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A white boy milking a cow while a second boy and a girl watch from behind a fence. Caption reads: "A boy doing the evening milking. On the cow's neck is a cow-bell, the tinkling of which helps to keep track of her in the pasture thickets.

A young white man skins a raccoon hanging on a nail against a wooden building while a young girl and three dogs watch with interest.

A young white man skins a raccoon hanging on a nail against a wooden building with a boy and a young girl watching. Caption reads: "It was the fashion among the boys and men of this half-wild country to have hair-cuts only at long intervals. In this…

A white man stands while two women sit on a blanket near him with picnic baskets. A large straw pile is behind them and a wooden building with some straw hanging out is behind the pile. Some farm implements and trees are on either side.

A white man sitting atop a roller pulled by two horses flattening a field located on a side of a hill. A river flows in the middle ground with a tree-filled island in the center and trees growing on the far shore.

A white man standing in a field sharpening a scythe. Some crops are behind him and farm buildings are not too far away in the middle ground with a steeple of a church rising above in the background.

A black man sits on a stone bench outside a wooden house looking towards two white girls standing in the foreground with their backs to the camera.

Two white men standing in the middle ground near water with two boats, one on the water, and one beached, near them. A group of four boys sit and lie down on the left looking towards them. Another boat is beached in the foreground and trees,…

A group of white boys, two carrying bundles over their shoulders, walking away from the camera on a dirt road. Shrubs and trees line the road and extending into the middle ground and background.

A white girl stands barefoot on a dirt road holding a branch while a boy stands opposite her leaning against a trough.

A view of a two-story house on top of a hill with a one story addition on the right. Some trees surround it and a gravel path leads away from the camera snaking up the hill. A stone wall is on the right and a wooden fence with the gate open on the…

A small spring in the foreground with some trees growing near the shore of a lake in the middle ground. Mountains rising on the opposite shore.

A three-mast schooner with a small boat attached resting on calm waters. Mountains are visible in the background.

A white man and woman sit on a wooden bench outside a two story house. Across from them a girl stands on a plank with her hands on her sides. A second girl sits on a bench on the other side of the main entrance to the house.

A view of a stone building near a dirt street with a fence on the right and some trees growing around it.