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A woman walking across a yard towards laundry hanging on a line. A perpendicular laundry line is on her right. Some white linen rests on the ground. A house stands in the middle ground with two roof windows and two chimneys. Shrubs and trees grow in…

A man stands by an old, beaten barn, with much of its side wall missing. A house is partly visible on the left side of the photograph.

A white man stands with one foot up on a wooden fence looking up at a fancy weather vane in the shape of a sailboat. A yard behind the fence holds barrels, crates, and there is a shed on the left and a tree on the right. A second fence separates the…

A view of a shore of the Merrimack river, near Pawtucket Falls with some canoes beached by the shore and a man standing on a pier. A chair and some furniture stand on a platform built by a tree on the shore.

Two boats rest on the shore with two more moored in the water near the shore while a fifth is moored to the pier on the left. A boathouse stands on the pier. Across the water a tree covered shore is visible.

Two boats rest on the shore of Lake Champlain with trees growing on the shore behind them and the far shore hazily visible in the background.

A wooden watering trough stands propped up by two large boulders. Thick woods visible behind and a dirt road runs before it.

A man stands on a small, two-wheel cart pulled by two mules. The cart is in water, up to the knees of the mules and a large barrel sits on the cart.

A large, round wooden watering trough filled with water stands next to a blossoming tree. A large boulder stands surrounded by shrubs in the foreground on the right and thick vegetation makes up the background.

A man stands in a meadows, location identified as Coate, near a bare tee with other trees in the middle ground and background.

Several men sitting on the edge of a dock while one man remains standing. A two-masted cargo sailing ships tied up in the foreground while a large three-master dominates the center of the photograph. A barge is tied up to the vessel and is loaded…

A black girl has a wooden bucket of water on her head which she is balancing with a hand on each side. Captions on back: "Suwanee River: the water carrier" and "A girl in a Negro settlement carrying a pail of water home from the spring. She has it on…

A well-kept street with row houses on the left and a carriage parked by the sidewalk. A tree grows on the right in the foreground and a tower of a meeting house is visible in the background.

A pole with a large watch hanging from it shows time. It is behind a white fence next to a sidewalk which also turns left near the camera. A road extends on the right with trees growing on either side.

A black woman smoking a pipe stands in front of a cauldron with steam rising from it holding a cloth she took just took out. Another woman is visible through the steam on the right, possibly sitting in front of a wooden building with wooden basins…