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Muddy Brook Farm wagon ride
People enjoying a wagon ride provided by Muddy Brook Farm at the 2008 Taste of Amherst.
Sunset Farm stand
Stand at the 2005 Amherst Farmers' Market which sold produce grown at Sunset Farm in Amherst.
A swamp no more
A figure stands in a field, with two crates in their hands. Caption on reverse reads "a swamp no more."
Cornfield by the Roger Johnson house
Roger Johnson house in Hockanum is in the middle ground. A cornfield takes up the whole foreground, some trees on the edges of the photograph, the Holyoke Mayor Parker's house visible in the distance with Mount Holyoke in the background.
The long, lazy hamlet, Hockanum
Remains of a pier on the Northampton side of the Connecticut river, with a row boat pulled up on the shore. Farms visible across the river at the foot of Mount Holyoke in the background.
Flooded farms
Photograph taken from a dry higher ground behind the Roger Johnson house looking toward the farms surrounded by flood water in the Northampton meadows.
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.
Planting in the field
Three farm workers planting in a field at the foot of Mt. Holyoke. A barn is behind them on the hillside.
A group of farm buildings
A house and attached barns seen across a field. Mount Holyoke visible in the background. (February 2022 - Believed to be the Drozdal Farm at 133 Hockanum Road.)
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.
A. E. Hobart's farm on North Pleasant Street in Amherst
View of Arthur E. Hobart's farmhouse and barns. The brochure states: "The Amherst House is supplied with milk from A. E. Hobart's farm, situated on North Pleasant Street about two miles on main road from Amherst House. Farm comprises 60 acres with 30…
House and barn on Spring Farm in Amherst
Farm house and barns belonging to Spring Farm, located about three miles from the Amherst House and 1 1/2 miles from the Notch on South Pleasant Street (possibly #466). The brochure states: "The farm comprises 122 acres, a continuous stretch of…
Spring Farm pasture and cows in Amherst
Pasture and herd of cows which belonged to Spring Farm on South Pleasant Street. The farm was run by Harry M. Whitaker.
Farm on East Pleasant Street in Amherst
View of a farm on East Pleasant Street with a large elm tree in the foreground. Written on verso: "Giant elm tree on the Ayer Homestead; W. T. Chapin bought the land and cut the tree."
Kendal barn and Superintendent's House at Massachusetts Agricultural College
View of the Kendal barn and barn complex alongside the Superintendent's House.