Personal, business, and legal papers of the Howe family of Enfield and Dana, Massachusetts, including correspondence between family members, genealogies, account books and printed materials. Account books record transactions of various family members whose occupations included general storekeeper, minister, printer, postmaster, telephone exchange and gas-station owner, and document the transactions of community businesses and individuals, some of whom were women involved in the beginnings of the local palm leaf hat and mat industry.

The author and social critic Harvey Swados (1920-1972) was a graduate of the University of Michigan who embarked on a literary life after service in the merchant Marine during the Second World War. His first novel, Out Went the Candle (1955), introduced the themes to which Swados would return throughout his career, the alienation of factory workers and the experience of the working class in industrial America. His other works include a widely read collection of stories set in an auto plant, On the Line, the novels False Coin (1959), Standing Fast (1970), and Celebration (1975), and a noted collection of essays A Radical’s America (1962). His essay for Esquire magazine, “Why Resign from the Human Race?,” is often cited as inspiring the formation of the Peace Corps.

The Swados collection includes journals, notes, typewritten drafts of novels and short stories, galley proofs, clippings, and correspondence concerning writings; letters from family, publishers, literary agents, colleagues, friends, and readers, including Richard Hofstadter, Saul Bellow, James Thomas Farrell, Herbert Gold, Irving Howe, Bernard Malamud, and Charles Wright Mills; letters from Swados, especially to family, friends, and editors; book reviews; notes, background material, and drafts of speeches and lectures; financial records; biographical and autobiographical sketches; bibliographies.

The Bethel Lodge of Masons, organized in 1825, is the oldest recorded social or fraternal group in Enfield, Massachusetts. Records include a membership list, financial records, by-laws, burial service manual, directories, insurance policies, meeting cards, and a one-hundredth anniversary booklet.

Twenty-four page register kept by unnamed person, possibly from a Quabbin town, listing boarders by name, payment received, and employee accounts. Payments noted in detail from February to October, 1850. Boarders included several doctors and L.S. Hills, possibly Leonard S. Hills of the Amherst, Massachusetts hat factory. Employee accounts list many women with Irish surnames, including Ellen O’Leary, Ellen Callahan, and Margaret Murphy.

Freight haulers from Dana, Massachusetts. Includes information about products that were hauled (such as palm leaf hats, mats, lumber, railroad ties, and waste) and the companies for which they were carried. Also contains information about how Brown was paid (cash, barter, manure, chopped wood, stone) and the names of many people and places with whom Brown and Brothers conducted business.

Nathaniel Chickering came to Enfield, Massachusetts, in 1800 with his son Otis and operated a grist mill for twenty years. One of Otis’ children, Bertrand, operated the Enfield telephone system in the Howe family store and lived with the Edwin H. Howe family.

Includes land and pew deeds of Nathaniel Chickering and Mrs. Otis Chickering’s account booklet with C.F. Wood and Co.

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

L

La Resistance (1967)

RG-45/00/L2

Labor Affairs, Institute For

see Institute for Labor Affairs RG-3/9

Labor Center Review (Labor Relations and Research Center) (1978-1990)

RG-25/L1/00

Labor Council, UMass

see UMass Labor Council (1995- ) RG-40/5/U5

Labor/Management Workplace Education Program

see Physical Plant RG-36/1

Labor Relations (President’s Office)

RG-3/19

Labor Relations and Research Center

RG-25/L1

Labor Relations and Personnel, Assistant Vice President for

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

Labor Relations, Coordinator of

RG-35/14

Laboratory of Psychometric and Evaluation Research

see Psychometric and Evaluation Research, Laboratory of RG-13/3/23/3.1

Laboratory Safety News (Environmental Health & Safety) (1980-1995)

RG-30/15/4

LACC

see Latin American Cultural Center (LACC) RG-45/40/L2

Lacrosse, Men’s

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

Lacrosse, Women’s

see Sports-Women’s Lacrosse (1993- ) RG-18/2

Lambda Chi Alpha (1980-1991)

