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View of the Amherst College Observatory from the south end of the Town Common.

View of the Amherst College Observatory from the south end of the Town Common.

View of the First Baptist Church and adjacent houses from the Town Common.

View looking south showing South Pleasant Street, the Town Common and Woods Cabinet at Amherst College in the distance.

View from the south end of Town Common looking north along Maple Avenue (now Boltwood Avenue).

The building seen in the foreground is the second incarnation of Walker Hall, which was rebuilt after a fire destroyed the first building in 1882. This building was torn down to clear the site for the construction of the Robert Frost Library at…

View of College Hill and houses along South Pleasant Street from the Pratt Field/Woodside road area. The dirt road at the left is the present Woodside Avenue.

A side of a house is visible on the right with a large tree growing near it. A building, possibly a barn, stands in the middle ground with trees and a mountain in the background.

A road leading to a village with wooden fences on each side of the road in the foreground and houses and farm buildings on both sides in the middleground and background.

A view of a valley with some farm buildings surrounded by hills on each side. Some broken down twigs are in the foreground with a wooden gate near the camera.

Stately elms without foliage line the dirt street. There are houses on the left and a horse and wagon parked in front of the shop of Lee and Phillips. Frederick H. Hitchcock writes, in The Handbook of Amherst, "That portion of Pleasant Street which…

View showing businesses and houses on both sides of the street. a horse-drawn wagon is parked on the street and the business of Lee and Phillips is visible on the right. Written on the bottom of the photograph, "view of residence of Lewis J. Spear…

Sailboats, one under sail, in the harbor with the village rising up the hill behind. Caption on back: "Gloucester wharves."

A view of a house in the middleground, partly obscured by a large tree on the right side and bushes in front of the house. A second, even larger tree stands behind the house. The scene is reflected in water in the foreground.

View showing Main Street (with a trolley car in the foreground), Town Hall, and the Town Common from the balcony of the Amherst House.