Browse Items (84 total)
Sort by:
On the way to Slabsides
John Burroughs stands on a dirt trail holding a basket and thermos. Caption on reverse reads "On the way to Slabsides to spend the night. The gloom in the background is an evergreen thicket."
Old Hockanum Ferry Pier
The ferry pier sticking out into the Connecticut river with two row boats tied up to a tree by the shore.
Old fashioned school days, winter snowballing
A teacher stands outside the Hockanum schoolhouse looking at her pupils tossing snowballs between the schoolhouse and a storage building. Four boys make and toss snowballs while one girl runs towards the schoolhouse and a second girl stands watching.
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…
November 1927 flood, Roger Johnson place
Flood surrounded barn in Hockanum and the flooded Connecticut River seen from a field. A house nearer the camera is just high enough not to be flooded. Normal banks of the Connecticut river are usually delineated by the two rows of trees just to the…
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.
Mrs. Parker, Hockanum
Image of Mrs. Parker, wife of Holyoke mayor, sitting on a stone wall holding a basket at a break in the wall with woods behind her.
Mowing hay
A farmer, identified as Eliot Johnson, on a mowing machine pulled by a couple horses across the road from a farmhouse, identified as belonging to Oscar Johnson. A couple large trees adorn the image on either side with Mount Holyoke in the background.
Mount Holyoke station
Two men stand by the roadside in front of a building halfway between house, barn for horses, wagons, and steam engines, and station at lower end of covered track to Summit House.
Mending the pasture fence
A man repairs a fence, axe in hand. Caption on reverse reads "NY Crown Point Spring- mending the pasture fence."
Memorial Day at Hockanum cemetery
Two well dressed Civil War Veterans, each holding a bouquet, looking down at a gravestone with flag mounted in front of it and flowers around the base of the flag. Well kept picket fence at the rear of the graveyard. Connecticut river and Mount Tom…
Making the fire
Two boys stand by a wood stove in the Hockanum schoolhouse as a third boy kneels in front of it putting wood inside. The boy on the left is Luther Barstow. A chair stands against the wall on the right near a window.
John Burroughs' Study
A cow stands near John Burroughs study. Caption on reverse reads "The bark covered study where Buroughs did mainly all his writing."
John Burroughs stops to ask for directions
John Burroughs stands speaking to a woman in a dorrway. Caption on reverse reads "Burroughs, on a Catskills walking trip, stops at a farmhouse to ask directions."
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.