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A boy, identified as Stephen Johnson, standing at the edge of a brook, looking at the camera while holding a stick in his hand and playing in the brook with a snow covered hill behind him.

A man stands in a boat passing a bag to a man standing in a small fishing boat while a second man sits. Other boats and a roof of a building are visible in the background.

Local authors Sonia Nieto, Patty Bode, and Alicia Lopez pose together with copies of their books: Brooklyn Dreams: My Life in Public Education by Sonia Nieto, Affirming Diversity: The Sociopolitical Context of Multicultural Education by Sonia Nieto…

A white man sits on the edge of a dock with his legs dangling holding a fishing rod. A second man stands next to him holding a landing net. A steel ship is near them and another one is seen in the background. Four other men stand on a dock in the…

A white woman stands on a small wooden ramp leading slightly up towards an entrance of a wooden house. She is holding a broom and looking down at a girl standing in the doorway. A man and a second woman stand outside also looking at the girl. A long…

Two white men working the bottom edge of a pile of tailings looking for gold that had been missed in the original search. There is a wheelbarrow on the right in the foreground and some buildings in the background, one with the sign "PHARMACIST CON.…

A woman sits near a house on a narrow street made of wooden planks with houses on each side. Some children stand nearby.

A view of a narrow pedestrian street covered in snow. A woman is walking in the background.

Photograph of the South Amherst Fourth of July parade with a girl riding a horse holding a American flag and wearing an eagle as a hat. Other costumed children are in the background

The South Amherst meetinghouse visible in the middleground, a house to its right and a tree to its left, a path runs across the foreground.

This brick building, located at the intersection of Shays and Middle Streets, and Pomeroy Lane, was once the South Amherst post office.

Jones Library from the south east

South College was used as a dormitory in the early years of Massachusetts Agricultural College. Built in 1867, it was gutted by fire in the winter of 1885 and rebuilt, using some of the walls of the original building which had not burned.

South College flanked by Johnson Chapel on the left and Appleton Cabineton the right. From Handbook of Amherst by Frederick H. Hitchcock, 1894: "It is the oldest building on the college grounds, originally containing both recitation and living…

Jones Library main block, from front sidewalk