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Military drill on M.A.C. fields
Military drill performance on the Massachusetts Agricultural College fields. Soldiers are lined up in rows.
Marine Corps Band, Drum and Bugle Corps, Recognition Weekend parade
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…
Letter to Mary Boltwood
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…
Fort Ticonderoga controlled the route between the Hudson River Valley and Canada in the wars…
Letter to Major General Shepard about Shays' Rebellion
Dr. Erastus Sargeant writes to Major General William Shepard describing being captured by Shays' Regulators as they attack and loot the town of Stockbridge. They are defeated during a final bloody encounter with government militia at Sheffield, MA on…
Jeffery Amherst letter to Lt. Col. Bradstreet, March 5, 1759
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…
Honored dead
Clipping from the Hampshire and Franklin Express describing the Civil War deaths of men from Amherst including a mention of Frazar Stearns, the son of the President of Amherst College.
E. F. Strickland's tedious trip
Article from a Springfield newspaper about the journey to retrieve the body of Walter Mason Dickinson after his death in Cuba during the Spanish-American War.
Drill Hall at Massachusetts Agricultural College
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…
Drill Hall at Massachusetts Agricultural College
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…
Drill Hall at Massachusetts Agricultural College
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…
Conkey's Tavern in Pelham
Front view of Conkey's Tavern in Pelham.
Conkey's Tavern in Pelham
Front and left-side view of dilapidated Conkey's Tavern showing the gently rolling hill it rests upon.
Conkey's Tavern in Pelham
Front view of dilapidated Conkey's Tavern in Pelham.
Conkey's Tavern and outbuilding
View of dilapidated Conkey's Tavern showing the lean-to which housed the kitchen in back. Excerpted from short history on back of photograph: "This historic tavern was built in 1758 by William Conkey, in the deep valley, midway between Pelham East…
College Hall at Massachusetts Agricultural College
Built in 1869, this structure housed the chemistry lab, a chapel, and a military hall and armory. It burned in September of 1922.