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Terrace Home School on South Prospect Street in Amherst
View of the school which came to be called the Terrace Home School on South Prospect Street. It was run for many years by Josephine Herrick and was a school for children with special needs. Instruction was given in instrumental and vocal music,…
House on Shays Street in Amherst
View of a house beside a large elm tree and with adults and children posed outside. Written on back of photograph, "House on farm of C. G. Morehouse, Shays Street near Mill Valley. Left to right: Rev. Charles S. Walker, Alice Morehouse Walker,…
Portrait of Walter Mason Dickinson
Hand-colored portrait of Walter Mason Dickinson in uniform. He was the only Amherst man to die in the Spanish-American War in Cuba. According to a Springfield newspaper article, his remains were brought back to the United States by Ellery F.…
Amherst Academy and Parsons House
View of Amity Street and Amherst Academy building, where Emily Dickinson went to school. The Academy building is three and one-half stories and federal style. The building was razed in 1868. Rev. David Parsons House is on the right. The Jones Library…
Program for Amherst Academy exhibition
Program for an exhibition of music and oration in Greek, Latin, and English at the Amherst Academy. Noah Webster is listed as the speaker giving the opening oration.
Advertisement for trucking business of Edward S. Puffer
Advertisement for the trucking business of Edward S. Puffer, dealer in coal, wood, ice, hay, grain, meal and feeds.
Mount Pleasant Hill and Institute in Amherst
Looking up Mount Pleasant Hill toward Mount Pleasant Institute. The hill is labeled "Nash Hill" on the photograph.
Winter fun on Mount Pleasant Hill in Amherst
Children skiing and sledding down the hill in front of Mount Pleasant Institute toward East Pleasant Street.
Jackson & Cutler store interior
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.
Advertisement for Jackson & Cutler's shop in Amherst
Advertisement for the firm of Jackson & Cutler which succeeded the firm of George Cutler & Co. in 1884. The store sold clothing and related articles. The women drawn in the ad have a feminine, wasp-waisted, Gibson Girl look.
Union Lecture Course broadside
Broadside advertising a lecture by George W. Mansfield of the Thomson-Houston Electric Company, which merged with Edison General Electric Company in 1892 to become General Electric Company. The lecture was part of the Union Lecture Course.
Thayer Street house
View of the house and yard at 37 Thayer Street. The house was built about 1927.
View east toward Ward Street houses
Looking east across Thayer Street toward houses on Ward Street. Two dogs sit on the grass in the foreground.
Ray Stannard Baker harvesting fruit
Ray Stannard Baker harvesting apples (or quince) from one of the fruit trees on his property in Amherst.
Portrait of Ray Stannard Baker
Portrait of Ray Stannard Baker, American author, who also wrote under the pen name of David Grayson.