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The hungry hens
A group of five children facing the camera, stand on by the entrance to a barn watching a crowd of chickens, some white and some matted brown, feeding. A dog walks towards the barn.
In the sheep pasture
Sheep and a farm boy face away from the camera on a upland pasture that outlooks the Connecticut river and distant mountains.
Hockanum ferry, Mount Holyoke
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…
Mowing hay
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.
Fort River bridge
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…
Janet Dakin with two dogs
Janet Wilder Dakin with two large dogs. Trees are visible in the background.
Lavinia Dickinson with cat
View of a middle-aged, smiling Lavinia Dickinson standing outside on the homestead porch holding one of her many cats.
Jones Library with parking for both cars and horses
View of the east side of the library and the First National Bank with street parking for both cars and horses.
Winter sleigh ride in Amherst
Mason A. Dickinson sits on a horse-drawn sleigh in Amherst.
Sidewalk on South Pleasant Street
Construction of a sidewalk along South Pleasant Street at a time when Amherst residents used a horse and carriage or the trolley to get to town.
Circus animals on Main Street
Camels and an elephant with a man on top trudge up Main Street passing by a large crowd of onlookers.
Tammy and Susan Stanley assisted by their father, John Stanley, ride down Potwine Lane in South Amherst on Sunday afternoon
Photograph of John Stanley walking beside his daughters, Tammy and Susan, who are riding ponies. They are on Potwine Street in South Amherst. A dog can be seen standing in the background.
Cows graze by stone wall
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."
Amherst Record Home Almanac
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…
View east toward Ward Street houses
Looking east across Thayer Street toward houses on Ward Street. Two dogs sit on the grass in the foreground.