Northampton and Local History Collection, 1920-[ongoing]

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Northampton and Local History Collection, 1820-[ongoing]

15 boxes (6.25 linear ft.)

Collection number: RG 00

Abstract:

History of Northampton and its environs. Contains correspondence, manuscripts, photographs, and publications.

Terms of Access and Use:

Restrictions on access:

The records are open for research according to the regulations of the Smith College Archives without any additional restrictions.

Restrictions on use:

Single photocopies may be made for research purposes. Permission to publish material from the documents must be requested from the Smith College Archives. Smith College owns copyright to any published material relating to college events and activities. Provenance and copyright ownership of other materials is unknown and researchers are responsible for determining any question of copyright.

Smith College Archives
Northampton, MA

Scope and Contents of the Collection

The collection was collected by the Smith College Archives over an extended period and included in the subject files are correspondence, manuscripts, photographs, programs and other primary source materials. The collection is arranged in alphabetical order by subject. The collection is not complete, and materials are added to it on a regular basis. For in-depth research pertaining to Northampton and other local history, researchers should contact Historic Northampton, Inc. and the Forbes Library, as they have a greater depth of local history collections.

The College Archives also has books relating to Northampton and surrounding towns.

Information on Use

Terms of Access and Use

Restrictions on access:

The records are open for research according to the regulations of the Smith College Archives without any additional restrictions.

Restrictions on use:

Preferred Citation

Please use the following format when citing materials from this collection:

Northampton and Local History Collection, Box #, Smith College Archives.

History of the Collection

The Northampton and Local History Collection Records were donated over a period of time to the Smith College Archives from a variety of sources.

Processing Information

Processed by Elizabeth Kates.

Additional Information

Contact Information

Smith College Archives

Northampton, MA 01063

Phone: (413) 585-2970
Fax: (413) 585-2886

Email: nyoung@smith.edu
URL: http://www.smith.edu/libraries/libs/archives

Sponsor

Encoding funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

Language

English.

Bibliography

Books about Northampton in the Smith College Archives

Bliss, Arthur Ames. Theodore Bliss, Publisher and Bookseller: A Study of Character and Life in the Middle Period of the XIX Century. Northampton Historical Society, 1914
Brown, E. Francis. Joseph Hawley: Colonial Radical. New York: Columbia University Press, 1903
Clarke, Rev. Solomon. Antiquities, Historicals and Graduates of Northampton. Northampton: Gazette Printing, 1882
Early Northampton. (pub. by the Betty Allen Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution) Springfield: F.A. Bassette Co. 1914
Edwards, William H. Timothy and Rhoda Ogden Edwards of Stockbridge Mass, and their descendants; a genealogy. Cincinatti: The Robert Clarke Co. 1903
Gere, Henry S. Reminiscences of Old Northampton: sketches of the town as it appeared from 1840-1850. [Northampton], 1902
Hawthorne, Hildegarde. Rambles in Old College Towns. New York: Dodd, Mead and Co. 1917
Historical Register and General Directory of Northampton. Northampton: Gazette Printing Co. 1875-76
Johnson, Clifton. Historic Hampshire in the Connecticut Valley; happenings in a charming old New England county from the time of the dinosaurs down to about 1900. Springfield: Milton Bradley, 1932
Knab, Frederick. 1902-1903: Northampton of Today, depicted by pen and camera. Northampton: Picturesque Publishing Company, 1902
The Meadow City's Quarter Millennial Book, a Memorial of the Celebration of the two-hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the Settlement of the town of Northampton, Massachusetts. June 5-7, 1904
The Northampton Book: Chapters from three hundred years in the life of a New England Town, 1654-1954. (pub. by the tercentenary committee) Brattleboro: Alan S. Browne, Inc. 1954
Northampton, The Meadow City. Northampton: Kneeland and Bryant, 1894
Northampton and the Northampton Institute for Savings, 1842-1942. Northampton: Metcalf Printing and Publishing Co. Inc. 1942
Trumble, James Russell. History of Northampton, Mass. from its settlement in 1654. Northampton: Press of Gazette Printing, 1902
Well, Daniel White and Ruben Field Wells. A History of Hatfield, Mass. 1660-1910. Springfield: F.C.H. Gibbons, 1910.

Contents List

Anniversaries

1904

Box 1

Anniversaries

1954

Box 1

Arcadia Wildlife Sanctuary

1944 - , n.d.

Box 1

Banks

1904 -

Box 1

Bart's Ice Cream

1986 -

Box 1

Charity

1998

Box 1

Churches - general	1882 -	Box 1
Baptist Church	1902 -	Box 1
Edwards Church	1965, n.d.	Box 1
First Congregational Church	n.d.	Box 1
St. John's Episcopal Church	1895 - , n.d.	Box 1
St. Mary's Catholic Church	c1895 -	Box 1
Unitarian Society	1982, n.d.	Box 1

Cider Mill

See Mills

Box 1

City Hall

1888 - , n.d.

