An urban planning firm based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, that assisted New England cities and towns with initiating and managing urban development projects. The firm had two main types of contracts, urban renewal and comprehensive community planning, and many of their projects were supported with funds designated by the Federal Housing Act of 1949.

Includes organizational histories, memoranda, correspondence, proposal guidelines, materials for citizen participation, job inventories and reports, brochures that document urban growth management and the problems of suburbanization in New England, background studies, planning reports, growth management policies, zoning bylaws and amendments, and the files of Katharine Kumala.

Barrie Greenbie with g-frame model

Barrie Barstow Greenbie was a key member of the Department of Landscape Architecture and Urban Planning at UMass Amherst from 1970-1989. In a long and remarkably diverse career, Greenbie worked as an artist with the Works Progress Administration, as a soldier and journalist, as a professor of theater, an architect, inventor, author, and landscape planner. After earning a BA in drama from the University of Miami (1953),he worked for several years in the theatre program at Skidmore College. While there, he added architecture to his array of talents, designing the East 74th Street Theater in New York in 1959, and founded a company to produce a “self-erecting” building designed to substitute for summer tent theaters. Two years after joining the faculty at UMass in 1970, he completed a doctorate in urban affairs and regional planning at the University of Wisconsin and continued with a characteristically broad array of creative pursuits, designing the William Smith Clark Memorial, among other things, and conducting an extensive aerial survey of the landscapes of the Connecticut River Valley. In monographs such as Design for Diversity and Spaces: Dimensions of the Human Landscape, Greenbie examined the interactions between humans and nature. He died at his home on South Amherst in 1998.

The Greenbie Papers document a long career as academic, writer, artist, architect, and theatrical designer. Of particular note is the extensive and engrossing correspondence, which extends from Greenbie’s years as a student at the Taft School in the late 1930s through his World War II service with the Sixth Army in the South Pacific and Japan, to his tenure at UMass Amherst (1970-1989). The collection also includes a small, but interesting correspondence between Greenbie’s parents (1918-1919).

The horticulturist Tom S. Hamilton was a member of the faculty at UMass Amherst in the Department of Landscape Architecture and Regional Planning. A specialist in ornamental plants, Hamilton worked at UMass from prior to 1950 until his retirement in 1986.

The Hamilton Papers contain three works on ornamental plants published by the Dept. of Landscape Architecture, along with a mimeographed laboratory manual that Hamilton used in his courses on landscape operations in 1979.

During its first seventy five years, the mission of Massachusetts Agricultural College gradually expanded from its original focus on teaching the science of agriculture and horticulture. Coping with the changing demands of research and teaching in a disparate array of fields, responsibilities for the administration of University units were reorganized at several points, culminating in the formation of the College of Natural Resources and the Environment in 1993.

This record group consists of Dean’s annual reports, organizational charts, personnel lists, committee minutes, lecture materials, data sheets, maps and census statistics, conference proceedings, course catalogs, directories, publications, handbooks, records of the Agricultural Experiment Station, photographs and audio-visual materials, and other related materials.

Access restrictions: Portions of this collection are stored off-site and require advance notification for retrieval.

Ervin H. Zube

Ervin H. Zube was the head of the University’s Landscape Architecture and Regional Planning department (LARP) from 1965-1977. His groundbreaking research on landscape architecture and assessment helped define the international importance and influence of the field and his consultancy work, most notably with the National Park Service, brought his intellectual achievements into practical application. Born on April 24, 1931 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Zube earned his B.S. at the University of Wisconsin in 1954. After a two year service in the United States Air Force, Zube enrolled in Harvard’s Graduate School of Design where he received his M.L.A in 1959. Zube held teaching positions at the University of Wisconsin and the University of California, Berkeley before beginning his ten year professorship at the University of Massachusetts in 1965. As the head of LARP, Zube established the Environmental Design program, which introduced a revolutionary cross-discipline approach to the study of landscape architecture. Zube became the director of the Institute for Man and the Environment in 1972 and restructured the institute to support academic research in new, important topics including community development and cooperation with the National Park Service, seeding important national and international institutions with progressively educated researchers. As a consultant, Zube helped the National Park Service develop their “master plan” for Yosemite and worked with numerous national and international institutions to manage and assess their environmental resources. Zube ended his career as a professor at the University of Arizona where he retired in 1983. He remained active in the field until his death in 2001.

The Ervin H. Zube papers include Zube’s lecture notes and academic correspondence, research materials and publications representing his work in landscape assessment and architecture, notes and reports from his consultancy work with many institutions and committees, correspondence from his role as a conference planner, as well as correspondence relating to his many book reviews. Zube’s papers also cover his research and teaching while at the University of Arizona and contain photographs from his research on the Connecticut River Valley.

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).

In the summer of 1967, members of University of Massachusetts Amherst campus groups, such as the Faculty Group on War and Peace and the Students for Political Action, joined with individuals from other area colleges and from the community at large to form the Valley Peace Center of Amherst for the purposes of opposing the Vietnam War, providing draft counseling, eliciting pledges from the government to avoid first use of nuclear and biological weapons, and reduction of the power of the “military-industrial complex”. The Center was active for more than five and a half years, drawing its financial support largely from the community and its human resources from student and community volunteers.

Correspondence, minutes, volunteer and membership lists, financial records, newsletters, questionnaires, notes, petitions, clippings, posters, circulars, pamphlets, periodicals, other printed matter, and memorabilia. Includes material relating to alternative service, boycotts, war tax resistance, prison reform, environmental quality, and political candidates.

The Vietnamese Students Association hosted a Vietnamese New Year celebration at the Campus Center of the University of Massachusetts Amherst on February 20, 1985. Collection contains twelve photographs and a program listing sponsors, speakers, performers, the sequence of events, descriptions of ancestor worship, the legend of the earth and the sky cakes, the menu, and some song lyrics.

[ A ][ B ][ C ][ D ][ E ][ F ][ G ][ H ][ I, J ][ K ][ L ][ M ][ N ]
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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

William L. Machmer

Enjoying one of the longest tenures of any administrator in the history of the University of Massachusetts, William Lawson Machmer served under five presidents across 42 years, helping to guide the university through an economic depression, two world wars, and three name changes. During his years as Dean, Machmer witnessed the growth of the university from fewer than 500 students to almost 3,800, and helped guide its transformation from a small agricultural college into Massachusetts State College (1931) and finally into the University of Massachusetts (1947).

Machmer’s papers chronicle the fitful development of the University of Massachusetts from the days of Kenyon Butterfield’s innovations of the 1920s through the time of the GI Bill. The collection is particularly strong in documenting the academic experience of students and the changes affecting the various departments and programs at the University, with particular depth for the period during and after the Second World War.