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North Pleasant Street in Amherst
View looking north from the junction of Amity and North Pleasant Streets. Horses and carts are parked in front of businesses and the streets are unpaved.
Multiplication is vexation
A girl, identified as Margaret Johnson Rutter, daughter of Clifton Johnson, stands by the blackboard of the Hockanum schoolhouse working out a math problem. She is in period dress.
Mill Pond at Cushman, North Amherst, Mass.
View of a young boy fishing at Mill Pond in Cushman. The pond was at the corner of State Street and East Leverett Road and was the water source for the mills downstream, including the Roberts mill.
Message from Massachusetts Agricultural College
An appeal from Kenyon L. Butterfield, president of Massachusetts Agricultural College, calling for young people to come and learn to become leaders in the open country. Includes sections named A Call for Leaders, The Country Boy's Creed, and A Public…
Kellogg Avenue Grammar School in Amherst
Brick school house on Kellogg Avenue.
Ice hockey at Massachusetts Agricultural College
Ice hockey game in progress on the pond at Mass Aggie. Snow is cleared to create walkways around the pond.
Written on back: "Thought maybe when you looked at this it would make you cooler - I am in Deuels talking to Susie. I am using her pencil. I…
Written on back: "Thought maybe when you looked at this it would make you cooler - I am in Deuels talking to Susie. I am using her pencil. I…
Homes on Pine Street in North Amherst
View of the back of Pine Street showing homes along the street. Taken from the third floor balcony of the Home For Aged Women on North Pleasant Street where the photographer, Edgar Scott, lived in his later years.
Depicted from left:
1. Home of…
Depicted from left:
1. Home of…
Hay wagon on South Amherst common
View ofa hay wagon stopped at the South Amherst Town Common. In her Reminiscences of South Amherst Clara Dwight describes this image as "Hay wagon at watering trough, preparatory to driving on to the Fairbanks scales to be weighed."
Grange Store delivery cart in Amherst
View of the horse and cart that was used to deliver goods for the Grange Store in the early 1900s.
East Street in Amherst, Mass.
View of East Street showing the Second Congregational Church and parsonage, and the elaborate fountain on the common.
This church building is now the home of the Jewish Community of Amherst.
This church building is now the home of the Jewish Community of Amherst.
Cook Fountain in Sweetser Park in Amherst
View showing Cook Fountain with water flowing. The surrounding walkways need sweeping.
Cook Fountain in Sweetser Park in Amherst
View showing Cook Fountain with water flowing. The surrounding area needs some attention.
Civil War veterans on Amherst Town Common
Civil War veterans standing at attention on the east side of the Town Common. This is probably a Memorial Day event which followed a similar program for many years: speeches in the schools, speeches at various locations in area towns where the local…
Barns and cattle shed at Massachusetts Agricultural College
View of several barns located in a field planted with rows of corn on the Massachusetts Agricultural College campus.
At the schoolhouse door
Margaret Johnson, Clifton Johnson's daughter, standing at the steps of the double door to the brick Hockanum schoolhouse, carrying a book and her lunch pail. She is in period dress wearing a bonnet.