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Valleys of erosion on Mount Holyoke
Looking south from the columns of Mount Pleasant Institute across open landscape toward Amherst center. Amherst College, Amherst Academy, and the Village Church are visible and the Holyoke Range rises in the background.
This plate is an…
Tags: 1830s, Panoramic views, Amherst Academy, Holyoke Range
First Church Articles of Faith
Articles of faith and government of the First Church in Amherst, Mass. Adopted February 13, 1834. Printed by J. S. and C. Adams,…
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 closed around 1836 and remained empty for awhile. The wings were removed to other areas of town. One…
Atlas, Geography of the heavens
The most common American celestial school atlas. It includes diagrams of the planets and constellations of both hemispheres. See also the accompanying text book. Hand painted color. Bound in brown card board covers with above title information and a…
Tags: Teaching and Learning, Muses, 1830s
Autumnal scenery, view in Amherst
Lithograph created from the original painting by Orra White Hitchcock. View looking west from the Pelham Hills and showing East Village in the foreground, and the center of town and Amherst College in the…
A map of Amherst. With a view of the College and Mount Pleasant Institution
Full title: A map of Amherst. With a view of the College and Mount Pleasant Institution. By Alonzo Gray & Charles B. Adams. Amherst College, May 1833. Pendleton's Lithography, Boston.
Pendleton's Lithography published many Massachusetts town plans…