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A boy kneeling before a dresser, rummaging in the bottom drawer. A pile of clothes is scattered on the floor next to him as a second boy looks on with his hands in his pocket.

A group of students stand on and around the steps to the Hockanum schoolhouse. Many are holding books and most are looking to the right, presumably at the arriving teacher. A girl to the left of the door is identified as a Wright girl, two boys in…

A boy walks down the road towards the camera carrying books tied by a string in his left hand.

A tall boy, dressed in a long white beard and animal skin coat stands in between two shorter boys in front of the blackboard. A pile of clothes and two sacks are scattered on the floor around them.

A boy stands in the Hockanum schoolhouse with his arm stretched out to the side holding a book as punishment. Two other boys, Charles Thayer and Oscar Johnson sit reading in their seats. Two windows let light in, a clock and a couple illustrations…

Two boys stand by a wood stove in the Hockanum schoolhouse as a third boy kneels in front of it putting wood inside. The boy on the left is Luther Barstow. A chair stands against the wall on the right near a window.

A teacher stands outside the Hockanum schoolhouse looking at her pupils tossing snowballs between the schoolhouse and a storage building. Four boys make and toss snowballs while one girl runs towards the schoolhouse and a second girl stands watching.

A one room brick schoolhouse in Hockanum and a small woodshed near it. One large, bare tree stands in front of the school and others are off to the right.

Hockanum schoolhouse and outhouse/storage building with the teacher and her pupils scattered around in front and under a large tree on the left. Ivy creeps up one side of the school. View from the road in front of the school.

Teacher Anna McQueston (later wife of Clifton Johnson) sits on the steps of the school with her pupils sitting and standing on and around the large stone doorstep at the doorway to the Hockanum schoolhouse.

Teacher Anna McQueston (later wife of Clifton Johnson) reaching up over the blackboard to wind the wall clock in the Hockanum schoolhouse. Three children, one boy and two girls, (one of which leans against a table) look on. Two large windows let in…

Image of a cemetery with numerous gravestones in the foreground surrounded by a stone wall in the middleground. A large house and some trees stand behind he stone wall.

View of a church and town hall on an open hill top seen from a shade of a tree across the road. A person stands in between the two buildings.

A woman and two boys (possibly Margaret C. Johnson, wife of Roger Johnson, and her two sons Stephen and Charles) looking down into the stream at the site of an old mill. A large section of the mill lies on the ground in the right foreground. Woods…

A tumbling brook with the remains of an old mill in a forest setting on a branch of Amethyst Brook, locally known as "Valley Brook."