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Record of a precinct meeting held in a section of Hadley (now Amherst) in 1745, 10 years after the first meeting. Votes recorded are concerned with choosing officers, committees, highway work, wood for the minister, making payment for services, and…

View of a piano in an elegantly appointed reception room at the Amherst House.

Reception for Robert Francis at the Jones Library. Caption on reverse reads, "Amherst Record, weekend, Aug. 20, 1977, p.1 Reception for Robert Francis, Amherst poet, following presentation of a bust of Francis to the Jones Library by sculptor Anna…

Receipt written by David Parsons, Amherst's first minister, for payment of his salary in old tenor money by Jonathan Dickinson, one of the first Selectmen of Amherst and the treasurer at the time.

Three people moving a cart on the front steps of the Jones Library. Caption on reverse reads, "Amherst Record, Sat., April 30th, 1977, p.4 Patsy Bischoff, the diminutive woman to the left, is helping unload a heavy slab to rebuild the patio in front…

A woman stands over a hole in the ground holding a rope and drawing water. A basin with a washboard inside. A wooden gate is next to her and connected stone buildings are on the right.

An extensive back porch of a mansion overlooking the Connecticut River. A man sits on the porch and some clothes hang drying.

Rear face of the library before the Kinsey Memorial Garden was created, taken in 1994

View of rear of the east wing of Jones Library

A white man standing with his back to the camera cutting down oats with a scythe or cradle with roofs of farm buildings visible in the middle ground with trees and hills in the background.

A white man cutting down oats with a scythe or cradle while another man stoops down nearby and a third one stands watching. A farm building is in the middle ground on the right with hills rising in the background.

A white man wearing a black hat bent over reaping stalks of a cereal crop in a field.

A young white woman sits on a horse holding a basket on one arm while a second woman holds the horse's halter. A dog stands nearby on the cobbled courtyard between two stone buildings.

A boy and a girl, identified as Irving and Katherine Johnson, stand by a horse and carriage partially outside a barn. She is adjusting the bridle while he is looking on.

An entrance of a house with a woman, identified as Anna McQueston Johnson, standing on the steps holding a bowl. A boy, identified as Stephen Johnson, is standing on the brick walkway in front of the steps and is holding a hay fork and rake.