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View of Phoenix Row seen from the corner of Amity and South Pleasant Streets. Cook's Block, the brick building on the left, was built about 1840. The upper floors were partially rebuilt after a fire in 1881. Other business blocks (from left to right)…

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East end of Phoenix Row on Main Street in Amherst showing the building which housed the studio of John L. Lovell on the right. There is a horse and wagon in the street and a clock outside one of the shops.

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Photograph taken from the corner of Amity and North Pleasant Streets. A stairway from the building on this corner is visible. Image shows Cook's Block before the fire of April 4, 1881. R. W. Stratton, boots & shoes sign is visible. Horses and wagons…

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Portrait of Phoenix Row baseball team. Sitting in front of stands. Three rows, the back row of 12 men, second row of five, first row of four with one man centered with baseball bats, the stands behind them still full with people.

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Reproduction of a lithograph of the original Phoenix Row building looking east down Main Street. Building signs include Phoenix Hall Straw Works and D. Mack Jr. and Son. Horse and carts cluster near the buildings, while people stroll the street. On…

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This house was erected on North Pleasant Street and belonged to the youngest fraternity instituted at the College. This chapter of the fraternity was established at Amherst College in 1893.

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View of the Lothrop house, later the Phi Delta Theta house, corner Boltwood and College Ave.

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This house, known as the Houghton place, was located on the south corner of College Street and Boltwood Avenue. I was purchased by the fraternity in 1894, and sold to Amherst College in 1912. The house was demolished in 1913.

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A woman stands by an open door to a house looking at a sheep lazily walking by while a cat explores crates built by the wall of the house.

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This is a letter of petition to Thomas Pownall, Governor of the Province of Massachusetts. John Nash, Isaac Ward, and Nehimieh Dickinson propose that the new town that is separating from Hadley should be named after Baron Jeffery Amherst.

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Three people (left to right), Sondra Radosh, Kay Lyons, and Ken Samonds. involved in the play "Field Day for Death" pose on the main staircase of The Jones Library.

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A group of people stand and sit along a fence bordering the Hockanum Cemetery with gravestones visible behind them. A large tree visible on the left and a mountain is visible in the background.

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Pencil sketch of Lincoln Avenue and Northampton Road in 1860 drawn by Samuel K. Orr. View looking west.

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Long view across open land east to the Pelham Hills from the hill on which Stearns Chapel stood.

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A woman sitting on a wooden bench peeling potatoes into a pail with a bowl and a smaller pail next to her. A wicker basket and a pail are on the bench next to her and the bench stands against a stone wall with a stone building partially visible on…
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