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Letter from the Rands (signed F.P.R. for Frank Prentice Rand) to Robert Francis sending Francis their best wishes before he travels to Italy.

Chatty letter describing the setting in the dorm room, the "Millerites" (Adventists) in Amherst, textbooks being used, etc.

A letter from Amherst College student Abel Packard, to sister Lucy, about Fourth of July activities around Amherst, and other details about life as a student at the college.

Letter from Amherst Academy student, N. Carpenter, to her friend Susan in Dudley, Mass., describing the curriculum, the number of students, Fourth of July and other recreation activities.

Letter from Abigail Pomeroy to Joseph Stoddard Lathrop dated May 24 1838 in which Abigail writes that she has been released from her engagement to "Dr. F" and expresses her wish to hear from Joseph.

A man stands in the woods with some thin tree trunks on the ground and looking towards smoke behind him

Local author Leslie Cerier poses with her books, The Organic Gourmet, Going Wild in the Kitchen, Sea Vegetable Celebrations, and Gluten-free Recipes for the Conscious Cook.

A barge carrying wood moored to a side of a canal with a small boat next to it. Buildings line the far shore with a mill in the background. Some people walk around the shore and trees line the right side of the photograph.

An elderly black woman sits in a chair on a porch holding a book in her lap while a barefoot black child stands next to her, also looking at the book.

Tent on the Town Common where the Amherst League of Women Voters held their annual book sale in 1984.

A white man holding a horse by a halter down a dirt street. The horse is hitched to a wagon and thatch-roofed house is on the right with stone houses lining the background on the right.

A white man stands over a leaching barrel reaching over its edge with a pail. A hollowed out half-log is under the barrel guiding lye into a second pail on the ground. A house is partly visible in the background.

Upper Main Street is torn up as men lay track for the Amherst and Sunderland Street Railroad. Business blocks in Phoenix Row are visible on the right, and the Amherst House is visible in the background.

Three fishermen are spreading fish out on a long table to dry. A sea of masts provides a backdrop. Caption on back: "Spreading fish out to dry."

Side view showing the Lawrence Observatory. From Handbook of Amherst by Frederick H. Hitchcock, 1894: "The Observatory consists of an octagonal tower, 50 feet high and 17 feet in diameter, with a revolving dome and a central pedestal supporting a…