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Town Common and Amherst College
View of Town Common and Amherst College, looking south.…
Main St. looking east from the Town Hall
This street leads to East Amherst and Pelham. Portion shown here is bordered by parallel rows of elm trees, whose interlacing branches almost arch the street. First Congregational Church is shown on the…
Looking east from College Church
Panorama gives a view of a portion of Amherst's manufacturing interests (hat factories), and the village of East Amherst, with Pelham hills in the…
View of Common looking south
Looking south, showing South Pleasant Street, the Common and Woods Cabinet in the distance.…
View of Common looking north
Looking north, showing east side of Common and Maple Avenue (Now Boltwood Ave.)…
View on Northampton Road
This photograph shows Northampton Road looking west and showing the residences of Professors Neill and Cowles.…
Tags: 1890s, Changing Physical Landscape
B. New Engelland, New York, New Yersey und Pensilvania
Hadley, Northampton, Hatfield, and Deerfield are portrayed.
English. Title in German. Some place names, terms, etc., also have German work supplied. From the author's Atlas geographicvs major. 1753-59 [i.e. 1784; v. 1, 1759] part of v. 1, part 2,…
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…
Thomas W. Smith with horse and cart
Written on back: "Thomas W. Smith as he appeared in the Horribles Section of the parade at the Flag Pole dedication. Picture taken at rear of 31 No. Prospect St. Horse belonged to John Musante."
Thomas W. Smith was Amherst town clerk from 1912 to…
Amherst Home For Aged Women
House used as long-term care residence for elderly women on North Pleasant Street in North Amherst. Written on back: "later…
North Amherst Library
Turn of the century view of the library. The building is a small, clapboard Queen Anne style structure and was designed by Roswell F. Putnam of Leverett. Montague Road and Sunderland Road are dirt.
Caption on back: "North Amherst Library, built…
View on Montague Road
Looking south toward the center of North Amherst. North Congregational Church in the background and children and adults walking along the…
Amherst House hotel
This large hotel once stood at the corner of South Pleasant and Amity Streets and is shown here with both horse carts and automobiles parked in…
Barns and cattle shed at Massachusetts Agricultural College
Several barns located in a field planted with rows of corn.…
Tags: 1910s, Changing Physical Landscape, UMASS, Agriculture
Map of Amherst, 1873
Section of the Beers' 1873 Hampshire County atlas showing much of Amherst including residences and landownership; businesses; cemeteries; schools; railroads. Includes inset of northern part of…