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Collection
Identifier: MC-211
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of materials donated by Michael Dively (Williams 1961). The materials cover the years 1961 to 2012 and document Dively’s life as a student at Williams and as an alumnus, including information from his political activities, legal career, teaching career, swimming activities, and LGBTQ activism. There are numerous publications by LGBTQ rights organizations included in the collection. The Swimming series contains thorough coverage of his athletic career, with materials...
Dates:
1961 - 2012
Record Group
Identifier: RG-043
Scope and Contents
Divest Williams records include meeting minutes, photos, moving image files, and publicity materials documenting the student group's activities. All files are digital.
Dates:
2016
Collection
Identifier: MC-328
Scope and Contents
The Franklin Clyde Doane photographs and postcards were created and accumulated by Doane during his time as a student at Williams from 1910-1914 and as an alumnus of the Class of 1914. Photographs include the Class of 1914 commencement, reunion photos, Williams College campus among others. Some reunion photographs appear to be of the Class of 1914 10th reunion in 1919 but features other classes as well such as the Class of 1909. Reunion photographs and postcards include traditions of classes...
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1910-1920s
Collection
Identifier: MC-237
Scope and Contents
The Raquel Douglas papers on "From Lavender to Purple Ephs" includes material that supported the project at Williams College created and curated by Raquel Douglas called "From Lavender to Purple Ephs." The collection includes original sketches, flyers, artifacts, digital content, postcards, and the original posters that were exhibited both in Sawyer Library and in Paresky. According to the press release on the Williams College website from November 4, 2016: "This is a project about the...
Dates:
2015 - 2016
Collection
Identifier: MC-306
Content Description
Papers relating to Williams Give a Damn; clippings relating to Williams in the late 1960s and early 1970s; personal papers relating to Dunn's years as a student at Williams.
Dates:
1965 - 1980
Collection
Identifier: MC -295
Scope and Contents
Correspondence chiefly concerns college business, especially financial. Includes clippings regarding missionary jubilee and Williams College (1865), raising funds for scholarship and arrangements for 1856 Jubilee. Collected Autographs feature exemplars of signatures of notable men of his time period and earlier periods of American history. Some signatures, especially those of earlier figures, are on substantive letters, while others are included as part of cursory notes in response to...
Dates:
1839 - 1860
Collection
Identifier: MC-364
Scope and Contents
The Henry Williams Dwight papers are on microfilm and include Henry Williams Dwight's (Williams 1918) diary, correspondence, and photographs regarding his training for U.S. Air Force service. The papers are dated circa 1918.
Dates:
1918
Collection
Identifier: MC-28
Scope and Contents
The Col. Ephraim Williams, Jr. volume 50 of the Richard Henry Winslow Dwight Collection presents a remarkable array of documents pertaining to the life of the College's founder, and the history of Williamstown and Berkshire County, MA. The annotations forming this guide are primarily those that were provided by Francis Dwight Buell; minor later notes were made by the repository.
Of special interest are Ephraim Williams, Jr.'s plot plan of West Hoosac, later Williamstown (#21), and...
Dates:
1719 - 1911
Collection
Identifier: MC-66
Scope and Contents
The Early processes photograph and negatives collection includes various formats of photographs and negatives chiefly from the 19th century. Formats include daguerreotypes, ambrotypes, silhouettes, portrait miniatures, and glass plate negatives. Images feature Williams College and local scenes, buildings, and individuals. The collection dates from approximately 1840-1950.
Dates:
circa 1840-1950
Collection
Identifier: Am-Mss-Eaton
Scope and Contents
The John Eaton Jr. correspondence includes four letters from Eaton to his siblings in Pittsfield, New Hampshire, as well as two letters from another sister, all sent while John was serving as a Private in the Union Army during the United States Civil War. A letter from a friend, also from Pittsfield, New Hampshire and serving in a different company, is also included. The letters concern the experience of the war and camp life, as well as injuries experienced by John and his comrades, as well...
Dates:
1861 - 1864