Utilizing the historical and literary resources of the Jones Library of Amherst, Massachusetts, in collaboration with area residents and scholars, this site celebrates Amherst's 250th anniversary through images, multimedia, and documents that reflect the independent spirit of our people, creative works, and culture.
An ongoing repository of information, Digital Amherst will continue to grow, linking the town's unique heritage with the vitality of its present and the promises of its future.
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Mount Pleasant Classical Institute
This institution offered boys a classical education and was a well-known school throughout the Connecticut Valley and beyond in the 1830s. The school…
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Advertising card for Diamond Dyes
Trade card distributed by the Amherst pharmacy W. H. H. Morgan around the turn of the century. The illustration is an image of a group of young women…
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Added 2010-04-27 11:13:31
We won't go home until morning!
Advertising card for the business of F. H. Howe, a grocer located in Merchants' Row in the 1880s. The cartoon on the card illustrates Victorian…
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Added 2010-04-27 11:13:29
Advertising card for Warner Brothers Coraline Corset
Trade card distributed by H. B. Edwards & Co., a clothing store…
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Added 2010-04-14 12:57:22
Amherst House Block in the 1920's
The Amherst House Block stood at the corner of South Pleasant and Amity Streets. The Amherst House Hotel was in operation on the upper levels and a…
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Added 2010-03-30 10:55:27
Amherst Record Home Almanac
Almanac "containing matters of local interest, local business announcements...also some pages of miscellaneous reading." Includes a chronology of…
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E. F. Strickland's tedious trip
Article from a Springfield newspaper about the journey to retrieve the body of
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Charles Eastman at Lodestone
Charles A. Eastman, in a white linen summer suit, at Lodestone on Belchertown Road in Amherst. The Eastman family lived at this location from 1911 to…