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A woman facing away from the camera hangs clothes to dry on a clothesline, a basket on the ground next to her.

A view of a farmhouse with some farm buildings in winter. Snow covers the ground and bare trees stand in a line on the right and behind the farmhouse. A person stands on the steps of the house and two piles of wood are near the house. A line of…

A young white man stands on the edge of the lake holding a gun and looking out. The shoreline swaps around to a point with some cabins on it. The caption reads: "A boy duck hunter on the shore of Lake Superior, near where Hiawatha and Minnehaha used…

A woman and a girl stand near a pond with ducks, geese, and a small boat. The inscription reads: "a pond for the ducks and geese. The ducks seem to be bashful, for they stay far back while the geese have come to see what the little girl has to feed…

Three men sit on the stairs of a brick building with a dog between them. Two boys stand in the foreground, one looking at the camera, the other at the men.

A view of a dock with a large ship on the right and a number of boats moored in the river and near the shore on the left. A number of buildings are on the left and across the middle ground with scaffolding in front of many of them. A group of boys…

A view of some buildings lining the shore of a river and trees making a wall behind them obscuring parts of buildings on top of a hill on which the tops of Durham Cathedral towers are visible.

A cargo barge being loaded by dockside crane at the river edge. Other boats and buildings visible in the background. Caption reads: "Dutch Point where the Dutch had their port when the first English settlers arrived."

A man (Dwight L. Moody?) stands in a pond holding a shovel while another man stands on the grass, both looking down at a man keeling down building a lock to prevent water from the pond backing up and flooding the fields.

A woman sits in a pew facing the camera wearing a black dress and a black hat. She holds a fan in one hand and a book in the other. The door to the meeting house stands ajar and a large window to the left floods the building with light.

A run down house ( identified as the birthplace of John Howard Jewett) with an attached barn and remains of another barn behind. Some bare trees scattered around the house and two other buildings visible in the background on the left.

A wooden chair with armrests and back support. A small extension for the head is above the back rest. The front and back legs of the chair are connected with a bar and and the left and right sides are connected by a larger bar in the center. The…

A pencil sketch of a barnyard with a fence in the foreground and a part of a house drawn on the right of the barn.

A wooden rocking chair with two arm rests and a cushion seat. A diamond cushion hangs on the backrest and a small extension for the head is above it.

Two pails rest on the floor on the right framed as if seen through a keyhole. A shelf is hanging on a wall in the center with a picture frame and clock on the top shelf and some small jugs below. A plucked, upside-down chicken hangs on the left with…