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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.

Exterior view of the greenhouse at Massachusetts Agricultural College with three men standing outside.

Exterior view of the greenhouse at Massachusetts Agricultural College showing a three-tiered water fountain outside the structure, and two men standing in front.

Plants and trees inside Durfee Plant House at Massachusetts Agricultural College in Amherst.

A view of some buildings lining the shore of a river and trees making a wall behind them obscuring parts of buildings on top of a hill on which the tops of Durham Cathedral towers are visible.

A cargo barge being loaded by dockside crane at the river edge. Other boats and buildings visible in the background. Caption reads: "Dutch Point where the Dutch had their port when the first English settlers arrived."

A man (Dwight L. Moody?) stands in a pond holding a shovel while another man stands on the grass, both looking down at a man keeling down building a lock to prevent water from the pond backing up and flooding the fields.

This image is part of an advertisement for the E. D. Marsh furniture store and shows the company's horse and wagon parked beside the business. The advertisement reads: "The Amherst House furnished with furniture, carpets, and hangings by E. D. Marsh,…

Article from a Springfield newspaper about the journey to retrieve the body of Walter Mason Dickinson after his death in Cuba during the Spanish-American War.

A woman sits in a pew facing the camera wearing a black dress and a black hat. She holds a fan in one hand and a book in the other. The door to the meeting house stands ajar and a large window to the left floods the building with light.

This is an early baseball game in progress in a field next to South College. Athletics were introduced to the campus in 1868 when the Wilder Baseball Association was organized. The ball club was named in honor of trustee Marshall P. Wilder, who…

A run down house ( identified as the birthplace of John Howard Jewett) with an attached barn and remains of another barn behind. Some bare trees scattered around the house and two other buildings visible in the background on the left.