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Record Group
Identifier: RG-034
Scope and Contents
The Africana Studies Department records includes archived images of the department's official Williams website, detailing the department goals, faculty, course offerings, and student resources.
Dates:
2023
Record Group
Identifier: AC-14
Scope and Contents
The records comprise minutes, correspondence, syllabi, student papers, and collected material documenting the early years of the Williams College Afro-American Studies Program. Included are minutes of the Program committee and correspondence regarding extra-curricular activities, development of the Program, response to the death of Arthur Logan (Williams 1930), and recruitment of minority faculty members. Curricular and Program development files include Program proposals, syllabi,...
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1965 - 1980
Collection
Identifier: Am-Mss-Agard
Abstract
57 photographs, a scrapbook, and biographical material of Katherine Maria Agard (later Katherine Meacham) (1877-1958), primarily relating to her teaching work at the Lincoln Normal School of Marion, Alabama, between 1899 and 1903. The photographs and scrapbook document student life, classes, teachers, and buildings; scenes of rural African American life; and Agard's travels and personal life.
Dates:
1899-1923
Collection
Identifier: MC-246
Scope and Contents
The Arthur S. Alberts Photographs include photographs from the late 1940s and early 1950s when Arthur Alberts (Williams 1931) was in West Africa documenting native African music and culture, and its relationship to jazz. He took photographs and recorded music on the Gold Coast, Upper Volta, Sudan, Ivory Coast, Liberia, and Guinea. The photographs depict day to day life of the people in West Africa, agricultural equipment, nautical boats and fishing, airplanes, wildlife, musical instruments,...
Dates:
1940 - 1952
Collection
Identifier: MC-368
Scope and Contents
The John E. Alden papers include Alden's professional and personal correspondence during his long career as a bibliographer. The papers also include book reviews and published bibliographical notes written by Alden, newspaper clippings and articles, papers relating the the Boston Public Library where Alden worked as bibliographer and then Keeper of Rare Books from 1961 to 1976, Alden's 1935 diploma from Williams, United States passports, and biographical details including Alden's curriculum...
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1935 - 1991
Collection
Identifier: MC-267
Content Description
Letters and journals written by James S. Alexander, chiefly from Europe during the First World War. The letters and journals contain Alexander's personal observations, conversations, facts, drawings, maps, etc. Also included is the 2008 publication containing excerpts compiled by Heywood Alexander.His writings describe his arrival in Sandricourt, a town near Paris where he would be trained, and his participation in the Battle of Verdun, where he wrote about the inhumanity of...
Dates:
Other: 1916 - 1919
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: Am-Mss-ACLU
Scope and Contents
One hundred and one different issues of the mimeographed weekly bulletin, typically two pages each. The bulletins discuss ACLU involvement in cases ranging from WWII conscientious objectors and Japanese internees to civil rights cases (including offers of monetary rewards for the identification of lynchers, and opposition to segregation in unions), an obscentiy case (the novel "Forever Amber"), labor organizing, and Native American voting rights. Later issues discuss the defense of freedom...
Dates:
1939 - 1947
Collection
Identifier: Am-Mss-Collection
Scope and Contents
The American Manuscripts collection collates individual manuscripts, typescripts, printed forms completed in manuscript, and other handwritten and typed documents created in America or by American authors and later acquired by the Chapin Library. Acquisition information, where known, is listed at the item level.
Dates:
1660 - 2004
Record Group
Identifier: RG-035
Scope and Contents
The American Studies Program records includes archived images of the program's official website, detailing the major, courses, its faculty and staff, student information, and event schedules.
Dates:
2023
Collection
Identifier: Am-Mss-Ames
