A muddy road with fencing along both sides and a farm house on the right with a large tree behind it. Other trees grow near the road and smaller trees grow on the opposite side of the road.
John Burroughs stands looking out over a pond. Caption on reverse reads "A wayside pond near slabsides. Burroughs just naturally stopped there on a hot day, Lastly to rest, but more to find out what was going on amoung the creatures of the woodland…
Pen and ink illustration of a man on a small stone bridge leaning with his arms on the stone looking down at the creek below. Tall grass is on either side of the creek and clouds are in the background.
A woman bends over a stone slab on the ground with a round opening, holding a rope and drawing water from the well. A stone house is in the middle ground.
A white man crouches over a well in the ground holding a rope and lowering it. Two planks of wood serve as an open door. A house stands in the middle ground.
Backyard of a house, visible through the well and trees on the right. A well stands in the middleground with ivy growing up its wooden walls. A pile of firewood stands on the left and trees grow in the middleground and background on the left.
A boy and a girl stand by a well sweep holding a dog. A stone wall surrounds them and separates the well sweep from a field. A barn stands behind them and a wooded area faintly seen on the right in the background.
A white man lowering the arm of a wellsweep. A white girl stands next to him holding a bucket. A two-story house is in the background with a porch on the side and trees growing around it.
A white gate flanked by large bones of a whale which curve and meet at the top, forming an arch. A house is visible through the arch in the background with a stone wall leading up to it. Bushes grow along the white wooden fence.
A black boy pushes a wheelbarrow with two girls sitting inside it. They are in an alley in between two buildings. A man walks in the middle ground next to a brick fence with some trees growing on the right.