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The Botanical Museum was constructed in 1867 and was one of the original four buildings constructed before the first class of students arrived in the fall of the same year. It stood behind the original Durfee Conservatory and was destroyed by fire in…

View of the Botanic Museum at Mass Aggie which was constructed by December of 1867 and destroyed by fire in 1967.

View of the Botanic Museum at Mass Aggie which was constructed by December of 1867 and destroyed by fire in 1967. There are several students in front of the building in this image.

The Botanic Museum was completed in December of 1867 and destroyed by fire in 1967. View includes an elaborate water fountain which was donated to Massachusetts Agricultural College by the Ladies of Amherst.

Fall view of the Botanic Museum and Durfee Plant house and partially raked grounds.

View of a Knox truck belonging to Egbert E. Perry loaded with trunks. The Knox truck was built in Springfield and was a gas-powered, two-cylinder vehicle. Egbert E. Perry was in the trucking business from 1899 to 1928. There are men and boys standing…

A man stands by a maple tree boring a hole to gather sap. Four sap buckets lie in the snow next to him.

General view of the colorful booths and crowd at the 2008 Taste of Amherst.

Booker T. Washington standing in a field patting an ox. A pair of oxen is hitched to a little wagon with a man standing on top of it. A pile of earth is partly visible on the right, next to the cart.

Booker T. Washington stands in a field with a student who is driving a horse-drawn plow.

Booker T. Washington sits on a bench with his son David standing next to him. At their feet are two rabbits.

Booker T. Washington stands in a pasture, holding a mare's bridle and reaching out to make friends with her colt.

Booker T. Washington kneels in the woods, searching for flowers. His son David stands next to him.

Booker T. Washington standing on a log above a brook holding a walking stick on his right hand and his hat in his left hand. Bushes and trees are visible behind him.

With plants in hand, Booker T. Washington stands in the woods and looks up into the trees.