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A black girl stands in the open gate next to two younger children while a boy rests his hand on the gate facing them. A wooden fence extends on both sides and the roof of a wooden building is on the right. Caption: "Four neighbros, three of whom are…

A house boat resting on land near a river. Some trees grow behind it. A truss bridge crosses the river in the background.

A group of five black boys, four standing and one sitting, paddle a boat. Two are looking at the camera, one holds a large glass bottle, and two hold paddles. Boats are moored in the background near houses.

A black girl walks on a dirt path towards two boys talking to each other near a small, wooden building surrounded by bare shrubs and some plants. Trees fill in the background. Caption reads: "Negro children and their schoolhouse. Such buildings for…

An white older woman sits on the steps of a house with the door open behind her and a boy stands near her with a sack swung over his shoulder.

Two white men looking at each other, one standing on a side of a dirt road looking to the right at a man sitting wooden fence running along the road. Trees fill in the background.

Two white women wearing white dresses and bonnets face each other in a shade of a building. A boy stands next to one of the women and trees fill the background.

Two white men meet on a road, one facing away from the camera and the other, sitting on a horse, facing the camera. They both have sacks with them, one on the horse, the other over his shoulder.

A woman stands on a road looking towards the camera with a corn field behind a wooden fence on the left and trees and bushes growing on the right of the road. A bell-tower is visible in the middleground with some farm buildings visible around and…

The design of the book cover and spine of Clifton Johnson's The Country School. Features a sunrise with rays spreading out from the background, birds flying, and a well sweep in the foreground. The whole is surrounded by a decorative frame. The title…

A drawing of an inside of the house centered around a blazing hearth with a kettle hanging in it. Two chairs, a bench, a table, and a crib are standing near the hearth with another chair and a cabinet filled with plates against the wall on the right.…

A pencil sketch of the contents page with the word: "CONTENTS: written in the center of the page surrounded by a sketched design.

A pencil sketch of the copyright page of A New England Year. The words: "copyright 1894 by Clifton Johnson" appear in the center.

A sketch of the epigraph page featuring a quote Ralph Waldo Emerson's The Snow-Storm: "Announced by all the trumpets of the sky, Arrives the snow, and driving o'ver the fields, seems nowhere to alight: the whited air Hides hills and woods, the river…

A sketch of a chapter with the word "February" written in capital letters on top and pencils marks symbolizing lines of text.