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A white man stands on the edge of a canal looking toward a bridge over the canal. Prune trees in blossom line both sides of the canal.

A boy stands in the Hockanum schoolhouse with his arm stretched out to the side holding a book as punishment. Two other boys, Charles Thayer and Oscar Johnson sit reading in their seats. Two windows let light in, a clock and a couple illustrations…

A small wooden bridge crosses a brook. A road crosses the bridge and veers right uphill. Trees surround the road. A rocky stream is visible on the right side of the photograph.

Sheep grazing in a field with some shacks and laundry drying on the right with a train riding past in the middleground emitting a large amount of smoke. A mountain is visible in the background.

A view of Shelburne Falls across a river, with houses and two larger buildings with spires. Hills visible in the background.

A wide cobbled street with buildings on both sides, some with signs above doors. A group of boys stands near a buildings, some leaning against it, while three men talk further up the street.

Two boys, identified as Roger and Arthur Johnson, in a shop. One is kneeling by a stump of a tree which serves as a rest for an upside down, homemade bicycle, which has wheels and no pedals, hammering it. The other boy stands holding a saw looking…

A boy, possibly Oscar Johnson, poses as the Farmer's Boy near the blackboard of the Hockanum schoolhouse with his hands in his pockets. He is wearing a straw hat, overalls over one shoulder, and a plaid shirt.

A woman sitting in a rocking chair wearing a sweater and a blanket on her lap reading "The Advance," a religious weekly. A chair stands next to a door under a window behind her. Other issues of the magazine hang on a string on the wall.

A woman sits on a chair by a window with a girl standing in front of her holding a straw hat with flowers. Three potted plants stand on the windowsill and a blackboard hangs next to the window with a "Faith Hope and Charity" sign hanging on the other…

A woman leans against a stone wall. She is carrying a basket on her back filled with peat and is looking at her hands, possibly knitting. Water is on the other side of the dyke and a hills rise in the background.

A man resting on a wooden stile holding a walking cane with bare trees surrounding a path narrow path.

A field with a lot of water on it. Utility poles run along the left side of the image in the middle ground and some buildings are faintly visible in the background.

A black woman stands in front of a hollowed out trunk and holding a wooden implement preparing to lower it into the trunk. A man stands in the entrance of the house looking at the woman.

A man riding a horse on a dirt road next to a stone wall with water on the left and a hill rising in the background on the left.