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Group portrait of young women with two men and one child. Some of the women are holding books. This could be a young ladies school or a summer school.

Group portrait of a class on the steps of a school. Jennie L. Cowles taught at First Intermediate School in Amherst for many years after graduating from Amherst High School in 1871; she stopped teaching in 1885. Students listed on verso of photograph…

View of a barely discernible man standing in a deep ravine.

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."

Looking south across the fenced Town Common toward Amherst College.

View looking down a gently sloping hill to a farmhouse and showing corn and other vegetables planted in the fields.

This photograph was taken with the tree in full foliage. Written on verso: "This elm tree stands in the yard of Elijah Ayers, East Pleasant St.; it was cut down the last of the 19th century; Ayers bought the old Whiting place in 1865 (torn down…

View of a grand old elm with no foliage near a farm with barns on East Pleasant Street.

View looking over the pews toward the stained glass windows in the front of the church.

View of Grace Episcopal Church and rectory from the Town Common.

View of Grace Episcopal Church with the front of the building almost completely covered by ivy.

View of the entryway of Grace Episcopal Church covered with ivy.

View of Grace Episcopal Church with ivy growing up the front of the building. The house next door is partially visible on the right.

View of Grace Episcopal Church with ivy growing up the front of the building. The beginning of Spring Street is just visible on the right.

View of Grace Episcopal Church and rectory from the Town Common.