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A white woman bends over a child helping them stand. Both look at the camera smiling. Some dilapidated houses stand behind them.

Two girls sit on a threshold with the door to a house open petting a dog sitting in front of them. Another girl sits in a small wagon next to them. Shutters on a window next to the door are shut.

Image of several tiny islands, each with a house on it and several boats moored between the shore and the islands. A group of people are sitting in a boat going towards the islands and boats.

Flat land populated by thin woods of pine and palmetto scrub, typical of the Florida landscape. Caption on back: "Rockledge: a characteristic landscape - thin pine woods and palmetto scrub".

A view of a pond in the middle of a clearing surrounded by trees.

The Thoreau family grave with smaller gravestones around it. Two trees grow behind it with more trees visible down the hill in the middleground.

A woman standing in front of a table covered with sewing while she is trying to thread a needle. She is warmly dressed with a quilted bonnet on and a shawl over her shoulders.

Ruins of a tower and a part of a wall standing on an island with some short, half-bare trees in the foreground. Water can be seen on the left with the far shore visible in the background.

Three white boys sit on the grass, one leaning against a stump of a tree. A dog sits on the grass next to a second boy. Some buildings are visible in the background on the left and a river is slightly visible on the right.

Three white boys stand in the foreground. One of them is holding a long wooden stick he is drilling into the ground while the other two are looking down at their bare feet. A river runs across the middle ground and a tree-covered mountain is in the…

Three black boys at play. Captions on back: "Suwanee River: three comrades" and "The boy at the right is making music with a Jew's harp, and the boy standing is whittling a cane for himself. As for the third boy, he seems to be charmed by the Jew's…

Two black boys sit on the ground while a third stands between them. Trees grow in the background. Caption reads: "The boy at the right is making music with a jewsharp, and the boy standing is whittling a cane for himself. As for the third boy, he…

A view of a field with a dirt road extending from the foreground and three horse-drawn carts in the middle ground. A stand of trees is on the right, near the carts and other trees grow in the background on the left.

A street in Chinatown with three young pig-tailed girls walking down the sidewalk, away from the camera. A number of people, some Asian-Americans, some white, walk up and down the street. Signs and awnings hang from store windows and a clock tower…

A man sits in the center of a threshing wheel waving a stick towards a horse while it and three other horses walk around powering it. A stone barn is in the background.