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Boltwood Historical and Genealogical Room.jpg
The Boltwood Room. Caption on reverse reads, "The Boltwood Room- a genealogical and historical collection, once owned by the Boltwood family."

jones_library_childrens_room_amherst_house.jpg
View of the busy children's room of the Jones Library when the library was located in the Amherst House hotel.

jones_library_director_office.jpg
Office of the director of the Jones Library.

jones_library_former_amherst_room.jpg
The former Amherst Room which was converted to the Sidney Waugh room (now housing Technical Services) in 1968.This room once housed the library’s local authors collection, the Amherst imprint collection, and miscellaneous local history materials.

jones_library_front_hallway.jpg
This is the front hallway of the Jones Library before the renovation in the early 1990s.

jones_library_193307_garden.jpg
The garden behind Jones Library. Caption on reverse reads, "Jones Library Garden July 1933"

fish_edwina_fish37_jones_library_girls.jpg
Three young women sitting in comraderie the remains of a picnic in front of them. Notation reads, "J. L. girls, L to R, Kane, Powers, Fish." Probably Annise B. Kane, Frances Powers, Dorothy M. Fish. All three women were employed by the Jones Library…

jones_library_amherst_house_hotel.jpg
Exterior of the Amherst House Hotel. The Jones Library was housed on the second floor until the building burned in 1926.

jones_library_1932_cars_outside.jpg
The exterior of The Jones Library in the 1930s with 3 cars parked outside. Caption on reverse reads, "c. 1932"

jones_library_192701_whipple_house.jpg
The Whipple House, which once housed the Jones Library. "Jan 1927" is written on the bottom right of the photo.

jones_library_newspaper_room.jpg
Newspaper room in Jones Library, prior to 1968

jones_library_renovation.jpg
Construction on the addition to The Jones Library in the early 1990's.

jones_library_19271203_under_construction.jpg
Jones Library under construction with a car parked in front and Mr. Dolan, the architect standing in front. The caption on the reverse reads, "Taken from the south side of Amity street looking North. Mr. Dolan (French Canadian) foreman, standing in…

Parking and Jones Library 1928.jpg
View of the east side of the library and the First National Bank with street parking for both cars and horses.

JL_before_Peoples_Bank.jpg
The front of Jones Library in the background, with the parking lot across the street in the foreground
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