A former Professor of English at UMass Amherst and contributor to the Program in Women’s Studies, Margaret (Margo) Culley was a specialist in women’s literature, particularly in women’s autobiography and diaries as a literary form. Her research drew variously upon work in literature, history, American studies, and religion, exploring gender and genre, language, subjectivity, memory, cultural diversity, and narrative. Between 1985 and 1994, she edited three volumes on American women’s autobiographical writing, and another on feminist teaching in the college classroom.

The Culley Papers offer a somewhat fragmentary glimpse into Culley’s academic career and her commitments to women’s literature. The collection includes selected notes for research and teaching, annotated bibliographies of women’s literature, a performance script for The Voices of Lost New England Women Writers, a federal grant proposal for The Black Studies/Women’s Studies Faculty Development Project (1981), and notes related to a study on minority women in the classroom. Letters collected by Culley’s students (late 18th and early 19th century) have been separated from the collection and designated as manuscript collections.

Ann Gordon served as the editor of the Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton papers as a member of African American Studies department from 1982 until the project’s conclusion in 1989. While at the University, Gordon, along with John Bracey, Joyce Berkman, and Arlene Avakian planned a conference discussing the history of African American Women voting from the Cady Stanton’s meeting at Seneca Falls to the Voting Rights Act. The conference, called the African American Women and the Vote Conference, was held in 1988.

The collection is comprised of proposals, reports, meeting transcripts, and correspondence from Gordon’s work planning the 1988 African American Women and the Vote Conference. Also included is preliminary work by Gordon to organize the papers given at the conference into book form.

Professor of Physical Education at the University of Massachusetts Amherst when it was known as Massachusetts Agricultural College who established the physical education program for women and helped to create the women’s gymnasium and athletic field. In her retirement she composed music that was performed by the University of Arizona orchestra.

Includes musical scores, lesson-plan photographs illustrating instruction in modern dance, correspondence, printed programs for performance of the musical compositions, text of an address, a history of physical education for women at Massachusetts State College by Mrs. Hicks, personnel records, and brief biographical items.

Lorian Jefferson, photo by Frank Waugh

An historian of economics specializing in American agriculture, Lorian Pamela Jefferson was one of the first women in the field and became an expert on New England agricultural industry. Born in 1871 near Necedah, Wisconsin, Jefferson earned her B.L. from Lawrence University in 1892 and her M.A. from the University of Wisconsin in 1907, continuing on to study towards her PhD though she never finished her research. Jefferson began working at the University in 1912 as an expert in the Division of Rural Social Science and became a professor of Agricultural Economics in 1915. Known as “Miss J”, Jefferson was a dedicated teacher and published extensively on various aspects of agricultural industry and marketing, including the McIntosh apple market and the agricultural labor movement. Illness forced Jefferson’s retirement from the University in 1935 and she died shortly thereafter.

Industry reports, farm and community market assessments, and many of her published articles make up the majority of the collection. There is also a bound volume of correspondence and pamphlets by Jefferson from 1914 titled “Letters Relating to economic Entomology in the United States.” Among the published work is a copy of the magazine Farm and Garden from April, 1924.

Maida Riggs, ca.1944

Maida Leonard Riggs, Class of 1936, taught women’s physical education at UMass before shifting to teacher preparation. Riggs was a beloved member of the UMass faculty for 28 years before her retirement. An adventurous spirit took Riggs around the globe: to Europe with the Red Cross during World War II; as a bicycling tour leader after the war; on a trek across Nepal at age 62; to Russia, China, Japan, Australia, New Zealand, and Uzbekistan. After retiring, Riggs, a self-described compulsive traveler, embarked on a more personal journey to explore her roots. Riggs transcribed over 250 letters by her pioneer great-grandmother, Mary Ann Clark Longley, and published them under the title A Small Bit of Bread and Butter: Letters from the Dakota Territory, 1832-1869, an absorbing and sometimes heartbreaking account of life on the frontier. An avid photographer, Riggs took advantage of any opportunity to use her camera. These images, particularly from World War II, tell as many stories as do her correspondence. Her book, Dancing in Paratrooper Boots, contains typed copies of her letters from her days as a Red Cross volunteer during the war.

