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Booker T. Washington holds a bucket and feeds a group of pigs.

Booker T. Washington standing in a field patting an ox. A pair of oxen is hitched to a little wagon with a man standing on top of it. A pile of earth is partly visible on the right, next to the cart.

Caption on back: "This house is on Bull Run Battlefield, and at the time of the fighting was the home of a free negro. The little boy is watching his mammy water the plants."

Professor Carver stands on a forest path surrounded by bare trees with one of his pupils facing him holding wildflowers in Tuskegee, Alabama

The cemetery used by the black residents of Tuskegee, Alabama. The headstones are small and there isn't much vegetation.

Caption on back: "A piazza scene on the picturesque outskirts of Vicksburg. The weather is warm, and that is why the baby's head is protected from the sunshine by a towel. A broken window, and the condition of the steps show plainly that the family…

A black woman stands at the steps of the one-room school house used by the black community of Oakley, South Carolina. In the background is the Baptist church. Caption on back: "A negro schoolhouse and Baptist church"

A one-page, typed, signed letter from George Washington Carver to Clifton Johnson, on Tuskegee Institute stationery. Carver thanks Johnson for sending him some photographs and hopes Johnson will visit Tuskegee again.

Two men are planing the surface of a long mast in a shipyard on the edge of the harbor. Caption on back: "Shaping a mast."

A group of men, on the dock, are preparing fish for salting. Caption on back: "Preparing fish for salting."

A business-lined street with trolley tracks and pedestrians. Caption on back: "The foreign-looking Main Street."

Two sailboats, with sailors on board, are tied up at the dock. Caption on back: "The spider web rigging."

Sailboats, one under sail, in the harbor with the village rising up the hill behind. Caption on back: "Gloucester wharves."

The farmer is working the well which is surrounded by a fairly elaborate board housing. Caption on back: "The old farmhouse well."

Three fishermen in their slickers are processing fish on a dockside table. Caption on back: "Cleaning fish."