Digitized content is made available through Amherst College Digital Collections (ACDC), with new collections added every year. Beginning in 2017, Frost Library is undertaking a significant digitization of college archives to provide a rich illustration of the history of Amherst College to coincide with the College’s Bicentennial in 2021.
Archives & Special Collections
Materials from Archives & Special Collections are available in digitized form, featuring selections from the literature, performing arts, natural history, missionaries and travel, Asian studies, and College history collections. Highlights:
- The Emily Dickinson Collection includes original poems, manuscripts and letters from Dickinson to family and friends, spanning her life from 1830 to 1886.
- Orra White Hitchcock Classroom Drawings Collection of drawings by Orra White Hitchcock, wife of Edward Hitchcock, for use in Hitchcock’s geology and natural history classes.
- Younghee Kim-Wait (Class of 1982)/Pablo Eisenberg Collection of Native American Literature Includes works by Native American authors dating from 1772 to the present day. The collection encompasses a wide range of subjects, from fiction and poetry to philosophy and tribal histories.
The Octagon
A repository of open access articles and other scholarly works by Amherst College faculty, in support of the Open Access Resolution.
The Art & Architecture Collection
Holds over 130,000 images licensed for teaching and other educational purposes (requires Amherst login).