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The cake for the baker
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…
The Bunker Hill Monument
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…
The buckwheat thresher
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.
The brook
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.
The Brig o' Doon
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.
The boys look on much interested while the old hog and her litter eat.
Two white boys lean against a wooden crate looking at a hog and three piglets. A forest of oil derricks is in the background.
The boy's little boiling down place
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.…
The boy from the next house and his shy neighbors
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.
The boy boils down some maple sap on his own account
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…
The boy at the dull task of turning the grindstone
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.
The Boston stump
A View of St. Botolph's Church, known as the Stump, across a river with houses and town buildings around it.
The Boston Public Library
Boston Public Library and Copley Square as seen from Boylston Street. People walk around on sidewalks and a trolley drives towards the camera. The spire of Old South Church visible on the right.
The borrower
A white woman stands on a plank of wood leading towards a veranda of a house, holding a cup in her hand. A second woman stands facing her, holding a child in her hand.
The bootjack
A boy sits on a chair with his feet up with another boy standing up acting as a bootjack. Another chair stands near the door and a number of potted plants stand by a window. A magazine rack filled with magazines hangs on the wall next to the door.
The bog
A view of a wetland with a large stone in the middle ground and hills and mountains in the background.