Miscellaneous Manuscripts is an artificial collection that brings together various single items or small groups of related materials. A wide range of topics and formats is represented, although there is an emphasis on Massachusetts history.
See similar SCUA collections:
Whaling ship (New Bedford, Mass.)
SCUA regularly receives individual manuscripts and small groupings of materials that are historically valuable, but which do not stand on their own as collections. For administrative purposes, most of these are aggregated into an artificial grouping, the Miscellaneous Manuscripts Collection.
Truly miscellaneous in scope and containing a wide range of content and types of formats, the Miscellaneous Manuscripts Collection spans the full range of subjects, time periods, and regions consistent with SCUA's collecting policy, with a particular emphasis on Massachusetts history. Materials are added to the collection on a regular basis.
Pocket size account book for store in Essex, Vt. and later Colchester, Vt. Includes lists of employees and pay from the 1880s. Among items purchased from store are opium, calico, snuff, tobacco, molasses, and more.
Gift of Liane Brandon, 2024.
Includes newsletters, flyers, announcements, memos, and correspondence.
Gift of Liane Brandon, 2024.
Includes printed material, minutes of meetings, administrative documents, annual report, list of Board of Directors, reports and newsletters.
Gift of Liane Brandon, 2024.
100 bound sheets of watercolor and tempera illustrations on rice paper of Japanese named varieties.
Co-authored by Georgene and William Bramlage.
Speakers include Michael Harrington, Bayard Rustin, and Norman Thomas.
Subject of rhyme is racist.
Advertising a meeting held in Boston to discuss the latest events in Germany.
Held at the Town Hall in Leominster, Massachusetts.
Tins of crackers (Civil Defense All Purpose Survival Biscuits), one tin (37 pounds) of hard candy, and a cardboard box that contained six of the crackers tins, rescued from dumpster near Whately Public Library, a former civil defense shelter.
Postcards addressed to the Experiment Station requesting publications.
Order to attach the goods of Seth Draper of Belchertown.
Written while Cushman was a student at Mount Holyoke Seminary.
Includes transcription and correspondence concerning acquisition of letter.
Lower half of a chirograph granting land to John, son of John de Thomele from Robert Fitz Elys, son of Lord Robert Fitz Elys.
Asking the Governor to investigate a private institution, Berkshire Hills Sanatorium, treating cancer patients. Fowler's sister underwent treatment there and died a few days after returning home from apparent mistreatment and neglect received at the facility.
Plus carbon copies of correspondence to Frankfurter, all pertaining to case of Sacco and Vanzetti
Recounting his service as a Timberwolf in the U.S. Army during world War II.
Concerning attack on Merken.
Includes an issue of Timberwolf Howl.
Transer of land in Shelburne, Massachusetts.
Includes invoice for the cutting of names and dates from the Lamb-Roberts Funeral Home and a photograph of the work.
Concerning Egypt.
Typescript narrative written by Peter Gibbons covering his life from 1730 to 1822.
Includes order to muster the militia (1838), deeds, indentures, receipts, etc.
Petition from Town Selectman concerning boundaries with South Hadley.
Signed by William S. Clark.
Featuring The Little Treasure and The Widow's Victim.
Grant of two acres from William Heiward (Heyward), Lord of Thornton, to John Chastilon, priest of the church of Thornton. In Anglicana script on vellum with red seal intact bearing he impression of a lion rampant.
Letters and snapshots laid into edition of Hill-folk of Algeria
Memorial editions of Life, Look, and Post magazines.
For property in the "Elbows" in Hampshire County.
With passage from Luke 19:15 ff.: four-sided borders edged in gold infilled with (recto) magenta twigs and foliage, colorful birds, peacock, and gold bezants; (verso) triangles and lozenges with IHS and bright blossoms, strawberries, a single bird, and gold bezants; two-line gold initial on colorful grounds with blossoms; rubricated. Texts: This is a section of the Sanctorale with Gospel lessons primarily from Luke (18 October).
