Mrs. Musante, peanuts, fruit and candy, Amherst, Mass.

Mrs. Musante, peanuts, fruit and candy, Amherst, Mass.

Street vendors
Amherst (Mass.)

View showing Candida Musante beside the stand that became an Amherst institution. She and her husband (known as "Peanut John") ran a little shop out of Cutler's Block on South Pleasant Street. The Musantes emigrated from Italy, arriving in Amherst in the early 1880s.

Scott, Edgar T., 1858-1940

Jones Library Special Collections

Before 1924

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Is part of the Edgar Scott Postcard Collection. Jones Library Special Collections.

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English

Cards

SPC187

Photograph; Postcard

3 x 5 in.