Air Force A-10 jets, Recognition Weekend
Parades -- Massachusetts -- Amherst
Amherst (Mass.)
Air Force A-10 jets flying low over North Pleasant Street during the military parade for Recognition Weekend, an event organized at UMass in mid-July, 1986. The event was designed as a vehicle to honor veterans. It drew a large number of people interested in balancing the military display with a message of peace.
Martin, John H.
Jones Library Special Collections
1986-07-19
Rights held by John H. Martin
Is part of the John H. and Anthony Martin Photograph Collection, Jones Library Special Collections
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Photographs
MAR0076
Buddhist Peace Fellowship members
Peace
Children and peace
Buddhists
Amherst (Mass.)
Members of the Buddhist Peace Fellowship preparing to march along with the military parade for Recognition Weekend, an event organized at UMass in mid-July, 1986. The event was designed as a vehicle to honor veterans. It drew a large number of people interested in balancing the military display with a message of peace.
Martin, John H.
Jones Library Special Collections
1986
Rights held by John H. Martin
Is part of the John H. and Anthony Martin Photograph Collection, Jones Library Special Collections
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English
Photographs
MAR0065
Civil War veterans on Amherst Town Common
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865; Veterans
Amherst (Mass.)
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 Civil War veterans gathered en masse, a luncheon, and finally, a gathering of the veterans on the Amherst Common followed by a procession to the West Cemetery where there were more exercises. This photograph may have been taken in 1911, the 50-year anniversary of the start of the Civil War.
Kenfield, Charles R.
Jones Library Special Collections
Circa 1911
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Folder: Kenfield -- Group portraits
College Hall at Massachusetts Agricultural College
Amherst (Mass.)
Built in 1869, this structure housed the chemistry lab, a chapel, and a military hall and armory. It burned in September of 1922.
Lovell, John L., 1825-1903
Jones Library Special Collections
Circa 1871
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LOV0414
Drill Hall at Massachusetts Agricultural College
Amherst (Mass.)
View of the drill hall with three cannons on the lawn. From Handbook of Amherst by Frederick H. Hitchcock (1894): The drill Hall was erected in 1883, at an expenditure of $6500. The Armory, at the right of the entrance, contains the arms furnished by the state to the college corps of cadets. The main hall is 123 feet long and 48 feet wide, and has an asphalt floor. It is heated by a hot-water system, introduced in 1888. This comfortable winter quarters of the corps is used by the students as a gymnasium. The second floor of the building contains the commandant's office, and a recitation room for the classes in military tactics science. A short stairway leads into the tower of the building. On the campus adjoining this building are earthworks for use in mortar practice -- a part of the regular military training of the college.
Lovell, John L., 1825-1903
Amherst the village beautiful, cultured and literary/Amherst House hotel par excellence [brochure]. Springfield, Mass. : John C. Otto, printer, n.d.
Jones Library Special Collections
Circa 1900
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LOV0046
Drill Hall at Massachusetts Agricultural College
Amherst (Mass.)
View of the drill hall with one cannon on the lawn. From Handbook of Amherst by Frederick H. Hitchcock (1894): The drill Hall was erected in 1883, at an expenditure of $6500. The Armory, at the right of the entrance, contains the arms furnished by the state to the college corps of cadets. The main hall is 123 feet long and 48 feet wide, and has an asphalt floor. It is heated by a hot-water system, introduced in 1888. This comfortable winter quarters of the corps is used by the students as a gymnasium. The second floor of the building contains the commandant's office, and a recitation room for the classes in military tactics science. A short stairway leads into the tower of the building. On the campus adjoining this building are earthworks for use in mortar practice -- a part of the regular military training of the college.
Lovell, John L., 1825-1903
Jones Library Special Collections
Circa 1883
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LOV0415
Drill Hall at Massachusetts Agricultural College
Amherst (Mass.)
View of the drill hall with three cannons on the lawn. From Handbook of Amherst by Frederick H. Hitchcock (1894): The drill Hall was erected in 1883, at an expenditure of $6500. The Armory, at the right of the entrance, contains the arms furnished by the state to the college corps of cadets. The main hall is 123 feet long and 48 feet wide, and has an asphalt floor. It is heated by a hot-water system, introduced in 1888. This comfortable winter quarters of the corps is used by the students as a gymnasium. The second floor of the building contains the commandant's office, and a recitation room for the classes in military tactics science. A short stairway leads into the tower of the building. On the campus adjoining this building are earthworks for use in mortar practice -- a part of the regular military training of the college.
