Buckland Collection

Whip snaps were incorporated into the tip of the whip on the end that would hit or snap the animal, usually a horse, into obedience. The snaps in Buckland's collection are orange, blue, green, yellow, dark green or black. They are approximately 11 to…

Students and a teacher at the Buckland Center School circa 1893. Note the barefoot boys and what appear to be the crocheted collars on some of the girls dresses. Names of the teacher and students are:

Teacher: Addie Dodge Brown; Students (Top…

Buckland Center School, District No. 1 in Buckland, Mass.,was built after the Old Brick Schoolhouse was torn down in 1850 or 1860. The Buckland Center School, a two-story wooden structure, was built on approximately the same site as the brick school.…

Group of men with their shotguns and hunting hounds, along with their bounty from a day of hunting - a collection of snowshoe hares and three gray, or coney, rabbits. Hunting was a form of social contact between men, as well as a popular sport, an…

Man donned in white apron standing next to the horse-drawn delivery wagon with J.G. Haigis Meat sign is identified as Lewis Meyers. (Most historical records show spelling as Louis Meyers.) J. G. Haigis operated a butcher shop on Bridge Street in…