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Color photograph of vendors with food carts on the sidewalk near Unitarian Universalist Society. One vendor sells burritos and the other sells apples and juices.

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

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 poet Robert Francis in a suit and jacket, wearing a tie

Civil War veterans standing at attention on the east side of the Town Common. This is probably a Memorial Day event which followed a similar program for many years: speeches in the schools, speeches at various locations in area towns where the local…

Procession of Civil War veterans marching north on South Pleasant Street. They are preceded by a band and marshall and followed by a group of women or children and a group of carriages pulled by horses. This is probably a Memorial Day event which…

View toward the west from the top of Mount Pleasant, looking out over an orchard.

Deed from Ebenezer Kellogg of Hadley to Nathaniel Smith of Hadley conveying tract of land in the second division of the Third Precinct (now Amherst).

Hudson Maxim sitting with a girl, possibly his granddaughter Doris, on his lap as they are looking at each other.

Image of several tiny islands, each with a house on it and several boats moored between the shore and the islands. A group of people are sitting in a boat going towards the islands and boats.

A lighthouse and the keeper's home next to it with a stone wall protecting it from the waves. A schooner sails just off shore.

Letter written from Samuel Minot Jones to his brother while Samuel was camped on the battlefield at Sugar Creek, Arkansas. Details how the Union won the pivotal Civil War battle at Pea Ridge despite being outnumbered three to one by Confederate…

The bookmark from The Jones Library features the library's hours, including the hours for the Special Collections department, as well as a poem, "Balance," by Robert Francis.

The press release describes the event for Robert Francis at The Jones Library on August 12, 1986 celebrating the poet's 85th birthday. Richard Wilbur, Henry Lyman, Joseph Langland, and Andrew Salkey were among those scheduled to read the poems of…

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