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John Burroughs at Riverby packing grapes into wooden crates. Caption on reverse reads "He was an official fruit farmer, and here he is getting grapes ready for the city markets.

John Burroughs stands outside on the porch steps of a two story wodden house with a man and woman. Caption on reverse reads "John Burroughs Roxbury"

A man stands looking at two gravestones. Caption on back reads "the little cemetery at the turn of the road not far from the Burroughs home. It used to scare him when he was a boy if he had to pass it at night."

John Burroughs stands speaking to a woman in a dorrway. Caption on reverse reads "Burroughs, on a Catskills walking trip, stops at a farmhouse to ask directions."

John Burroughs lays across a wooden bench. Caption on reverse reads "New York, What he called the most restful position."

A cow stands near John Burroughs study. Caption on reverse reads "The bark covered study where Buroughs did mainly all his writing."

A two story salt box house with a wooden fence out front. Caption on reverse "New York Easthampton, Long Island. The John Howard Payne house that inspired Home, Sweet, Home."

A portrait of the Johnson family behind a house with some people standing and some sitting. In the upper row from left are: Clifton Johnson with baby Irving, Minnie Jordan Johnson, baby Henry Reynolds Johnson, Henry R. Johnson. The middle row from…

A portrait of the Johnson family behind a house with some people standing and some sitting. In the upper row from left are: Clifton Johnson Minnie Jordan Johnson, baby Henry Reynolds Johnson, Henry R. Johnson. The middle row from left: Anna McQueston…

The front entrance of Johnson's Bookstore on Market Street in Springfield with two displays windows filled with books. A front end of an automobile parked on the left of the photograph and other businesses on either side of the bookstore also…

Inside of the antique showroom at Johnson's Bookstore filled with shelves and a table full of glassware, dinnerware, and lamps. Two chairs stand against the wall with a grandfather's clock in between them. More chairs stand around the table.

A white woman and two girls walk barefoot on a dirt road looking at the camera. One of the girls is carrying a pail. A lake and a mountain are visible in the background. Caption identifies the location as Maam.

A one-page, typed, signed letter from George Washington Carver to Clifton Johnson, on Tuskegee Institute stationery. Carver thanks Johnson for sending him some photographs and hopes Johnson will visit Tuskegee again.

One page, typed, signed letter from George Washington Carver to Clifton Johnson, on Tuskegee Institute stationery. Carver thanks Johnson for his last letter and discusses Johnson's books.

A white woman inspects flowers growing on a trellis with a vine-covered house behind her.