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
All the light begins and is borrowed
Drawing
A figure standing in a small, spikey garden, their body full of white lines that suggest shooting stars
signed on verso
Purchased by the Trustees with BIPOC Art Committee funds, 2022
A figure standing in a small, spikey garden, their body full of white lines that suggest shooting stars
signed on verso
Purchased by the Trustees with BIPOC Art Committee funds, 2022
Featured Collection
Grand Army of the Republic
The Grand Army of the Republic (GAR) was an organization of Union
veterans of the American Civil War.
Featured Exhibit
150 Years of Northampton Photography
150 Years of Northampton Photography documents the evolution of the photographic process, a place and a people.