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Still standing on the corner of Amity and North Prospect Streets, the Prospect House is hardly recognizable. At a later date, more stories were added and it was covered with stucco. It has also been known as Drake's Hotel, The Village Inn, and The…

View of Prospect House on the summit of Mount Holyoke.

Program for an exhibition of music and oration in Greek, Latin, and English at the Amherst Academy. Noah Webster is listed as the speaker giving the opening oration.

Colorful selection of flowering plants being sold at the 2005 Amherst Farmers' Market.

A two story house with two chimneys and a balcony on the second floor. Trees surround the house. A wooden fence extends on the left next to the house and other buildings are partly visible in the background.

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 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.

A man, identified as Professor Alvord, stands by the side of a house by an open woodshed holding a stick. A shirt hangs on a hook on the wall and there is a sawhorse on the grass before him.

A man sawing wood with one leg up on a piece of wood on the sawhorse. He is in front of a porch with the whole house shown.

Image of man (George Cutler) walking in street among hurricane damage, in the foreground is a broken power line pole and automobile, a row of houses in background, and debris of trees on both sides of the street.

Procession of Civil War veterans marching north on South Pleasant Street. They are preceded by a band and marshall and followed by a group of women or children and a group of carriages pulled by horses. This is probably a Memorial Day event which…

A group of men, on the dock, are preparing fish for salting. Caption on back: "Preparing fish for salting."

One of the private chambers at the Amherst House. The brochure states: "The chambers throughout the hotel are all outside rooms, comprising high studded, well lighted and airy sleeping apartments arranged single or en suite, finely furnished and…

Amherst center district school that was probably attended by Emily Dickinson and her siblings.

Colored postcard of SCO130.