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Eight-page newspaper published once by J. L. Lovell, Amherst resident and photographer. The newspaper includes miscellaneous advertisements alongside stories and articles about the new photographic technologies being practiced in Amherst.

John L. Lovell’s home, on North Prospect Street, still stands. It is easily recognizable by its rounded dormer windows, in a Gothic Cottage style relatively rare to Amherst. A similar image, also captured by Lovell himself, exists in stereoscopic…

John Musante and Bonnie Isman in the Woodbury Room of The Jones Library

Notation on verso: "Breaking ground for the Jones Library July 25, 1927". An older man in suit and hat stands in frame right with his left foot on a shovel facing a young boy dressed in short pants in frame left who holds a long pole and looks at the…

South College (in the foreground) is the oldest building on the College grounds and was constructed in 1820 and used as a dormitory. In 1891 it was extensively altered and modernized. The chapel, constructed in 1827, was used for morning prayers and…

View of Johnson Chapel with South College visible on the right and a long row of stairs leading up toward the buildings.

Erected in the years 1826-27, Johnson Chapel was named for Adam Johnson of Pelham who gave most of the money to build it. Hiram Johnson and Warren S. Howland, both of Amherst, helped with the construction. From Handbook of Amherst by Frederick H.…

A portrait of the Johnson family behind a house with some people standing and some sitting. In the upper row from left are: Clifton Johnson with baby Irving, Minnie Jordan Johnson, baby Henry Reynolds Johnson, Henry R. Johnson. The middle row from…

A portrait of the Johnson family behind a house with some people standing and some sitting. In the upper row from left are: Clifton Johnson Minnie Jordan Johnson, baby Henry Reynolds Johnson, Henry R. Johnson. The middle row from left: Anna McQueston…

The front entrance of Johnson's Bookstore on Market Street in Springfield with two displays windows filled with books. A front end of an automobile parked on the left of the photograph and other businesses on either side of the bookstore also…

Inside of the antique showroom at Johnson's Bookstore filled with shelves and a table full of glassware, dinnerware, and lamps. Two chairs stand against the wall with a grandfather's clock in between them. More chairs stand around the table.

The Jones Family Bible, open to pages listing family births, deaths and marriages.

Diagram showing the locations of the Jones Family pews, numbered 17 and 83, in the Meeting House in the first parish of Amherst

Colored postcard of an exterior view of the Jones Library.

An article in the Springfield Sunday Union and Republican on the Jones Library from November 4, 1928.