Box 1

Clubs
Hampshire Choral Society	1983	Box 1
Hampshire County Progressive Club	1928 -	Box 1
Home Culture Club See Organizations: People's Institute
Monday Afternoon Club	1941 - , n.d.	Box 1
Musical Societies (misc.)	1873 - , n.d.	Box 1
Northampton Choral Club	1898 - , n.d.	Box 1
Northampton Women's Club	1968	Box 1
Northampton Social and Literary Club	1925 -	Box 1
Round Hill Club	1975	Box 1
Travelers' Club	1996	Box 1

Cooley Dickinson Hospital

See Hospitals

Box 1

Disasters		Box 2
Blizzards	1888 -	Box 2
Floods	1874	Box 2
Floods	1936	Box 2
Hurricanes	1938	Box 2

Film Festivals

1999

Box 2

Florence

1976 - , n.d.

Box 2

Florence Sewing Machine Company

1864, n.d.

Box 2

General
Clippings	1879 - , n.d.	Box 2
Photographs	1882 - , n.d.	Box 2

Hadley

1942 - , n.d.

Box 2

Haydenville

1975 -

Box 2

Historical Pageant

1911

Box 2

Hockanum Ferry

1889 - , n.d.

Box 2

Holyoke

1906 - , n.d.

Box 2

Hospitals		Box 2
Cooley Dickinson	1906 - , n.d.	Box 2
State Hospital	1904 - , n.d.	Box 2

Hotels - General	1893 - , n.d.	Box 2
Hotel Northampton and Wiggins Tavern	1940 - , n.d.	Box 2
Plymouth Inn	1990	Box 2
Rose Tree Inn	1914 - , n.d.	Box 2
Round Hill Hotel	1874 - , n.d.	Box 2

Individuals -- General, A-Z See also: Individual: George M. Roberts scrapbook 1878-1881	1959, n.d.	Box 3
Burleigh, Charles C.	1962-	Box 3
Clarke, Christopher	1975	Box 3
Coolidge, Grace	1989 - , n.d.	Box 3
Copeland	n.d.	Box 3
Dickinson, Emily	1976 -	Box 3
Edwards, Jonathon	1937 - , n.d.	Box 3
Graham, Dr. Sylvester P.	1976	Box 3
Kneeland, Harriet J.	1902 - , n.d.	Box 3
Mather, Rev. Eleazer	1898	Box 3
Nute, May	1907	Box 3
Parsons Family	1929 - , n.d.	Box 3
Pratt, William F.	1996	Box 3
Seymour	n.d.	Box 3
Stoddard, Rev. Solomon	n.d.	Box 3
Watson Family	1995	Box 3

Leeds

1975 -

Box 3

Libraries
Clarke Library See Memorial Hall		Box 3
Forbes Library		Box 3
History	1894 - , n.d.	Box 3
Photographs	1896 - , n.d.	Box 3

The Manse

1922 - , n.d.

Box 3

Maps

See Publications: Maps and Guides

Box 3

Memorial Hall / Clarke Library

n.d.

Box 3

Mills

1936 - , n.d.

Box 3

Mount Holyoke
Photographs	c1890 - , n.d.	Box 3
Prospect House	1863 - , n.d.	Box 3

Mount Nonotuck

1890, n.d.

Box 3

Mount Sugarloaf

1899

Box 3

Mount Tom	1893 - , n.d.		Box 3
Summit House	1898 - , n.d.		Box 3

Ox Bow

c1890 - , n.d.

Box 3

Individual: George M. Roberts scrapbook

1878-1881

Box 4

Forbes Library		Box 5
Reports 1-20	1895-1914	Box 5
Forbes Library, The Half Century	1945	Box 5
Annual Reports	1905; 1950-1966	Box 5
A Guide to Fine Arts in the Forbes Library	1884-1994	Box 5
Account Books	1906-1911	Box 5

Organizations		Box 6
Council of Social Agencies	1996	Box 6
Historic Northampton	1940 - , n.d.	Box 6
Calendar and Newsletter	1996 -	Box 6
Home Culture Club	1887 - , n.d.	Box 6
Northampton Social and Literary Club	n.d.	Box 6
People's Institute - General	1909 - , n.d.	Box 6
Correspondence	1927 - , n.d.	Box 6
Dramatics	1923 - , n.d.	Box 6
Photographs	1931 - , n.d.	Box 6
Individuals	1896 -	Box 6
Smith College	1910 - , n.d.	Box 6
James House (Girl's City Club)	1928, n.d.	Box 6
United Way	1996, n.d.	Box 6
Smith Charities	n.d.	Box 6

Parks		Box 7
Child's Park	1989, n.d.	Box 7
Look Park	1942-	Box 7
Pulaski Park	1976	Box 7

Parking, Smith College

1998

Box 7

Pass at Thermopylae

1895, n.d.

