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New York March y(?) 5th 1759.
Sir
I have received your letter of
the 26th of February, since which date the
Carpenters will undoubtedly have very soon
arrived at Albany, as they were dispatched
from hence at the intended time.
I have advertised that the
advance money for the Battoes men should be
paid on the 20th of march instead of the 10th
(something?) as you will see by the enclosed. The
difference of time for the ox team drivers &
waggoners is so small that I have made no alteration in that.
As all the Persons who were
to enter into this service are to send their
names to you as by the first advertisements,
I think it is better you should either send a
proper Person or fix(?) on any one you may
Lt Col Bradstreet D J(?) Master General know
[page 2]
know at or near the Towns where the
advance pay is to be issued, who may be
a proper Judge, and will take care that none
may receive the advance pay but such as
appear fit for the service, and of course
are under the Captains who will have
applyed to you, they are afterwards to be
reviewed by proper officers at Albany.
Captain Lowning(?) is at present
employed in building whale Boats intended
for the service of Troops in the Transport Ships.
I would be prepared for every thing that the
Situation of the Enemy and the numbers of
His Majestys Troops which are to act this
Campaign may put in my Power to attempt,
I have named the 10th of April to press
things forward as much as I can, and I would
begin to act from the first moment that the
season(?) will permit, at the same time I am
to tell you in confidence that the time prescribed
to me from England is the first of may,
and as that will give you time for building
Battoes at Albany, for any service that may be
[page 3]
hearafter thought proper to execute(?) by the
Lake ontario, I shall be very glad that you
will be prepared for it, as you will have the
workmen with you. this will take off
a very great expence that would be incurred
in building them at Boston, Capt Lowning(?) may
finish what he is about there, and then I think
the sooner he comes to Albany the better.
I have given a warrant to you
on Mr Mortier(?) for £3000, that he may give
you the necessary credit for paying the advance
Pay to the Battoes men vea.(?) and as Mr.
Normandy has acquainted me he waited for
your orders, I send him to you with this which
will be quicker than the Post, and give you
time for sending proper People to the Towns
where the Battoes Men yea(?) are to repair.
The Purchases of oxen & Horses
must yet remain some little time for no money
is come, you will however be prepared and
at a certainty where to have them when
called for.
I send you a copy of another
advertisement I have though proper to
[page 4]
to publish, that the country people may
not suffer through any Ignorance of not
knowing where to apply
Mr Mortier(?) has just now
Lent me a Bill of exchange for £1000, and
he will write to you and give you proper
credit for the £2000 remaining of the warrant
I have signed. The Draft for £1000 (something?)
(something) currency is enclosed herewith. as I will not detain Mr.
Normandy, but that he may set off directly I shall
only write a few Lines to (something) General Gage.
You will therefore be so good to shew him
this letter with the enclosed advertisements.
I am with great truth
Sir
Your most humble
and most obedient servant
Jeff: Amherst
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Jeffery Amherst letter to Lt. Col. Bradstreet, March 5, 1759
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Amherst, Jeffery Amherst, Baron, 1717-1797
United States -- History -- French and Indian War, 1755-1763
Bradstreet, John, 1711-1774
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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.
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Amherst, Jeffery Amherst, Baron, 1717-1797
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Jones Library Special Collections
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1759-03-05
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application/pdf
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English
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Folder: Amherst, Jeffery--Correspondence
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Correspondence
1700s
1750s
1759 and Before
French and Indian War
Military
War Peace and Human Rights
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Edgar Scott Postcard Collection
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Edgar Scott (1857-1940) was a photographer and printer in the Amherst and Northampton areas. He was born on Martha’s Vineyard and, as an Amherst resident, worked in a local hat factory. He took up photography in retirement and was an originator of the picture postcard. He specialized in photographic views of architecture and social events around the Amherst area around the turn of the century.
