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A white woman sweeps a cobblestone road with stone houses on the left and a stone wall with a gate and canopies of trees stretching over it on the right.

Two women, one holding a baby, sit on stone steps in front of an open door of a brick building. Another child sits with them and a third stands facing them, away from the camera. Meanwhile, a man sits on the steps of another door to the right.

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Mill Valley grist mill on Fort River, also called "Freshman River." Two men stand in the doorway of the mill in the background, there is a pond in the foreground and trees obscure a couple of buildings and either side of the mill.

Looking from the pond to the dam and the river beyond. There are a few dwellings on either side of the dam. A tree covered hill is in the background. Reflection of the trees visible in the pond.

View of a young boy fishing at Mill Pond in Cushman. The pond was at the corner of State Street and East Leverett Road and was the water source for the mills downstream, including the Roberts mill.

A windmill near a canal with other buildings lining the canal and boats moored on both sides of it. The caption identifies the place as Delfshaven, a burrough of Rotterdam.

A brook in the woods with a little waterfall in the middelground. High rocks create cliffs on either side of the brook with bare trees growing thickly on either shore.

A boy, identified as Stephen Johnson, stands casually with his hands against the the small doorway to a barn, a pail on the floor next to him.

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 white man sits on a small wooden stool milking a cow in a field. Two other cows, one sitting, one standing, are nearby and a tree stands in the center with half of its trunk missing. A forest and mountain are in the background. Caption identifies…

Group of Massachusetts Agricultural College students in military drill formation around three cannons.

Military drill performance on the Massachusetts Agricultural College fields. Soldiers are lined up in rows.

A man stands in the middle ground in the shade of a palm tree looking towards the sea. Palm trees grow on the left behind him. A pier juts out into the water and a boat is moored in the water. Caption states the man is Kirk Munroe, an American…

A view of a village from the middle of a dirt road extending away from the camera and moving downhill in the middleground. Houses and a church stand on either side of the road with mountains faintly visible in the background.