Trade card distributed by the Amherst pharmacy W. H. H. Morgan around the turn of the century. The illustration is an image of a group of young women being instructed in home economics. On the back is printed the price, the list of colors, and other…

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…

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…

The Amherst House Block stood at the corner of South Pleasant and Amity Streets. The Amherst House Hotel was in operation on the upper levels and a number of businesses were located at the street level. Note the Jones Library signs on the second…

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…

Charles A. Eastman, in a white linen summer suit, at Lodestone on Belchertown Road in Amherst. The Eastman family lived at this location from 1911 to 1919. Eastman authored most of his published books during the family's time in…

This is the area behind the commercial blocks on the north side of upper Main Street. The College Candy Kitchen was located in the Nash Block before the fire in February of 1928 destroyed the building. The Candy Kitchen temporarily operated out of…

Colored map included in the geological survey completed by Edward Hitchcock showing the mineral deposits in the state of…

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…

Looking north toward Montague Road with North Congregational Church in the foreground.…

This structure was built on the site where Noah Webster's house was located during the time he spent in Amherst writing his dictionary (1812-1822). It was built as the Hygeian Hotel, which became the American House Hotel in 1855. After 1868, it…

Birds-eye-view lithograph of Amherst. Perspective map not drawn to scale. Published by John B. Bachelder between 1855 and 1857.

Includes insets: Residence of Prof. Edward Hitchcock, Residence of L.S. Sweetser, esq.; Residence of Hon. Edward…

Main Street businesses from Cook's Block east to the Lincoln Building. Visible businesses include W. F. Aubuchon Co., Town House Restaurant, Douglass-Marsh Furniture, The Gift Nook, and Bosco Cleaners. The two businesses on the left side of the…

Main Street is torn up as men lay track for the Amherst and Sunderland Street Railroad.…

Class of Ella L. Roberts (standing in back) grouped in front of the elementary school in Cushman.…