The bulk of the images are from about 1897 to approximately 1924. Many of his postcards have color applied to them. Beyond the images digitized here, the collection at the Scott Collection at the Jones library includes 157 5 x 7 in. glass plate negatives; 44 5x7 in. nitrate negatives; over 200 prints; c.350 picture postcards (no negatives for postcards).
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Photograph; Postcard
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3 x 5 in.
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SPC618
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Scott, Edgar T., 1858-1940
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Circa 1900
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Military drill performance on the Massachusetts Agricultural College fields. Soldiers are lined up in rows.
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English
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Jones Library Special Collections
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Drill and minor tactics
Amherst (Mass.)
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Military drill on M.A.C. fields
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Photographs
1900s
Military
UMASS
War Peace and Human Rights
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Lake George, July the 5th 1758
Loving wife after my love to you and the children I would inform you that I am well through the goodness of God as I pray thes lines may find you and all the family. I would inform you that our battos are loded and that our orders are to set sail to morrow morning by daylite for Ticondoroga. There is 15 thousand to go in battos and I expct no opertunity to wright to you anymore til the batel is over. But being ingrate hast can't in large on anything. give my love to all enquireing frinds. Give my duty to Mr. Parsons and I desire on interest? in the prayrs of old friends at the throne of grace for me that I may be prepared from deth when? ------- and that I may be kept from sin and all ear......
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Letter to Mary Boltwood
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United States -- History -- French and Indian War, 1755-1763
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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.
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Jones Library Special Collections
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1758-07-05
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image/jpg
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English
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Correspondence
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Folder: Boltwood, Mary -- Letter
1700s
1750s
1759 and Before
French and Indian War
Military
War Peace and Human Rights
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William Boltwood bond, September 4, 1776
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American loyalists; United States -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783
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Bond given by William Boltwood, Josiah Moody and Ebenezer Mattoon to Elisha Porter, sheriff of Hampshire County, for 100 pounds of lawful money guaranteeing Boltwood's continued imprisonment and safekeeping in the Northampton jail until lawfully discharged. Boltwood was a prominent Amherst Tory.
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Jones Library Special Collections
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1776-09-04
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Folder: Boltwood, William -- Bond
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Manuscripts
1700s
1770s
Revolutionary War
War Peace and Human Rights
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William Boltwood letter, August 5, 1775
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American loyalists
United States -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783
Amherst (Mass.)
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Letter from William Boltwood to the Amherst Committee of Correspondence asking to be restored to public favor and endorsing measures taken by the Continental Congress.
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Boltwood, William
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Jones Library Special Collections
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1775-08-05
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Folder: Boltwood, William -- Letter
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Correspondence
1700s
1770s
Revolutionary War
War Peace and Human Rights
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John L. Lovell Collection
Description
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John L. Lovell (1825-1903) was a professional photographer. He came to Amherst in 1856 and established the Amherst Picture Gallery, the first photographic studio in Western Massachusetts. In addition to studio work, Lovell was interested in scientific photography, accompanying an Amherst College astronomical team to California in 1882, as well as photographing Connecticut Valley geological features.
His photos provide the best visual documentation from the 1860s to the 1890s of the successive transitions Amherst made from an agricultural town, to an industrial one, and finally, to a town known chiefly for its educational institutions. Moreover, Lovell’s images provide the best visual available documentation of Emily Dickinson’s community. Early images of the Dickinson houses, the streets, shops, and businesses the family knew intimately – all are found within this very important collection.
John L. Lovell Collection (ca. 1860s – ca. 1890s) can be seen in its entirety at the Jones Library. It includes negatives; 59 stereopticon views of Amherst; 40 cartes de visite; and 1200 prints. The collection includes the first surviving photos of Amherst. Subjects include Amherst and the Connecticut Valley, especially architecture, businesses, construction, etc. Biographical reviews in local newspapers of the day; advertisements for his business and other materials accompany the photographs. The cartes de visite are significant because of extensive collateral material in the manuscript collection.
