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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…
Advertising card for Warner Brothers Coraline Corset
Trade card distributed by H. B. Edwards & Co., a clothing store that operated in Merchants' Row from the 1880's to about 1915. The store specialized in ladies' fine…
E. F. Strickland's tedious trip
Article from a Springfield newspaper about the journey to retrieve the body of Walter Mason Dickinson after his death in Cuba during the Spanish-American…
North City primary school
Class of Ella L. Roberts (standing in back) grouped in front of the elementary school in Cushman.…
House on Shays Street
House beside large elm tree and with adults and children posed outside. Written on back of photograph, "House on farm of C. G. Morehouse, Shays Street near Mill Valley. Left to right: Rev. Charles S. Walker, Alice Morehouse Walker, Charles Fred…
Portrait of Walter Mason Dickinson
Hand-colored portrait of Walter Mason Dickinson in uniform. He was the only Amherst man to die in the Spanish-American War in Cuba. According to a Springfield newspaper article,…
Walter Mason Dickinson at Fort Sill
Walter Mason Dickinson at Fort Sill, Oklahoma. He was the grandson of Marquis Fayette Dickinson and the only Amherst man to die in the Spanish-American War. He fell in the Battle of El Caney (Cuba) on July 1, 1898, which was a precursor to the Battle…
Jackson & Cutler store interior
Interior of the shop belonging to Jackson & Cutler which was in Merchants' Row on South Pleasant Street. On the back of the photograph is the statement that this shop is now the back room of A. J.…
Amherst Bicycle Club
The Amherst Bicycle Club in Brattleboro, Vermont on May 16, 1881. Portrait of four club members taken in the Brattleboro studio of C. L. Howe. Members are wearing athletic clothes of the day and posed with a high wheeler…
College Hall at Mass. Aggie
Built in 1869, this structure housed the chemistry lab, a chapel, and a military hall and armory. It burned in September of…