The Riggs Papers are a rich documentary history of the World War II era, both in America and Europe, as well as an engrossing study (in transcripts) of the American frontier. Included with extensive correspondence and photographs are published and unpublished prose, and Lovingly, Lucy: Vignettes of a Pioneer Woman’s Life, an essay on Riggs’s paternal grandmother, Lucy Dodge Riggs. Additional items in the collection include handwritten journals, one detailing a trip to China and Japan in 1982, and Riggs’s photographs of young children at play taken for her book on child development, Jump to Joy: Helping Children Grow Through Active Play. Riggs also took her genealogical research seriously, meticulously charting her family’s 1638 immigration from England to Massachusetts. With camera in hand, she later traveled to England in search of more evidence of the Longley’s English roots.

Polish-American women’s club located near Palmer, Massachusetts, that aims to encourage Polish women to become United States citizens and provide them with classes in the English language; to take an active part in local, state and federal politics; to support local Polish-owned businesses; to preserve and integrate Polish culture with those of other ethnicities present in the United States; to encourage higher education in the Polish-American community.

Includes meeting minutes (primarily in Polish), histories, anniversary programs, town and state citations, and government publications, documenting the activities, membership, and national recognition of the club over a period of seventy years.

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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

Deerfield, Mass.

Influenced by the arts and crafts movement, Frances and Mary Allen began taking photographs of their native Deerfield, Mass., in the mid-1880s. Displaying a finely honed pictorialist aesthetic, the sisters specialized in views of Deerfield and surrounding towns, posed genre scenes of life in colonial times, and the local scenery, earning a reputation as among the best women photographers of the period.

The Allen sisters photograph album contains ten gelatin developing out prints of street scenes in Deerfield, ca.1900-1910. Among these are two shots of the house they inherited from their aunt Kate in 1895, which thereafter became their home and studio.

Arlene Avakian

Arlene Avakian arrived at UMass in 1972 as a graduate student working on the social history of American women, but quickly became a key figure in the creation of the university’s new program in Women’s Studies. As she completed her MA in History (1975) and EdD (1985), she helped in the early organization of the program, later joining the faculty as professor and program director. Through her research and teaching, she contributed to an engaging departmental culture in which the intersection of race, class, gender, ethnicity, and sexuality were placed at the center, building the program over the course of 35 years into the nationally-recognized Department of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies. Avakian has written and taught on topics ranging from the lives and experiences of Armenian American and African American women to culinary history and the construction of whiteness. She retired in May 2011.

Documenting the growth and development of Women’s Studies at UMass Amherst, the collection includes valuable material on the creation of the department (and Women’s Studies more generally), second- and third-wave feminism, and Avakian’s teaching and research. The collection includes a range of correspondence, memoranda, notes, and drafts of articles, along with several dozen oral historical interviews with Armenian American women. Also noteworthy is the extensive documentation of ABODES, the Amherst Based Organization to Develop Equitable Shelter, which established the Pomeroy Lane Cooperative Housing Community in South Amherst in 1994.

Sigrid Brauner was born in Hofheim, Germany, earning her BA from the University of Frankfurt before immigrating to the United States. Brauner completed her PhD in German literature at the University of California Berkeley in 1989 and later the same year joined the faculty at UMass Amherst in the Department of Germanic Languages and Literature. Brauner, who served on the executive committee of the Women’s Studies Program, remained at UMass until her death in December 1992.

The papers reflect Sigrid Brauner’s interest in race and gender as well as her research in anthropology and theology. “Witches: Myth and Reality,” the popular course Brauner taught during the fall 1992 semester, is represented in the collection along with other notes for research and teaching. Professional correspondence as well as political and social change periodicals comprise the remainder of the Brauner Papers. A fair portion of the collection is in German.