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Unloading fish
The crew of the fishing boat are hauling a load of fish up from the deck to the dock. The harbor and village are in the background. Caption on back: "Unloading fish."
Bit of shore at Marblehead
A small wood-shingled building is surrounded by lobster pots and wooden barrels. A sign on the building reads "Tea Room and Gift Shop."
Monks working in the garden, Santa Barbara
Two robed monks work the bare soil of the Santa Barbara monastery garden.
Garden work
Two black women are working in a fenced-in garden, one is hoeing and the other appears to be weeding. Caption on back: "Suwanee River: garden work."
Three comrades
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…
The water carrier
A black girl has a wooden bucket of water on her head which she is balancing with a hand on each side. Captions on back: "Suwanee River: the water carrier" and "A girl in a Negro settlement carrying a pail of water home from the spring. She has it on…
The washerwoman
A black woman smoking a pipe stands in front of a cauldron with steam rising from it holding a cloth she took just took out. Two other figures are visible through the steam in the left background in front of a wooden building. Wooden basins rest on a…
Two black women chatting at the garden by a house
One black woman has stopped her hoeing to brush the mosquitoes away while she chats with another black woman in front of a house. Caption on front: "Suwanee River Mosquitoes."
Black children and their schoolhouse
Black students and their teacher (?) stand outside the dilapidated school. Caption on back: "Negro children and their schoolhouse. Such buildings for their race in Southern country regions are far too common."
Thin pine woods and palmetto scrub
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".
Drink from the Suwanee River
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".
Packing vegetables to ship north
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".
Black couple clearing palmetto scrub for a garden
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".
Black children at the well
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?"
Cover of The Isle of the Shamrock
Cover of a travel book of Ireland titled The Isle of the Shamrock