We have a new site for our special collections! For the most complete and up-to-date catalog of our materials, please visit https://archives.forbeslibrary.org/.
The Hampshire Room for Special Collections contains thousands of images documenting local history, including images of farms, factories, shops, schools, and local residents both well known and anonymous. The Northampton image collection comprises prints, glass and film negatives, lantern slides, etchings and stereographs. Other collections include the Elbridge Kingsley, Robert Emrick and Walter Corbin Collections, and the Daily Hampshire Gazette negatives from 1954-2004.
These Images From the Archives allow you to search a portion of the library's special collections which have been digitized. If you have any questions about this collection, please contact us.
Featured Item
The Nutcracker, "Kissy Doll" Act I
The Nutcracker, "Kissy Doll" Act I
Silver Gelatin Print by Maurine Sutter
Date performed: December 1989
Tara Keating - "Kissy Doll"
Party scene children & parents:
a. second from right, Kelly Duhart as "Clara"
b. Far left seated on floor-Abigael Maginnis-party child
c. Third from left (women with necklace) Andrea Gallano
d. Direct left and below the Kissy Doll’s hand- Alan Marvelli-parent, also was Pioneer Valley Ballet’s President of the Board
Silver Gelatin Print by Maurine Sutter
Date performed: December 1989
Tara Keating - "Kissy Doll"
Party scene children & parents:
a. second from right, Kelly Duhart as "Clara"
b. Far left seated on floor-Abigael Maginnis-party child
c. Third from left (women with necklace) Andrea Gallano
d. Direct left and below the Kissy Doll’s hand- Alan Marvelli-parent, also was Pioneer Valley Ballet’s President of the Board
Featured Collection
Grand Army of the Republic
Featured Exhibit
150 Years of Northampton Photography
150 Years of Northampton Photography documents the evolution of the photographic process, a place and a people.