RG-45/90/L3

Lambda Delta Phi

RG-45/90/L3.6

Land-Grant Colleges, State Universities

RG-60/1

Land-Grant University Women, New England Council of

see New England Council of Land-Grant University Women RG-60/1/1

Land Use Maps

see Massachusetts Town Statistics (Experiment Stations) RG-15/2.23

Land Use Notes

see Extension Service, Cooperative–Land Use Notes (1979-1980) RG-15/8

Landscape Architecture and Regional Planning

see Landscape Architecture Department RG-25/L2

Landscape Architecture and Regional Planning Newsletter

see Focus (1993- ) RG-25/L2/00

Landscape Architecture Department

RG-25/L2

Language Laboratory

RG-11/18

Language Resource Center(s), Foreign

see Foreign Language Resource Center(s) RG-25/F5.5

Lantern Slides, Glass

see Slides, Glass Lantern RG-188

LARP News, The (Dept. of Landscape Architecture and Regional Planning (1997- )

RG-25/L2/00

Latin American, Caribbean and Latino Studies

see Center for Latin American, Caribbean and Latino Studies RG.25/14.5

Latin American Cultural Center (LACC) (1995- ) RG-45/40/L2

Latin American Library Materials

see Seminar of the Acquisition of Latin American Library Materials (SALAM) (1973-1976) RG-8/9

Latin American Solidarity Committee, Western Massachusetts (1983-1985)

RG-45/80/L3

Latin American Studies [Program and Committee]

RG-25/L4

Latin American Studies–Occasional Paper Series (1976-1987)

RG-25/L4/00

Law Association, Pre-

see Pre-Law Association RG-45/40/P7.4

Law School (Official University Committee) (1966-1975)

RG-40/2/L1

Law School, ad hoc Committee to Study Need for (Faculty Senate, 1965-1967, 1972)

RG-40/2/A3

Layouts (Cartographic Materials)

RG-181/2

LBGA

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

LDCO

see Learning Disabilities Coordinator’s Office (LDCO) (1986- ) RG-6/20

Leadership and Administration, Center for (School of Education)

RG-13/3/17/3

see also Administration and Leadership (School of Education) RG-13/3/23/7

Lear (Honor Society)

RG-45/60/L4

Learning Center, Mastery

see Mastery Learning Center RG-30/2/5

Learning Disabilities Coordinators Office (LDCO) (1986- )

RG-6/20

see also Counseling and Academic Development RG-11/8

Learning Resources Center (LRC) (1994- )

RG-6/12

Learning Support Services (LSS)

see Learning Resources Center (LRC) RG-6/12

Leave, Sabbatical

see Sabbatical Leave RG- 40/1/6

Lecture Note Program (Student Senate) (1973-1974)

RG-45/7/L4

Lecture Series, Chancellor’s

see Chancellor’s Lecture Series RG-4/12

Lecture Series Distinguished Faculty

see Distinguished Faculty Lecture Series

Lecture Series, Sidney Topol Distinguished (1997- )

see Sidney Topol Distinguished Lecture Series (1997- ) RG-186/10

Lecture Series, Troy

see Troy Lecture Series (Films and Videotapes) RG-186/9

Lecturers From Outside the University (1911- )

RG-1/12

Lectures (Faculty and Staff)

RG-40/1/2

see also Distinguished Faculty Lecture Series (Videotapes) (1986- ) RG-186/7

Lectures (Photographs)

RG-145/2

see also Lectures (Poster Collection) RG-180/1

Lectures (Poster Collection)

RG-180/1

see also Lectures (Photographs) RG-145/2

Lectures, Committee on University

RG-40/2/L1.5

Left Field (Student Publication) (1990)

RG-45/00/L2.3

Legacy (English Department) (1984-1990)

