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A sign affixed to the trunk of a tree reading: "ASK TO SEE THOSE 75¢ SHOES 4¢ GINGHAMS 4 1/2¢ CALICO AND 5¢LAKE GEORGE SHEETING AT WILLIAMS AND JESSUP BROS."

A view of a dirt market square with buildings on the right and in the middle ground. Utility poles run across the market and into the background. A building with a clock tower is in the middle ground. Some people walk around the scene.

A black man shoveling among grasses with smoke seen on a small hill in the middle ground. Trees are visible through the haze in the background.

A black boy stands holding a mug while a black man kneels on the ground by a fire pit. He is petting a dog that is standing next to him. A second dog is near a standing wooden pole holding up a small camp. Caption reads: "the man is getting dinner…

A black man stands at an edge of a stream holding a rifle in his hands and looking to the right. A fallen tree trunk stands behind him and trees fill out the background. Caption identifies the location as Spout Springs.

A view of a column monument made of a granite column with a statue of a woman with wings blowing a trumpet and holding a laurel. A horse pulling a wagon stands near the monument with a number of cadets walking around.

A view of some buildings of the Academy at West Point as seen through an stone arch entrance to a courtyard with the Cadet Chapel, a gothic revival building with stone arches, seen on a hill in the background.

A dirt road passes a stone gate framing the photograph and turns right. A cannon stands at the short stone wall in the middle ground with a lake and mountain rising on the right in the background.

Ruins of a stone building with some walls standing. A trench runs across the foreground and some trees grow on the right.

A view of a two story house so covered in wisteria, only a window and parts of the roof are visible. A road turns on the left and trees grow in the background and on the sides of the photograph.

A view of a two story wooden house with a small shack on the left. A balcony that was on both floors had fallen down and debris is strewn in front of the house. Part of the wall had fallen off the second floor where the roof of the balcony had been.…

A view of a two story mansion with crow-step gables and wisteria covered walls. Multiple chimneys top the house. Trees grow behind the house and two trees frame the photograph.

A view of a church rising behind a hillside stone gate, possibly of a mausoleum. Some gravestones are visible near the church and its walls are covered in vines. Trees grow around the church.

A view of a cemetery with gravestones filling out the whole scene. A small footpath leads away from the camera and turns right while some short shrubs grow around the gravestones. Tall trees grow in the background. Caption reads: "The path leads to…

A steamboat on the Niagara River sailing towards the mist rising from the falls. Some rocks jut out into the river on the left.