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Three white men standing in a line in a field sharpening their scythes with trees lining the background.

A view of a wide cobbled street with buildings lining both sides. People walk or stand in groups and a horse-drawn carriage rides away from the camera in the middle ground. A spire of the East and Old Parish Church is visible in the background.

A view of a street turning right in the middle ground. Two children walk on a narrow sidewalk next to a stone and metal fence on the right. A hill rises slightly above with a stone wall perpendicular to the street leading towards a two story house…

A two story house with multiple windows, and shutters, some closed, with a one-story attachment stands behind a picket fence surrounded by trees. A second building is partly visible on the left.

Photograph taken from in front of the Whipple House on North Pleasant Street. The Jones Library operations moved into this house two days after the disastrous fire that destroyed the Amherst House in December of 1926. The elliptical window (barely…

Exterior view of the Whipple Window

Birch trees rise in the foreground with other trees and shrubs growing thickly around them.

A white church with a tall spire and two large clocks visible on two sides of the spire. A telegraph pole stands by the church. A storage shed is partly visible behind the church, a little downhill. Trees stand on either side of the church.

A view of a river with a boat in the foreground resting near large rocks. Trees surround the shoreline on all sides and a mountain is in the background.

Two Native American women stand by the edge of a stream covered in white robes while a third kneels by the water.

A view of the Horse Guards, a building standing in place of what used to be Whitehall Palace before it burned down. There are two soldiers on horses at arched gates while people walk around with one man riding a bicycle.

Two boys on a wooden bridge overlooking a brook. One sits on the edge holding a stick while the other lays down prodding the water with a stick.

Eliza Burroughs, wife of Curtis Burroughs stands near a flower garden, a cat at her feet.

Eliza Burroughs stands outside the homestead with two pails. Caption on reverse reads "Catskills Roxburry Going a-milking. The stones --- on the terrace of the old farm house of John Burroughs.

Will of Nathaniel Smith, one of the early settlers of Amherst. He was the first physician to practice in Amherst. He was also a farmer. In this, his last will and testament, he leaves money to his wife and daughter, both named Rebekah, and some to…