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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.

View of Thomas W. Smith sitting in a cart holding the reins attached to a horse. Written on back: "Thomas W. Smith as he appeared in the Horribles Section of the parade at the Flag Pole dedication. Picture taken at rear of 31 North Prospect Street.…

View of the horse and cart that was used to deliver goods for the Grange Store in the early 1900s.

Looking east across Thayer Street toward houses on Ward Street. Two dogs sit on the grass in the foreground.

Camels and an elephant with a man on top trudge up Main Street passing by a large crowd of onlookers.

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.

Mason A. Dickinson sits on a horse-drawn sleigh in Amherst.

View of a middle-aged, smiling Lavinia Dickinson standing outside on the homestead porch holding one of her many cats.

Janet Wilder Dakin with two large dogs. Trees are visible in the background.