An icy road stretches away from the camera and turns right behind a hill. Snow covers the ground. A stone wall runs along the road on the right followed by a steel fence. A house is visible on the hill on the right and other houses line the road on…
View of Phoenix Row with Cook's Block in the foreground. Horses and carriages are parked in front of Henry Adams Drugs and Medicines. There is an Aetna sign visible outside the building on the second floor.
View of upper Phoenix Row on Main Street in Amherst with awnings on some of the store fronts. Written on verso: "I work right where I made the two marks; gas lamps put in 1873, out by 1894."
Early view of Phoenix Row business blocks. Written on verso: "Before 1873-no gaslights; shows Charles Deuel store, Deuel's store in Amherst House Block by 1886 according to town directory."
Amherst Town Hall was erected in 1889, and cost $58,000. The architect was H.S. McKay of Boston. This photograph was taken before the clock was installed in 1900.
A narrow dirt road runs away from the camera with an overgrown field on the left and bare trees on the right. Telephone poles run along the road and some barns and a church are visible in the middleground with a mountain in the background.