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Two pails rest on the floor on the right framed as if seen through a keyhole. A shelf is hanging on a wall in the center with a picture frame and clock on the top shelf and some small jugs below. A plucked, upside-down chicken hangs on the left with…

A wooden rocking chair with two arm rests and a cushion seat. A diamond cushion hangs on the backrest and a small extension for the head is above it.

A pencil sketch of a barnyard with a fence in the foreground and a part of a house drawn on the right of the barn.

A wooden chair with armrests and back support. A small extension for the head is above the back rest. The front and back legs of the chair are connected with a bar and and the left and right sides are connected by a larger bar in the center. The…

View of the Massachusetts Agricultural campus from the top of a grassy hill. Buildings shown in background (left to right) are Old South College, North College, Old Chemistry Lab, and the Farmhouse. In fore ground is Durfee Plant House, Botanic…

View of the Massachusetts Agricultural campus from the top of a grassy hill. Buildings shown in background (left to right) are Old South College, North College, Old Chemistry Lab, and the Farmhouse. In fore ground is Durfee Plant House, Botanic…

View of the Massachusetts Agricultural campus from the top of a grassy hill. Buildings shown in background (left to right) are Old South College, North College, Old Chemistry Lab, and the Farmhouse. In fore ground is Durfee Plant House, Botanic…

View of the Massachusetts Agricultural campus from the top of a grassy hill. Buildings shown in background (left to right) are Old South College, North College, Old Chemistry Lab, and the Farmhouse. In fore ground is Durfee Plant House, Botanic…

View of the Massachusetts Agricultural campus from the top of a grassy hill. Buildings shown in background (left to right) are Old South College, North College, Old Chemistry Lab, College Boarding House and the Farmhouse. In fore ground is Durfee…

Firefighters aim a powerful jet of water at this burning restaurant across from the Town Common. More than 40 Amherst and UMass firefighters fought the blaze for hours in near zero weather before it was brought under control.

A run down house ( identified as the birthplace of John Howard Jewett) with an attached barn and remains of another barn behind. Some bare trees scattered around the house and two other buildings visible in the background on the left.

This is an early baseball game in progress in a field next to South College. Athletics were introduced to the campus in 1868 when the Wilder Baseball Association was organized. The ball club was named in honor of trustee Marshall P. Wilder, who…

A woman sits in a pew facing the camera wearing a black dress and a black hat. She holds a fan in one hand and a book in the other. The door to the meeting house stands ajar and a large window to the left floods the building with light.

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.

This image is part of an advertisement for the E. D. Marsh furniture store and shows the company's horse and wagon parked beside the business. The advertisement reads: "The Amherst House furnished with furniture, carpets, and hangings by E. D. Marsh,…