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A circular stone barn with a second story in the middle and a small tower. A second building and a fence is attached on the right. A wooden fence and a building behind it, partly obscured by trees are on the left. Caption reads: "Gutted by fire from…

Camels and an elephant with a man on top trudge up Main Street passing by a large crowd of onlookers.

A view of a towered building with high windows standing on a hill with another building on the eye level of the camera. The shot is taken from within an archway which frames the photograph.

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…

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…

A boy standing in front of a blackboard in the Hockanum schoolhouse pointing to it with a stick. Two girls and a boy are looking towards him and three other girls are reading. Two of the children are Hettie and Oscar Johnson.

This fountain was given to Massachusetts Agricultural College as a memorial by the Class of 1882. It is described as having a thistle and crane design, with a boy and a duck near the top. It was made of bronze and stood eight feet six inches tall.…

Group portrait of a class on the steps of a school. Jennie L. Cowles taught at First Intermediate School in Amherst for many years after graduating from Amherst High School in 1871; she stopped teaching in 1885. Students listed on verso of photograph…

Large group of Amherst College students sitting on benches in a classroom and listening attentively.

View of the classroom of Thomas Cushing Esty, a professor of mathematics at Amherst College. Class is in session. Professor Esty taught mathematics at Amherst College from 1895-1901 and 1905-1941.

View of the classroom of Frank H. Loud, a professor of mathematics at Amherst College. Class is in session. Professor Loud taught mathematics at Amherst College from 1873 to 1876.

Three men clean fish on a table with two large wooden barrels next to them for the cleaned fish. A stack of carcasses rests on the ground next to the table.

A group of men stand around on rocks by the water on Monhegan Island. One is cleaning a fish while the other four look on. There is a barrel and a bucket next to him and seagulls are gathered further along the rocks. A building with a pier is visible…

A man standing in a doorway of a house looking at another man standing nearby with one leg raised cleaning his shoe.

Two boys cleaning off the horse's leg. A pile of fire wood on the left and a massive barn, possibly belonging to McQueston, stands on the right.