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Hudson and Lilian Hudson sitting at a chess table playing a game he invented. There is a fireplace behind them with a mirror and a photograph of Hudson.

Hudson Maxim on horseback with him and the horse both looking at the camera. Trees grow behind him and a house is partly visible through bare branches on the right.

A portrait of Hudson Maxim in left half-profile.

Hudson Maxim and Gutzon Borglum talking in a field, both with a raised hand pointing at something off the camera to the right. A mountain is faintly visible in the background.

A view of a large elm tree, purported to be twenty-seven feet in circumference, with two houses behind it.

One page, typed, signed letter from Booker T. Washington to Clifton Johnson, on Tuskegee Institute stationery. Washington thanks Johnson for sending a book for the library and inquires about the photographs Johnson had recently taken.

Article written by Booker T. Washington (with photography by Clifton Johnson) that reflects a casual and personal look into Washington's philosophy and daily life. He relates his fondness for animals, his daily routine, and how the practical aspects…

The barber is cutting a man's hair while a young boy peers up inquisitively at the process. Caption on back "The Hair-cut" and "The little boy watched the woodshed barber so closely that the craftsman said, "I guess you're goin' to learn the trade…

Portrait photograph of Clifton Johnson at about age 35.

Photograph of Clifton Johnson, at age 53, sitting with his arms crossed and resting on a table.

Document conferring credentials to Clifton Johnson to be a delegate at the Democratic State Convention in Boston, in 1894.

Wedding invitation for Clifton Johnson's marriage to Anna McQueston in 1896.

Book cover of a 19th-century geography schoolbook.

Schoolbooks stored on the shelf among the Clifton Johnson Schoolbook Collection.

Roger and Charlie Johnson, both holding flashlights and Roger wearing a headlamp, look at a rock formation in a cave.