General child rich family collections:
Snell Family Papers
Porter Phelps Huntington Family Papers
Hills Family Papers (1785-1957)
For Libby:
Town of Amherst Collection, ca. 1828-present (Bulk: 1920-1959)
--Apparently this collection has local government records and records of the schools, which would be
interesting to look at.
Mount Pleasant Classical Institution (Amherst, Mass.) Collection, 1826-1870
8 folders (0.25 linear ft.)
Merriam, George, 1803-1880. The village reader : designed for the use of schools / by the compilers of
the easy primer, Child's guide, and Intelligent reader. Springfield : G. & C. Merriam, 1841, c1840.
Call Number: 825.2 V711
Goodrich, Samuel G. (Samuel Griswold), 1793-1860. The first book of history, combined with geography
: containing the history and geography of the Western hemisphere : for the use of schools / by the
author of Peter Parley's tales ; illustrated by engravings and colored maps. Boston : Jenks, Hickling &
Swan, 1852. Call Number: PS1754 .B683 1852a
(Are there other particularly great early American children’s history books we should pull for Libby?)
For Esther: early Science/nature education
Hitchcock Papers
See particularly:Prof Activities (category C) Box 4 folder 2 notebook of flowers for Botany class
at Williston Seminary
Mental improvement: or, The beauties and wonders of nature and art, in a series of instructive
conversations, by Priscilla Wakefield.
New-Bedford [Mass.] : Printed by A. Shearman, Jun., for C. Greene, 1799.
570 W137m
Goodrich, Samuel G. (Samuel Griswold), 1793-1860.
Parley's cabinet library.
Boston : Bradbury, Soden & Co., 1843-45.
13. Glance at the physical sciences or the wonder of nature in earth, air, and sky.--v. 14. Wonders of
geology.--v. 15. Illustrative anecdotes of the animal kingdom. Vols. 13, 14 and 15
828 G625p
Rousseau, Jean-Jacques,1712-1778. Eloisa, or, A series of original letters / collected and published by J.J.
Rousseau ; translated Book 1769
AC Archives & Special Collections / PQ2039 .A42 1769 /
Rousseau, Jean-Jacques,1712-1778. Emile, ou, De l’éducation / par J.J. Rousseau .. Book 1762 AC
Archives & Special Collections / 840.3 R76em N
For Sabrina: freedmen schools
miscellaneous manuscripts collection-“Slavery”
The abolitionist ABC book we always bring out
For Jasmine: children and the Civil War
John B. Fairbank (AC 1867) Family Papers (Civil War)
Luther Clark Howell (AC 1864) Papers (Civil War)
James E. Morrow Letters to Clara J. Johnson, 1863-1864 (Civil War) and
James E. Morrow, Union Army Muster Books, 1863-1864 (Civil War)
For Leslie: children art and trauma (ultimate focus on the Spanish Civil War)
Reaping deadly harvests : a historical analysis of the use of children as combatants in
Germany/ Kimmie L. Weeks, 2005 thesis
Do we have any WWI/WWII era scrapbooks? Spanish Civil War alumni/faculty? A little digging told me
that Alvaro Hernandez-Martin who taught Spanish at the college was born in Spain in 1932 and his
father was killed in the Civil War. But I couldn’t find a folder for him through the online catalog/finding
aides—though I think there ought to be some sort of folder.