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Doing math on the blackboard
A group of five students, three boys and two girls, stand by the blackboard in the Hockanum schoolhouse doing math problems. One of the girls already finished and looks how others are doing. Two other students sit at their desks.
A game of tag
A group of children including Edith Barstow, W. Kiley, and Luther Barstow play tag around a large tree.
The geography class - two who know
Three children sit in rows in the Hockanum schoolhouse facing the front of the classroom and five children sit on a bench against the wall, all holding books, some torn up. A boy and a girl raise their hands. Two large windows let in light. Two of…
A class photograph
Students and their teacher, Miss Lawrence, stand in front of the Hockanum schoolhouse for a photograph. The students are identified as: Lillian Treadwell, Norman Barstow, Peggy Lyman, Warren Johnson, Eleanor Johnson, Henry Drozdal, Dotty Barstow,…
Decorating the schoolroom for Washington's birthday
Two girls, one standing on a step stool, hang up a banner in the Hockanum schoolhouse with Washington's name. American flags hang above, just out of shot. A third girl sits on a desk, watching. Numerous photographs and illustrations line the wall…
The hard sum
Edith Barstow stands in front of the blackboard in the Hockanum schoolhouse looking at a math problem. The names Luther Barstow and Oscar Johnson are written in chalk on the top of the blackboard.
A dialog in a schoolhouse entertainment
Two boys wearing fake beards sit facing each other pretending they are warming their hands in a fireplace. A jug and a glass stand on a table in front of them. The building is the Hockanum schoolhouse.
A Christmas blackboard decoration
A boy stands on a chair drawing holly across the top of the blackboard with chalk in his right hand and an eraser in his left hand.
The skaters
Two boys putting on skates while on frozen pond on the meadow. Some trees and houses, belonging to Edward Johnson and Elliott Johnson, in the middleground and background.
Old baywindow in Clifton Johnson house
Two boys, one sitting on a couple of cushions reading from a book in his lap while the other boy sits nearby listening. Several flower pots are on a chest in front of the window and some flowers are behind the boys. Two windows on the right have…
The two families
In an entrance to a barn a woman holds a young child, both looking down towards an older boy holding a shallow pan feeding a colt. Behind the colt, in a horse stall, is a horse with a feed bag on.
The hungry hens
A group of five children facing the camera, stand on by the entrance to a barn watching a crowd of chickens, some white and some matted brown, feeding. A dog walks towards the barn.
Sliding on the ice
Two children playing on the frozen Russell's Cove. One stands on the ice holding the rope of the sled behind, the other sitting on the sled on the shore beside a frozen cave and some bare trees. Russell's barn and Thayer's barn visible in the…
In the sheep pasture
Sheep and a farm boy face away from the camera on a upland pasture that outlooks the Connecticut river and distant mountains.
The new highway south of Titan's Pier
Image of three boys on the side of the new road up the hill. The old road off to the left goes through "Pass of Thermopolae" and by "Titan's Pier" then rejoins the new road around the hill. Mount Tom is in the background. Utility poles on both sides…