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Three boys, two identified as Roger and Arthur Johnson, camping in the woods. A tent is st up and one of the boys is cooking with a frying pan over an open fire, a second boy is chopping wood for the fire, while the third boy is sitting in the tent…

A girl, identified as Katherine Johnson, holding a doll in one hand and a basket in the other, looking past the camera. A boy stands behind the girl with his hands in his pockets, smiling.

A horse hitched to a small carriage stands by a fence tied to a tree. The description on the photograph reads: "All sorts of vehicles come to the fair a poor man's rig hitched outside the cattle show grounds fence."

Two men stand by a fishing net suspended on wooden poles. A fishing boat rests near the camera. Water is visible in the middleground with a hill rising in the background.

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 stone wall running diagonally across the photo from right to left with meadows on either side that give way to woods. Mount West visible through have in the distance.

Three white men stand in a viewing area with two leaning against a wooden railing while the third man is looking through a spotting scope towards buildings at the foot of the Alps in the background.

Hudson Maxim sits on a rock looking out on Lake Hopatcong with his boathouse visible on the left.

A group of four boys sit on top of Mount Holyoke and look out at the Ox-Bow and Northampton. One of them gestures towards the scene below.

View of the Ox-Bow in the Connecticuit River from Mount Holyoke. No people in image.

A pair of oxen pulling a wagon. A woman sits on the wagon holding the reins while a man stands behind her holding onto the cargo. A barn stands behind them and trees grow around.

A pair of oxen pulling long tree trunks tied by chains to two one-axle carts, one in the front, the other in the back. The oxen are wearing veils, and the yoke is fastened to their horns. Buildings line the road with one sign reading "Café…

A field filled with oxeye daisies. Two children facing each other and some trees can be seen out of focus in the background.

A black man and two black boys are packing vegetables in a barnyard to be shipped north. Caption on back: "The two boys are helping a farmer pack tomatoes and cabbages to ship north".

Many of the early settlers combined some other occupation with that of farming. Nathaniel Smith, who was among the first of the East Inhabitants of Hadley, was a doctor, the first to practice his profession in the new settlement.