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Photograph
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2.6 x 3 in.
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good
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LOV0046
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Lovell, John L., 1825-1903
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Circa 1900
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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.
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image/jpeg
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English
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Jones Library Special Collections
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Is part of the John Lovell Photograph Collection. Jones Library Special Collections
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Amherst the village beautiful, cultured and literary/Amherst House hotel par excellence [brochure]. Springfield, Mass. : John C. Otto, printer, n.d.
Title
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Drill Hall at Massachusetts Agricultural College
Subject
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Amherst (Mass.)
Type
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Photographs
1900s
Military
UMASS
War Peace and Human Rights
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John L. Lovell Collection
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An account of the resource
John L. Lovell (1825-1903) was a professional photographer. He came to Amherst in 1856 and established the Amherst Picture Gallery, the first photographic studio in Western Massachusetts. In addition to studio work, Lovell was interested in scientific photography, accompanying an Amherst College astronomical team to California in 1882, as well as photographing Connecticut Valley geological features.
His photos provide the best visual documentation from the 1860s to the 1890s of the successive transitions Amherst made from an agricultural town, to an industrial one, and finally, to a town known chiefly for its educational institutions. Moreover, Lovell’s images provide the best visual available documentation of Emily Dickinson’s community. Early images of the Dickinson houses, the streets, shops, and businesses the family knew intimately – all are found within this very important collection.
John L. Lovell Collection (ca. 1860s – ca. 1890s) can be seen in its entirety at the Jones Library. It includes negatives; 59 stereopticon views of Amherst; 40 cartes de visite; and 1200 prints. The collection includes the first surviving photos of Amherst. Subjects include Amherst and the Connecticut Valley, especially architecture, businesses, construction, etc. Biographical reviews in local newspapers of the day; advertisements for his business and other materials accompany the photographs. The cartes de visite are significant because of extensive collateral material in the manuscript collection.
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Photograph
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2.1 x 3.6 in.
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LOV0414
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Lovell, John L., 1825-1903
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Circa 1871
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Built in 1869, this structure housed the chemistry lab, a chapel, and a military hall and armory. It burned in September of 1922.
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English
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Jones Library Special Collections
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Is part of the John Lovell Photograph Collection. Jones Library Special Collections
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Title
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College Hall at Massachusetts Agricultural College
Subject
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Amherst (Mass.)
Type
The nature or genre of the resource
Photographs
1870s
Education
Military
UMASS
War Peace and Human Rights
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John L. Lovell Collection
Description
An account of the resource
John L. Lovell (1825-1903) was a professional photographer. He came to Amherst in 1856 and established the Amherst Picture Gallery, the first photographic studio in Western Massachusetts. In addition to studio work, Lovell was interested in scientific photography, accompanying an Amherst College astronomical team to California in 1882, as well as photographing Connecticut Valley geological features.
His photos provide the best visual documentation from the 1860s to the 1890s of the successive transitions Amherst made from an agricultural town, to an industrial one, and finally, to a town known chiefly for its educational institutions. Moreover, Lovell’s images provide the best visual available documentation of Emily Dickinson’s community. Early images of the Dickinson houses, the streets, shops, and businesses the family knew intimately – all are found within this very important collection.
John L. Lovell Collection (ca. 1860s – ca. 1890s) can be seen in its entirety at the Jones Library. It includes negatives; 59 stereopticon views of Amherst; 40 cartes de visite; and 1200 prints. The collection includes the first surviving photos of Amherst. Subjects include Amherst and the Connecticut Valley, especially architecture, businesses, construction, etc. Biographical reviews in local newspapers of the day; advertisements for his business and other materials accompany the photographs. The cartes de visite are significant because of extensive collateral material in the manuscript collection.
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Photograph
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2.2 x 3.7 in.
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LOV0415
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Lovell, John L., 1825-1903
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Circa 1883
Description
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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.
