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Pencil sketch of Lincoln Avenue and Northampton Road in Amherst
Pencil sketch of Lincoln Avenue and Northampton Road in 1860 drawn by Samuel K. Orr. View looking west.
Park and college in Amherst, Massachusetts
Looking south across the fenced Town Common toward Amherst College.
Park and college in Amherst, Massachusetts
Looking south across the fenced Town Common toward Amherst College. Written on verso: "Common enclosed with fence 1860 -- see Hampshire Franklin Express 6/15/1860 p.2."
Paper mill in North Amherst
Paper mill on the Mill River in North Amherst.
Orient House at Orient Springs in Pelham
"Hotel Orient Springs," located in the Pelham Hills, was so named by Edward Hitchcock at the dedication on April 29, 1861. Written on the back of an advertising card: "No summer resort has so many attractions as the Orient Springs House. Besides the…
Old village church meetinghouse
This building is the third meetinghouse constructed by the First Congregational Church of Amherst. First Church removed the east portico of this building in 1861, as shown in this photograph. Amherst College bought this building in 1867, and renamed…
Old village church meetinghouse
This building is the third meetinghouse constructed by the First Congregational Church of Amherst. First Church removed the east portico of this building in 1861, as shown in this photograph. Amherst College bought this building in 1867, and renamed…
Old South College at Massachusetts Agricultural College
This is the original South College building and was used as a dormitory in the early years of Massachusetts Agricultural College. Built in 1867, it was gutted by fire in the winter of 1885 and rebuilt, using some of the walls of the original building…
Old South College at Massachusetts Agricultural College
This is the original South College building and was used as a dormitory in the early years of Massachusetts Agricultural College. Built in 1867, it was gutted by fire in the winter of 1885 and rebuilt, using some of the walls of the original building…
Old South College at Massachusetts Agricultural College
This is the original South College building and was used as a dormitory in the early years of Massachusetts Agricultural College. Built in 1867, it was gutted by fire in the winter of 1885 and rebuilt, using some of the walls of the original building…
Old South College at Massachusetts Agricultural College
This is the original South College building and was used as a dormitory in the early years of Massachusetts Agricultural College. Built in 1867, it was gutted by fire in the winter of 1885 and rebuilt, using some of the walls of the original building…
Old Amherst High School building
This Amherst High School building was located on Spring Street in Amherst from 1867 to 1916.
Necessities of the war and the conditions of success in it, a sermon
"A sermon preached in the Village Church, before the College and the united Congregations of the town of Amherst, Mass., on the National Fast Day, Thursday, September 26, 1861."
Sermon preached by Rev. William A. Stearns, president of Amherst…
Sermon preached by Rev. William A. Stearns, president of Amherst…
Merchants' Row on South Pleasant Street
View from the north end of Merchant's Row. The house-like building on the right was the old post office building owned by Dwight Kellogg. In June of 1865 Kellogg tried to remodel and raise the building but it collapsed. He then built the brick…
John L. Lovell's "Amherst Photographer"
Eight-page newspaper published once by J. L. Lovell, Amherst resident and photographer. The newspaper includes miscellaneous advertisements alongside stories and articles about the new photographic technologies being practiced in Amherst.