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An illustration of a school classroom showing a teacher dressed in black sitting next to a boy, both looking at a book. Four children sit at a table on the left and one girl stands looking towards the painter.

A man stands with a whip over a pair of oxen hauling logs. Trees grow all around the scene and the ground is covered in snow.

A windmill in a field with a wooden fence surrounding it and a road running across the front. Some rooftops are visible in the background.

A white woman, possibly Anna Johnson, touching the shackles of a whipping post. A boy stands next to her, looking at the post. A two-story stone building stands on the right and a tree and another building, barely visible due to exposure are drawn in…

A view a zigzag fences separating fields. Some trees grow near the fences and a few houses are spread across the background. Tracks left in the dirt near the foreground imply the way is used as a road by wagons.

This building is the third meetinghouse constructed by the First Congregational Church of Amherst. First Church removed the east portico of this building in 1861, as shown in this photograph. Amherst College bought this building in 1867, and renamed…

This building is the third meetinghouse constructed by the First Congregational Church of Amherst. First Church removed the east portico of this building in 1861, as shown in this photograph. Amherst College bought this building in 1867, and renamed…

A two-story commercial building with "WALLPAPERS WHOLESALE AND RETAIL," "STOVES," and "STATE ST. MARKET FRESH & SALT MEATS" signs. A number of people and horse-drawn wagons stroll up and down the street and sidewalk.

Boats tied up to the docks as well as those tied up out in the river, with a wooden bridge that connected Springfield to West Springfield in the background.

A sailing boat passing an iron bridge. Caption on reverse "New York an old time Sailing vessel on the Hudson."

This one of the oldest houses on Bay Road in Amherst and was originally brick on the exterior.

A two-story tavern with a large porch and a side building stand uphill from the photographer who stands on a fork in the road with the left one going towards the tavern and the right one heading off frame. A wooden fence is seen on the right and…

Exterior view of the Strong House with "towering buttonwood trees" seen from North Prospect Street.

Pen and ink illustration of stocks with a bench in front of them and a large tree behind. Some other trees, gravestones, and a stone wall are in the background.

South College was used as a dormitory in the early years of Massachusetts Agricultural College. Constructed in 1867, it was gutted by fire in the winter of 1885 and rebuilt, using some of the walls of the original building which had not burned.