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image/jpeg
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English
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Jones Library Special Collections
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Is part of the John Lovell Photograph Collection. Jones Library Special Collections
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This digital file may be used for educational purposes, as long as it is not altered in any way. Prior written permission is required for any other use of the digital files from the Jones Library.
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Drill Hall at Massachusetts Agricultural College
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Amherst (Mass.)
Type
The nature or genre of the resource
Photographs
1880s
Education
Military
UMASS
War Peace and Human Rights
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John L. Lovell Collection
Description
An account of the resource
John L. Lovell (1825-1903) was a professional photographer. He came to Amherst in 1856 and established the Amherst Picture Gallery, the first photographic studio in Western Massachusetts. In addition to studio work, Lovell was interested in scientific photography, accompanying an Amherst College astronomical team to California in 1882, as well as photographing Connecticut Valley geological features.
His photos provide the best visual documentation from the 1860s to the 1890s of the successive transitions Amherst made from an agricultural town, to an industrial one, and finally, to a town known chiefly for its educational institutions. Moreover, Lovell’s images provide the best visual available documentation of Emily Dickinson’s community. Early images of the Dickinson houses, the streets, shops, and businesses the family knew intimately – all are found within this very important collection.
John L. Lovell Collection (ca. 1860s – ca. 1890s) can be seen in its entirety at the Jones Library. It includes negatives; 59 stereopticon views of Amherst; 40 cartes de visite; and 1200 prints. The collection includes the first surviving photos of Amherst. Subjects include Amherst and the Connecticut Valley, especially architecture, businesses, construction, etc. Biographical reviews in local newspapers of the day; advertisements for his business and other materials accompany the photographs. The cartes de visite are significant because of extensive collateral material in the manuscript collection.
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Photograph
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4.4 x 7.5 in.
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LOV0435
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Lovell, John L., 1825-1903
Date
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Circa 1883
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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.
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English
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Jones Library Special Collections
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Is part of the John Lovell Photograph Collection. Jones Library Special Collections
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Drill Hall at Massachusetts Agricultural College
Subject
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Amherst (Mass.)
Type
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Photographs
1880s
Education
Military
UMASS
War Peace and Human Rights
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John L. Lovell Collection
Description
An account of the resource
John L. Lovell (1825-1903) was a professional photographer. He came to Amherst in 1856 and established the Amherst Picture Gallery, the first photographic studio in Western Massachusetts. In addition to studio work, Lovell was interested in scientific photography, accompanying an Amherst College astronomical team to California in 1882, as well as photographing Connecticut Valley geological features.
His photos provide the best visual documentation from the 1860s to the 1890s of the successive transitions Amherst made from an agricultural town, to an industrial one, and finally, to a town known chiefly for its educational institutions. Moreover, Lovell’s images provide the best visual available documentation of Emily Dickinson’s community. Early images of the Dickinson houses, the streets, shops, and businesses the family knew intimately – all are found within this very important collection.
John L. Lovell Collection (ca. 1860s – ca. 1890s) can be seen in its entirety at the Jones Library. It includes negatives; 59 stereopticon views of Amherst; 40 cartes de visite; and 1200 prints. The collection includes the first surviving photos of Amherst. Subjects include Amherst and the Connecticut Valley, especially architecture, businesses, construction, etc. Biographical reviews in local newspapers of the day; advertisements for his business and other materials accompany the photographs. The cartes de visite are significant because of extensive collateral material in the manuscript collection.
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Photograph
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4.5 x 7.4 in.
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good
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LOV0465
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Lovell, John L., 1825-1903
Date
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Before 1903
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Group of Massachusetts Agricultural College students in military drill formation around three cannons.
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English
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Jones Library Special Collections
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Is part of the John Lovell Photograph Collection. Jones Library Special Collections
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Military education
Amherst (Mass.)
