This interface was created to serve as a means to search through descriptions of primary sources, allowing for the discovery of manuscripts and records held by Archives and Special Collections at Mount Holyoke and Hampshire. To find thesis and scholarly work at Mount Holyoke, search IDA.To find archived websites, see the respective Archive-It pages: Mount Holyoke and Hampshire.To find digitized and born digital items, search Five College Compass Digital Collections.To find rare books, search the Library's Catalog.Many other resources and research topics are accessed through the main Archives and Special Collections websites for Mount Holyoke and Hampshire. The finding aid tool is one of several important online tools. Please note that not all finding aids are available online yet and thus we encourage you to ask our staff if additional description is available for a collection. Unless otherwise noted, the materials described are physically available in our respective repositories. The core of the manuscripts collections are often related to alums, staff, or faculty of each institution. The holdings include books, manuscripts (such as scrapbooks, diaries, and personal papers), historical institutional records (such as yearbooks, annual reports, and minutes), digitized and born-digital resources, and materials documenting the history of these Pioneer Valley colleges. Through this site, you can search and browse these finding aids for our more than 680 collections available for research.

They describe the organization, origin, extent, contents, dates, topics, and creators of the records, in brief summaries or detailed inventories. Finding aids are collection guides that provide information about the creation, historical context, and contents of primary source materials. This is a database of finding aids that describe college records and manuscript collections at Mount Holyoke College and Hampshire College.

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