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A man stands in a boat passing a bag to a man standing in a small fishing boat while a second man sits. Other boats and a roof of a building are visible in the background.

Two women walking down a road, one holding a coat over her arm and both looking at the camera. Behind them two horses pull a horsecar filled with people.

Pen and ink illustration of roadside gold (flower) with one stem and three sets of two large leaves and a number of smaller ones along the stem and two blooming flowers on top.

A black man grazes a horse in his yard and talks to a woman. In the background, children are sitting on the steps of the house.

Booker T. Washington stands next to a chicken coop. At his feet is a group of chickens. He holds a pail of feed in one hand and sprinkles it for the chickens with the other.

A dilapidated wood cabin, identified as the building Booker T. Washington started his school. A wooden fence and some trees are on the right. Caption on back: "The cabin in which Booker Washington started his school."

An older black woman seated in a chair, and a child, possibly her daughter or granddaughter, read together in Louisiana.

Two apron-wearing women hang laundry to dry on a fence outside their house in Tuskegee, Alabama.

An older black couple with smiling faces, in their yard in Vicksburg, Mississippi, look at each other. The woman is stirring a kettle and the man is sitting in a chair.

Booker T. Washington sits on a bench with his son David standing next to him. At their feet are two rabbits.

Booker T. Washington stands in a pasture, holding a mare's bridle and reaching out to make friends with her colt.

Booker T. Washington standing on a log above a brook holding a walking stick on his right hand and his hat in his left hand. Bushes and trees are visible behind him.

A black man splitting boards for a roof in Virginia.

On the bank of the Ohio River in West Virginia, a black boy pulls his little brother in a tiny toy wagon.

A black boy is sitting on a porch, reading to his father, who, according to the back of the photograph, does not know how.