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Former Curator of Special Collections, Dan Lombardo, peruses a large map.

Map of the county of Hampshire, Massachusetts, based upon the trigonometrical survey of the state, the details from actual surveys under the direction of Henry F. Walling.

Map of the county of Hampshire, Massachusetts, based upon the trigonometrical survey of the state, the details from actual surveys under the direction of Henry F. Walling

This beautifully engraved and colored map represents an English version of the Jansson-Visscher series of maps of northeastern North America. Since it was published shortly after the expulsion of the Dutch from New York, the map displays geographical…

Entrance to the Munson Memorial Library building shaded by a large maple tree.

View of the Amherst College Beta Theta Pi fraternity house. It stood on the corner of Maple Avenue (now Boltwood Avenue) and College Street. It was demolished in 1914 to make way for the new Beta Theta Pi house.

View of the Amherst College Beta Theta Pi fraternity house. It stood on the corner of Maple Avenue (now Boltwood Avenue) and College Street. It was demolished in 1914 to make way for the new Beta Theta Pi house.

View of a classroom with benches as seating for students and a podium in front. The walls are filled with pictures and a large map. Richard Henry Mather was a professor of Greek language and literature at Amherst College from 1859 to 1890.

View of a classroom with benches as seating for students and a podium in front. The walls are filled with pictures and a large map. Richard Henry Mather was a professor of Greek language and literature at Amherst College from 1859 to 1890.

View from the south end of Town Common looking north along Maple Avenue (now Boltwood Avenue).

A painting of a girl standing with her back facing the illustrator wearing a hat and a white dress. She is looking up with both hands raised looking at a bean bag in the air, preparing to catch it. A hand-written copy of Bean Bag Song, a poem by…

Pen and ink drawing of the world map from Gulliver's travels. Numbered notes on drawing correspond to locations on the map. 1) Lilliputia, as described in the book, would be in southern Australia. 2) This was about where Gulliver came to land in…

Sketch of the map from Gulliver's Travels drawn on tracing paper.

A black girl stands next to a desk with a man sitting on a chair. He is holding a pen and they are both looking at a notebook resting on the desk in between them. A world map hangs on the wall in front of them and a calendar and portraits hang on the…

A white woman stands at the door of a wooden house resting her right hand on the frame, looks at a second woman, identified as Anna McTweed Johnson. A shed to the right of the of the house has two signs, one reading: "PELGIAN HARES FOR SALE HERE" and…