Two white girls sit on the threshold of a house with an open book between them. Some stones line the entrance and form a small garden along the wall of the house with some plants growing under a window.
A young girl, possibly Edith Barstow or Hettie Johnson, standing in front of the blackboard in the Hockanum schoolhouse reading her composition to the class.
Two children sit on a horse-drawn hay rake working. A colt stands nearby watching. Trees cover the background, the Fort River Covered Bridge visible on the far right.
A man stands in the doorway of a wooden house with his hands behind his back, looking up. A wooden step leads up to the house with a mat resting on it and grass growing around.
A number of log rafts float on water near the shore. Other logs and rafts rest on the shore. A person stands on a boat and other people are making a raft in the middle ground. A bridge runs across the river .
A view of a lake with an island in the center where ruins of a castle can be seen. Trees cover most of the island and a mountain rises in the background.
A girl and two boys, identified as Margaret, Arthur, and Roger Johnson, pat a snowman with stones for eyes, nose, mouth, and buttons, a straw hat, and wood sticks for hands. A couple trees grow in the middleground, between a barn and a house.