Browse Items (5213 total)

An elderly woman sits in a rocking chair outside a house knitting.

View of two children, a young boy and a toddler girl, carrying firewood, the entrance to a large barn looming in the background. This photograph is an illustration in "The Farmer's Boy," written and illustrated by Clifton Johnson and published in…

Image of an older man standing before the opening of a large, brick charcoal kiln with an armful of wood. Cut firewood, waiting to be placed in the kiln and turned into charcoal, rests in a stack in the foreground. Prescott was one of the towns…

Image shows two young boys trying to push a huge pile of hay into a barn. The caption on the back of the photograph reads, "The haymakers getting in a big two-boy load."

Image of two men working with logs in a cove off the Connecticut River. One man is standing upright and holding a long pike pole while the other man is bent over the log and is pulling on the log with a chain and a short pole. These men may be…

View shows the Cummington Cattle Show and a rolling landscape filled with horse-drawn carts and carriages parked in a circle to create an exhibition space. In the background is a large farmhouse with small tents set up to the side and people watching…

View of two large horses hooked up to a disc harrow outside a large barn. Two young children stand nearby, one of them holding the reins of the horses. A large pile of firewood rests next to another outbuilding in the background.

Image shows a group of women at work sorting rags in the rag room of a paper-making company. The rags are piled in large baskets beside each woman. All the women are wearing hats or bonnets of some type and are working in the bright light coming…

View of a group of men and teenage boys processing fish in a small square. Piles of fish are laid out on tables. One man appears to be scraping the fish while a boy waits with a long-handled spoon, ready to pour something over the fish. The are…

View of two men planing a long length of wood in a shipyard, preparing it to become the mast of a ship. Large slips of wood shavings litter the ground all around. The harbor and surrounding buildings are visible in the background.

View is of an unusual stone and rail fence bordering a grassy field along an old country road. The rails are built atop a low stone wall with more stones resting above, holding the rails in place.

View of the interior of a working sawmill. One man is operating the saw, which is in the process of cutting a wide board from a large log. Another man stands observing the work. Two young boys stand watching from outside the opening of the mill. The…

Image of a man sitting on the seat of a shingle-making bench, a mallet and a splitting tool on the floor beside him. Wood shavings lay scattered about. Other items in the room include a barrel and a stool with a finished shingle lying on top.

Image of a woman working alone in an attic on a large loom in the bright daylight from the large window beside her.

An old farmer, identified as "grandpa" Pease, looking through an opening in his palisaded garden. A house and an edge of another building visible behind him with trees in the background.