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Air Force A-10 jets flying low over North Pleasant Street during 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…

Almanac "containing matters of local interest, local business announcements...also some pages of miscellaneous reading." Includes a chronology of notable events (both local and national) for 1876, Amherst marriages and deaths for the year, statistics…

This 24-page brochure describes Amherst during Emily Dickinson's lifetime including the landscape, highlights of Amherst College, changes to Kellogg Block, and businesses in Amherst center. There is a good description of the merchandise sold in each…

Color postcard view from town common to Amherst House, corner of S. Pleasant and Amity St. Image shows two trolley's, the Amherst House, wagons, store awnings, as well as trees with some foliage.

Color postcard showing two men canoeing, postcard text reads: Greetings from Amherst, Mass. Image shows river, and riverbank flanked by trees and sunrise or sunset shows in sky at background.

Color postcard showing trolley beside town common. Image showing single trolley with passengers passing by tree lined town common.

This is a letter of petition to Thomas Pownall, Governor of the Province of Massachusetts. John Nash, Isaac Ward, and Nehimieh Dickinson propose that the new town that is separating from Hadley should be named after Baron Jeffery Amherst.

News Clipping about David Grayson's Denver Imposter

Pencil sketch of Lincoln Avenue and Northampton Road in 1860 drawn by Samuel K. Orr. View looking west.

A letter from Amherst College student Abel Packard, to sister Lucy, about Fourth of July activities around Amherst, and other details about life as a student at the college.

Chatty letter describing the setting in the dorm room, the "Millerites" (Adventists) in Amherst, textbooks being used, etc.

Hudson and Lilian Hudson sitting at a chess table playing a game he invented. There is a fireplace behind them with a mirror and a photograph of Hudson.

Hudson Maxim on horseback with him and the horse both looking at the camera. Trees grow behind him and a house is partly visible through bare branches on the right.

A portrait of Hudson Maxim in left half-profile.

Visitor notecard of August Wilhelm