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In the sheep pasture
Sheep and a farm boy face away from the camera on a upland pasture that outlooks the Connecticut river and distant mountains.
Multiplication is vexation
A girl, identified as Margaret Johnson Rutter, daughter of Clifton Johnson, stands by the blackboard of the Hockanum schoolhouse working out a math problem. She is in period dress.
Old baywindow in Clifton Johnson house
Two boys, one sitting on a couple of cushions reading from a book in his lap while the other boy sits nearby listening. Several flower pots are on a chest in front of the window and some flowers are behind the boys. Two windows on the right have…
Schoolhouse entertainment
Two boys stand in front of the blackboard of the Hockanum schoolhouse, one leaning back, both looking at each other. A dresser stands on the left and a table and chair on the right. A pile of clothes lies on the floor. The names Freddie and Tommy are…
Sliding on the ice
Two children playing on the frozen Russell's Cove. One stands on the ice holding the rope of the sled behind, the other sitting on the sled on the shore beside a frozen cave and some bare trees. Russell's barn and Thayer's barn visible in the…
Starting for school
Margaret Johnson Rutter stands on the stone slab steps of the Oscar Johnson farmhouse in Hockanum holding a lunch pail in one hand and two books in the other. There is a bucket next to her and a broom by the steps. She is in the pantalet period…
The first day of school, waiting for the teacher to open the door
A group of students stand on and around the steps to the Hockanum schoolhouse. Many are holding books and most are looking to the right, presumably at the arriving teacher. A girl to the left of the door is identified as a Wright girl, two boys in…
The geography class - two who know
Three children sit in rows in the Hockanum schoolhouse facing the front of the classroom and five children sit on a bench against the wall, all holding books, some torn up. A boy and a girl raise their hands. Two large windows let in light. Two of…
The hard sum
Edith Barstow stands in front of the blackboard in the Hockanum schoolhouse looking at a math problem. The names Luther Barstow and Oscar Johnson are written in chalk on the top of the blackboard.
The hungry hens
A group of five children facing the camera, stand on by the entrance to a barn watching a crowd of chickens, some white and some matted brown, feeding. A dog walks towards the barn.
The new highway south of Titan's Pier
Image of three boys on the side of the new road up the hill. The old road off to the left goes through "Pass of Thermopolae" and by "Titan's Pier" then rejoins the new road around the hill. Mount Tom is in the background. Utility poles on both sides…
The reading lesson
Margaret Johnson, Clifton Johnson's daughter, standing in front of the blackboard in the Hockanum schoolhouse reading from a book. She is in period dress. An unfinished multiplication problem is on the board behind her.
The school at work
Students sit at their desks in the Hockanum schoolhouse, some reading, others writing. One student stands facing the wall.
The skaters
Two boys putting on skates while on frozen pond on the meadow. Some trees and houses, belonging to Edward Johnson and Elliott Johnson, in the middleground and background.
The two families
In an entrance to a barn a woman holds a young child, both looking down towards an older boy holding a shallow pan feeding a colt. Behind the colt, in a horse stall, is a horse with a feed bag on.