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Amherst House on South Pleasant Street
View of the second incarnation of the Amherst House, a large hotel and business block. The first Amherst House was destroyed by fire on July 4, 1879. Horses and carriages are parked on the street. Businesses visible are O. G. Couch, Deuel, and…
Amherst Roller Rink advertising card
Trade card for the Amherst Roller Rink, a roller-skating establishment which was located in Palmer Hall (today the site of Amherst Town Hall) in the 1880s.
Amherst tax records, 1880
Tax record book showing property owned and its value.
Amherst Town Common
View north across the Town Common with College Street (dirt) in the foreground and Phoenix Row in the background. Boltwood Avenue is visible on the right.
Amherst Town Common
View of the Town Common in summer with Boltwood Avenue on the left and a drinking water fountain in the foreground.
Amherst Town Common
View looking south from Boltwood Avenue (on the left) across the Town Common and down South Pleasant Street.
Amity Street after the Blizzard of 1888
View west down Amity Street from the corner after the Blizzard of 1888 showing Frank P. Wood's Hotel and the houses on the right side where the Jones Library now sits. Large drifts of snow line the street.
Appleton Cabinet at Amherst College
This building was erected in 1855 and was named for the Hon. Samuel Appleton. It contained the Hitchcock Ichnological Collection, the Gilbert Museum of Indian Relics, and the Adams Zoological Collection.
Beta Theta Pi house in Amherst
View of the Amherst College Beta Theta Pi fraternity house. It stood on the corner of Maple Avenue (now Boltwood Avenue) and College Street. It was demolished in 1914 to make way for the new Beta Theta Pi house.
Bird's-eye view of Amherst
Panoramic lithograph of Amherst. Perspective map not drawn to scale.
Boardwalk inside Durfee Plant House
View of the wooden walkway and plants inside Durfee Plant House at Massachusetts Agricultural College in Amherst.
Cactus plants in Durfee Plant House
Interior view showing cactus plants inside Durfee Plant House at Massachusetts Agricultural College in Amherst.
Cat-astrophe advertising card
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.
Class of 1882 dedicatory fountain
This fountain was given to Massachusetts Agricultural College as a memorial by the Class of 1882. It is described as having a thistle and crane design, with a boy and a duck near the top. It was made of bronze and stood eight feet six inches tall.…
Class of Miss Jennie Cowles
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…