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John Burroughs sits at his old desk at the West Settlement schoolhouse while a group of schoolgirls stand facing him

John Burroughs stands next to a large tree, reaching up to a birdhouse.

Letter written in German to John Burgess from Max E. Giese stating he is ready to let Burgess' wife, Ruth, study painting with him. He asks Burgess to 'Share with us when you will be in Munich.'

A statue of John Bunyan on a corner of a street with two men walking nearby and other men and women walking on the street and on the sidewalk across the street. Brick buildings line the street, some with store signs on the front.

A farmhouse with a porch stands in the middle ground with a building in front and a building behind. Dirt road is on the right, in the foreground. A flag pole stands behind a metal fence on the left. Some trees grow near the farmhouse and the…

A view of a snow covered farmhouse in the middle ground with additional buildings on the left and right. A flag pole stands behind a metal fence and some trees grow near the farmhouse. Mountains are faintly visible in the background.

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.

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…

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.