RG-25/E3/00

Legal Assistant Training Program

RG-7/7

Legal Services Office (LSO)

see Attorney: Legal Services Office (LSO) RG-45/2

Legal Studies (1981- )

RG-25/L7

see also Legal Assistant Training Program RG-7/7

Legal Studies (Special Programs) (1965-1981)

RG-6/4/7

see also Legal Studies (1981- ) RG-25/L7

Legal Studies Forum: An Interdisciplinary Journal (1985-1988)

RG-25/L7/00

see also ALSA Forum, The (1981-1984) RG-25/L7/00

Legal Studies–Mediation Project

RG-25/L7/3

Legislation (1858- )

RG-1/2

Legislative Service Project

RG-25/P6.6

Leisure Studies and Service Department

RG-25/L6

Lesbian and Bisexual Concerns, Program for Gay

see Program for Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual Concerns (1986- ) RG-30/2/6

Lesbian, and Bisexual Concerns, Support Group for, Gay

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

Lesbian and Bisexual Concerns, The Chancellor’s Task Force on , Gay

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

Lesbian, Bisexual, Gay Alliance

see Peoples’ Gay Alliance RG-45/40/G3

Lesbian Union (1995)

RG-45/40/L4

Liability (Official University Committee) (1958)

RG-40/2/L2

Liaison (Alumni Periodical) (1944-1945)

RG-50/00/3

Liaison Services, Assistant to the President for

RG-3/5

Liberator, The (Student Publication) (1989- )

RG-45/00/L2.5

Librarian

see Library Director/Librarian RG-8/1

Librarian/Faculty, ad hoc, Action Committee

see Action Committee, ad hoc Faculty/Librarian (1980) RG-40/3/A1.5

Librarians Bargaining Unit

see Committees and other Groups (Library) RG-8/6

Libraries, Departmental (1880, 1958-1978)

RG-8/3/11

Note: No longer in existence.

Library (1876- ) RG-8

see also Music Library (1975- ) RG-8/3/8

Biological Sciences Library (1962- ) RG-8/3/9

Physical Sciences Library (1961- ) RG-8/3/10

Library–Annual Reports (1888, 1910- )

RG-8/00/L5

Library Audio-Visual Department (1948-1990′s)

RG-8/1/5

Library Automation Newsletter

see LS 2000 Newsletter/Library Automation Newsletter (1988-1991) (Library Publications) RG-8/00/L4

Library Buildings

RG-8/5

Library Buildings-Chapel (Old Chapel) (1869-1935)

RG-8/5/1

Library Buildings-Goodell (Goodell Library) (1899-1990)

RG-8/5/2

see also Library-Goodell (Plan Microfilm) RG-190/16

Library Buildings-Tower (University Library/W.E.B. Du Bois Library) (1961- )

RG-8/5/3

Library Buildings-W.E.B. Du Bois Library

see Library Buildings-Tower (University Library/W.E.B. Du Bois Library) (1961- ) RG-8/5/3

Library Business Office (1921- )

RG-8/1/2

Library Collections

see Collection Development (Library) RG-8/2

Library Committee (Faculty Senate, 1960- )

RG-40/2/A3

Library Committee (Official University Committee) (1911, 1952-1957)

RG-40/2/L3

Library Committees and Other Groups (1883, 1954- )

RG-8/6

Library Consortium

see Boston Library consortium (1975- ) RG-8/10

Library Director, Assistant to (1962- )

RG-8/1/1

Library Director/Librarian (1886- )

RG-8/1

Library Exhibits

see Exhibits (Library) RG-8/3/13

Library, Goodell (Building Microfilm)

RG-190/16

Library Information Bulletin (1969- )

RG-8/00/L5

Library Information Processing

RG-8/4/4

Library Leaflet

Extension Service, Cooperative–Library Leaflet (1913-1924) RG-15/8

Library Leaflet-Revised Series

Extension Service, Cooperative–Library Leaflet–Revised Series (1927-1930) RG-15/8

