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An appeal from Kenyon L. Butterfield, president of Massachusetts Agricultural College, calling for young people to come and learn to become leaders in the open country. Includes sections named A Call for Leaders, The Country Boy's Creed, and A Public…

Local poet Michael Miller poses with a copy of his book, Entering the Day.

View of the Kellogg Block and the Marsh Block with part of the American House Block visible on the right and the A. F. Cowles & Co. shop on the left. There are men sitting in some of the windows of the Kellogg Block.

View of the Kellogg Block and the Marsh Block with men standing on the roof (probably an Amherst College fraternity).

A view of a waterfalls with a bridge crossing it and buildings on both shores.

View down a dirt road with a fence on the left as the road curves around to the right through the trees.

A view of a village from the middle of a dirt road extending away from the camera and moving downhill in the middleground. Houses and a church stand on either side of the road with mountains faintly visible in the background.

A man stands in the middle ground in the shade of a palm tree looking towards the sea. Palm trees grow on the left behind him. A pier juts out into the water and a boat is moored in the water. Caption states the man is Kirk Munroe, an American…

Military drill performance on the Massachusetts Agricultural College fields. Soldiers are lined up in rows.

Group of Massachusetts Agricultural College students in military drill formation around three cannons.

A white man sits on a small wooden stool milking a cow in a field. Two other cows, one sitting, one standing, are nearby and a tree stands in the center with half of its trunk missing. A forest and mountain are in the background. Caption identifies…

A white boy milking a cow while a second boy and a girl watch from behind a fence. Caption reads: "A boy doing the evening milking. On the cow's neck is a cow-bell, the tinkling of which helps to keep track of her in the pasture thickets.

A boy, identified as Stephen Johnson, stands casually with his hands against the the small doorway to a barn, a pail on the floor next to him.

A brook in the woods with a little waterfall in the middelground. High rocks create cliffs on either side of the brook with bare trees growing thickly on either shore.

A windmill near a canal with other buildings lining the canal and boats moored on both sides of it. The caption identifies the place as Delfshaven, a burrough of Rotterdam.