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This house was built by Samuel Boltwood around 1728. Several different families owned the property over the years until 1864 when the farm was purchased for the Massachusetts Agricultural College. Levi Stockbridge lived in this house beginning in…

Booker T. Washington stands over a pig patting its back in a fenced field holding a bucket in his left hand. A calf is partly in shot on the right and farm buildings are visible behind the fence.

Caption from back: "A boy and his father picking strawberries down South. The man is Booker T. Washington, the most famous Negro educator and orator that America has produced. Work in the garden with David was one of his recreations."

Booker T. Washington standing in the woods pulling at a branch and looking at the flowers of a tree.

Booker T. Washington stands next to a chicken coop. At his feet is a group of chickens. He holds a pail of feed in one hand and sprinkles it for the chickens with the other.

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

With plants in hand, Booker T. Washington stands in the woods and looks up into the trees.

Booker T. Washington standing on a log above a brook holding a walking stick on his right hand and his hat in his left hand. Bushes and trees are visible behind him.

Booker T. Washington kneels in the woods, searching for flowers. His son David stands next to him.

Booker T. Washington stands in a pasture, holding a mare's bridle and reaching out to make friends with her colt.

Booker T. Washington sits on a bench with his son David standing next to him. At their feet are two rabbits.

Booker T. Washington stands in a field with a student who is driving a horse-drawn plow.

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.

General view of the colorful booths and crowd at the 2008 Taste of Amherst.

A man stands by a maple tree boring a hole to gather sap. Four sap buckets lie in the snow next to him.