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A boy feeding the sheep in an enclosure at the foot of Mt. Holyoke.

A white woman kneeling near a group of turkeys. A pail stands next to her and an open house door is to her right. A duck stands nearer the camera looking at the turkeys.

Three white men kneeling on the ground by a tree and cutting it down. Bark has been stripped from a part of the trunk and it is on the ground in pieces.

This building stood at the corner of Amity and North Pleasant Street. Samuel K. Orr remodeled it as a modern drug store and opened his shop there in 1859. According to the Springfield Republican (October 22, 1864 edition, page 8) William F. Gunn…

Colorful display of locally grown garlic and tomatoes at the 2005 Amherst Farmers' Market.

A view of a field of dandelions. A forest covers up the foreground and middle ground on the right and utility poles are on the left in the middle ground.

Two men, both facing away from the camera, one in the foreground, one in the middleground, working to put out a grass fire in an orchard. Bare trees line the middleground and a farm building, perhaps an animal enclosure or corn crib, visible in the…

A couple of houses and farm buildings, some bare trees scattered throughout the shot.

A elderly white man sits in a rocking chair at a writing desk and looks down at papers spread in front of him. He is holding a pen in his right hand. Many papers are stacked on the desk and on the shelves above. A large mirror hangs on the wall to…

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.