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A black boy, sitting in a rowboat, has filled his felt hat with water and is taking a drink from it. Caption on back: "Way down on the Suwanee River. This is the stream which inspired that wonderfully popular song, The Old Folks at Home".

A black man and two black boys are packing vegetables in a barnyard to be shipped north. Caption on back: "The two boys are helping a farmer pack tomatoes and cabbages to ship north".

A black couple is hard at work clearing the ground of palmetto scrub to make way for a garden. Caption on back: "Grubbing up palmetto scrub to clear ground for a garden patch".

A black girl is pulling on the well rope of a tall well house while a boy waits with a pail at his feet. Caption on back: "Did you ever see a well that had as high a roof as this from which the children are getting water?"

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…

Portrait photograph of Clifton Johnson at about age 35.

Cover of a travel book of Ireland titled The Isle of the Shamrock

Pen and ink illustration of a man riding a horse in the country side, blowing a horn.

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.

Pen and ink illustration of meadow-weed, used in the magazine The Interior in 1898.

Pen and ink illustration of the design used for the cover of the book The New England Country.

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

Clifton Johnson's illustration of the Mother Goose rhyme Three Blind Mice.

Photograph of the Hockanum schoolhouse after a flood in 1895. Anna McQueston (later Mrs. Clifton Johnson) is in the doorway.