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A white man sits on a cart pulled by two horses on a dirt road away from the camera. Trees grow on both sides of the road and the caption identifies the places as the "Edge of Canada."

A white woman stands in a field holding fragments of wood. A small girl stands in front of her. A man stands nearby , in front of a small sled filled with wood fragments and hitched to a horse. A calf sits on the ground near the horse and a fence…

A white girl stands on a footpath holding a pail and looking towards a woman standing in the door of a wooden house in the middle ground. background. Caption identifies the place as the "Edge of Canada." Second caption: "At the left is a hollow stump…

A white man crouches on one knee in front of a pail, cutting potatoes. There's a tall tree stump behind him and a sack on the ground next to him. Some other tall tree stumps are behind a wooden fence in the middle ground. background. Caption…

Tree stumps and fallen over tree stumps fill the foreground and middle ground while a forest grows in the background.

A white woman stands in a yard holding a baby in her arms while a group of girls stand near her, one hopping and looking at her feet as she plays hopsctoch. Most of the other girls look at her feet as well. A young boy stands near the woman looking…

A white man sits on a log by a pool of water holding a long branch. The Washington Monument is in the background with its shadow reflecting in the water. Caption: "A lone youth fishing in the Potomac with the Washington Monument soaring skyward on…

A view of the United States Capitol as seen from a road. A car is parked on the left in the middle ground and near the Capitol building in the background. Trees grow on the left and shrubs are on the right.

A number of barges parked in a canal. Some people walk around the barges and horses stand on the left.

A view of the Capitol building with a reflecting pool in the foreground, a fountain in the middle ground and the rotunda rising in the background.

A view of the US Capitol building from the southwest with the rotunda in the center and trees framing the shot.

A black boy pulls a small wagon on a dirt road. A small boy holding a blanket and wearing a cap sits in the wagon. A river flows in the background.

A white man sits on a pole he is using for fishing at the beach of a river. The pole is holding up a net for fishing. Trees cover the the hills on the far side of the river.

Two men and a boy walk up a hillside, stone staircase. There are stone buildings on both sides in the foreground and a dilapidated wooden building in the middle ground. A church stands on top of the hill in the background.

An obelisk monument on four, consecutively smaller square basis, with the top one reading: "JOHN BROWN'S FORT." Town buildings stand behind it in the middle ground and a church rises on a hill in the background.