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Two black teenage boys stand by the edge of a river holding fishing poles, one over the river, the other baiting it. Caption reads: " Fishing in the old canal not far from the State house. They have just baited their hooks and haven't caught…

A white man sits on a pole he is using for fishing at the beach of a river. The pole is holding up a net for fishing. Trees cover the the hills on the far side of the river.

A view over a hedge, of a field with two white men, each leading two horses, plow a field with another horse visible on the right.

Ferry boat at its headquarters during a Connecticut River flood. Mountains visible in the background.

Flooded farmlands, a power line, some trees and a top of a wooden building visible above the water. The Mount Holyoke range visible in the background.

Flooded street, house, barn, and a common lined with trees.

A girl and a boy, identified as Katherine and Irving Johnson, by the edge of the flooding Connecticut River. The boy is standing with his hands in his pockets looking down at the girl who is crouching and playing in the mud with a stick.

Photograph taken from a dry higher ground behind the Roger Johnson house looking toward the farms surrounded by flood water in the Northampton meadows.

Flood waters surround farm buildings. A cow and a chicken stand behind a fence on the right in the foreground. A boat is moored nearby. The buildings on the left side belonged to Oscar Johnson and to Clifton Johnson on the right.

Bank of the Connecticut River in Hockanum with floodwood logs along the bank. Some scattered bare trees and two houses are visible on the bank. The first house belonged to the Mt. Holyoke Summit House and the second was an ice house.

Two boys and a girl, identified as Arthur S., Roger, Margaret (later Rutter) Johnson flying a kite. Arthur is squinting and looking up, Roger is holding a long stick, and Margaret is pointing towards the kite but looking away.

A man walks across a narrows wooden bridge that goes over a stream. A dirt road runs into the stream on the far side and two other men and a boy are standing on the road. Planks of wood are arranged on the side of the road behind them and bare trees…

A man stands by a an incline with stone walls on either side with water running down it. Trees stand on either side of the water.

A pond with its dam on the right side of the photograph. Bare trees grow around the pond and hazy mountains are faintly visible in the background.

A stone, multi-story building is on the right with some stones loose and many windows broken. Some bare trees grow on the right and in the background and some snow lies on the ground.