The records of the Western Massachusetts locals and district councils of the UBCJA documents the rise of unionization among carpenters in the Connecticut River Valley since the 1880s. This collection represents a merger of separate accessions for the District Councils in Springfield (MS 110), the Pioneer Valley (MS 231), and Holyoke (MS 108), along with post-merger records for Local 108. In general, each has been maintained as a distinct series.
Oral history with the Gagnon family, part of the Franco-American community in Springfield since 1953. Topics include their participation in Franco-American activities at St. Joseph’s Church, their interest in Franco-American studies, and what nationality means to them, as people with roots in America, Canada, and France.
Collection includes statutes and by-laws, minutes, administrative records, correspondence, financial records and receipts, scholarship records, publications, records of programs and events, and artifacts and ephemera.
This map was Undertaken with the Approbation and at the Request of the Lords Commissioners for Trade and Plantations; and is chiefly composed from Draughts, Charts, and Actual Surveys of different parts of His Majesties Colonies and Plantations in America; Great part of which have been lately taken by their Lordship’s Orders and transmitted to this office by the Governors and said colonies and others. Plantation Office, Feb 13, 1755 John Pownall Secretary
Map with the adjacent parts of New England and Canada, composed from a great number of actual surveys; and other materials regulated by many new astonomical observations of the longitude as well as the latitude.
For the most part, this collection is made up of personal letters, photographs, cards, notebooks, and scrapbooks. There are maps of and documents about New Canada. Other non-personal documents: Will of Georgiana Bourgoin, Naturalization papers of Alfred Bourgoin, and a description of the plot of land in New Canada that Nora and Joe Baker bought from Joseph Daigle in 1949.
