination, Comstockery and censorship, capital punishment, and lynching. A writing medium, married to the Spiritual evangelist Izetta Sears-Hill, he became President of the National Spiritual Alliance in 1915, a Spiritualist organization based in Lake Pleasant, Mass.

Esoteric, rambling, and often difficult to follow, the Hill papers provide profound insight into the eclectic mind of an important Boston Spiritualist and labor activist at the turn of the twentieth century. Whether written as a diary or scattered notes, a scrapbook, essays, or letters to the editor, Hill’s writings cover a wide range of topics, from spirit influence to labor law, from his confinements for insanity to police strikes, hypnotism, reincarnation, and housing. More than just a reflection of one man’s psychology, the collection reveals much about broader social attitudes toward gender and race, sexuality, urban life, politics, and religion, and the collection is a particularly important resource for the history of the American Spiritualist movement between 1890 and 1920.

Lathe operator, Rodney Hunt co., 1974

Raised on Long Island, Ed Judice embarked on a path in photography at the age of 13 when he took a job sweeping floors in a local photo studio. After picking up work photographing locally and a stint in the army, he moved to New York city, Judice began doing commercial work for ad agencies and magazines and eventually with Polaroid. Through Polaroid, he began developing contacts in western Massachusetts, eventually moving to Wendell in the early 1970s. He maintains an active studio in Northampton.

The Judice collection consists of a series of 59 digital images relating to a photo documentation project at the Rodney Hunt factory in Orange, Mass., in 1973 and 1974; a series of photographs documenting the bicentennial of Wendell in 1981; and two video documentaries of the Three County Fair, Northampton, Mass., 2007, and “Benny and Joe: A friendship,” 2010.

A veteran of the peace movement and founder of the Traprock Peace Center (1979), Randy Kehler was active in the National Nuclear Weapons Freeze Campaign, the Peace Development Fund, and the Working Group on Electoral Democracy. Beginning in 1977, he and his wife became war tax resisters, withholding federal income tax to protest U.S. military expenditures, donating it instead to charity. As a consequence, their home was seized by the IRS in 1989, setting up a protracted legal struggle that resulted in Kehler’s arrest and imprisonment and the sale of the house. They remain tax resisters.

The Kehler Papers document the five year struggle (1989-1994) against the seizure and sale of the Kehlers’ home by the IRS. The collection includes meeting minutes, notes, correspondence, newspaper clippings; letters to the editor, essays, articles, plans and strategy documents for the vigil set outside the Kehler home; support committee information and actions; correspondence with government officials, the IRS, and the Justice Department; letters of support; documents from the legal proceedings; and political literature addressing the Kehlers’ situation.

Kelley raising the flag, Ground Zero, 2001

Owner of the Amherst Athletic Club and columnist for the Amherst Bulletin from 1991 to 2004, Larry Kelley is deeply involved with Amherst area relations and government. He ran for both Select Board and Finance Committee, and was instrumental in raising awareness about and banning the illegal sale of martial arts weapons in Massachusetts.

Included in the Kelley papers are over 100 newspaper clippings, either his editorials, letters to the editor, or guest columns, about issues ranging from the use of town safety services by Amherst College, his objection to the Civil Rights Review Commission’s right to subpoena, his fight to fly commemorative flags in downtown Amherst both on the anniversary of September 11th and on the day Osama bin Laden is captured, to his objection over the Amherst-Pelham Regional High School’s production of Eve Ensler’s The Vagina Monologues.

Non-partisan political organization based in Amherst, Massachusetts that influences public policy through education and advocacy by registering voters, organizing candidate forums, publishing voting guides, and disseminating general information on the legislative process and the functioning of government on the local, state, and federal levels.

Includes minutes, annual reports, financial records, publications, extensive files on specific programs, photographs, video- and audio-tapes, scrapbooks, and newspaper clippings. Also contains information on two league members who rose to national prominence: Lucy Wilson Benson (Under Secretary of State in the federal government in 1977) and Jane F. Garvey (Administrator of the Federal Aviation Administration in 1997).

Raymond Mungo, 1968

In 1967, Marshall Bloom and Raymond Mungo, former editors of the student newspapers of Amherst College and Boston University, were fired from the United States Student Press Association for their radical views. In response they collaborated with colleagues and friends to found the Liberation News Service, an alternative news agency aimed at providing inexpensive images and text reflecting a countercultural outlook. From its office in Washington, D.C., LNS issued twice-weekly packets containing news articles, opinion pieces, and photographs reflecting a radical perspective on the war in Vietnam, national liberation struggles abroad, American politics, and the cultural revolution. At its height, the Service had hundreds of subscribers, spanning the gamut of college newspapers and the underground and alternative press. Its readership was estimated to be in the millions.

Two months after moving to New York City in June 1968, the LNS split into two factions. The more traditional Marxist activists remained in New York, while Bloom and Mungo, espousing a broader cultural view, settled on farms in western Massachusetts and southern Vermont. The story of LNS, as well as of the split, is told in Mungo’s 1970 classic book Famous Long Ago. By 1969 Bloom’s LNS farm, though still holding the organization’s original press, had begun its long life as a farm commune in Montague, Mass. Montague (whose own story is told in Steve Diamond’s What the Trees Said) survived in its original form under a number of resident groups until its recent sale to another non-profit organization. Mungo’s Packer Corners Farm, near Brattleboro, the model for his well-known book, Total Loss Farm, survives today under the guidance of some of its own original founders.

The LNS Records include a relatively complete run of LNS packets 1-120 (1967-1968), along with business records, miscellaneous correspondence, some artwork, and printing artifacts, including the LNS addressograph.

Sidney Lipshires

Born on April 15, 1919 in Baltimore, Maryland to David and Minnie Lipshires, Sidney was raised in Northampton, Massachusetts where his father owned two shoe stores, David Boot Shop and The Bootery. He attended the Massachusetts State College for one year before transferring to the University of Chicago and was awarded a BA in economics in 1940. His years at the University of Chicago were transformative, Lipshires became politically active there and joined the Communist Party in 1939. Following graduation in 1941, he married Shirley Dvorin, a student in early childhood education; together they had two sons, Ellis and Bernard. Lipshires returned to western Massachusetts with his young family in the early 1940s, working as a labor organizer. He served in the United States Army from 1943 to 1946 working as a clerk and interpreter with a medical battalion in France for over a year. Returning home, he ran for city alderman in Springfield on the Communist Party ticket in 1947. Lipshires married his second wife, Joann Breen Klein, in 1951 and on May 29, 1956, the same day his daughter Lisa was born, he was arrested under the Smith Act for his Communist Party activities. Before his case was brought to trial, the Smith Act was ruled unconstitutional by the U.S. Supreme Court. Disillusioned with the Communist Party, he severed his ties with it in 1957, but continued to remain active in organized labor for the rest of his life. Earning his masters in 1965 and Ph.D. in 1971, Lipshires taught history at Manchester Community College in Connecticut for thirty years. During that time he worked with other campus leaders to establish a statewide union for teachers and other community college professionals, an experience he wrote about in his book, Giving Them Hell: How a College Professor Organized and Led a Successful Statewide Union. Sidney Lipshires died on January 6, 2011 at the age of 91.

Ranging from an autobiographical account that outlines his development as an activist (prepared in anticipation of a trial for conspiracy charges under the Smith Act) to drafts and notes relating to his book Giving Them Hell, the Sidney Lipshires Papers offers an overview of his role in the Communist Party and as a labor organizer. The collection also contains his testimony in a 1955 public hearing before the Special Commission to Study and Investigate Communism and Subversive Activities, photographs, and biographical materials.