UMarmot(SCUA)

Special Collections & University Archives
Collections

Kallas, Phil

Association for Gravestone Studies Collection
Phil Kallas Collection, ca.1915-2000. 1 box (0.25 linear feet).
Cemetery at San Gabriel, Calif.

A former guest editor of the Association for Gravestone Studies Newsletter and member of the Wisconsin Old Cemeteries Society, Phil Kallas has researched and written on Wisconsin gravestones and stonecarvers.

The Kallas collection contains 37 postcards of cemeteries from ten states, ranging from Alaska to New York.

Subjects

  • Association for Gravestone Studies.
  • Kallas, Phil.
  • Sepulchral monuments–Massachusetts.

Types of material

  • Postcards.
Call no.: PH 023

Karuna Center for Peacebuilding

Karuna Center for Peacebuilding Records, 1994-2006. 4 boxes (1.75 linear feet).

Founded in Amherst, Mass., by Paula Green and associates in 1994, the Karuna Center for Peacebuilding addresses the global challenges of ethnic, religious, and political conflict. Often partnering with other regional, governmental, educational, or religious organizations, the Center regularly conducts courses, workshops, and other programs with the goal of addressing the root causes of conflict, preventing escalation, and fostering reconciliation. From their early efforts in Bosnia and Kosovo, they have branched out to more than twenty countries, including Afghanistan, Nepal, South Africa, and Palestine.

The Karuna Center collection is a record of an industrious organization committed to building peace internationally. The Center retains records of each international program, including copies of materials used during training and workshops and photographs and summary reports of their activities.

Subjects

  • Green, Paula.
  • Karuna Center for Peacebuilding.
  • Peace-building.
  • Sri Lanka–History–Civil War, 1983- .
  • Yugoslav War, 1991-1995.
Call no.: MS 580

Katanka-Fraser Political Music Collection

Katanka-Fraser Political Music Collection, 1885-1975. 10 boxes (7 linear feet).

The author, publisher, and radical bookseller Michael Katanka (1922-1983) was a staunch Socialist and historian of British labor. Beginning with his 1868: Year of Unions in 1968, Katanka wrote or edited a series of books and articles on Fabianism, satirical caricature, and trade unionism.

The Katanka-Fraser Political Music Collection consists of audio recordings, sheet music, and songbooks of politically-inspired music in a variety of languages. The works range from the English and German Socialist press of the 1880s to the antiwar movement of the 1960s and 1970s, touching upon labor agitation, proletarian songs, student protest, the anti-imperialist and anti-capitalist struggles, the Spanish Civil War, and Communism and Socialism. The collection also includes a few books and sound recordings from the extreme right in Nazi Germany.

Subjects

  • Communists–Music.
  • International Workers of the World–Music.
  • Political ballads and songs.
  • Protest songs.
  • Radicalism–Songs and music.
  • Socialists–Music.
  • Working class–Music.
Call no.: MS 552

Kehler, Randy

Randy Kehler Papers, 1978-1997. 17 boxes (7.75 linear feet).

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.

Subjects

Types of material

  • Clippings.
  • Court records.
  • Diaries.
  • Legal documents.
  • Letters (Correspondence).
  • Scrapbooks.
Call no.: MS 396

Kelley, Larry

Larry Kelley Papers, 1994-2004. 1 linear foot.
Kelley raising the flag at Ground Zero, 2001
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.

Subjects

Call no.: MS 524

Kenseth-Abel, Elaine

Elaine Kenseth-Abel Collection of Photographs of Cambodians in Thailand and Amherst, 1970-1979. 2 boxes (2 linear feet).

The collection primarily consists of photographs taken by Elaine Kenseth-Abel of Cambodians refugees in Thailand who later relocated to Amherst, Massachusetts during the 1970s-1980s. The collection also includes color prints of drawings by E. Seng Huot depicting Cambodian genocide.

