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A white girl walks down a street holding "reins" tied to a girl walking before her.

A group of white girls playing in the streets with three other girls watching from the side. A stone fence separates the street from a stone house.

A group of white girls standing in the street near a sign reading "The Salisbury Ams." One is kneeling and drawing on the ground while one is looking at the camera and smiling. Houses line the street on both sides and there is a fork in the middle…

Hudson Maxim and Ray Stannard Baker sitting at a table playing chess.

Photograph taken by Robert Francis of a group of children dressed in costume. The caption on the reverse states, "Play given by orphans at Hilltop orphanage, Sidon."

Interior view showing plants inside Durfee Plant House at Massachusetts Agricultural College in Amherst.

A woman and a man planting their garden in the neatly prepared furrows. A tall tree is next to the woman and an orchard is in the background. All the trees are bare.

Pen and ink illustration of two men planting oats. Published title: "Covering the Seed in a Field Sown to Oats."

Three farm workers planting in a field at the foot of Mt. Holyoke. A barn is behind them on the hillside.

A white man sits on a planter pulled by two horses riding in a field.

A girl stands in the foreground dropping seeds onto the ground with a boy slightly behind her and to the right doing the same. A man plows the field with the help of a donkey. The caption reads: "Planting corn. The man with his plow and mule makes…

Two men leading three horses hitched to a what is possibly a seeder led by two men while a third man is behind. A house is visible in the background.

A view of a river with a shore on the left. Some trees grow on the shore and some fallen branches are spread on the ground. A house boat is in the middle ground near the shore.

A white man stands holding a horseshoe over his head in his right hand and holding a second horseshoe in his left hand. A second man stands next to him and two other men stand near where he is throwing. A horse stands in the middle ground and some…

A ferry carrying a car across the Piscataquis River. Some buildings are visible on the far shore. The caption on the back of the photograph reads: "a Piscataquis ferry near Orneville, the birthplace of Hudson Maxim."