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Group portrait of a class on the steps of a school. Jennie L. Cowles taught at First Intermediate School in Amherst for many years after graduating from Amherst High School in 1871; she stopped teaching in 1885. Students listed on verso of photograph…

This fountain was given to Massachusetts Agricultural College as a memorial by the Class of 1882. It is described as having a thistle and crane design, with a boy and a duck near the top. It was made of bronze and stood eight feet six inches tall.…

A boy standing in front of a blackboard in the Hockanum schoolhouse pointing to it with a stick. Two girls and a boy are looking towards him and three other girls are reading. Two of the children are Hettie and Oscar Johnson.

Civil War veterans standing at attention on the east side of the Town Common. This is probably a Memorial Day event which followed a similar program for many years: speeches in the schools, speeches at various locations in area towns where the local…

Letter written from Samuel Minot Jones to his brother while Samuel was camped on the battlefield at Sugar Creek, Arkansas. Details how the Union won the pivotal Civil War battle at Pea Ridge despite being outnumbered three to one by Confederate…

A view of a towered building with high windows standing on a hill with another building on the eye level of the camera. The shot is taken from within an archway which frames the photograph.

Camels and an elephant with a man on top trudge up Main Street passing by a large crowd of onlookers.

A circular stone barn with a second story in the middle and a small tower. A second building and a fence is attached on the right. A wooden fence and a building behind it, partly obscured by trees are on the left. Caption reads: "Gutted by fire from…

A white woman churning butter in a kitchen with a tall grandfather clock and armoire behind her. There is a large pitcher and wooden basin on the floor on either side of her.

A girl, identified as Hettie Johnson, working at a butter churn in a parlor. Opposite her is a chair with a crock on the seat. There is a picture on the wall with ferns surrounding it.

A woman churning butter in a kitchen. A table is behind her with a basin and a large vase standing on it. Pots, lids, and other kitchen items hang on the wall and rest on a shelf above the bench.

A woman sits in a rocking chair facing away from the camera churning butter.

A black woman sits on a rocking chair on a porch holding a wooden stick in front of her, churning. A man stands behind, leaning against the wall of the building and looking towards the camera.

A white woman standing in a room churning butter. There is a stove on the right and a table with two small pails and a cup.

A woman sitting on a bench in a kitchen facing the camera and churning butter. An umbrella stands in the corner and three brass candlesticks are on a shelf at the top of the photograph.