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View across the south end of the Town Common showing Amherst College buildings.

View across the south end of the Town Common showing Amherst College buildings.

Meadow being prepared for planting using oxen-drawn cultivator.

Large group of Amherst College students posing on steps outside a large building.

View of the Amherst College well with Charles Thompson, an African American male, and employee of the College, standing beside it.

View of an African American male (possibly Charles Thompson) standing by the Amherst College well, drinking water.

View of the sunken, grassy, and fenced-in south end of the Town Common with Amherst College's College Hill in the background. Stated in "The History of the Town of Amherst, Massachusetts" by Carpenter and Morehouse: "North of College Hill the common…

View of the very grassy south end of the Town Common with the Amherst College Octagon and other college buildings, and the end of Boltwood Avenue, visible in the background. Stated in "The History of the Town of Amherst, Massachusetts" by Carpenter…

This building was erected in 1855 and was named for the Hon. Samuel Appleton. It contained the Hitchcock Ichnological Collection, the Gilbert Museum of Indian Relics, and the Adams Zoological Collection.

Rows of glass display cases in a long room with the display of the Ichnological Collection and an elephant mural on the far wall.

View of the exterior of Appleton Cabinet. This building was erected in 1855 and was named for the Hon. Samuel Appleton. It contained the Hitchcock Ichnological Collection, the Gilbert Museum of Indian Relics, and the Adams Zoological Collection.

View of the exterior of Appleton Cabinet. This building was erected in 1855 and was named for the Hon. Samuel Appleton. It contained the Hitchcock Ichnological Collection, the Gilbert Museum of Indian Relics, and the Adams Zoological Collection.

View of the exterior of Appleton Cabinet. This building was erected in 1855 and was named for the Hon. Samuel Appleton. It contained the Hitchcock Ichnological Collection, the Gilbert Museum of Indian Relics, and the Adams Zoological Collection.

Rows of glass display cases in a long room with a dinosaur skeleton and a Native American mural on the far wall.

Rows of glass display cases in a long room with an elephant mural on the far wall.