Library Management Assistant

RG-8/1/7

Library, Massachusetts Film Co-op

RG-8/1/8

Library Monthly Reports (1966-1987)

RG-8/00/M6

Library Newsletter (UMass Libraries) (1970-1980)

RG-8/00/N3

Library Publications

RG-8/00

Library Slide Shows (including audio tapes)

RG-187/4

Library Staff Bulletin

see "Library Information Bulletin" (UMass Libraries) (1967- ) RG-8/00/L5

Library Statistical Reports and Summaries (1973-1984)

RG-8/00/S8

Library Systems Office (1964- )

RG-8/1/4

Library Task Force Report (1980-1981)

RG-40/2/L3.5

Life/Career Development Team

RG-30/22/1

Lighting (Physical Plant)

RG-36/50/L5

Lincoln W. Barnes Photo Collection (M.A.C. Campus Photographs)

RG-149

Linguistics Department

RG-25/L8

Literacy Institute, Media

see Media Literacy Institute RG-25/C7.7

Literary Magazine (Student Publication) (1959-1962)

RG-45/00/L3.5

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

Literary Monthly, The MAC (Student Publication) (1910)

RG-45/00/L4

Literary Society (UMass Amherst) (1953-1959)

RG-40/3/L4

see also Washington Irving Literary Society (1867-1892) RG-45/40/W3

Edward Everett Literary Society (1870-1876) RG-45/40/E3

Literary Society, Edward Everett

see Edward Everett Literary Society (1870-1876) RG-45/40/E3

Literary Society, Washington Irving

see Washington Irving Literary Society RG-45/40/W3

Literature, Comparative

see Comparative Literature RG-25/C8

Literature, Joint Committee on (Official University Committee) (1974)

RG-40/2/L5

Lithographs (Iconographic Materials)

RG-182/1

LMWEP

see Physical Plant–Labor/Management Workplace Education Program (1987- ) RG-36/1

Local 1776, AFS CME; Council 41 (American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees)

RG-40/5/S4

Long Range Academic Planning Committee (Faculty Senate, 1961-1962)

RG-40/2/A3

Long Range Planning, ad hoc Committee (1966-1971)

RG-40/2/A3

see also Planning Committee (Faculty Senate, 1972-1980) RG-40/2/A3

Loose Change (Computer and Information Science) (1993-1999)

RG-25/C9/00

see also Significant Bits (1999) RG-25/C9/00

Lowell, University of

see University of Lowell RG-55/4

LRC

see Learning Resources Center (LRC) (1994- ) RG-6/12

LRRC Labor Update (1991)

RG-25/L1/00

LRRC Review (1978-1991)

RG-25\L1\00

LS 2000 Newsletter/Library Automation Newsletter (1988-1991) (Library Publication)

RG-8/00/L4

LSO

see Attorney: Legal Services Office (LSO) RG-45/2

LSS (Learning Support Services) (1997- )

see Learning Resources Center (LRC) (1994- ) RG-6/12

Lubovitch Movement (Religious Group) (1975)

RG-45/70/L8

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

W

WAGES

see Women’s Admissions and General Support (WAGES) RG-45/40/W6

Wail, Summer School

see Summer School Wail RG-45/00/S10

Walden Learning Center

see Psychology Department RG-25/P8/3

Waltham Experiment Station

see Suburban Experiment Station, Waltham RG-15/9

Waltham Field Station

see Suburban Experiment Station, Waltham RG-15/9

Waltham Suburban Experiment Station

see Suburban Experiment Station, Waltham RG-15/9

Ward Commission

see Massachusetts Commission on Corruption (Ward Commission) RG-36/23

Wareham Agricultural Engineering Laboratory

see Agricultural Engineering Laboratory, Wareham RG-25/M6.1

Wareham Aquacultural Engineering Laboratory

see Aquacultural Engineering Laboratory, Wareham RG-25/M6.1

Washington Irving Literary Society (1867-1892)

