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A small tree grows in the foreground surrounded by plant litter with other trees and bushes growing around. A small clearing is partly visible in the middle ground with thick trees growing in the background.

A girl, identified as Margaret Johnson, sits on the grass playing a straight flute while a cat stands next to her. The Connecticut River is blurry behind her.

A young white man ties the front limbs and head of an alligator while two other young men look on. One stands on top steps of a wooden cabin leaning against the side while the other stands on the outside.

A fence extends away from the camera with a utility pole running perpendicular across the frame. Some trees grow in the middle ground. A blockhouse of Fort Mackinac stands on top of a hill on the left and a town is visible by the edge of Lake Huron…

Two white girls, one sitting in a small rocking chair, and the other standing next to her, both look down at a book the sitting girl is holding. They are on a porch of a house with a window and a door behind them.

A white man stands by a stone wall holding a walking stick in his right hand looking towards a two story wooden house in the middle ground. Some trees grow in front of the house and on the left.

A white girl is stooping over a lamb feeding it from a bottle with a stone building in the background.

A white woman feeds milk to a calf from a bowl. Turkeys and chickens walk around the yard behind them near a wooden fence separating the yard. Other chickens walk around the other side of the fence and there is a barn and a tall tree in the…

Formerly known as the Prospect House, this building is still standing on the corner of Amity and North Prospect Streets. Two stories were added and it was covered with stucco since its previous incarnation. It has also been known as Drake's Hotel,…

A black woman stands behind a two-wheel cart, holding a bowl and possibly a cabbage in her hands. A man faces her on the other side of the cart holding a package in his hand. Two men stand nearby, watching, one standing in the doorway of a white…

A woman standing in front of a peat pile. There are two dogs, one sitting on the right, and one standing on the left and a stone wall separates the yard from a stone house on the left behind it. A field stretches in the middle ground and a hill is in…

A path through a field near some bare trees with branches of one tree dominating the top of the shot. A stone house is in the middle ground with more bare trees in the background.

Two boys, one bare-footed, stand by a brook holding fishing poles, fishing. They are surrounded by tall grasses and a line of trees is visible in the background.

Hudson Maxim stands on rocks by the side of a brook looking ahead. His reflection is visible in the water and trees surround the brook.

A snow-covered road splits with the right fork extending straight to the right of the photograph and the left fork turning left and disappearing behind a hill. A stone wall extends on the hill with trees behind it. A house is visible on the side of…