Subjects

Call no.: MS 115

Ketcham, Robert, b. 1796?

Robert and Henry Ketcham Account Book, 1829-1875. 1 v. (0.25 linear feet).

Owners of a farm business/general store in Charlton, Saratoga County, New York. Includes lists of items sold, services performed (such as plowing, harvesting, and planting corn), transactions with fellow townsmen, and debts owed. Also includes newspaper clippings of poetry, samples of dried pressed foliage, written document of Ketcham family births, deaths, and marriages, and the document of a house sale agreement.

Subjects

  • Agricultural laborers–New York–Charlton (Town)–History–19th century
  • Charlton (N.Y. : Town)–Economic conditions–19th century
  • Farmers–New York–Charlton (Town)–Economic conditions–19th century
  • Food prices–New York (State)–New York–Charlton (Town)–History–19th century
  • General stores–New York–Charlton
  • Ketcham family–Genealogy
  • Ketcham, Henry, merchant–Finance, Personal
  • Ketcham, Robert, b. 1796?–Finance, Personal

Types of material

Call no.: MS 176bd

Khoa, Le Van

Le Van Khoa Vietnam Photograph Collection, undated. 7 items (0.1 linear feet).

The collection consists of seven photographs of Vietnam taken by Le Van Khoa.

Subjects

  • Vietnam–Photographs.
Call no.: MS 170

Kingsbury family

Kingsbury Family Papers, 1862-2006 (Bulk: 1881-1902). 10 boxes (6 linear feet).
Kingsbury children
Kingsbury children, ca.1910

The family of Roxana Kingsbury Gould (nee Weed) farmed the rocky soils of western New England during the late nineteenth century. Roxana’s first husband Ambrose died of dysentery shortly after the Civil War, leaving her to care for their two infant sons, and after marrying her second husband, Lyman Gould, she relocated from southwestern Vermont to Cooleyville and then (ten years later) to Shelburne, Massachusetts. The Goulds added a third son to their family in 1869.

A rich collection of letters and photographs recording the history of the Kingsbury-Gould families of Shelburne, Massachusetts. The bulk of the letters are addressed to Roxana Kingsbury Gould, the strong-willed matriarch at the center of the family, and to her granddaughter, May Kingsbury Phillips, the family’s first historian. In addition to documenting the complicated dynamics of a close-knit family, this collection is a rich source for the study of local history, rural New England, and the social and cultural practices at the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th centuries.

Subjects

  • Conway (Mass.)–Genealogy.
  • Drew, Raymond Totman, 1923-1981.
  • Kingsbury Family.
  • Lewis, Gertrude Minnie, 1896- .
  • Shelburne(Mass.)–Genealogy.
  • Totman family.
  • Totman, Conrad D.
  • Totman, Ruth J.

Types of material

  • Genealogies.
  • Letters (Correspondence).
  • Memoirs–Massachusetts.
  • Photographs.
  • Tintypes.
Call no.: MS 504

Kinsley, Edward W.

Edward W. Kinsley Papers, 1863-1891. 1 box (0.5 linear feet).

A wool dealer in the firm of Horswell, Kinsley, and French of Boston, Edward W. Kinsley captured his memories of the Civil War in a series of written reminiscences. These typescript copies include his memories of the raising of the 1st North Carolina Colored Regiment, his second visit South and the Emancipation Proclamation Celebration, General Tom Stevenson’s confirmation as Brigadier-General, the second election of President Lincoln, and the fall of Richmond among others. The collection also includes passages from Kinsley’s diary, letters, a scrapbook, photographs, newspaper clippings, and notes from the diary of Edward’s wife, Calista A. Kinsley.

Call no.: MS 101
.
wordpress logo
UMass Amherst seal
Site by Special Collections & University Archives :: W.E.B. Du Bois Library :: UMass Amherst :: [ Spyder hole ] :: © 2009
Entries (RSS) and Comments (RSS)