This page is for a list of key resources that will help the description process.

• Step by step instructions for cataloging photos for the project can be found via Google Docs here

• Location of encoded authorities: W:\university_photographs_project\authorities
• Location of MODS XML templates: W:\university_photographs_project\templates

• University Photos in Credo| Go here to search existing University Photo collection. | hint: to find an exact image, you must type the MODS filename without the '.xml', e.g “murg150-i0003928”.

*SCUA Name Authority Tool| Use this tool to search for previously authorized versions of names and add newly authorized names.

• List of faculty members
• List of Presidents
• List of Chancellors
• General Catalogue of Mass Aggie| Includes officers of government and instructors for 1863-1886.
• 1916 Index with photos of old buildings| On the occasion of UMass' 50th Anniv. See pp 31-50.
• Campus Memorials and Tributes
• Links to Yearbooks on Archive.org| via the YouMass wiki.
• UMass Archives finding aid
• You Mass wiki| For historical info on well known figures and buildings at Umass. Still growing.
• Concordance| A comprehensive alphabetical index of UMass departments, programs, and other units, including acronyms
• Massachusetts Agricultural College in the War (1921)| A full-text searchable book of students who fought during World War I.

• Massachusetts Agricultural College: 1863-1931
• Massachusetts State College: 1931-1947
• University of Massachusetts at Amherst: 1947-

• Library of Congress Name Authority File (Classification Web) | also use for geographic names in subjects
• Library of Congress Subject Authority File (Classification Web) | Subject list. Great for free-floating subdivisions
• http://id.loc.gov/ much improved search across many authorities!
• Virtual International Name Authority File
• Art and Architecture Thesaurus | Genre list
• MARC Relator and Role terms
• MARC state and country authorized names (mixed together)
• MARC geographic regions authorized names (e.g. Europe, Australasia, Developing countries)
• AACR2 Place Name Abbreviations | mostly for the place element or clarifying a corp name
• Common AAT Terms

• Digital Sample Book Compare different photographic processes
• Historic timeline of photographic processes .jpg
• Graphics Atlas | Photographic processes information.
• Political Graveyard | For names of politicians large and small.
• Massachusetts Historical Society| Includes a list of known Massachusetts photographers and their addresses.
• Langdon Road | List of 19th & Early 20th Century Photographers
• Vintage Car List| If you know the make and model of a car in a photo it may help pinpoint a range of years.

• 3 x 5 in.
• 4 x 6 in.
• 5 x 7 in.
• 8 x 10 in.

There is likelihood, however, that building remnants related to the initial periods of campus growth (1863-1916) do remain. As will be discussed later, several early campus buildings burned. Included among these were the Crouch Barn (1872), plant house (1883), South College (1885), station barn (1891), ridge barn (1894), dairy building (1906), and the new dairy barn (1908) (Rand 1933:205-211). In many instances, the replacement buildings were built atop or immediately adjacent to the original building footprints. It is likely that archaeological remains of original buildings exist or, at the very least, evidence of the fires remain.

The following buildings, listed chronologically, were erected in the 10 years of Clark’s administration (Chadbourne 1867; Hitchcock 1894:173-174, 177-178, 181) though three building contracts were let by Chadbourne: 20 • Laboratory Building [Chemistry] (1867; $10,360): reported as 46 x 57 feet and two stories high. The building contained a room for chemical analysis, 2 furnace rooms, 4 apparatus rooms, a balance room and a large lecture room which could also be used as a chapel (Chadbourne 1867:9; Clark 1868:6) [no longer extant]. • South College Dormitory (1867; $86,280): 100 x 50 feet, 4 stories high. 48 student rooms, recitation rooms, a cabinet and library room (Chadbourne 1867:9; Clark 1868:6). Designed by George Hathorne, Esq., New York (Clark 1869:9) [rebuilt, no longer extant]. • Boarding House (1868; $8,180): house up to 50 students (Chadbourne 1867:9; Clark 1868:6) [no longer extant]. • Botanic Museum (1868; $5,180): 31 x 45 feet, 2 stories. Contains president’s office, lecture room, and exhibit spaces (Clark 1868:6) [no longer extant]. • Durfee Plant Houses (1868; $12,000 donated by Nathan Durfee): 5,000 square feet in a cluster of glass buildings (Clark 1868:6-7) designed by F. A. Lord, Syracuse, NY [rebuilt, no longer extant]. • North College Dormitory (1868) [no longer extant]. • College Barn (1869; $7,000 appropriated in 1868, final cost $10,000): designed to be 100 x 50 feet with 28 foot high posts (Clark 1868:7-8; Clark 1870:1-2) [no longer extant]. • College Hall (1869): 60 x 97 feet, 4 stories, designed by George Hathorne, New York (Clark 1870:12) [no longer extant]. • Drill Hall (1869, proposed 1868; $6,500) [no longer extant]. • Farm Superintendent House (1869; $4,000) [no longer extant]. • President’s House (1869).

• Massachusetts State Agricultural Experiment Station (1882): 48 ½ acres

leased from the College Hitchcock (1894:166, 169). • Chemical Laboratory of the State Experiment Station (1883): based plans completed by E.A. Ellsworth [no longer extant]. • North College Dormitory (repaired 1884): $6,000 dollars allotted for these repairs and for work on other college buildings (AR 1885:1). The repairs to North College included removal and replacement most woodwork on