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View from the fields
A view of a house in the middleground, partly obscured by a large tree on the right side and bushes in front of the house. A second, even larger tree stands behind the house. The scene is reflected in water in the foreground.
Titan's Pier
A man stands on the left of the photograph leaning on a tree root by the shore of Connecticut river looking out. A cliff looms over the river to the left of the man.
Three bridges over the Connecticut River in Hadley
View of the three bridges crossing the Connecticut River from Hadley to Northampton at the turn of the century. They were the trolley bridge, the old highway bridge, and the Boston and Maine Railroad bridge which is now part of the Norwottuck Rail…
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.
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 schoolhouse during a flood
The Hockanum schoolhouse during a flood with water up to the floor level. Photograph was taken on Sunday, November 6, 1927. The description on the back of the photograph reads: "The water began to fall on Saturday night. Heavy rain Thursday. The rain…
The schoolboy
A boy walks down the road towards the camera carrying books tied by a string in his left hand.
The school at work
Students sit at their desks in the Hockanum schoolhouse, some reading, others writing. One student stands facing the wall.
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 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 long, lazy hamlet, Hockanum
Remains of a pier on the Northampton side of the Connecticut river, with a row boat pulled up on the shore. Farms visible across the river at the foot of Mount Holyoke in the background.
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 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 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 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…