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This sermon was preached at the beginning of the Civil War by Charles Wadsworth, a minister proclaimed by Emily Dickinson to be "My Shepherd from 'Little Girl'hood'." Dickinson had heard him preach at the Arch Street Presbyterian Church in…

A man, two boys, and a girl, identified as Chester, Roger, Arthur, and Margaret Johnson, stand around a tree, all looking up. The man is holding an axe, the girl is holding a branch, and one of the boys is holding loppers.

A horse grazes in a field in the foreground with some trees behind him and another field leading towards a stone fence with some buildings, identified as a church and a vicarage, in the background.

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.

A two story building sits next to a graveyard. Caption on reverse reads "The yellow church of the Old School Baptists, with its house- sheds and graveyard. Here the father and mother of [John] Burroughs worshipped, and here they are buried.

A white man stands by a locked side entrance of a church with gravestones in the foreground and a tree, partly off-shot on the left.

Winter at Court Square. View of City Hall with its tower. A statue stands before the City Hall. Other buildings seen on the left. People and horse-drawn sleighs stroll along the pathways. Bare trees fill the scene.

A number of tall stacks of planks in two lines. A white man stands on a cart on top of boards transferring them. The cart is pulled by a horse and another cart is partly visible in front of it. Two other white men sit on the wooden floor leaning…

A woman standing among the rocks and pebbles of a beach with a basket on her back and another in her hand. A second woman walks away from the camera in the middle ground with tall cliffs rising on the left.

A view of the Chapel at Williams College with a tall stone spire. A car is parked nearer the camera with some trees growing around.

An image of a woman, child and a man pausing to pet a dog. The man is crouching while the other two are standing. Large elm trees and other trees in the background. The people are identified as Anna Johnson, Stephen Johnson and Arthur Johnson, or…

Pen and ink illustration of a woman holding a child on her back. She has bare feet.

A frozen Concord River bends to the left in the middleground with bare trees growing on each shore.

Connecticut River seen from the west bank of the river, across to the tree lined east bank. Photo taken from behind trees and leaves frame the shot.

A black woman stands on a porch of a house holding a large wooden bowl in her hand. Vines grow up a wooden beam on her left and a table with a jug and a plate rest next to the door to the house behind her.