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This is the original South College building and was used as a dormitory in the early years of Massachusetts Agricultural College. Built in 1867, it was gutted by fire in the winter of 1885 and rebuilt, using some of the walls of the original building…

A large, barrel-roofed church with a three story, slightly smaller addition. Stone steps lead up to the entrance in the front and the side and a woman is walking down the steps on the side. Some trees grow on the side of the church.

Two men standing near the entrance of a two story building with an observation tower doing repairs. Another house is in the background and some bare trees are seen around. A clothesline is attached to a tree and a ladder leaning against the house…

A wide, tree-lined street with substantial homes along both sides. Two carriages are parked near the trees and one is coming down the middle of the street.

Front of Jones Library with planting work in progress. Slide caption reads, "4/77 Jones Library old planting removed"

Two boys stand on a road looking at the remains of the Newgate Prison while a girl looks at them. Utility poles run along the road and a large tree grows on the left foreground.

Two women and a man stand looking at the guard tower at the ruins of Newgate Prison.

The ruins of the Newgate Prison. Two women and a man stand in the arched gate looking at the camera while a second man sits looking off to the distance. They are identified as Anna Johnson, Dr. and Mrs. Dawson and Irving Johnson. A wheel of an…

An wooden mill with stone foundations and a large wooden wheel surrounded by trees.

A bearded white man stands near the shore of a river fishing while a young girl sits on a box next to him. There is a log in the water near him and some broken planks nearby.

According to text on the back of the photograph, this house was built by John Sheldon about 1690 and razed in 1848. This photograph was copied from the only daguerreotype of the house in existence, belonging to the late Professor Aaron Warner (of…

View of the Old Homestead with barns and outbuildings.

Home on a tree lined street set well back from the street and sidewalk. An adjoining building, covered in moss visible on the left and a second house visible on the right in the background.

A multi-house whitewashed building with three separate doorways and staircases leading up to them. A white woman, two girls and a boy sit on the first staircase with a dog and another boy standing next to them. A man talks to a boy further up and a…

A woman stands in a partly opened doorway to a house with a girl sitting on the stair. Two wooden planks lead from the road to the house serving as sidewalk and a wooden fence faces the street.