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Photograph of the South Amherst Fourth of July parade with a girl riding a horse holding a American flag and wearing an eagle as a hat. Other costumed children are 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.

Photograph of two women looking at vegetables at the Amherst Common Market (now known as the Farmers' Market) in Amherst, Massachusetts

Photograph of Harris Barnes' boat and three rowboats on a lake at Camp Coolidge, a boy scout camp on Lake Neesoponsett in North Dana, Massachusetts. Harris and Prayne Barnes are in the boat.

View of a middle-aged, smiling Lavinia Dickinson standing outside on the homestead porch holding one of her many cats.

Photograph of Robert Francis and family members sitting at a table outside under trellises. Francis' father Ebenezer F. Francis and stepmother Ida May Allen Francis are sitting across from Robert (fourth from left).

Mar 23, 1989, moving #109 Main St. to new site enar the rail road opposite Sweetser park. Police Chief D m Maia in black hat. Masonic Hall, Town Hall in background.

Janet Wilder Dakin with two large dogs. Trees are visible in the background.

John Burroughs stands at the edge of a field with a house in the background. Caption on reverse reads "April at Slabsides when the swamp had been much subdued, and orderly cultivation had started."

View of the Wittenberg Mountains in the background and a cow in a pasture with a stone wall, wood fence, and house in foreground. Caption on reverse states, "New York | Catskills The Wittenberg from Woodland Valley"

John Burroughs sits at his old desk at the West Settlement schoolhouse while a group of schoolgirls stand facing him

John Burroughs burial place with Anna Tweed McQueston Johnson (Clifton Johnson's wife) standing on hillside. Caption on reverse reads "John Burroughs burial place beside 'boyhood rock'"

A small wooden shack sits among the trees. Caption on reverse "New York Catskills Roxbury sugarhouse at the edge of the Burroughs sap-bush."

John Burroughs at Riverby packing grapes into wooden crates. Caption on reverse reads "He was an official fruit farmer, and here he is getting grapes ready for the city markets.

John Burroughs sits writing at the desk he made at Slabsides. Caption on reverse reads "A busy day at Slabsides"