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  • Collection: Jones Library Collection

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John Musante and Bonnie Isman in the Woodbury Room of The Jones Library

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Notation on verso: "Breaking ground for the Jones Library July 25, 1927". An older man in suit and hat stands in frame right with his left foot on a shovel facing a young boy dressed in short pants in frame left who holds a long pole and looks at the…

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An article in the Springfield Sunday Union and Republican on the Jones Library from November 4, 1928.

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The adult reading room of the Jones Library in 1968.

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View of the Jones Library auditorium taken from the back of the room and looking toward the stage showing the piano and the stage curtains.

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The Boltwood Room. Caption on reverse reads, "The Boltwood Room- a genealogical and historical collection, once owned by the Boltwood family."

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The Burnett Gallery in the 1928 Jones Library before the renovation in the early 1990s.

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Photograph of Kenneth Ives (custodian) and Ena Cane (cataloger) in the Burnett Art Gallery in the summer of 1969

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View of the busy children's room of the Jones Library when the library was located in the Amherst House hotel.

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Office of the director of the Jones Library.

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The former Amherst Room which was converted to the Sidney Waugh room (now housing Technical Services) in 1968.This room once housed the library’s local authors collection, the Amherst imprint collection, and miscellaneous local history materials.

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This is the front hallway of the Jones Library before the renovation in the early 1990s.

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Exterior of the Amherst House Hotel. The Jones Library was housed on the second floor until the building burned in 1926.

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The exterior of The Jones Library in the 1930s with 3 cars parked outside. Caption on reverse reads, "c. 1932"

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The Whipple House, which once housed the Jones Library. "Jan 1927" is written on the bottom right of the photo.
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