RG-45/40/W3

see also Literary Society (1953-1959) RG-40/3/L4

Waste Prevention, National Environmental Technology for

see National Environmental Technology for Waste Prevention Institute (NETI) RG-25/N3

Water Color Paintings (Memorabilia, general)

RG-183/5

Water Crisis, UMass Amherst (Physical Plant) (1980-1989)

RG-36/50/W3

see also Water Supply (Physical Plant) RG-36/50/W4

Water Polo

see Sports, Men’s Water Polo (1992) RG-18/2

Sports, Women’s Water Polo (1995- ) RG-18/2

Water Resources Research Center (WRRC)

RG-25/W2

Water Resources Research Center–Annual Reports (1968, 1970- )

RG-25/W2/00

Water Resources Research Center–Completion Reports (1969-1977)

RG-25/W2/00

Water Resources Research Center–Newsletter (1983-1993)

RG-25/W2/00

Water Resources Research Center–Publications

RG-25/W2/00

Water Resources Research Center–Special Reports

RG-25/W2/00

Water Supply (Physical Plant)

RG-36/50/W4

see also Water Crisis (1980-1989) RG-36/50/W3

Waugh Arboretum (Physical Plant) (1944)

RG-36/104/W3

Waugh Memorial Garden Committee (Faculty Senate, 1980)

RG-40/2/A3

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

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

W. E. B. Du Bois Library

see Library Buildings-Tower (University Library/W.E.B. Du Bois Library) (1961- ) RG-8/5/3

W.E.B. Du Bois Petition Coalition (1993-1995)

RG-45/80/W4

Weekly Biff, The (Student Publication) (1910)

RG-45/00/W4

Weekly Bulletin (1971-1985)

see Weekly Bulletin, University Bulletin, and Executive Bulletin RG-5/00/3

Weekly News, The (Student Publication) (1989)

RG-45/00/W5

Weekly Bulletin, University Bulletin, and Executive Bulletin (1912-1985)

RG-5/00/3

see also University Bulletin (newsprint format) RG-5/00/6

Campus Chronicle (newspaper)(1985- ) RG-5/00/10

West Campus Design Proposal (1993) (Physical Plant)

RG-36/104/W4

Western European Area Studies (Program and Committee)

RG-25/W3

Western Massachusetts Latin American Solidarity Committee

see Latin American Solidarity Committee, Western Massachusetts RG-45/80/L3

WFCR of Note (1991- )

RG-60/8

WFCR Program Guide (1966-1991)

RG-60/8

WFCR Radio Station

RG-60/8

WFCR Weekly Classified Music (1993- )

RG-60/8

Wheel (Student Social Action Group) (1986)

RG-45/80/W3

WIG

see Women in German (WIG) (1975- ) RG-40/3/W5

Wilder Times (Landscape Architecture Department) (1972-1993)

RG-25/L2/00

Wildlife Research Unit; Fishery Unit, Massachusetts Cooperative

(College of Food and Natural Resources) RG-15/6

Wildlife Research Unit; Fishery Unit, Massachusetts Cooperative–Contributions (1970-1974)

RG-15/6

Wildlife Research Unit Quarterly Progress Report (Massachusetts Cooperative)

see Massachusetts Cooperative Wildlife Research Unit Quarterly Progress Report (1948-1988) RG-15/6

Winter, Alumni Day

see Mid-Winter Alumni Day (1923-1926) RG-40/2/M5

Winter School

see Summer School, Short Courses RG-6/17

WISPP

see Women in Staff Professional Positions (WISPP) RG-40/5/P7

WMUA (FM Radio Station) (1948- )

RG-45/30/W6

WOCH (Orchard Hill Radio Station) (1987- )

