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A white woman stands in a yard holding a washing basin in her hand. A second woman stands next to her pulling on a string and ringing a bell atop a wooden pole. Five small pieces of lumber are nailed to the pole and serve as steps up. Two more women…

A white young girl pulling on a rope to a bell mounted at the top of a tall pole. A young boy is sitting on a box nearby watching the bell ringer. A corner of a house is on the right, behind the girl and a some wood is piled in front of trees in the…

A woman stands in the doorway of a house blowing on a long slender fanfare trumpet.

A fenced area with pigs and calves walking and lying down on the ground. A white man stands in the enclosure looking on. A sod covered barn is in the enclosure with some chickens on the roof and a chicken coop built on top.

Four white children, three girls and a boy, stand by a stone wall with a wooden gate. The oldest is carrying something in her hand while the other three lean against the stone fence looking at her. A roof of a house is visible behind the fence with…

A granite obelisk commemorating the Battle of Bunker Hill stands in the center of the photograph with the statue of Col. William Prescott visible on the left and the Bunker Hill Lodge on the right. A road runs across the foreground with a metal fence…

A white man stands inside a barn holding a thresher in one hand with grain stalks on the ground and on a loft above him.

A brook with a small dam in the foreground with a some wooden structures in the middle and background. Trees, some bare, grow around the brook.

A view of an arch stone medieval bridge over a river in the middle ground with trees covering the shore on both sides and some rocks separate the water from the shore in the foreground on the right.

Two white boys lean against a wooden crate looking at a hog and three piglets. A forest of oil derricks is in the background.

A boy sitting on a sled tending the fire under a cast iron kettle as the sap is boiled down to make maple syrup. Nearby, on the right, is a sap carrying bucket with an axe leaning up against it. A second large fire and kettle is in the middleground.…

Two white girls stand smiling in the doorway of a wooden house looking at a boy sitting on the steps. Some wood and debris is scattered behind him and an open field stretches into the background.

A boy stands near a kettle holding a stick across the kettle. Behind him is a sap carrying bucket with a carrying yoke leaning against it. Another carrying bucket sits on the snow to the right of the fire. Sap buckets sit in the snow next to the…

A man holds a blade on a grindstone while a boy turns it. Closed doors t oa shed stand behind them and an open barn door is further back. A ladder rests against the barn and some trees grow in the background on the right.

A View of St. Botolph's Church, known as the Stump, across a river with houses and town buildings around it.