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Amherst College Tuesday eve Feb 1843
Dear sister Lucy,
Here I am (8 o’clock) with my table before
the fire, seated in an armchair, an “old arm chair” that has
been in college long enough…

Purchased by Amherst College in 1892, the Boltwood House was remodeled as a student dining hall and renamed Hitchcock Hall. It was razed in 1916 for the construction of Converse Memorial Library, now Converse…

Meadow being prepared for planting using oxen-drawn cultivator.…

Looking up Memorial Hill from the sidewalk on the left with Seeleye G. Mudd building and Merrill Science Center visible on rim of slope at…

Originally called Middle College until North College burned in 1857. Built by Hiram Johnson, an Amherst brick mason..…

View of Amherst College through the trees on the Town Common.…

A beautiful, large house with a group of men (fraternity members?) standing in front. Written on the back of photograph, "George Cook's girls school, Madam Barron music teacher; probably built by Dr. Sellon (William F.); bought for fraternity in 1874…

Amherst College class of 1871…

interior view. Note: photograph date between 1856 and 1903.…

interior view. Note: photograph date between 1856 and 1903.…

interior view. Note: photograph date between 1856 and 1903.…

interior view. Note: photograph date between 1856 and 1903.…

interior view. Note: photograph date between 1856 and 1903.…

interior view. Note: photograph date between 1856 and 1903.…

This building was erected in 1855 and was named for the Hon. Samuel Appleton. It contained the Hitchcock Ichnological Collection, the Gilbert Museum of Indian Relics, and the Adams Zoological…