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Small group of spectators watching a juggler perform on the Town Common.

Group portrait of members of the Amherst Boys Club with the clubhouse in the background. Written on back: "A portion of the Friday p.m. Boys Club. We have a membership of 45 boys representing all churches - Protestant, Catholic, Jewish."

Members of the Amherst Boys Club working on a project on Cleanup Day. Boys are at work shoveling dirt near a parked a two-horse cart filled with dirt. Kellogg Avenue School is in the background.

Automobile parked outside the building which was an inn and post office for Massachusetts Agricultural College. It was later known as College Inn.

Meadow being prepared for planting using oxen-drawn cultivator.

Amherst center district school that was probably attended by Emily Dickinson and her siblings.

Brick school house on Kellogg Avenue.

Purchased by Amherst College in 1892, the Boltwood House was remodeled as a student dining hall and renamed Hitchcock Hall. It was razed in 1916 for the construction of Converse Memorial Library, now Converse Hall.

View northwest over the campus pond.

View west toward the campus pond and the Old Chapel.

View of a line of students walking across a snow covered landscape away from the College Chapel. It looks as though they've walked across the frozen campus pond.

Formerly known as the Prospect House, this building is still standing on the corner of Amity and North Prospect Streets. Two stories were added and it was covered with stucco since its previous incarnation. It has also been known as Drake's Hotel,…

Brick schoolhouse in North Amherst which became the Amherst Survival Center.

View east over the campus pond and toward the Pelham hills.

View looking toward the Old Chapel and the area where the Fine Arts Center is currently located.