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Letter written in German to John Burgess from Max E. Giese stating he is ready to let Burgess' wife, Ruth, study painting with him. He asks Burgess to 'Share with us when you will be in Munich.'

John Burroughs stands next to a large tree, reaching up to a birdhouse.

John Burroughs sits at his old desk at the West Settlement schoolhouse while a group of schoolgirls stand facing him

John Burroughs sits writing at his desk. Caption on reverse reads "The desk that Burroughs himself made from crooked sticks gathered in the wilderness."

John Burroughs burial place with Anna Tweed McQueston Johnson (Clifton Johnson's wife) standing on hillside. Caption on reverse reads "John Burroughs burial place beside 'boyhood rock'"

John Burroughs stands by a flowering bush next to a large rock formation. Caption on reverse reads "A flowering bush at the margin of Slabsides Swamp."

John Burroughs at Riverby packing grapes into wooden crates. Caption on reverse reads "He was an official fruit farmer, and here he is getting grapes ready for the city markets.

John Burroughs stands outside on the porch steps of a two story wodden house with a man and woman. Caption on reverse reads "John Burroughs Roxbury"

A man stands looking at two gravestones. Caption on back reads "the little cemetery at the turn of the road not far from the Burroughs home. It used to scare him when he was a boy if he had to pass it at night."

John Burroughs stands speaking to a woman in a dorrway. Caption on reverse reads "Burroughs, on a Catskills walking trip, stops at a farmhouse to ask directions."

John Burroughs lays across a wooden bench. Caption on reverse reads "New York, What he called the most restful position."

A cow stands near John Burroughs study. Caption on reverse reads "The bark covered study where Buroughs did mainly all his writing."

Local author John Fabel poses with his book, Designing the Future to Honor the Past.

A two story salt box house with a wooden fence out front. Caption on reverse "New York Easthampton, Long Island. The John Howard Payne house that inspired Home, Sweet, Home."

View of the house on North Prospect Street that was the residence of Amherst photographer John L. Lovell. It is Gothic Cottage style, rare in Amherst. According to the October 7, 1869 edition of the Hampshire Franklin Express, construction was…