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The whole auditorium at the Jones Library was filled with flowers during this flower show held in 1935. This view shows the portion of the show that filled the stage.

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Mason A. Dickinson sits on a horse-drawn sleigh in Amherst.

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French cooking expert Charlotte Turgeon demonstrates cooking with chocolate.

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Early internet station in the Jones Library Reference Department.

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Firefighters aim a powerful jet of water at this burning restaurant across from the Town Common. More than 40 Amherst and UMass firefighters fought the blaze for hours in near zero weather before it was brought under control.

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This is the front hallway of the Jones Library before the renovation in the early 1990s.

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Construction of a sidewalk along South Pleasant Street at a time when Amherst residents used a horse and carriage or the trolley to get to town.

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The Burnett Gallery in the 1928 Jones Library before the renovation in the early 1990s.

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Camels and an elephant with a man on top trudge up Main Street passing by a large crowd of onlookers.

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Former Curator of Special Collections, Dan Lombardo, peruses a large map.

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Aaron Lansky and Becky Sheridan Lockwood at the 2015 Sammys Awards held at the National Yiddish Book Center.

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Charles and Polly Longsworth on a bicycle on the Hampshire College campus. The Johnson Library can be seen in the background. September 26, 1968

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In 2002 the Jones Library completely transferred from the card catalog to a digital system. Cards from the card catalog were signed by authors and illustrators and then sold to raise money for the library. Here patrons are picking out what cards to…

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While the Jones Library was housed at the Amherst House these children enjoyed story hour.

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Daily tally board, in the periodical lounge, during the January 1977 inventory of the Jones Library
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