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A white woman stands at the doorstep of a house holding a bowl in her hand and looking down at two girls sitting on the porch. Caption: "The little girl is very busy, while her mother and sister are watching to see if she succeeds in doing what she…

A white men stands on a ladder working on a large stack of straw. A barn is partly visible on the right behind the stack.

Three white boys stand on the side of a dirt road facing the camera. One of them is pushing a wheelbarrow with another boy sitting inside. Utility poles run along the road on both sides.

A white man stands over a leaching barrel reaching over its edge with a pail. A hollowed out half-log is under the barrel guiding lye into a second pail on the ground. A house is partly visible in the background.

A white man stands in a field holding a hoe in his right hand and looking at a stone he is holding in his left. There is a wooden house in the background and some trees growing around it.

Two white men meet on a road, one facing away from the camera and the other, sitting on a horse, facing the camera. They both have sacks with them, one on the horse, the other over his shoulder.

A white man sits on a stone looking out at a river flowing past. A number of fishing boats are near the shore, one of them overturned. A barge is anchored near them. City buildings are visible across the lake in the middle ground.

A number of log rafts float on water near the shore. Other logs and rafts rest on the shore. A person stands on a boat and other people are making a raft in the middle ground. A bridge runs across the river .

A steamship called "Arion" nearing a shore of a river.

Three white boys play in a boat near a shore. A house stands near the far shore with trees filling out the background. Caption: "Three brothers navigating a boat in a swift current. Fortunately the boat was anchored. It was here at Harpers Ferry that…

A view of a town street with brick buildings on the left and right. People walk around on the sidewalks and in the streets. Two horse-pulled wagons are on the street. A number of store signs hang off buildings. A mountain rises in the background.

A woman stands on a plank which crosses a stream in front of a three-story stone mill with a water wheel on the left and a small wooden addition on the right. Two white boys sit on the plank with their feet in the water. Caption: "A two-plank bridge…

Two white men stand in a field. One is looking on while the other is hoeing the ground. A fence and a house stands on a hill in the middle ground.

A white family in front of a house. A woman stands on the porch leaning against the railing while a man holds a child in his arms looking at two boys playing in the yard. A fourth child is hiding behind the man.

Two bare-foot white boys walk down a dirt road holding a pail between them .They are looking at a dog walking alongside them which is sniffing the ground. Wooden split-rail fences run along the road on both sides and trees grow in the middle ground…