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Ansel Adams Collection
Collection
Identifier: Ansel Adams Collection
Scope and Contents
This collection contains approximately half-a-dozen photographs by Ansel Adams spanning the 1920s to the 1960s. The photographs primarily depict national parks in the American West such as Glacier National Park, Yosemite National Park, and the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco, California. Some of them are silver prints, and black-and-white images of landscapes such as changing seasons and rivers and mountain ranges. Some also contain inscriptions in pencil, and the collection also...
Dates:
1930 - 1965
Found in:
Watkinson Library - Archival Collections
Edward Albee Collection
Collection
Identifier: WLM-YYYY-005
Scope and Contents
The collection primarily comprises advertisements, newspaper clippings, catalogs, plays, television and theater scripts, anthologies, and other ephemera--primarily playbills and programs. The advertisements, clippings, and ephemera primarily come from plays performed in the Northeast and New York City during the 1960s and 1970s. The collection includes the play, The Sandbox in an undated typescript copy, signed and dated 1983 by Albee. Also present in the...
Dates:
1959 - 1993
Found in:
Watkinson Library - Archival Collections
Saul David Alinsky collection
Collection
Identifier: WLM-YYYY-006
Abstract
Saul David Alinsky, a well-known sociologist, community organizer, and writer, who penned the highly influential text Rules for Radicals (1971), was born in Chicago in 1909 to Russian Orthodox parents. He obtained a Ph.D. from the University of Chicago in 1930 where he focused his studies on juveniles in the inner cities and improving conditions for the inner city poor. Alinsky became highly influential among the counterculture protesters in the 1960s. He...
Dates:
1959-1990, undated
Found in:
Watkinson Library - Archival Collections
Nathan H. Allen papers
Collection
Identifier: WLM-2018-008
Abstract
Nathan H. Allen (1848-1925); a prominent organist and composer who composed The Apotheosis of St. Dorothy (1891), as well as over twenty-six 4-part songs, sacred pieces, quartettes, and anthems, as well as sixteen pieces for the organ. The bulk of the collection comprises correspondence, manuscripts, including musical pieces, photographic and print material, and notes on Sarah Bartley (1783-1850) for a short publication of the British stage actress.
Dates:
1867 - 1925
Found in:
Watkinson Library - Archival Collections
American Indian Collection
Collection
Identifier: American Indian Collection
Scope and Contents
The American Indian Collection is a small, eclectic collection of 18th and 19th century materials related to indigenous peoples in North America and their languages. The highlight of this artificial collection is the original manuscript of French Jesuit missionary Rev. Jacques Gravier (1651-1708), entitled 'Dictionary of the Algonquin Illinois Language' (ca. 1700), which was acquired and partially transcribed by James Hammond Trumbull (1821-1897), a noted philologist and statesman. It also...
Dates:
1688-1998
Found in:
Watkinson Library - Archival Collections
American Notables Collection: 19th and 20th Century U.S. Writers
Collection
Identifier: American Notables Collection-19th and 20th Century U.S. Writers
Scope and Contents
This collection primarily consists of correspondence with some miscellaneous papers and documents of prominent writers, theatrical, and public figures. The earliest correspondence includes a cover letter by Elihu Burritt, a journalist and writer, submitted to the New York Ledger in 1862 related to an article written by him on time spent with Alexander von Humboldt (1769-1859). It also includes a play written by John Baldwin Buckstone (1802-1879) in 1851 titled “Good for Nothing: a comedy in...
Dates:
1831 - 1992
Found in:
Watkinson Library - Archival Collections
American Sealants Company collection
Collection
Identifier: WLM-2019-001
Scope and Contents
The American Sealants Company collection comprises an oversize scrapbook, loose and framed photographs, and publications. As explained in a letter attached to the inside front cover, the scrapbook was a celebratory gift to Nan and Bob Krieble from Barb and Don Correll, commemorating twenty-five years of the company's growth and their work together. The scrapbook pages provide a historical narrative of the early years of the company (1956-1963) and include advertising bulletins and publicity,...
Dates:
1956-1988
Found in:
Watkinson Library - Archival Collections
Victor Aronow Draft Resistance Collection
Collection
Identifier: Victor Aronow Draft Resistance Collection
Scope and Contents
This collection contains 3 boxes of Aronow's papers related to his activism in the Newton Draft Counseling Center (NDCC- Newton, Mass.), Students for a Democratic Society, and the Central Committee for Conscientious Objectors. He attended his undergraduate and graduate degrees at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst (1961-1968), and Boston College for law shortly thereafter. The bulk of the materials in this collection relate to the anti-draft and anti-war movements during the Vietnam...
Dates:
1962 - 1999
Found in:
Watkinson Library - Archival Collections
Victor Aronow Papers Relating to Activism
Collection
Identifier: Victor Aronow Papers Relating to Activism
Scope and Contents
All documents are in the order received, presumed to be Mr. Aronow’s order. Folder headings were retained from the folders that originally housed the material.3 Boxes, 63 FoldersBox 1 (Folders 1-24): Mostly Anti-draft, Women;s Lib, Resit, and "Leftist: concerns and some underground newspapers; most material dated c. late 1960's.Box 2 (Folders 25-55): Mostly Anti-draft, Anti-war; most material c. late 1960's.Box 3: (Folders 56-63): Assorted...
Dates:
1960 - 1979
Found in:
Watkinson Library - Archival Collections
Ashendene Press Collection
Collection
Identifier: Ashendene Press Collection
Scope and Contents
The Ashendene Press Collection consists of correspondence between Charles Harry St. John Hornby and Allerton Cushman Hickmott pertaining to the latter's collecting of Ashendene Press books, as well as ephemera, announcements, book lists, individual poems, prospectuses, and a type specimen.
Dates:
circa 1915-1977
Found in:
Watkinson Library - Archival Collections