Title
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Military training at Massachusetts Agricultural College
Type
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Photographs
Education
Military
UMASS
War Peace and Human Rights
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John L. Lovell Collection
Description
An account of the resource
John L. Lovell (1825-1903) was a professional photographer. He came to Amherst in 1856 and established the Amherst Picture Gallery, the first photographic studio in Western Massachusetts. In addition to studio work, Lovell was interested in scientific photography, accompanying an Amherst College astronomical team to California in 1882, as well as photographing Connecticut Valley geological features.
His photos provide the best visual documentation from the 1860s to the 1890s of the successive transitions Amherst made from an agricultural town, to an industrial one, and finally, to a town known chiefly for its educational institutions. Moreover, Lovell’s images provide the best visual available documentation of Emily Dickinson’s community. Early images of the Dickinson houses, the streets, shops, and businesses the family knew intimately – all are found within this very important collection.
John L. Lovell Collection (ca. 1860s – ca. 1890s) can be seen in its entirety at the Jones Library. It includes negatives; 59 stereopticon views of Amherst; 40 cartes de visite; and 1200 prints. The collection includes the first surviving photos of Amherst. Subjects include Amherst and the Connecticut Valley, especially architecture, businesses, construction, etc. Biographical reviews in local newspapers of the day; advertisements for his business and other materials accompany the photographs. The cartes de visite are significant because of extensive collateral material in the manuscript collection.
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Photograph
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4.25 x 7.5 in.
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good
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Identifier
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LOV0474
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Lovell, John L., 1825-1903
Date
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Circa 1883
Description
An account of the resource
Front view of dilapidated Conkey's Tavern in Pelham.
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English
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Jones Library Special Collections
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Conkey's Tavern in Pelham
Subject
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Pelham (Mass.)
Type
The nature or genre of the resource
Photographs
Shays Rebellion
Taverns
War Peace and Human Rights
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John L. Lovell Collection
Description
An account of the resource
John L. Lovell (1825-1903) was a professional photographer. He came to Amherst in 1856 and established the Amherst Picture Gallery, the first photographic studio in Western Massachusetts. In addition to studio work, Lovell was interested in scientific photography, accompanying an Amherst College astronomical team to California in 1882, as well as photographing Connecticut Valley geological features.
His photos provide the best visual documentation from the 1860s to the 1890s of the successive transitions Amherst made from an agricultural town, to an industrial one, and finally, to a town known chiefly for its educational institutions. Moreover, Lovell’s images provide the best visual available documentation of Emily Dickinson’s community. Early images of the Dickinson houses, the streets, shops, and businesses the family knew intimately – all are found within this very important collection.
John L. Lovell Collection (ca. 1860s – ca. 1890s) can be seen in its entirety at the Jones Library. It includes negatives; 59 stereopticon views of Amherst; 40 cartes de visite; and 1200 prints. The collection includes the first surviving photos of Amherst. Subjects include Amherst and the Connecticut Valley, especially architecture, businesses, construction, etc. Biographical reviews in local newspapers of the day; advertisements for his business and other materials accompany the photographs. The cartes de visite are significant because of extensive collateral material in the manuscript collection.
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Photograph
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4.25 x 7.5 in.
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good
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Identifier
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LOV0475
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Lovell, John L., 1825-1903
Date
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Circa 1883
Description
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Front and left-side view of dilapidated Conkey's Tavern showing the gently rolling hill it rests upon.
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English
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Jones Library Special Collections
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Conkey's Tavern in Pelham
Subject
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Pelham (Mass.)
Type
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Photographs
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Provenance
gift Mrs. Leach, North Amherst, 6/1/1931
Shays Rebellion
Taverns
War Peace and Human Rights
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Title
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John L. Lovell Collection
Description
An account of the resource
John L. Lovell (1825-1903) was a professional photographer. He came to Amherst in 1856 and established the Amherst Picture Gallery, the first photographic studio in Western Massachusetts. In addition to studio work, Lovell was interested in scientific photography, accompanying an Amherst College astronomical team to California in 1882, as well as photographing Connecticut Valley geological features.