Lovell, John L., 1825-1903
Jones Library Special Collections
Circa 1883
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LOV0435
Jeffery Amherst letter to Lt. Col. Bradstreet, March 5, 1759
Amherst, Jeffery Amherst, Baron, 1717-1797
United States -- History -- French and Indian War, 1755-1763
Bradstreet, John, 1711-1774
Letter from Jeffery Amherst to Lt. Col. John Bradstreet regarding construction of boats, hire and pay of laborers, and finance for military campaign, March 5, 1759. Several months later Amherst successfully captured Fort Ticonderoga on the Hudson River from the French.
In this letter the word "battoes" means bateaux -- a long, tapering, flat-bottomed, river boat.
Amherst, Jeffery Amherst, Baron, 1717-1797
Jones Library Special Collections
1759-03-05
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Correspondence
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Letter to Mary Boltwood
United States -- History -- French and Indian War, 1755-1763
Letter to Mary Boltwood from her husband on the day before he says he is to set sail with a large contingent of soldiers, from Lake George to Ticonderoga.
Fort Ticonderoga controlled the route between the Hudson River Valley and Canada in the wars of the eighteenth century. In 1755, Ticonderoga (Fort Carillon to the French) was built by the French on a military road on an Indian portage between the two lakes. The area then became an active place of fighting between the Indians, French, British, and Americans. General Jeffery Amherst captured the fort in late July, 1759, several weeks after this letter was written.
Letter is incomplete. In this letter the word "battos" means "bateaux" -- a long, tapering, flat-bottomed river boat.
Jones Library Special Collections
1758-07-05
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Marine Corps Band, Drum and Bugle Corps, Recognition Weekend parade
Parades -- Massachusetts -- Amherst
Amherst (Mass.)
Marine Corps band which marched in the military parade for Recognition Weekend, an event organized at UMass in mid-July, 1986. The event was designed as a vehicle to honor veterans. It drew a large number of people interested in balancing the military display with a message of peace.
Martin, John H.
Jones Library Special Collections
1986
Rights held by John H. Martin
Is part of the John H. and Anthony Martin Photograph Collection, Jones Library Special Collections
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English
Photographs
MAR75
Military drill on M.A.C. fields
Drill and minor tactics
Amherst (Mass.)
Military drill performance on the Massachusetts Agricultural College fields. Soldiers are lined up in rows.
Scott, Edgar T., 1858-1940
Jones Library Special Collections
Circa 1900
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Is part of the Edgar Scott Postcard Collection. Jones Library Special Collections.
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SPC618
Military training at Massachusetts Agricultural College
Military education
Amherst (Mass.)
Group of Massachusetts Agricultural College students in military drill formation around three cannons.
Lovell, John L., 1825-1903
Jones Library Special Collections
Before 1903
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LOV0465
Nuclear disarmament demonstration on Amherst Common
Nuclear disarmament
Amherst (Mass.)
Demonstration for nuclear disarmament on the Town Common.
Martin, John H.
Jones Library Special Collections
1986
Rights held by John H. Martin
Is part of the John H. and Anthony Martin Photograph Collection, Jones Library Special Collections
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Photographs
MAR0071
Peace marchers, Recognition Weekend parade
Parades -- Massachusetts -- Amherst
Amherst (Mass.)
Peace activists marching along with the military parade for Recognition Weekend, an event organized at UMass in mid-July, 1986. The event was designed as a vehicle to honor veterans. It drew a large number of people interested in balancing the military display with a message of peace.
Martin, John H.
Jones Library Special Collections
1986-07-19
Rights held by John H. Martin
Is part of the John H. and Anthony Martin Photograph Collection, Jones Library Special Collections
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English
Photographs
MAR0067
Peace vigil on Amherst Common
Peace
Nuclear disarmament
Amherst (Mass.)
Peace vigil which had been held for many years from noon to 1:00 p.m. on the Town Common since 1966.
Martin, John H.
Jones Library Special Collections
1986
Rights held by John H. Martin
Is part of the John H. and Anthony Martin Photograph Collection, Jones Library Special Collections
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English
Photographs
MAR0071