Historic preservation clippings file, 1970-1994.

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Historic preservation clippings file, 1970-1994.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/70938190

Chiefly newspaper clippings and pamphlets, reports, catalogs, maps, correspondence, and other items, collected by the museum, pertaining to historic preservation in Pittsfield, Stockbridge, Great Barrington, Lenox, Sheffield, North Adams, West Stockbridge, Williamstown, and many other towns in Berkshire County, Mass. Subjects include Berkshire Garden Center, Arrowhead (house), Berkshire Athenaeum, Berkshire Garden Center, Berkshire Museum, Dewey School, Foxhollow School for Girls, Gerard Chapman, Albert Schweitzer, W.E.B. Du Bois, Herman Melville, William Stanley, and Hancock Shaker Village.

6 cubic ft.

Berkshire County Historical Society

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SNAC Resource ID: 8045979

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Melville, Herman, 1819-1891

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Herman Melville (b. Aug. 1, 1819, NY, NY–d. Sept. 28, 1891, NY, NY) was an American novelist, short story writer, and poet of the American Renaissance period. His best known works include Typee (1846) and his whaling novel Moby-Dick (1851). His writing draws on his experience at sea as a common sailor, exploration of literature and philosophy, and engagement in the contradictions of American society in a period of rapid change. He developed a complex, baroque style; the vocabulary is rich and or...

Berkshire Garden Center (Stockbridge, Mass.)

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Dewey School (Great Barrington, Mass.)

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Stanley, William, 1858-1916

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Du Bois, W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt), 1868-1963

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W. E. B. Du Bois was an American sociologist, socialist, historian, civil rights activist, Pan-Africanist, author, writer and editor. Educated at Fisk University, he did graduate work at the University of Berlin and Harvard, where he was the first African American to earn a doctorate. Du Bois became a professor of history, sociology and economics at Atlanta University. Due to his contributions in the African-American community he was seen as a member of a Black elite that supported some aspects ...

Foxhollow School for Girls (Lenox, Mass.)

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Schweitzer, Albert

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Alsatian medical missionary, theologian, musician and philosopher. From the description of Autograph letters in German signed (5) : Lambarene, Gabon, to Count Janos Hoyos, a physician in the U.S., 1958 Feb. 6-1960 June 17. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270634614 Epithet: theologian philosopher and organist British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001026.0x00015f Alsatian philosopher, theologian, or...

Berkshire Museum

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Chapman, Gerard

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Gerard Chapman, b. Chicago on the eve of World War I, graduated from MIT, 1937, contributor beginning in 1977 to The Eagle's "Our Berkshires" column. John T. McCutcheon, Chicago Tribune's Pulitzer prize winning cartoonist. From the description of Letters to John T. McCutcheon, 1946 May 8, 16. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 56908504 ...

Chesterwood (Stockbridge, Mass.)

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Museum established in 1955 by the National Trust for Historic Preservation to preserve the studio and summer residence of sculptor Daniel Chester French. From the description of Historic preservation clippings file, 1970-1994. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70938190 ...

Hancock Shaker Village

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Berkshire Athenaeum

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Arrowhead (Pittsfield, Mass.)

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