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Air Force A-10 jets flying low over North Pleasant Street during the military parade for Recognition Weekend, an event organized at UMass in mid-July, 1986. The event was designed as a vehicle to honor veterans. It drew a large number of people…

Scan of advertisement card for Amherst business, features a blond boy in a classroom holding a bright yellow pencil, a large blowup of the Ticonderoga pencil shown on the left, and the business details at the bottom.

Scan of advertisement card for Amherst business, features a large Uncle Sam type figure with pencil behind his ear at a large desk handling papers, on the desk are smaller figures at other desks, they are business people, secretaries, military…

A girl and an older man, identified as Margaret Johnson and "grandpa" Lyman stand by the Connecticut River. He is holding a fishing pole while she is holding a net, ready to catch fish.

A girl, identified as Margaret Johnson, asleep in the corner of a wheelbarrow with a pumpkin between her feet and a blanket at her back.

Four women stand by the door of the Allen tavern, and a man is slightly to the right leaning on a penny-farthing. The woman on the left is possibly Martha Laura Johnson. Standing next to her is Fannie or Jannie, sister of Harriet Elizabeth Allen…

A woman stands in a graveyard with the ruins of a church in the middle ground.The church is missing the roof and the back wall and part of the side are covered by moss.

A view of a city street and town buildings on each side. A person walks on the sidewalk in the middle ground and a person stands next to a car across the street.

Two men sit in a small boat, one holding a paddle steering it while the open sail catches the wind. A rocky shore stretches on the left with trees growing all along it. A mountain is faintly visible in the background.

A white man stands on a small wharf near a boat with some trees growing on the shore and two logs are near the shore in the foreground.

A woman and a man ride on a wagon hitched to a horse on a road with stones lining the left side. A lake is visible in the middle ground with a mountain rising on the left in the background.

Second Alpha Delta Phi fraternity house built in 1890.

View of the Alpha Delta Phi house, contructed in 1890 on the north corner of Pleasant and Sellen Streets, with the old chapter house (the Sellon house) visible behind it. The materials used in construction were Elyria sandstone, pressed brick, and…

Three boys stand on a dirt road, all wearing overalls and the smallest one barefoot. The other two hold branches with leaves and looking at them. Some trees are visible in the background.

Dow Holden and Raymond Cicia, members of a club of amateur rocketeers in East Amherst, ignite a solid-fuel rocket from a launch pad near Dow's home on Main St in Amherst.