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A large two-story house with multiple chimneys, a porch and additions. A row of trees grows in front of the house and a dirt road runs along further to the right. The steeple of a barn is visible through the trees in the background on the right.

Letter from William Boltwood to the Amherst Committee of Correspondence asking to be restored to public favor and endorsing measures taken by the Continental Congress.

Bond given by William Boltwood, Josiah Moody and Ebenezer Mattoon to Elisha Porter, sheriff of Hampshire County, for 100 pounds of lawful money guaranteeing Boltwood's continued imprisonment and safekeeping in the Northampton jail until lawfully…

Will of Nathaniel Smith, one of the early settlers of Amherst. He was the first physician to practice in Amherst. He was also a farmer. In this, his last will and testament, he leaves money to his wife and daughter, both named Rebekah, and some to…

Eliza Burroughs stands outside the homestead with two pails. Caption on reverse reads "Catskills Roxburry Going a-milking. The stones --- on the terrace of the old farm house of John Burroughs.

Eliza Burroughs, wife of Curtis Burroughs stands near a flower garden, a cat at her feet.

Two boys on a wooden bridge overlooking a brook. One sits on the edge holding a stick while the other lays down prodding the water with a stick.

A view of the Horse Guards, a building standing in place of what used to be Whitehall Palace before it burned down. There are two soldiers on horses at arched gates while people walk around with one man riding a bicycle.

Two Native American women stand by the edge of a stream covered in white robes while a third kneels by the water.

A view of a river with a boat in the foreground resting near large rocks. Trees surround the shoreline on all sides and a mountain is in the background.

A white church with a tall spire and two large clocks visible on two sides of the spire. A telegraph pole stands by the church. A storage shed is partly visible behind the church, a little downhill. Trees stand on either side of the church.

Birch trees rise in the foreground with other trees and shrubs growing thickly around them.

Photograph taken from in front of the Whipple House on North Pleasant Street. The Jones Library operations moved into this house two days after the disastrous fire that destroyed the Amherst House in December of 1926. The elliptical window (barely…

A two story house with multiple windows, and shutters, some closed, with a one-story attachment stands behind a picket fence surrounded by trees. A second building is partly visible on the left.

A view of a street turning right in the middle ground. Two children walk on a narrow sidewalk next to a stone and metal fence on the right. A hill rises slightly above with a stone wall perpendicular to the street leading towards a two story house…