His photos provide the best visual documentation from the 1860s to the 1890s of the successive transitions Amherst made from an agricultural town, to an industrial one, and finally, to a town known chiefly for its educational institutions. Moreover, Lovell’s images provide the best visual available documentation of Emily Dickinson’s community. Early images of the Dickinson houses, the streets, shops, and businesses the family knew intimately – all are found within this very important collection.
John L. Lovell Collection (ca. 1860s – ca. 1890s) can be seen in its entirety at the Jones Library. It includes negatives; 59 stereopticon views of Amherst; 40 cartes de visite; and 1200 prints. The collection includes the first surviving photos of Amherst. Subjects include Amherst and the Connecticut Valley, especially architecture, businesses, construction, etc. Biographical reviews in local newspapers of the day; advertisements for his business and other materials accompany the photographs. The cartes de visite are significant because of extensive collateral material in the manuscript collection.
Still Image
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Photograph
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3 x 3.75 in.
Condition
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good
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Title
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Conkey's Tavern in Pelham
Description
An account of the resource
Front view of Conkey's Tavern in Pelham.
Creator
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Lovell, John L., 1825-1903
Publisher
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Jones Library Special Collections
Rights
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This digital file may be used for educational purposes, as long as it is not altered in any way. Prior written permission is required for any other use of the digital files from the Jones Library.
Relation
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Is part of the John Lovell Photograph Collection. Jones Library Special Collections
Format
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image/jpeg
Language
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English
Identifier
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LOV0476
Date
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Circa 1883
Subject
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Pelham (Mass.)
Type
The nature or genre of the resource
Photographs
Shays Rebellion
Taverns
War Peace and Human Rights
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Title
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John L. Lovell Collection
Description
An account of the resource
John L. Lovell (1825-1903) was a professional photographer. He came to Amherst in 1856 and established the Amherst Picture Gallery, the first photographic studio in Western Massachusetts. In addition to studio work, Lovell was interested in scientific photography, accompanying an Amherst College astronomical team to California in 1882, as well as photographing Connecticut Valley geological features.
His photos provide the best visual documentation from the 1860s to the 1890s of the successive transitions Amherst made from an agricultural town, to an industrial one, and finally, to a town known chiefly for its educational institutions. Moreover, Lovell’s images provide the best visual available documentation of Emily Dickinson’s community. Early images of the Dickinson houses, the streets, shops, and businesses the family knew intimately – all are found within this very important collection.
John L. Lovell Collection (ca. 1860s – ca. 1890s) can be seen in its entirety at the Jones Library. It includes negatives; 59 stereopticon views of Amherst; 40 cartes de visite; and 1200 prints. The collection includes the first surviving photos of Amherst. Subjects include Amherst and the Connecticut Valley, especially architecture, businesses, construction, etc. Biographical reviews in local newspapers of the day; advertisements for his business and other materials accompany the photographs. The cartes de visite are significant because of extensive collateral material in the manuscript collection.
Still Image
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Original Format
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Photograph
Physical Dimensions
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4.25 x 7.5 in.
Condition
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good
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Identifier
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LOV0477
Creator
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Lovell, John L., 1825-1903
Date
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Circa 1883
Description
An account of the resource
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 and West hills and near the west branch of Swift River, which was made the boundary between Pelham and Prescott when the latter was incorporated in 1822. Capt. Daniel Shays, the leader of the famous Shays Rebellion, lived half a mile distant up toward East hill, his house and the tavern being on the "Center range" road running due east and west through Pelham. It was at this tavern beside the wide open fireplaces of Landlord Conkey and by his well-stocked bar, that Shays met the debt-burdened yeomanry in 1786-7."
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image/jpeg
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English
Publisher
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Jones Library Special Collections
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Is part of the John Lovell Photograph Collection. Jones Library Special Collections
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Subject
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Shays' Rebellion, 1786-1787
Pelham (Mass.)
