Browse Items (21 total)

  • Collection: Jones Family Collection

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Formal portrait of a mature Samuel Minot Jones wearing a nice suit and sitting in a chair with one leg crossed over the other.

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Letter written from Samuel Minot Jones to his brother while Samuel was camped on the battlefield at Sugar Creek, Arkansas. Details how the Union won the pivotal Civil War battle at Pea Ridge despite being outnumbered three to one by Confederate…

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View of Amity Street and Amherst Academy building, where Emily Dickinson went to school. The Academy building is three and one-half stories and federal style. The building was razed in 1868. Rev. David Parsons House is on the right. The Jones Library…

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Exterior view of the front and side of the house in which Samuel Minot Jones was born, located in Enfield, Massachusetts.

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Photo of Samuel Minot Jones and his sister Augusta Thayer Jones as children

samuel_boyhood_home.jpg
Exterior view of the front of the house in which Samuel Minot Jones spent his boyhood, located in Amherst, Massachusetts

harriet_and_minot_as_toddler.jpg
Young Minot Jones as a toddler, standing behind his mother, Harriet Stenger Jones. She is seated and holding his arms loosely around her neck.

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Minot Jones in his Army uniform with rifle by his side. Photograph possibly taken in an Army camp, as there appear to be cots laden with belongings in the background.

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Pen and ink drawing showing the exterior and side view of the Congregational church meeting house, now College Hall at Amherst College

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View of Merchants' Row, including Cutler's store, from the Amherst Town Common

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Portrait of Thomas Jones

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Images of monogrammed walking stick owned by Samuel Minot Jones

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Officer's sword and scabbard carried by Samuel Minot Jones during the Civil War, made by Ames Manufacturing Company in Chicopee, Massachusetts

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Image of United States Army Tank Corps pin of Minot Jones

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Engraved leather writing case and fountain pen of Samuel Minot Jones
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