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This image is part of an advertisement for the shoe dealer, James F. Page. The advertisement reads: "Guests of Amherst House are referred to James F. Page, Amherst's leading shoe dealer (store established 1854). "Queen Quality" and "Sorosis" for…

Early internet station in the Jones Library Reference Department.

This is the first book-by-book inventory done by the Library since the fire at the Amherst House in 1926. It took a week to complete by 60-odd staff and volunteers. The women on the left are Lucy Gallagher, Claire Sussman, and Windy Sayer.

View of Grace Episcopal Church with the front of the building almost completely covered by ivy.

View of Grace Episcopal Church with ivy growing up the front of the building. The house next door is partially visible on the right.

View of Grace Episcopal Church with ivy growing up the front of the building. The beginning of Spring Street is just visible on the right.

This storefront view is part of an advertisement and showcases two different businesses on North Pleasant Street, Julius H. Trott, plumbing, and John Gordon, bicycle repair.

A stone and wood bridge over a brook with water lazily flowing. Trees and shrubs grow around the banks of the brook.

Interior of the shop belonging to Jackson & Cutler which was in Merchants' Row on South Pleasant Street in Amherst. On the back of the photograph is the statement that this shop is now the back room of A. J. Hasting's.

A view, across the road, of a two story, brick house with a wooden fence in front of it, identified in the caption as the Jane Austen House. Other houses line the street next to it.

Local author Jane McPhetres Johnson poses with a copy of her poetry book, Maven Reaches Mars: Home Poems and Space Probes in Four Fascicles.

Janet Wilder Dakin with two large dogs. Trees are visible in the background.

Snow covered road extending away from the perspective of the photographer with a barely visible tree limb fence along the right side. Bare trees dot the landscape.

Letter from Jeffery Amherst to Lt. Col. John Bradstreet regarding construction of boats, hire and pay of laborers, and finance for military campaign, March 5, 1759. Several months later Amherst successfully captured Fort Ticonderoga on the Hudson…

A black man standing on a stump watching a boy try to catch fish with a long thin pole with three-pronged end. Another man stands in the middle ground on the far bank watching while holding his own fishing rod.