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A white man crouches on a boat aiming a rifle while a black man stands next to him looking out. A young white girl plays with a small wooden box on the boat. Some trees are partly under water near the boat.

View of the interior of the shop of Stanley A. Phillips on North Pleasant Street. This image is part of an advertisement. Visible in the shop are toilets, stoves, sinks, and a bathtub. The brochure states: "Plumbing of Amherst House lavatory was done…

A view of the Shoshone Falls taken from higher ground with the Snake River flowing in the background. A solitary tree with some bushes around grows in the foreground and the sides of the canyon are visible in the background.

Two white men shoveling snow drifts that cover the road. A tree standing on the left is almost covered in snow and the snow banks are almost as tall as the men. Tall trees stand in the background.

Two boys show grandma their kittens, Battleax and Tomahawk, as she stands on the front step of their house.

Members of the Shriners marching in the military parade for Recognition Weekend, an event organized at UMass in mid-July, 1986. The event was designed as a vehicle to honor veterans. It drew a large number of people interested in balancing the…

A white girl sits on a wheelbarrow shucking corn. A boy stands next to her doing the same. A pail filled with corn is between them and a chicken stands in the foreground. An open barn door is in the background.

A man standing holding a cue pushing disks on a deck of a ship, possibly the Columbia, while other men stand looking on.

A stone wall-lined road leading up to the hill top village with two churches, houses and barns. There are stone walks dividing a meadow and some trees grow by the side of the road.

A girl and two boys, identified as Katherine, Arthur, and Roger Johnson, in front of a barn. One of the boys is crouching holding a doll in front of the girl. The other boy is standing behind them looking down. A barn is visible in the background.

View of Main Street looking east, showing the William Austin Dickinson house and the Emily Dickinson house. People are standing on the sidewalk. This image shows the area near the current Sweetser Park.

Construction of a sidewalk along South Pleasant Street at a time when Amherst residents used a horse and carriage or the trolley to get to town.

An image of a silhouette figure of a man in top hat, frock coat and knee britches.

Elbridge Kingsley in profile, sitting in a chair, possibly engraving a block of wood.

A group of children playing on the village pond, some on skates, some on sleds. Houses and other town buildings visible in the background and some bare trees are scattered throughout.