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).

Ebenezer Bailey was a wholesale shoe purchaser and distributor from Massachusetts. The collection comprises just over 100 items, the bulk of which are receipts for the purchase and sale of shoes and slippers, covering the period from 1852 to 1882.

Protist

Born in New York City in 1914, William Balamuth enjoyed a long career in protistology. Introduced to the field as a graduate student in Harold Kirby’s laboratory at the University of California Berkeley, Balamuth received his dissertation in 1939 for a study of regeneration in the heterotrichous marine ciliate, Licnophora macfarlandi. After several years at the University of Missouri and Northwestern, he returned to Berkeley in 1953 to replace his mentor. During the course of his career, Balamuth worked on fundamental issues in the biology of organisms ranging from parasitic amoebae to amoeboflagellates, publishing over 80 papers on culturing, nutritional requirements, cell cycling, and encystment. He died suddenly on June 10, 1981.

The Balamuth Collection consists of 114 drawings of ciliates prepared by William Balamuth for use in courses and publications between the 1930s and early 1960s, along with a handful of offprints of articles and scattered research notes.

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.

A prosperous family of merchants and landowners, the Brinleys were well ensconced among the social and political elite of colonial New England. Connected by marriage to other elite families in Rhode Island and Massachusetts — the Auchmutys, Craddocks, and Tyngs among them — the Brinleys were refined, highly educated, public spirited, and most often business-minded. Although many members of the family remained loyal to the British cause during the Revolution, the family retained their high social standing in the years following.

The Brinley collection includes business letters, legal and business records, wills, a fragment of a diary, documents relating to slaves, newspaper clippings, and a small number of paintings and artifacts. A descendent, Nancy Brinley, contributed a quantity of genealogical research notes and photocopies of Brinley family documents from other repositories. Of particular note in the collection is a fine nineteenth century copy of a John Smibert portrait of Deborah Brinley (1719), an elegant silver tray passed through the generations, and is a 1713 list of the library of Francis Brinley, which offers a foreshadowing of the remarkable book collection put together in the later nineteenth century by his descendant George Brinley.

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.

Miriam U. Chrisman, 1964

A noted scholar of the social impact of the German Reformation, Miriam Usher Chrisman was born in Ithaca, New York, on May 20, 1920. With degrees from Smith College, American University, and Yale, she served for over thirty years on the faculty of the Department of History at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, becoming a well-loved professor and treasured mentor to a generation of students.

A faithful and colorful correspondent, the bulk of Miriam Chrisman’s papers consist of letters written to family and friends stretching from her college days at Smith through the year before her death. The bulk of the correspondence is with her husband, Donald Chrisman, an orthopedic surgeon who was enrolled at Harvard Medical School during their courtship. Soon after the Chrismans married in November 1943, Donald left for active duty in the Navy on the U.S.S. Baldwin. The couple’s war correspondence is unusually rich, offering insight on everything from the social responsibilities of married couples to their opinions on the progression of the war. Of particular note is a lengthy letter written by Donald during and immediately after D-Day in which he provides Miriam a real-time description of the events and his reactions as they unfold. Later letters document Miriam’s extensive travels including a trip around the world. .

Trichodina pediculus

The first professor of Natural History at the Massachusetts Agricultural College, Henry James Clark, had one of the briefest and most tragic tenures of any member of the faculty during the nineteenth century. Having studied under Asa Gray and Louis Agassiz at Harvard, Clark became an expert microscopist and student of the structure and development of flagellate protozoans and sponges. Barely a year after joining the faculty at Massachusetts Agricultural College at its first professor of Natural History, Clark died of tuberculosis on July 1, 1873.

A small remnant of a brief, but important career in the natural sciences, the Henry James Clark Papers consist largely of obituary notices and a fraction of his published works. The three manuscript items include two letters from Clark’s widow to his obituarist and fellow naturalist, Alpheus Hyatt (one including some minor personal memories), and a contract to build a house on Pleasant Street in Amherst.

Orton Loring Clark was an associate professor of botany and biology at the University of Massachusetts. After earning his B.A. in 1908 from the University, then the Massachusetts Agricultural College, Clark studied at the University of Strasbourg, where he earned his doctorate. He joined the faculty of his alma mater in 1913, specialized in plant physiology, and taught until his retirement in 1946. Known as a great teacher and fine artist, Clark was active in Amherst town politics. He passed away in 1965 at the age of 79.

Orton Loring Clark’s collection includes several notebooks of research notes, data, and hand-drawn field diagrams. The notebooks date from his student years in Germany to his first several years on the faculty at the Massachusetts Agricultural College. The collection also includes one letter from 1922.

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[ O ][ P, Q ][ R ][ S ][ T ][ U ][ V ][ W ][ XYZ ]

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