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Robert Francis visits The Jones Library
Compiled video clips from the raw footage taken during the filming of the 1979 documentary "Robert Francis Through the Looking Glass" shows Robert Francis walking into The Jones Library, reading a newspaper, selecting a book, and visiting the Robert…

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Poet Robert Francis is interviewed by NPR's Poems to a Listener host and producer Henry Lyman, at Fort Juniper, Francis' home in Amherst.

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Photograph of Robert Frost and Charles R. Green, the first Director of the Jones Library, in the Library's Frost Room, which was dedicated in October of 1959.This room later became the Trustees' Room, and after that, the Goodwin Memorial Room.

Robert Frost speaks at the dedication of the Robert Frost Room at The Jones Library in Amherst, Massachusetts
Robert Frost gives a speech at the dedication of the Robert Frost Room at The Jones Library in Amherst, Massachusetts in which he credits director Charles Green as being "the first person in the world" to think Frost was worth collecting. Recorded in…

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Charles R. Green showing Robert Frost a book in the Frost Room at the Jones Library.

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View of the small flower shop run by William Roberts and Cora Farmer located just north of Cowles Lane. This house was incorporated into the business block that exists now and became Knowles Flower Shop.

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A book cover design showing two white children in profile, a boy and a girl, sitting on chairs and reading. Below them is a framed, decorated box with the words: "EDITED BY CLIFTON JOHNSON" written inside. The book title: "ROBIN HOOD" is framed above…

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A view of a street with three women and a boy walking around while a man stands on a wagon pulled by a horse. Tall stone walls line the road with a noticeboard affixed to a stone building on the left. A castle rises above the scene in the background.

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A free standing outcrop of rocks with bare trees around them near a stream. Doone Valley is on the borders of Devon and Somerset counties.

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The view of the rocky cascade as the water passes over and around as it flows down with trees growing on each shore.

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A view of a meeting house with a clock tower through some trees. A bulletin board stands near a tree and a boy stand on a sidewalk holding a tire.

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A view of a valley with a farmhouse on the bottom of the hill in the foreground and many trees filling out the middle ground. Mountains fill out the background.

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Two boys, identified as Roger and Arthur Johnson, by a corner of a barn on Clifton Johnson's family homestead. One is kneeling, holding something in his hand while the other boy is bending over, hands on his knees, watching. There is an overturned…

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Two boys, identified as Roger and Arthur Johnson, stand holding firecrackers. A house stands behind them.

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A man and a boy, identified as Roger and Charlie Johnson, jump over a brook. The man is standing with his feet wide to avoid the water and helping the boy to jump over. Some bare trees grow around them.
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