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A little display including chalkboard with the caption: "Slate used in the Early School Days of William B. Earle Born in 1802," an ink bottle, and a couple of books, all from the W.B. Earle Collection.

A large mansion, known as the House of Seven Gables, with three large chimneys and multiple open and closed windows surrounded by a fence stands by a road. A large tree grows behind it and three children, one in a stroller, stand near the curb close…

An image of a silhouette figure of a man in top hat, frock coat and knee britches.

An image of a needlepoint depicting life in Salem during a fairly affluent period. Men and women walk around or ride on horses with one elegant carriage riding across the image. Birds fly overhead and a building in the middleground has the date…

A wooden bridge stretches across a stream with a wooden cottage standing on the far side. A woman stands in the doorway looking towards the camera. Logs are stacked on either side of the bridge and woods surround the house.

A boulder strewn stream with a wooden bridge crossing it in the middle ground and trees lining both sides of the stream. A wooden cottage with smoke coming from the chimney rests on the left side of the stream, near the bridge.

A saltbox house visible across a road in the space between two diverging roads. The house is surrounded by a stone wall. Street in front of the house has trolley tracks on it.

A man and a woman stand on a sidewalk outside "Adams Pharmacist," looking at a paper he is holding while other people walk up and down each side of the street. A horse-drawn wagon is parked on the left with other wagons visible in the distance.

A man sits on the side of a boat and another man walks towards him with a third man washing a second boat during a low tide. A wooden building stands on a pier above them.

A fishing vessel with a sail up and a boat next to it sailing out. A man stands on the deck holding onto the sail.

An unmanned boat rests in the middle of a harbor with town buildings visible behind.

A man sits on a wooden plank working on a fishing line while another man stands watching with a fishing boat directly behind him and a building visible on the left in the middleground. Other boats and the harbor are visible in the background.

A view of Mount Wachusett in the distance with a pond in the foreground and trees growing on either side of it.

A woman stands on a road near a crossroads with one road leading to Princeton and the other to Hubbardston and Mt. Wachusett. A house stands in between the roads with trees blooming around and Mt. Wachusett faintly visible in the background.

A woman kneels in front of an obelisk in a cemetery, praying. Other gravestones and an obelisk are scattered around and a staircase leads up to the cemetery from the perspective of the camera.