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Scan of invitation card, advertising a spring opening for millinery goods.

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…

Image of Mrs. Parker, wife of Holyoke mayor, sitting on a stone wall holding a basket at a break in the wall with woods behind her.

A black woman, identified on the back as Mrs. Whitaker, holds a plow pulled by an ox in a field. A boy stands in front of the ox, looking at the camera.

A man drawing water from a well-sweep. A large pile of firewood is on the right with a house behind it. A horse with a wagon rests in the middleground next to a solitary tree.

A small wooden cabin on a wooden foundation stands on a mountain top. A man stands in front of the cabin looking through a spyglass. One boy is sitting on the wooden planks and another is standing nearby. The date "June 18th -1821-" is written on…

A view of the Summit House on top of Mount Holyoke with a wooden ramp surrounded by trees. Caption on back: "Mount Holyoke House. So it looked in the 70' when I ascended the Mountain by the Inclined Railway. Mrs Nelson Fuller (nee) Virginia Von…

A rail car on Mount Holyoke. An older white man and a boy sit on a car and a single bag is on the front. A caption on the bottom right reads: "ONE of the CARS on the RAILROAD 1887."

A drawing of a barber parlor with a black barber wearing a vest shaving a white man sitting in the chair. A white barber stands nearby looking at a man walking through the door. A poster of a man is in front of the chair and a sign above it reads:…

A view of the West Branch of the Penobscot River with trees lining the shore. Mt. Katahdin faintly visible in the background.

A monk stands in front of a group of boys arranged in a half-circle in front of him in a church classroom with a desk partially visible on the left with feet of other students visible underneath. Religious paintings hang on the walls and a statue of…

Two boys, identified as Charlie and Stephen Johnson, strolling along Titan's Pier with the Connecticut River and Mount Nonotuck in the background.

A view of Mt. Quabbin with a line of trees cutting across the photograph and a small walking path on the right.

A view of a snow covered mountain range in the background with snow and tree covered hills in the middle ground and shrubs and some trees in the foreground.

A view of the Mont St Michel abbey from a road leading to the island. Two men walk towards the island.