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Blueberries and green apples for sale at the 2005 Amherst Farmers' Market.

View of the wooden walkway and plants inside Durfee Plant House at Massachusetts Agricultural College in Amherst.

Three white men and two women on a boat nearing the Giant's Causeway. One man rows while another stands near the women and the third is about to jump out of the boat. Hills are hazily visible in the background.

Two white boys with their shoe shine boxes over their shoulders stand at the edge of a dock watching the unloading of a large white merchant ship moored near a large wooden building with the sign "Pier No. 12" above its large open doors.

Two men stand on a pier, one with his hand on a boat. A second boat approaches them while a third boat is moored on the shore by a large tree. The North End bridge visible in the distance.

A view of a peat bog with hills rising in the background.

Pen and ink illustration of a schoolhouse with smoke coming from the chimney and a thatch roof.

A man stands looking at the camera holding a jug while a woman stands churns a bucket suspended over a fire by a stone wall. Shrubs visible on the right and behind the stone wall.

A girl, identified as Hettie Johnson, pouring sap into a tray to boil down. A boy, identified as Oscar Johnson is kneeling down tending the fire. They are in a backyard, next to a tree with a shovel and a broom resting against it. A barn is visible…

A view of a lake with trees filling up the shore on the left in the middle ground and background. A tree-filled island is in the center of the lake. A small wooden pier is in the foreground and mountains rise in the background.

Scan of layout for building as a school complex.

Image of interior of the Boltwood historical room, circa 1968. Showing bookshelves lining the walls, a large window showing sun as the blinds are drawn, and two comfortable seats with table in their center, as well as a stand alone chair and a couch…

This house was built by Samuel Boltwood around 1728. Several different families owned the property over the years until 1864 when the farm was purchased for the Massachusetts Agricultural College. Levi Stockbridge lived in this house beginning in…

Booker T. Washington stands over a pig patting its back in a fenced field holding a bucket in his left hand. A calf is partly in shot on the right and farm buildings are visible behind the fence.

Caption from back: "A boy and his father picking strawberries down South. The man is Booker T. Washington, the most famous Negro educator and orator that America has produced. Work in the garden with David was one of his recreations."