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Jones Library auditorium
View of the Jones Library auditorium taken from the back of the room and looking toward the stage showing the piano and the stage curtains.
Jones Library's first public computer
Color photograph of the Apple Iie, the first public computer in the Jones Library.
Jones Library Children's Room
View of the busy children's room of the Jones Library when the library was located in the Amherst House hotel.
Munson Memorial Library through church window
Munson Memorial Library is seen here through the north window of the Amherst South Congregational Church.
Jones Library director's office
Office of the director of the Jones Library.
North Amherst Library
Turn of the century view of the library. The building is a small, clapboard Queen Anne style structure and was designed by Roswell F. Putnam of Leverett. Montague Road and Sunderland Road are dirt.
Caption on back: "North Amherst Library, built…
Caption on back: "North Amherst Library, built…
Robert Frost with Charles R. Green
Charles R. Green showing Robert Frost a book in the Frost Room at the Jones Library.
Ceremony for laying the cornerstone for the Jones Library
View at the ceremony for the laying of the cornerstone for the Jones Library. Pictured from left to right: Tony (Michael Angelo), who was in charge of stone work; Allen H. Cox, Architect; Casper Ranger Construction Company man; Mr. Moriarty,…
Charles R. Green and his Sunday programs
Charles R. Green stands on the front steps of the Jones Library shaking hands with another man. Beside him is the chalkboard advertising one of his Sunday at 5:00 programs.
Jones Library girls
Three young women sitting in comraderie the remains of a picnic in front of them. Notation reads, "J. L. girls, L to R, Kane, Powers, Fish." Probably Annise B. Kane, Frances Powers, Dorothy M. Fish. All three women were employed by the Jones Library…
After the Amherst House fire, 1926
This image shows the smoldering scene the morning after the fire that decimated the Amherst House on the evening of December 9, 1926.
Winter sleigh ride in Amherst
Mason A. Dickinson sits on a horse-drawn sleigh in Amherst.
Early morning restaurant fire in Amherst
Firefighters aim a powerful jet of water at this burning restaurant across from the Town Common. More than 40 Amherst and UMass firefighters fought the blaze for hours in near zero weather before it was brought under control.
Jones Library front hallway
This is the front hallway of the Jones Library before the renovation in the early 1990s.
Sidewalk on South Pleasant Street
Construction of a sidewalk along South Pleasant Street at a time when Amherst residents used a horse and carriage or the trolley to get to town.