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View from the south end of Town Common looking north along Maple Avenue (now Boltwood Avenue).

View looking south showing South Pleasant Street, the Town Common and Woods Cabinet at Amherst College in the distance.

Panoramic view showing a portion of Amherst's hat factories, and the village of East Amherst, with the Pelham hills in the distance.

This street leads to East Amherst and Pelham. The portion shown here is bordered by parallel rows of elm trees, whose interlacing branches create an arch above the street. First Congregational Church is shown on the right.

Amherst Town Hall was erected in 1889, and cost $58,000. The architect was H.S. McKay of Boston. This photograph was taken before the clock was installed in 1900.

View of the building that initially housed both the Chemistry and Physics Departments. Exterior view of the Laboratory from the bottom of a slope. Construction began in 1892 and was completed in 1894. The landscape around the building was designed by…

View of a classroom with benches as seating for students and a podium in front. The walls are filled with pictures and a large map. Richard Henry Mather was a professor of Greek language and literature at Amherst College from 1859 to 1890.

View of a classroom with benches as seating for students and a podium in front. The walls are filled with pictures and a large map. Richard Henry Mather was a professor of Greek language and literature at Amherst College from 1859 to 1890.

View over student benches with pictures and busts hanging on the back wall.

This building was erected in 1828-29 as the third meetinghouse of First Congregational Church of Amherst. The pillars were removed by the church in 1861 and it was purchased by the College in 1867.

View across the south end of the Town Common showing Amherst College buildings. In the road is a person pulling a small cart.

View across the south end of the Town Common showing Amherst College buildings. In the road is a person pulling a small cart.

View across a grassy meadow in the Woodside Avenue/Snell Street area over South Pleasant Street to College Hill.

View south across the fenced Town Common toward Amherst College.

Aerial view over Boltwood Avenue showing Amherst College buildings. This photograph was taken after 1873, when Stearns Church was built, and before 1883, when East College was demolished.