RG-45/30/W7

Women, Advisory Council of

see Advisory Council of Women (1921-1964) available online (Five College Archives Digital Access Project )

see also Advisory Council of Women (Film, ca. 1927) RG-186/100/1

Women and Minority Groups, Associate Provost for

see Provost for Women and Minority Groups, Associate (1968-1981) RG-6/13

see also Affirmative Action Office (1982- ) RG-4/7

Everywoman’s Center RG-7/2

Women, Dean of

see Dean of Women RG-30/3

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

Women in German (WIG) (1975- ) RG-40/3/W5

Women in Staff Professional Positions (WISPP)

RG-40/5/W5

Women, National Organization for

see National Organization for Women (NOW) (1989- ) RG-45/80/N7

Women, New England Council of Land-Grant University

see New England Council of Land-Grant University Women RG-60/1/1

Women of Color Program (1993-1998) /Women of Color Leadership Network (WOCLN) (1998- )

(Everywoman’s Center ) RG-7/2/2/9

see also Third World Women’s Programmer (1979-1989) RG-7/2/2/5

Women, Status of, Committee on (Faculty Senate, 1970- )

RG-40/2/A3

Women, University

see University Women RG-40/7

Women’s Admissions and General Support (WAGES) (1985-1989)

RG-45/40/W6

Women’s Caucus and Vietnam Veterans Against the War (1971-1972)

RG-45/80/W5

Women’s Clubs

see Engineering Faculty Women’s Club (Engineering Wives) RG-40/7/3

New Comer’s Club RG-40/7/2

University Women RG-40/7

Women’s Conference, Five-College

see Five-College Women’s Conference, Valley Women’s Studies Journal RG-60/9

Women’s Educational Equity Project (WEEP)

see Women’s Equity Project RG-7/2/2/1

Women’s Equity Project (1972-1984)

RG-7/2/2/1

Note: Formerly Women’s Educational Equity Project (WEEP)

Women’s Health, Center for Research and Education in

see Center for Research and Education in Women’s Health (CREWH) RG-17/1/2

Women’s Leadership Project (1984-1989)

RG-45/80/W6

Women’s Network, Graduate

see Graduate Women’s Network (1994- ) RG-45/40/G7

Women’s News in the Collegian (Official University Committee) (1978)

RG-40/2/W6

Women’s Physical Education (WOPE)

see Physical Education, Women’s RG-25/P3.2

Women’s Program Development

RG-7/8

Women’s Programmer, Third World

see Third World Women’s Programmer RG-7/2/2/5

Women’s Rights, Progressive Organization of

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

Women’s Student Government Association (WSGA)

RG-45/4

see also Women’s Student Government Association Handbooks for Women (1925-1941) available online (Five College Archives Digital Access Project )

Women’s Studies Newsletter (1976- ) RG-25/W5/00

Women’s Studies Program

RG-25/W5

Wood Science and Technology

RG-25/W7

WOPE Department

see Physical Education, Women’s Department (WOPE) RG-25/P3.2

Worcester Medical School

see Medical School, Worcester RG-55/2

Wrestling

see Sports, Men’s Wrestling (1965, 1970-1971) RG-18/2

Writing Program

RG-25/E3/1

see also University Writing Program RG-7/11

Writing Program, ad hoc Committee for (Faculty Senate, 1982- )

RG-40/2/A3

WRRC

see Water Resources Research Center (WRRC) (1970- ) RG-25/W2

WSGA

see Women’s Student Government Association (WSGA) RG-45/4

WSUR (Southwest Radio Station) (1998)

RG-45/30/W8

WSYL (Sylvan Radio Station) (1986)

RG-45/30/W9

Meeting of the Connecticut Valley Church Conference of Unitarian-Congregational and other churches held on the 100th anniversary of the building of the Old Brick Church in Deerfield, Massachusetts in 1924. Single program includes information about several addresses and a historical paper that were presented along with the devotional services.

Captain Joseph Hooker Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution of Enfield, Massachusetts. The single volume consists of five entries, which include two obituaries of members, two notices of prizes given or received during the Enfield Centennial Celebration, and a record of the Chapter’s services during World War I.