"Home Sweet Home"
Hadley (Mass.)
Spinet (piano) -- Massachusetts -- Hadley
Women -- Massachusetts -- Hadley
Houses -- Massachusetts -- Hadley
A woman (identified as one of the Marsh sisters) faces is seated on a piano bench playing a spinet piano.
Johnson, Clifton, 1865-1940
Image from page 22 of Historic Hadley: Quarter Millennial Souvenir by Clifton Johnson, 1909.
Jones Library Special Collections
undated
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From the Clifton Johnson Collection
Photographs
CJ2029a
"How goes it, neighbor?"
Wyoming
Men -- Wyoming
Two white men stand facing each other. One stands in the door of a tent and the other stands outside it. A stove stands in the foreground and mountains rise in the background.
Johnson, Clifton, 1865-1940
Jones Library Special Collections
undated
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From the Clifton Johnson Collection
Photographs
CJ3336
"Howdy"
Vicksburg (Miss.)
Women -- Mississippi
Men -- Mississippi
Girls -- Mississippi
A black woman holding a child's hand stands on a dirt road looking at a black man sitting on a mule with a second mule standing next to them. A fence runs along the road behind them.
Johnson, Clifton, 1865-1940
Jones Library Special Collections
undated
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From the Clifton Johnson Collection
Photographs
CJ2653
"Library Resumes Poetry Readings After 15-Year Lapse" newspaper clipping
Francis, Robert, 1901-1987
Jones Library
Amherst (Mass.)
A newspaper clipping describes a poetry reading by Robert Francis to take place on September 11 at the Jones Library. The reading was jointly sponsored by The Jones Library and the University of Massachusetts Press in celebration of the poet's new book, <em>Collected Poems 1936-1976</em>.
circa 1976
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From the Robert Francis Collection
English
Newspapers
"Minding" the baby
Faringdon (England)
Girls -- England
Children -- England
A white girl stands by a stone step to a house holding a screaming baby standing on the first step. Wooden planks block the bottom of the open door to the brick house.
Johnson, Clifton, 1865-1940
Jones Library Special Collections
undated
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From the Clifton Johnson Collection
Photographs
CJ0750a
"Puttin' oot the Dung"
Pen drawing, American
Farming -- Scotland
Men -- Scotland
Horses -- Scotland
Pen and ink illustration of a man spreading manure in field. He stands in the back of a wagon pulled by a horse.
Johnson, Clifton, 1865-1940
Image from page 99 of The Land of Heather by Clifton Johnson, 1903
Jones Library Special Collections
circa 1895
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From the Clifton Johnson Collection
Illustrations
CJA0107
"Robert Frost in Amherst" poem by Robert Francis
Frost, Robert, 1874-1963
Francis, Robert, 1901-1987
Amherst (Mass.)
A typed version of Robert Francis' poem, "Robert Frost in Amherst," signed at the bottom by Francis and dated April 14, 1932
Francis, Robert, 1901-1987
Jones Library Special Collections
1932-04-14
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from the Robert Francis Collection
English
Manuscripts
"Speak!"
New York (State)
Hudson River (N.Y. and N.J.)
Women -- New York (State)
Dogs -- New York (State)
A young white woman stands on a barge holding her hand high. A dog stands on its hind legs reaching up and a second woman stands watching. Caption reads: "A girl's pet on an Erie Canal boat. 'Speak!' she says as she holds up a bone. The girl and the rest of the family, including the dog, lived on their boat all the year. In winter they tied up to a New York wharf."
Johnson, Clifton, 1865-1940
Jones Library Special Collections
undated
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From the Clifton Johnson Collection
Photographs
CJ2930
"Supper is ready"
North Dakota
Women -- North Dakota
Men -- North Dakota
Houses -- North Dakota
A white woman stands by a back door of a house covered with white siding, covering her eyes and looking towards a man holding a pail and walking towards the house. Two horses hitched to a cart are in the middle ground and a second cart stands in front of a barn.
Johnson, Clifton, 1865-1940
Jones Library Special Collections
undated
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From the Clifton Johnson Collection
Photographs
CJ3456
"The Line" at Massachusetts Agricultural College
Amherst (Mass.)
View of a line of students walking across a snow covered landscape away from the College Chapel. It looks as though they've walked across the frozen campus pond.
Scott, Edgar T., 1858-1940
Jones Library Special Collections
Circa 1910
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Is part of the Edgar Scott Postcard Collection. Jones Library Special Collections.
image/jpg
English
Cards
SPC445
"Whoa!"
Nevada
Boys -- Nevada
Horses -- Nevada
Men -- Nevada
A white man on a horse pulling on the reins while a white boy stands leaning against a wooden pillar, watching. The dirt road extends up a hill into a town with buildings on the right and utility poles on the left.
Johnson, Clifton, 1865-1940
Jones Library Special Collections
undated
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From the Clifton Johnson Collection
Photographs
CJ2733
<em>Frost: A Time to Talk</em> book cover
Frost, Robert, 1874-1963
Amherst (Mass.)
Book cover of <em>Frost: A Time to Talk; Conversations & Indiscretions Recorded by Robert Francis</em>, which was published in 1972 by the University of Massachusetts Press.
Francis, Robert, 1901-1987
Jones Library Special Collections
1972
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English
Books
1777 Amherst Town Meeting Warrant
Amherst (Mass.)
Municipal government
A Warrant written on behalf of the Selectmen of Amherst (John Billings, Moses Dickinson, and Joseph Williams) directing Constables Martin Kellogg and Moses Dickinson Junior to inform all eligible voters in the Town of Amherst of a Town Meeting to be held on 19 May and of the issues to be discussed therein.
Jones Library Special Collections
15 May 1777
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1778 Amherst Town Meeting Warrant
Amherst (Mass.)
Municipal government--Massachusetts
A warrant from the Selectmen directing Mr. David Blodget, Constable, to inform all qualified voters in the town of Amherst of an upcoming Town Meeting and the Articles to be discussed therein, including 'raising men for the Continental Service'.
Jones Library Special Collections
4 May 1778
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Manuscript
1868 Amherst Town By-Laws
Amherst (Mass.)
Municipal government
A copy of the first by-laws created by the Town of Amherst, accepted and adopted at Town Meeting on 25 April 1868.
Jones Library Special Collections
1868
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Amherst--By-Laws--General
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