Amherst Record Home Almanac
Almanacs, American
Yearbooks
Calendars
Amherst (Mass.)
Almanac "containing matters of local interest, local business announcements...also some pages of miscellaneous reading." Includes a chronology of notable events (both local and national) for 1876, Amherst marriages and deaths for the year, statistics of marriages, births and deaths for each year between 1810 to 1819, and 1866 to 1875, population statistics for different years, information about town officers, clubs and organizations, churches, schools (including teachers and number of students). Calendar showing sun rise and set, and moon rise is printed along with quaint sayings, poetry, etiquette for different occasions, types of wedding anniversaries, toasts and sentiments, and other miscellanea. Interesting drawings appear on many pages.
McCloud, H. M. (Henry Martyn), b. 1838
Jones Library Special Collections
1877
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Books
Amherst Imprints 1877
Cat-astrophe advertising card
Advertising cards
Business cards
Amherst (Mass.)
Trade card advertising the Amherst business of F. H. Howes, a grocer located in Merchants' Row in the 1880s. The cartoon on the card illustrates Victorian humor.
Jones Library Special Collections
Circa 1885
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Cards
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Circus animals on Main Street
Amherst (Mass.)
Circus animals
Camels and an elephant with a man on top trudge up Main Street passing by a large crowd of onlookers.
Jones Library Special Collections
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From the Miscellaneous Photographs Collection
Photographs
Cows graze by stone wall
Roxbury (N.Y.)
Catskill Mountains (N.Y.)
Cows -- New York -- Roxbury
Four cows graze in a pasture behind a low stone wall. Hills are seen in the distance. Caption on reverse reads "A catskill region of mountain farms, where John Burroughs was born in 1837."
Johnson, Clifton, 1865-1940
Jones Library Special Collections
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Field Building in Amherst
Amherst (Mass.)
This building stood at the corner of Amity and North Pleasant Street. Samuel K. Orr remodeled it as a modern drug store and opened his shop there in 1859. According to the Springfield Republican (October 22, 1864 edition, page 8) William F. Gunn bought the building at auction for $3,000. He remodeled it and opened it as a hotel. In this photograph, there are several men standing with a horse and carriage in front of Orr's shop. Some of the men are listed as: Austin Dickinson by rear wheel; Capt. Mark Dickinson holding horse, Dr. Smith (Benjamin F.?) in carriage.
Lovell, John L., 1825-1903
Jones Library Special Collections
1859
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Fort River bridge
Hadley (Mass.)
Bridges -- Massachusetts -- Hadley
Horses -- Massachusetts -- Hadley
A horse-drawn carriage faces away from the camera approaching the covered Fort River bridge seen in the middleground. A little fence leads up to it, some bare trees are scattered around, a line of telegraph poles line the right side of the photograph and a mountain is visible in the background.
Johnson, Clifton, 1865-1940
Image from page 14 of Historic Hadley: Quarter Millennial Souvenir by Clifton Johnson, 1909
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Grange Store delivery cart in Amherst
Amherst (Mass.)
View of the horse and cart that was used to deliver goods for the Grange Store in the early 1900s.
Jones Library Special Collections
Circa 1910
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Hockanum ferry, Mount Holyoke
Hadley (Mass.)
Ferries -- Massachusetts -- Hadley
Horses -- Massachusetts -- Hadley
Carriages -- Massachusetts -- Hadley
A ferry carries a horse-drawn carriage across the Connecticut river. Two women and a girl sit on the carriage, one holding a parasol. Two gentlemen, one in the front, one in the back guide the ferry as a third gentleman stands looking across to the other shore. A rowboat and a bicycle are also attached to the ferry. Wooden poles visible behind them were part of the log control of trees cut up north and floated down the river to the Holyoke sawmills. Mount Holyoke with its summit house visible in the background. To the far right is a cliff of trap rock nicknamed "jungle stone" because of the tinkling sound as you walked on the loose pieces.
Johnson, Clifton, 1865-1940
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Photographs
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House on Montague Road in Amherst
Houses
Horses
Farm equipment
Amherst (Mass.)
View of a house with people, horses, and oxen in the yard. According to a copy of a hand-written note accompanying this photograph, this house was owned by Charles R. Dickinson who later sold it to Enoch Clark. The Ferry family acquired it in 1929. Also stated in the note, "Mr. Dickinson is standing in the rear by the horse block. Mr. James McKee is standing by the oxen. One of the children is Maude Davis Brown." There is more information in the note.
Lovell, John L., 1825-1903
Jones Library Special Collections
Before 1903
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In the sheep pasture
Hadley (Mass.)
Farms -- Massachusetts -- Hadley
Boys -- Massachusetts -- Hadley
Sheep -- Massachusetts -- Hadley
Sheep and a farm boy face away from the camera on a upland pasture that outlooks the Connecticut river and distant mountains.
Johnson, Clifton, 1865-1940
Image from page 28 of Farmer's Boy by Clifton Johnson, 1894
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Janet Dakin with two dogs
Dakin, Janet Wilder
Amherst (Mass.)
Janet Wilder Dakin with two large dogs. Trees are visible in the background.
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Photographs
Jones Library with parking for both cars and horses
Jones Library
Amherst (Mass.)
View of the east side of the library and the First National Bank with street parking for both cars and horses.
Barnes, Lincoln W., 1879-1966
Jones Library Special Collections
1928
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Lavinia Dickinson with cat
Dickinson, Lavinia Norcross, 1833-1899
Amherst (Mass.)
View of a middle-aged, smiling Lavinia Dickinson standing outside on the homestead porch holding one of her many cats.
1896
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From the Emily Dickinson Collection
Photographs
Mowing hay
Hadley (Mass.)
Farmers -- Massachusetts -- Hadley
Farming -- Massachusetts -- Hadley
Houses -- Massachusetts -- Hadley
A farmer, identified as Eliot Johnson, on a mowing machine pulled by a couple horses across the road from a farmhouse, identified as belonging to Oscar Johnson. A couple large trees adorn the image on either side with Mount Holyoke in the background.
Johnson, Clifton, 1865-1940
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Photographs
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Paige's Livery Stable in Amherst
Amherst (Mass.)
View of Paige's Livery Stable, next to the Amity Street School, with horses, employees, and the Amherst House stagecoach with driver. This building became the Amherst Theater. Stated in The Village of Amherst, a Landmark of Light, by Frank Prentice Rand, "The Paige livery, conducted by Theodore, his son Melrose, and always the genial "Bill" Casey, maintaining as many as sixty-five horses at one time, continued to serve townsmen and students until 1921."
Lovell, John L., 1825-1903
Jones Library Special Collections
Circa 1890
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