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View of a classroom with benches as seating for students and a podium in front. The walls are filled with pictures and a large map. Richard Henry Mather was a professor of Greek language and literature at Amherst College from 1859 to 1890.

View of the Amherst College Beta Theta Pi fraternity house. It stood on the corner of Maple Avenue (now Boltwood Avenue) and College Street. It was demolished in 1914 to make way for the new Beta Theta Pi house.

View of the Amherst College Beta Theta Pi fraternity house. It stood on the corner of Maple Avenue (now Boltwood Avenue) and College Street. It was demolished in 1914 to make way for the new Beta Theta Pi house.

Five flavors of milk showcased on the counter at the Mapleline Farms booth at the 2008 Taste of Amherst.

Entrance to the Munson Memorial Library building shaded by a large maple tree.

Letter from Amherst Academy student, N. Carpenter, to her friend Susan in Dudley, Mass., describing the curriculum, the number of students, Fourth of July and other recreation activities.

Birds-eye-view lithograph of Amherst. Perspective map not drawn to scale. Published by John B. Bachelder between 1855 and 1857.

Includes insets: Residence of Prof. Edward Hitchcock, Residence of L.S. Sweetser, esq.; Residence of Hon. Edward…

Colored map included in the geological survey completed by Edward Hitchcock showing the mineral deposits in the state of Massachusetts.

Former Curator of Special Collections, Dan Lombardo, peruses a large map.

A large maple tree stands near the road with corn fields on either side of the road.

A group of four large maple trees bunched together next to a large outcropping of stone on the crest of a hill. More trees grow in the background and a roof of a building is visible downhill.

A boy stands near a kettle holding a stick across the kettle. Behind him is a sap carrying bucket with a carrying yoke leaning against it. Another carrying bucket sits on the snow to the right of the fire. Sap buckets sit in the snow next to the…

A boy sitting on a sled tending the fire under a cast iron kettle as the sap is boiled down to make maple syrup. Nearby, on the right, is a sap carrying bucket with an axe leaning up against it. A second large fire and kettle is in the middleground.…

A man stands by a maple tree boring a hole to gather sap. Four sap buckets lie in the snow next to him.

A man tends to logs under a kettle with an axe next to him, an overturned sap carrying bucket, and a carrying yoke next to him. A boy leans over working while other buckets are set up near trees.