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View of the Bloody Brook Monument and the house across the street.

View of a wide dirt road lined by houses and trees.

View of dilapidated Conkey's Tavern showing the lean-to which housed the kitchen in back. Excerpted from short history on back of photograph: "This historic tavern was built in 1758 by William Conkey, in the deep valley, midway between Pelham East…

Front view of Conkey's Tavern in Pelham.

Front and left-side view of dilapidated Conkey's Tavern showing the gently rolling hill it rests upon.

Front view of dilapidated Conkey's Tavern in Pelham.

View of the Connecticut River from Mount Holyoke showing Shepard's Island. Northampton farmland is on the left side of the river and Hadley is on the right. Fort River snakes around in the right foreground and joins the larger Connecticut.

Aerial view of a cemetery and surrounding landscape.

Rocks and downed trees in Rattlesnake Gutter ravine.

View of a dilapidated farmhouse in Hadley. Written on verso: "Alphonso? Dickinson house, lower end of Middle Street, Hadley."

View of flooded fields and an old covered bridge.

According to text on the back of the photograph, this house was built by John Sheldon about 1690 and razed in 1848. This photograph was copied from the only daguerreotype of the house in existence, belonging to the late Professor Aaron Warner (of…

View of a bee-keeping class posed outside on the grass. There are fruit trees in the background and a large container marked "Cowan's Rapid Extractor" next to the group. Cowan's Rapid Extractor is a device invented in England in 1875 for the quick…

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

View of the Botanic Museum at Mass Aggie which was constructed by December of 1867 and destroyed by fire in 1967.