Box 7

Publications
Maps and Guides	1900, n.d.	Box 7
Maps and Guides (Trolley)	1903 -	Box 7
Newspapers	1936 -	Box 7
The Northampton Book	n.d.	Box 7
Northampton Poets	1948	Box 7
This is Northampton	1974-1975	Box 7
River Gods	1941	Box 7
Views of Northampton and Smith College	1904	Box 7
Drives in Northampton and Vicinity	1888	Box 7
Northampton Picturesque	c.1893	Box 7
Northampton and Smith College	n.d.	Box 7
College Shopper and Smacker	Spring, 1926	Box 7
Northampton, Mass.	n.d.	Box 7
Western New England	Oct. 1911	Box 7
Northampton	c.1981	Box 7
Mount Tom; an All Outdoors Magazine		Box 8
Volumes 1-7	1905-1914	Box 8
Volume 10, nos. 1and 2	1917	Box 8

Railroad Stations

1886 - , n.d.

Box 9

Restaurants

See also: Hotels

1976 - , n.d.

Box 9

Rivers
Connecticut River	1901 -	Box 9
Mill River	1897 - , n.d.	Box 9

Salem, Ma.

n.d.

Box 9

Sanitary Wagon

1890 - , n.d.

Box 9

Schools
General	1974 - , n.d.	Box 9
Mary A. Burnham School	1877 - , n.d.	Box 9
Photographs	1879 - , n.d.	Box 9
Stoneleigh - Burnham School	c1879 -	Box 9
Capen School - general	1908 - , n.d.	Box 9
Photographs	1889 - , n.d.	Box 9
Photograph Albums	1913 - 1914, n.d.	Box 9
Yearbooks	1898	Box 9
Clarke School	1913 - , n.d.	Box 10
Hill School	1991	Box 10
Northampton Commercial College	n.d.	Box 10
Northampton High School	1996	Box 10
Northampton Junior College	1946 -	Box 10
Northampton School for Girls	n.d.	Box 10
Round Hill School	1891 - , n.d.	Box 10
Smith Academy	1958	Box 10
Smith Vocational School	1978	Box 10
Auto-mechanics Course	1971	Box 10
Sunnyside	1998 - , n.d.	Box 10
Sheldon House	1998	Box 10

Streets - general	c1876 - , n.d.	Box 10
Barrett Place	1997	Box 10
College Lane	c1891 - , n.d.	Box 10
Elm Street	1993 -	Box 10
Photographs	c1876 - , n.d.	Box 10
Green Street	1893 - , n.d.	Box 10
Main Street - general	1975 - , n.d.	Box 10
Engravings	1842 - , n.d.	Box 10
Photographs	1860 - , n.d.	Box 11
Paradise Road	1891 - , n.d.	Box 11
Prospect Street	1887 - , n.d.	Box 11
Round Hill Road	1820 - , n.d.	Box 11
West Street	1995 - , n.d.	Box 11

Taste of Northampton

See Restaurants

Titan's Pier

1894 - , n.d.

Box 11

Town Hall

See City Hall

Underground Railroad

1974

Box 11

Water Cure

1848 - , n.d.

Box 11

Whately Glen

c1892

Box 11

Williamsburg

1963

Box 11

Winter Festival

1975

Box 11

Theatres, A - Z		Box 12
The Calvin	1996	Box 12
Circle Players	1959	Box 12
City Hall	1888	Box 12
History	1891 - , n.d.	Box 12
Little Theatre	1915 - , n.d.	Box 12
Opera House	1881 -	Box 12
Players - General	1913 - , n.d.	Box 12
"The Darling of the Gods"	n.d.	Box 12
"The Vanguard"	n.d.	Box 12
"When Beauty Pulled the Strings"	n.d.	Box 12
Players--Personnel
Bunstelle, Judy	[1912 - 1919]	Box 12
Burbank, Edith	n.d.	Box 12
Campbell, Stella Patrick	n.d.	Box 12
Mayo, Martha	n.d.	Box 12
Murnane, Allan	1915	Box 12
Rennie, James	1915 - , n.d.	Box 12
Taylor, Julia	n.d.	Box 12
Plaza	n.d.	Box 12
Academy of Music		Box 13
Deed	1892	Box 13
General	1990 - , n.d.	Box 13
Photographs	1891 - , n.d.	Box 13
Productions	1891 - 1910	Box 13
Productions	1911-1920	Box 14
Productions	1921 -	Box 15

Search Terms

The following terms represent persons, organizations, and topics documented in this collection. Use these headings to search for additional materials on this web site, in the Five College Library Catalog, or in other library catalogs and databases.

Subjects

Northampton (Mass.)--History--Sources.

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