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A woman sits with her back to the camera playing a spinet piano reading out of a music book on a stand in front of her. A chair stands in front of a window next to the piano.

Two boys, one standing and one lying on the rocks holding sticks as muskets and eyeing imaginary targets.

A young white boy sits barefoot on a wooden rocking horse on a porch of a wooden house. A second boy sits on the floor while a young woman stands against the side of the house, in front of a window. Caption reads: "The older boy has the hobby horse,…

A girl, identified as Katherine Johnson, sits on a wooden wheelbarrow with a doll in her lap, looking at the camera. A woman, identified as Anna Johnson, Katherine's mother, leans over the wheelbarrow passing a toy cart to Katherine.

A small boy entertains himself by traveling on a stone wall highway. This was easily done, for the stone walls were right in among the houses. A couple houses and a barn visible behind other stone walls. Trees grow among the fields and a car drives…

Three white boys sit on the grass in a shade of a tree behind them. One of the boys is holding something in his hands, possibly a knife.

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.