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Flooded farms
Photograph taken from a dry higher ground behind the Roger Johnson house looking toward the farms surrounded by flood water in the Northampton meadows.
The long, lazy hamlet, Hockanum
Remains of a pier on the Northampton side of the Connecticut river, with a row boat pulled up on the shore. Farms visible across the river at the foot of Mount Holyoke in the background.
Old Hockanum Ferry Pier
The ferry pier sticking out into the Connecticut river with two row boats tied up to a tree by the shore.
Cornfield by the Roger Johnson house
Roger Johnson house in Hockanum is in the middle ground. A cornfield takes up the whole foreground, some trees on the edges of the photograph, the Holyoke Mayor Parker's house visible in the distance with Mount Holyoke in the background.
Fort River bridge
A horse-drawn carriage faces away from the camera approaching the covered Fort River bridge seen in the middleground. A little fence leads up to it, some bare trees are scattered around, a line of telegraph poles line the right side of the photograph…
A crofter piling peat on the Isle of Skye in Scotland
A woman wearing a dress and headscarf piles cubes of peat outside her thatch-roofed cottage.
Slabsides Vines
Burroughs stands on the porch of a vine covered house. Caption on reverse reads "Slabsides"
The backdoor of the "nest"
John Burroughs stands newspaper in hand next to the door of a house. An american flag hangs to his left. Caption on reverse reads "At the backdoor of the 'Nest.' It was in this house that Burroughs lived during his last years."
John Burroughs' Study
A cow stands near John Burroughs study. Caption on reverse reads "The bark covered study where Buroughs did mainly all his writing."
John Burroughs stops to ask for directions
John Burroughs stands speaking to a woman in a dorrway. Caption on reverse reads "Burroughs, on a Catskills walking trip, stops at a farmhouse to ask directions."
A wayside pond near Slabsides
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…
A swamp no more
A figure stands in a field, with two crates in their hands. Caption on reverse reads "a swamp no more."
A Roxbury Trout brook
A log lays over a small brooks waterfall. Caption on reverse reads "New York Catskills A Catskills waterfall and troutbrook that attracted Burroughs to them In his youth."
Cows graze by stone wall
Four cows graze in a pasture behind a low stone wall. Hills are seen in the distance. Caption on reverse reads "A catskill region of mountain farms, where John Burroughs was born in 1837."
A schoolroom corner in the Catskills
A teacher stands by a student seated at a desk with two students at the desk in front of her. Caption on reverse reads "New York : A schoolroom corner in the Catskills. John Burroughs studied in one of these desks in boyhood"