Title
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Conkey's Tavern and outbuilding
Type
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Photographs
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Provenance
E.W.C.
Shays Rebellion
Taverns
War Peace and Human Rights
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Document
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Correspondence
Text
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Stockbridge March 5 1787
Dear Sir,
When you was here, I had the most sanguine prospects of making you a payment before this time, but we have had nothing but a scene of war and distress since the beginning of Feby. which has prevented my collecting any money worth your receiving, you may depend on my exercions in your favor as soon as there is the least propect of success -- On Tuesday morning the 27 ulto. about daybreak I had my house surrounded by twelve armed men, with a demand of enterance and surrender to Shays with the most horrid imprecations and diabolical visages that is possible to possess the human appearance before we could have time to determine whether it would be best to grant them enterance, they drove their bayonets thru the window of my lodging room and by repeated thrusts broke the sash and 6 or 8 lights of glass, in the room I, my wife and small children lodged, then with the same degree of vailance burst an outside door and an entery door which led into the same room, pointed the bayonet to my wives breast, with a demand of arms and arminition at the same time they had found enterance into almost every room of my house, after getting what arms and arminition they could find, and what plunder they pleased, which consited of cloathing, silver buckles some cash hats etc etc they ordered us to prepare to march immediately to head quarters, which was then at Mr. Bingham, where I found almost all my neighbours in the same unhappy situation. The commanding officer, Capt. Hamblin, informed me I must go with him and gave me permission to return home and take an horse or sleigh and what other comforts I pleased, which I considered as a very great indulgence, they plundered 6 horses and mounted them as videts [?] and marched out of town sun almost two hours high in the morning with 32 prisioners, we went to Barrington where they were joined by a number more, our Friends at Barrington got information timely to make their escape to Sheffield, where with an uncommon ardor and spirit they collected a force sufficient to attack them, which they did on the road from Barrington to Sheffield, tho; they decoyed them out of the common road, there strength was nearly equal the prisioners were pressed on at the point of the bayonet ot the scene of action a cruelty unknown in the most barbarous Nation, but kind providence so ordered it that but one of the poor prisioners fell, whether by the fire of our people or the rebels is uncertain, the attack was vailant and resolute on both sides, Hamblin received a mortal wound, which disconcerted his men, and they fled with precipitation into every direction, leaving one dead and two mortally wounded, by the seasonable reinforcement under Genl. Patterson in their rear, about fifty of there number were made prisioners, we lost two killed and one wounded, but I hope not mortal, Thus ended this rash incursion of the rebels, which they plumed themselves much on - I have spun out this to a much greater length then I intended, am
Your Friend
& Servt.
Erastus Sargeant.
Maj. Sheppard
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Title
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Letter to Major General Shepard about Shays' Rebellion
Subject
The topic of the resource
Shays' Rebellion, 1786-1787
Stockbridge (Mass.)
Description
An account of the resource
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 February 27, 1787.<br /><br />Shepard was chosen major general of the Fourth Division of the Massachusetts militia in 1786 and defended the Springfield Arsenal in January and February 1787 during Shays' Rebellion. Dr. Sargeant mentions being marched to Shays' headquarters in Stockbridge at Mr. Bingham's. This location would be the Red Lion Inn in Stockbridge, MA, which was founded by Silas Bingham and his wife Anna.<br /><br />A similar account is mentioned in several published letters in <a href="http://memorialhall.mass.edu/collection/itempage.jsp?itemid=18938&img=0&level=advanced&transcription=1">Multiple articles from The New-Haven Gazette and The Connecticut Magazine newspaper regarding Shays' Rebellion</a>.
Creator
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Sargeant, Erastus
Publisher
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Jones Library Special Collections
Date
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1787-03-05
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application/pdf
Language
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English
Identifier
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Folder: Shays' Rebellion - Documents
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Correspondence
1700s
1780s
Shays Rebellion
War Peace and Human Rights