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A dilapidated wood cabin, identified as the building Booker T. Washington started his school. A wooden fence and some trees are on the right. Caption on back: "The cabin in which Booker Washington started his school."

Image of first Amherst HS baseball team. Showing nine students seated on steps in front of partially open doorway, all in dress pants and jackets, some with ties.

View of the First Baptist Church, and adjacent houses, on South Pleasant Street.

View of the First Baptist Church, and adjacent houses, on South Pleasant Street.

View of the First Baptist Church on South Pleasant Street with a white fence in the foreground.

The Baptist Church as seen through the arches of two trees in winter. Adjacent houses are visible and the ground has a covering of snow.

A bench which possibly doubles as a bed standing near a fireplace with a curtain niche behind it for storing linen and pillows. Flowers stand on either side of a figure of the Virgin Mary on top of the mantelpiece.

Pen and ink illustration of a kettle over a fire in a building. There is a small wooden bench against the wall next to a doorway in the background.

Front and side of the Fine Arts Museum photographed from Chestnut Street. Tree branches in each upper corner frame the photograph.

A group of boys and girls harvest ice onto a cart pulled by two horses.

A girl sits on a short chair in front of a spinning wheel, winding quills onto a skein winder. Plates, jars, and pans stand on shelves and floor around her. A fireplace in the wall is filled with kettles.

A elderly white man sits in a rocking chair at a writing desk and looks down at papers spread in front of him. He is holding a pen in his right hand. Many papers are stacked on the desk and on the shelves above. A large mirror hangs on the wall to…

A couple of houses and farm buildings, some bare trees scattered throughout the shot.

Two men, both facing away from the camera, one in the foreground, one in the middleground, working to put out a grass fire in an orchard. Bare trees line the middleground and a farm building, perhaps an animal enclosure or corn crib, visible in the…