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A girl sits on a short chair in front of a spinning wheel, winding quills onto a skein winder. Plates, jars, and pans stand on shelves and floor around her. A fireplace in the wall is filled with kettles.

A group of boys and girls harvest ice onto a cart pulled by two horses.

Front and side of the Fine Arts Museum photographed from Chestnut Street. Tree branches in each upper corner frame the photograph.

Pen and ink illustration of a kettle over a fire in a building. There is a small wooden bench against the wall next to a doorway in the background.

A bench which possibly doubles as a bed standing near a fireplace with a curtain niche behind it for storing linen and pillows. Flowers stand on either side of a figure of the Virgin Mary on top of the mantelpiece.

The Baptist Church as seen through the arches of two trees in winter. Adjacent houses are visible and the ground has a covering of snow.

View of the First Baptist Church on South Pleasant Street with a white fence in the foreground.

View of the First Baptist Church, and adjacent houses, on South Pleasant Street.

View of the First Baptist Church, and adjacent houses, on South Pleasant Street.

Image of first Amherst HS baseball team. Showing nine students seated on steps in front of partially open doorway, all in dress pants and jackets, some with ties.

A dilapidated wood cabin, identified as the building Booker T. Washington started his school. A wooden fence and some trees are on the right. Caption on back: "The cabin in which Booker Washington started his school."

This wooden church, initially named St. Bridget's, was constructed on North Pleasant Street in 1871 to accomodate the increasing numbers of Irish Catholics who came and settled in Amherst. The building was purchased by Frank T. Turcotte in 1927 for…

St. Bridget's Church was the first Catholic church building in Amherst. It was home to the Catholic community in Amherst from 1871 to 1925. It was then used as a hall for a couple of years before being sold in 1927 and subsequently remodeled and…

Articles of faith and government of the First Church in Amherst, Mass. Adopted February 13, 1834. Printed by J. S. and C. Adams, 1850.

Church seen across a road with a statue on the lawn and pathway cutting across. People walk along the sidewalk and pathway, and sit on the benches by the church.