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Full title: A map of Amherst. With a view of the College and Mount Pleasant Institution. By Alonzo Gray & Charles B. Adams. Amherst College, May 1833. Pendleton's Lithography, Boston.

Pendleton's Lithography published many Massachusetts town plans…

A woman walks down a little hill on the side of a house. Some boxes, wood and other refuse lie on the ground n the right. A tree grows behind the house on the left and a little pond can be seen in the middleground.

A view of a dirt road leading up to a large, two-story house in the middle ground surrounded by trees.

A white man working in a garden with a pitchfork breaking the ground while bare trees and shrubs are nearby. Some farm buildings are in the background.

A man stands with a shovel, digging near a wooden fence. Behind him A brick building. Caption reads: "an old distinct schoolhouse in the central part of the state.

A bearded white man holding divining rods in his hands walks in a yard. There is a split-rail fence in the middle ground and trees grow in the background.

A white man stands in the center of a dirt path holding a walking stick. A stone wall runs along the road on the left and trees and brushes grow on both sides of the path.

A man in a white linen summer suit stands outside Lodestone on Belchertown Road in Amherst. The Eastman family lived at this location from 1911 to 1919. Eastman authored most of his published books during the family's time in Amherst.

A man sitting on a long bench aginst a wall with two windows. He is wearing a vest and reading a book. Another long bench stands against two windows on the right side of the room next to a door. There is a chair and a bed on the left side of the…

View down the length of the covered bridge. A man, possibly Richard Johnson, stands, leaning an arm against one corner looking over at the stream below. A sign over the bridge is a warning about a six ton weight limit and anyone crossing the bridge…

One white man stands and one crouches at the end of a small pier. A part of a boat is visible near them. Two cows wade in water on the left.

Two white women, one holding a baby sit at a dinner room table with a fireplace behind them and a number of pictures hanging on the wall and resting on the mantelpiece.

Two white men stand on a wooden platform with train tracks on them. One of them is leading a cart on the tracks. A third white man stands on a lower platform stacking lumber. Other stacks of lumber are in the middle ground and across the river. Two…

Joshua Slocum standing on the bowsprit of the Spray holding onto a line and looking out at the water.

A view of a cobbled street corner with women and men walking around. The shop in the middle ground is the "Old Curiosity Shop, Immortalized By Charles Dickens."