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Formerly known as the Prospect House, this building is still standing on the corner of Amity and North Prospect Streets. Two stories were added and it was covered with stucco since its previous incarnation. It has also been known as Drake's Hotel,…

View of a line of students walking across a snow covered landscape away from the College Chapel. It looks as though they've walked across the frozen campus pond.

View west toward the campus pond and the Old Chapel.

View northwest over the campus pond.

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 Hall.

Brick school house on Kellogg Avenue.

Meadow being prepared for planting using oxen-drawn cultivator.

Automobile parked outside the building which was an inn and post office for Massachusetts Agricultural College. It was later known as College Inn.

Turn of the century view of the center of Amherst looking west toward the Amherst House from the north end of the Town Common.

Military drill performance on the Massachusetts Agricultural College fields. Soldiers are lined up in rows.

Display of flying vehicles over Pratt Field during a baseball game, which includes zeppelins, hot air balloons, and early airplanes. The caption on the photograph reads, "High times on Pratt Field. Cheer for old Amherst."

A crowd watches a game of tug of war between freshman and sophomore classes at the pond of the Massachusetts Agricultural College.

A crowd watches a game of tug of war between freshman and sophomore classes at the pond of the Massachusetts Agricultural College.

Students play ice hockey on the Massachusetts Agricultural College pond.

A crowd watches a game of tug of war between freshman and sophomore classes at the pond of the Massachusetts Agricultural College.