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The approach to the village
A road leading up to the Johnson place in Hockanum. A barn stands in the field on the left, separated from the road by a fence. A woodpile stands by the road. A house and farm buildings visible in the middle ground with the Connecticut river partly…
Starting for school
Margaret Johnson Rutter stands on the stone slab steps of the Oscar Johnson farmhouse in Hockanum holding a lunch pail in one hand and two books in the other. There is a bucket next to her and a broom by the steps. She is in the pantalet period…
Sliding on the ice
Two children playing on the frozen Russell's Cove. One stands on the ice holding the rope of the sled behind, the other sitting on the sled on the shore beside a frozen cave and some bare trees. Russell's barn and Thayer's barn visible in the…
Sharpening his slate pencil
A young boy stands next to the entrance of the Hockanum schoolhouse, facing away from the camera, sharpening his pencil against the bricks on the right side of the door.
Reading a composition
A young girl, possibly Edith Barstow or Hettie Johnson, standing in front of the blackboard in the Hockanum schoolhouse reading her composition to the class.
Planting in the field
Three farm workers planting in a field at the foot of Mt. Holyoke. A barn is behind them on the hillside.
Oscar Johnson buildings at the foot of a mountain
A series of barns in Hockanum behind a small rise in the ground. A large tree stands behind the buildings with Mount Holyoke in the background.
Old Hockanum Ferry Pier
The ferry pier sticking out into the Connecticut river with two row boats tied up to a tree by the shore.
Old baywindow in Clifton Johnson house
Two boys, one sitting on a couple of cushions reading from a book in his lap while the other boy sits nearby listening. Several flower pots are on a chest in front of the window and some flowers are behind the boys. Two windows on the right have…
November 1927 flood, Roger Johnson place
Flood surrounded barn in Hockanum and the flooded Connecticut River seen from a field. A house nearer the camera is just high enough not to be flooded. Normal banks of the Connecticut river are usually delineated by the two rows of trees just to the…
Multiplication is vexation
A girl, identified as Margaret Johnson Rutter, daughter of Clifton Johnson, stands by the blackboard of the Hockanum schoolhouse working out a math problem. She is in period dress.
Mrs. Parker, Hockanum
Image of Mrs. Parker, wife of Holyoke mayor, sitting on a stone wall holding a basket at a break in the wall with woods behind her.
Mowing hay
A farmer, identified as Eliot Johnson, on a mowing machine pulled by a couple horses across the road from a farmhouse, identified as belonging to Oscar Johnson. A couple large trees adorn the image on either side with Mount Holyoke in the background.
Mount Holyoke station
Two men stand by the roadside in front of a building halfway between house, barn for horses, wagons, and steam engines, and station at lower end of covered track to Summit House.
Memorial Day at Hockanum cemetery
Two well dressed Civil War Veterans, each holding a bouquet, looking down at a gravestone with flag mounted in front of it and flowers around the base of the flag. Well kept picket fence at the rear of the graveyard. Connecticut river and Mount Tom…