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The church John Brown attended near Harpers Ferry
A woman and a boy kneel in a cemetery while a young woman stands nearby. A few rows of tombstones are around them, some very small. A whitewash one story building stands behind them and some trees grow nearby.
In the garden
A white man stands in a garden holding a hoe and smoking a pipe. There is a whitewash house behind him with a fence on the left. Some trees grow behind the house.
A Smoketown rider and her admirers
A white woman sits on a horse resting near a white fence. Two women stand on the other side of the fence, one carrying a baby. Two girls stand on the road near the horse. Trees grow on the left and in the background.
A cabin of logs such as John Brown lived in
A young white woman stands in a garden holding a baby. There is a wooden house behind her with a large whitewashed chimney on the side.
A discussion
Two white men, one holding a basket on a stick over his shoulder, talk on a dirt road. A dog stands between them looking up the road. A wooden fence runs along the road and trees grow in the middle ground.
The dog team
Three dogs hitched to a cart carry two boys and a girl. A white man stands nearby holding a long pole against his shoulder. A building stands in the middle ground behind a wooden fence with trees filling in the background. Caption reads: "An Indian…
Clearing up the burnt land near Alpena
A white man stands facing away from the camera holding a double edged axe as he works on cleaning the dead trees. Some bare trees grow in the middle ground and background.
Digging out stumps
A white man using an axe to cut the roots of a tree stump. Other tree stumps dot the image with trees growing in the background.
On the way to town
A white man sits on top of a wagon loaded with lumber handling the reins to two horses pulling the wagon. A dirt road extends into the side with a house visible in the background.
On the deck of a sailing vessel
Two white men stand and one man sits on a deck of a ship. Ropes are scattered about the deck, two masts in front are lowered and one is raised on the left.
Guiding logs to the sawmill
Two white men stand on a wooden platform over a river with many logs around. One holds a long pole and is guiding a log. The other man stands holding onto a tree trunk which serves as a column with one hand and a chain in the other. A large ship is…
Logs
A view of a river filled with logs. A city is visible in the background on the far shore.
A typical freighter
A view of a freighter on a river in the middle ground. A part of a ship is visible on the left in the foreground and city buildings are visible on the far shore in the background.
The kite-flyers
Two white boys setting up a kite while two other boys look on. A black dog stands by the boys and the kite. A spire of a church and other city buildings are visible in the middle ground with more houses in a valley in the background.
The well
A white woman stands in front of a wooden well with a long stick. A dog stands next to the well. A wagon, clothes drying on a clothesline, and a house are in the middle ground. A child stands in the door of the house.