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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.

A print of two illustration, one above and slightly to the left of the other. They show a ferry crossing the Connecticut River carrying people and horse-drawn wagons. The bottom one shows Mount Holyoke in the background.

Burroughs stands on the porch of a vine covered house. Caption on reverse reads "Slabsides"

A little display including chalkboard with the caption: "Slate used in the Early School Days of William B. Earle Born in 1802," an ink bottle, and a couple of books, all from the W.B. Earle Collection.

Hudson Maxim slides down a sandbank while two men look from atop the embankment. A wagon filled with sand stands near the bottom with a third man looking at Hudson. A couple of buildings are visible in the background, through bare trees.

Two children playing on the frozen Russell's Cove. One stands on the ice holding the rope of the sled behind, the other sitting on the sled on the shore beside a frozen cave and some bare trees. Russell's barn and Thayer's barn visible in the…

A sleigh drawn by two horses buried in the snow. Two men are behind pushing while three are on the sleigh with one man working with one horse and two men out front.