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A guidepost on a road fork with a hedge lining the road and a wooden gate between the hedges. A large rick of straw is in the middle ground with trees growing around.

A girl pushing a baby carriage with a baby inside while another girl walks alongside. A ladder stile leads up on the side of the path.

The ballot from the 7 March 1938 Amherst Town Election. It lists various town positions as well as the question about Amherst moving from open to limited town meetings by the change to representative town government.

A copy of the first by-laws created by the Town of Amherst, accepted and adopted at Town Meeting on 25 April 1868.

A warrant from the Selectmen directing Mr. David Blodget, Constable, to inform all qualified voters in the town of Amherst of an upcoming Town Meeting and the Articles to be discussed therein, including 'raising men for the Continental Service'.

A Warrant written on behalf of the Selectmen of Amherst (John Billings, Moses Dickinson, and Joseph Williams) directing Constables Martin Kellogg and Moses Dickinson Junior to inform all eligible voters in the Town of Amherst of a Town Meeting to be…

Book cover of Frost: A Time to Talk; Conversations & Indiscretions Recorded by Robert Francis, which was published in 1972 by the University of Massachusetts Press.

A white man on a horse pulling on the reins while a white boy stands leaning against a wooden pillar, watching. The dirt road extends up a hill into a town with buildings on the right and utility poles on the left.

View of a line of students walking across a snow covered landscape away from the College Chapel. It looks as though they've walked across the frozen campus pond.

A white woman stands by a back door of a house covered with white siding, covering her eyes and looking towards a man holding a pail and walking towards the house. Two horses hitched to a cart are in the middle ground and a second cart stands in…

A young white woman stands on a barge holding her hand high. A dog stands on its hind legs reaching up and a second woman stands watching. Caption reads: "A girl's pet on an Erie Canal boat. 'Speak!' she says as she holds up a bone. The girl and the…

A typed version of Robert Francis' poem, "Robert Frost in Amherst," signed at the bottom by Francis and dated April 14, 1932

Pen and ink illustration of a man spreading manure in field. He stands in the back of a wagon pulled by a horse.

A white girl stands by a stone step to a house holding a screaming baby standing on the first step. Wooden planks block the bottom of the open door to the brick house.

A newspaper clipping describes a poetry reading by Robert Francis to take place on September 11 at the Jones Library. The reading was jointly sponsored by The Jones Library and the University of Massachusetts Press in celebration of the poet's new…