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• Forbes Library

  
  Creator: photo by Walter Corbin.
  

• Northampton Main Street Mid-70s

  
  Main Street Mid-70s from the Soup Kitchen at 159 Main to the N.I.S. Building at 109 Main, including Harlow's, Country Comfort, Helen's House of Beauty, Whalen Stationery and Morrison…

• Northampton Main Street ca.1978

  
  Main Street ca.1978 from Beardsley's at 140 Main to Sherman Jewelers at 164 Main including Bran-Win, Main Street Center, Ted's Boot Shop and Foster-Farrar.
  

• Forbes Library Armistice Celebration on Nov. 12, 1918.

  
  Photo from Forbes Library Special Collections of Armistice Celebration on Nov. 12, 1918.

• The Northampton Little League Gazette Team from 1958.

  
  The Northampton Little League Gazette Team from 1958.

• WAVES: Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service Officer Training Center at Smith College marching in the Florence Memorial Day parade.

  
  Creator: Walter Corbin.
  

  The WAVES on parade in Florence, May 30, 1943. Photograph by Walter E. Corbin. This photograph shows prospective officers in the Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service Officer Training Center…

• Cummington Fair 1962

  
  Creator: Robert P. Emrick.
  

• [selection of historical photos from Forbes Library's facebook page]

  
  Format: digital image.
  

• Julius P. Maine during one of his annual Marble and Penny Scrambles in Florence, circa 1910-1917.

  
  Children and onlookers swarm around Julius P. Maine during one of his annual Marble and Penny Scrambles near "Post Office Corner" (later known as Bird's Store) in Florence, circa…

• Northampton Little League players pose with Red Sox players at Fenway Park.

  
  Northampton Little League players pose with Red Sox players at Fenway Park. We believe the players are Del Wilber and Harry Agganis (the "Golden Greek" from Lynn, Mass.), which would date…

• Construction of the old U.S. Post Office building

  
  The construction of the old U.S. Post Office building at 47 Pleasant Street circa 1903-04. Two young boys sit on the side as workers construct the foundation for the building that now houses Family…

• Forbes Library Children

  
  Children reading after school at Forbes Library, 1920s. The Children's Room was on the 2nd floor in what is now the Arts & Music CD and DVD area.

• World's Famous Circus of Cahillane Terrace, Florence.

  
  World's Famous Circus of Cahillane Terrace, Florence. Summer 1960. Photograph from the Daily Hampshire Gazette Archives, Forbes Library Special Collections.

• Gazette Day at Mountain Park 1966.

  
  Two kids on board "Puffing Billy", Gazette Day at Mountain Park 1966.

• Gazette Day at Mountain Park 1966

  

• Bill Streeter and Heidi. Northampton 1988.

  
  Creator: Photograph by Lionel Delevingne.
  

  Bill Streeter and Heidi. Northampton 1988. Photograph by Lionel Delevingne. In memory of Bill Streeter, scholar, local historian and bookbinder, who passed away Saturday at the age of 87.

• Main Street, Oct 1966

  
  Carlson's, Lizottes, WHMP, Nonotuck Savings Bank, F.W. Woolworth on Main St., Oct 1966. Photograph from the Daily Hampshire Gazette collection at Forbes Library.

• Interior of unidentified local record store ca. 1958.

  

• First Night 1988

  

• Hamp High booster day assembly: "Beatles + 1".

  
  These ladies appeared at a Hamp High booster day assembly as the "Beatles + 1". From left to right Debbie Ahearn, Ginny Christenson, Sandy Russell, Martha Borawski, Sue McCarthy. Photograph…