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Emily Dickinson’s Wind Harp

  • Author By Vita Arce '25
  • Categories: 19th Century, Emily Dickinson Museum, Musical Instrument, North America, Weather and Amherst, Weather and Movement, Wind
A rectangular stringed harp, the size of a computer keyboard. There is a floral design carved beneath the strings.

William Henry Jackson’s Photochroms

  • Author By Ellis Benitez '28
  • Categories: 19th Century, 20th Century, Clouds, Frost Library Archives, North America, Photograph, Sun, Weather and Nature

Orra White Hitchcock’s Drawing of Vallies

  • Author By Jackson Carter '25
  • Categories: 19th Century, Climate, Drawing, Frost Library Archives, North America, Rain, Weather and Amherst, Weather and Science, Weather and Time
Colored stripes undulate across a diagram and form peaks & valleys labeled subsidence, elevation, erosion, & gorge.

Will Sillin’s Painting of the Connecticut River Valley

  • Author By Nico Berger '27
  • Categories: 21st Century, Beneski Museum of Natural History, Climate, North America, Painting, Sun, Weather and Amherst, Weather and Science, Weather and Time
A wide view of a rocky prehistoric lakeside with sparse vegetation and tiny grazing dinosaurs under a cloudy sky

Frances Chickering’s Cloud Crystals

  • Author By Vivi Caruso '27
  • Categories: 19th Century, Book, Frost Library Archives, North America, Snow, Weather and Nature, Weather and Science
Book cover, brown with the title "Cloud Crystals A Snow Flake Album" in gold lettering

Thomas Cole’s The Past

  • Author By Carlin Chazen '25
  • Categories: 19th Century, Mead Art Museum, North America, Painting, Sun, Weather and Culture, Weather and Time
A cheerful summers day viewed from the trees on high, looking down upon a castle yard where a crowd watches a joust

Thomas Cole’s The Present

  • Author By Emma Curley '28
  • Categories: 19th Century, Mead Art Museum, North America, Painting, Sun, Weather and Culture, Weather and Time
Ruins of a medieval castle are illuminated by sunset. A shepherd with his flock stands in the sun surveys the ruin

Triassic Petrified Wood Specimen

  • Author By Natalie Fu '27
  • Categories: Beneski Museum of Natural History, Climate, North America, Prehistory, Specimen, Weather and Nature, Weather and Time
Image of petrified wood taken from above highlighting the colorful cross-section.

Geoffrey Hendricks’s Sky Boots

  • Author By Violet Glickman '25
  • Categories: 20th Century, Clouds, Mead Art Museum, North America, Sculpture, Weather and People
A sculpture of creased, worn, lace-up men’s work boots, covered entirely in a painted bright blue sky with white clouds.

Walter Williams’s Girl with Butterflies

  • Author By Sarah Hasegawa-Howard '25
  • Categories: 20th Century, Europe, Mead Art Museum, North America, Print, Weather and Nature, Weather and People, Wind
A woodcut print of a young black girl surrounded by butterflies and flowers in a meadow. It is a warm and breezy spring day.
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