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A black man standing in a small boat, paddling through a flooded area. Two wooden shacks, one raised on a platform, stand behind him with a few trees growing nearby. Some stalks of grass stick up from the water.

A white woman feeds chickens and geese in front of a farm building with a second woman standing behind a fence and looking on.

A white woman braids the hair of a girl who is facing the camera and holding a comb in her left hand. A cluttered table stands behind them.

A bearded white man stands by a closed door of a brick building with his left hand on the doorknob and holding a walking cane with his right hand.

Four white men work on an upside-down boat near the edge of water. One man is hammering with a wooden hammer, one stands by watching, another is sitting on a fallen tree trunk holding a branch, and the fourth is bending over the end of the boat,…

A view of a wooden house across a dirt road with a wooden fence running along the road. A woman stands in front of the house looking at the camera, and a child sits near a well. Mostly bare trees grow around the house.

A white woman sits in a chair with a dog holding its front paws in her lap. A second woman stands near a bowl resting on a large box serving as a table with other jugs and pails on the table or standing nearby. A wooden roof is attached to the house…

A building, partly made of stone, and partly of wood, stands near the edge of the Mississippi River with a building standing on water in the middle ground.

Three bare-footed white children stand near a roofed well with a boy pulling a rope and a girl standing near the well looking down while a third child stands near the boy. The top of the pail is slightly visible above the walls of the well. A part of…

A two-story, brick house with a one story addition on the right. Bed linen hangs out of the second story window. A pile of wood stands on the right, some under a roof. A woman walks towards the house on the left and a fence runs along the side of the…

A view of a rocky mountain top from a trail. A corner of a barbed wire fence is in the foreground with trees covering the middle ground.

A white man sitting in a chair with his feet crossed leaning back against the wall reading a newspaper.

A white man crouches on a boat aiming a rifle while a black man stands next to him looking out. A young white girl plays with a small wooden box on the boat. Some trees are partly under water near the boat.

A white woman sits on the stairs of a house holding a basket in her lap and onions in her hands. Four girls play around on the steps. A fence, a corner of a building, and a bare tree are visible on the right. The caption reads: "Four little sisters…

A white woman stands near a dirt road reading a letter while a small boy stands in the road, holding on to a mailbox.