Written on Berkshire Summer School of Art letterhead.
Memoir of time in post-war military occupation of Japan.
Includes photographs of Emily Blaney Lindsey,Amy Brown Lindsey, Jospeh B. Lindsey (Sr. and Jr.)and Joseph W. Lindsey.
Photocopies typescript.
Concerning sale of hair/wigs.
Proposing to unify diverse religious societies by establishing a school for children.
Report was the property of Marshall Harvey Stone, who did classified work for the United States government during World War II before joining the UMass Amherst Mathematics department in 1968.
Report was the property of Marshall Harvey Stone, who did classified work for the United States government during World War II before joining the UMass Amherst Mathematics department in 1968.
Photographic atlas produced with the 48-inch Schmidt telescope of the Palomar Observatory covering the sky north of -27 declination in photographic reproduction of red- and blue-sensitive range. The survey was funded by the National Geographic Society. Copyright for the images has been retained by the National Geographic.
This copy of the Sky Atlas was presented by the National Geographic Society to Amherst College in 1955.
Gift of Liane Brandon, 2024.
Includes issues of the newsletter, flyers, announcements, memos, correspondence, and minutes of meetings.
For "sundry supplies to Newport Higgins and family, an African."
Printed materials kept by Massachusetts state forester, F. Gilbert Hills, who served on the School's Advisory Committee.
Printed materials kept by Massachusetts state forester, F. Gilbert Hills, who served on the School's Advisory Committee.
Map of active farms and farm types in Northfield, Mass.
Featuring ads from local businesses, including New Home Sweing Machine.
Letters from a young emigrant to Reconstruction-era western Missouri, including news of a local murder, daily life, raising a young son. Fanny (Hidden) Page was born in Deerfield, N.H., on Dec. 20, 1841, and was wife of Benjamin Greeley Page (1835-1878), a graduate of Dartmouth (1861) and a minister, and she was daughter of Ephraim N. Hidden, also a minister. Fanny's son Curtis was born in April 1870. She died on Oct. 30, 1870.
Concerning Haymarket Massacre.
48 sheets. Collected in Wilbraham and North Amherst, Mass.
Volume 1, no. 1; contains article by Ray Mungo.
Possibly related to estate settlement.
Marked in pencil on recto: C. A. Parsons
Includes family scenes from New Castle, New Hampshire and Boston, Mass.
Includes photographs from courtship and school, parades in New York City, their wedding, and honeymoon.
Commencing on May 12th and lasting 24 days.
Written by William Harding during earliest days of AIDS epidemic in Provincetown; printed in cooperation with Provincetown AIDS Support Group and AIDS Action Committee of Boston.
Relating to land in Belchertown.
Inserted in The Spirit of Modern Philosophy.
In German, includes transcription.
With Marshall Bond.
Includes materials documenting the history of the towm of Shutesbury.
Concerning a dyeing business.
VHS tape; produced by 6th grade class.
Includes some of her poems.
Photographs taken for War Relocation Authority.
Co-produced with the Bureau of Home Economics, U.S. Department of Agriculture.
Twenty-four World War II situation maps; partial pages from the Logistics Handbook (Service) and Logistics Handbook (Ground), and presentation file (plan, bibliography, photos, situation map) from schedule 593, class 27, week 9, subject "Logistical Phase - Infantry Division Mountain Operations," presented to "Ground" with the local problem of "Italy."
For records collectors with record catalog.
Letters from Air Force pilot and Korean War veteran while on duty in Labrador and Greenland.
"H" is probably Horatio G. Knight.
History of a gay men's commune founded in Royalston, Mass., in 1974, by Young and four associates.
The collection is open for research.
Acquired from various sources.
Processed by Ellie Gass, December 2011.
Cite as: Miscellaneous Manuscripts (MS 719). Special Collections and University Archives, University of Massachusetts Amherst Libraries.
