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View of the drill hall with three cannons on the lawn. From Handbook of Amherst by Frederick H. Hitchcock (1894): The drill Hall was erected in 1883, at an expenditure of $6500. The Armory, at the right of the entrance, contains the arms furnished by…

View of the drill hall with one cannon on the lawn. From Handbook of Amherst by Frederick H. Hitchcock (1894): The drill Hall was erected in 1883, at an expenditure of $6500. The Armory, at the right of the entrance, contains the arms furnished by…

View of the drill hall with three cannons on the lawn. From Handbook of Amherst by Frederick H. Hitchcock (1894): The drill Hall was erected in 1883, at an expenditure of $6500. The Armory, at the right of the entrance, contains the arms furnished by…

A black boy, sitting in a rowboat, has filled his felt hat with water and is taking a drink from it. Caption on back: "Way down on the Suwanee River. This is the stream which inspired that wonderfully popular song, The Old Folks at Home".

A man, identified as Arthur Johnson, stands alongside a wide brook. A bridge is in the background. Caption on reverse reads "Catskills Dry Brook at Arkville. Where Burroughs started his row boat voyage."

A woman facing away from the camera hangs clothes to dry on a clothesline, a basket on the ground next to her.

A view of a farmhouse with some farm buildings in winter. Snow covers the ground and bare trees stand in a line on the right and behind the farmhouse. A person stands on the steps of the house and two piles of wood are near the house. A line of…

A young white man stands on the edge of the lake holding a gun and looking out. The shoreline swaps around to a point with some cabins on it. The caption reads: "A boy duck hunter on the shore of Lake Superior, near where Hiawatha and Minnehaha used…

A woman and a girl stand near a pond with ducks, geese, and a small boat. The inscription reads: "a pond for the ducks and geese. The ducks seem to be bashful, for they stay far back while the geese have come to see what the little girl has to feed…

Three men sit on the stairs of a brick building with a dog between them. Two boys stand in the foreground, one looking at the camera, the other at the men.

A view of a dock with a large ship on the right and a number of boats moored in the river and near the shore on the left. A number of buildings are on the left and across the middle ground with scaffolding in front of many of them. A group of boys…

Professor Levi Stockbridge with a class in front of the Durfee Plant House.

General view of the Massachusetts Agricultural College grounds showing a cultivated field containing young plants in the foreground, and campus buildings in the background.

Durfee Plant House was built in 1867 with funds donated by Dr. Nathan Durfee of Fall River (one of the first trustees of Massachusetts Agricultural College) and Leonard and Henry F. Hills of Amherst. The structure was destroyed by fire in 1883 and…

Close-up view of the Durfee Plant House and water fountain and the hill behind.