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Booker T. Washington stands in a pasture, holding a mare's bridle and reaching out to make friends with her colt.

Booker T. Washington sits on a bench with his son David standing next to him. At their feet are two rabbits.

An older black couple with smiling faces, in their yard in Vicksburg, Mississippi, look at each other. The woman is stirring a kettle and the man is sitting in a chair.

Two apron-wearing women hang laundry to dry on a fence outside their house in Tuskegee, Alabama.

An older black woman seated in a chair, and a child, possibly her daughter or granddaughter, read together in Louisiana.

A dilapidated wood cabin, identified as the building Booker T. Washington started his school. A wooden fence and some trees are on the right. Caption on back: "The cabin in which Booker Washington started his school."

One page, typed, signed letter from George Washington Carver to Clifton Johnson, on Tuskegee Institute stationery. Carver thanks Johnson for his last letter and discusses Johnson's books.

Booker T. Washington stands next to a chicken coop. At his feet is a group of chickens. He holds a pail of feed in one hand and sprinkles it for the chickens with the other.

A black man grazes a horse in his yard and talks to a woman. In the background, children are sitting on the steps of the house.

The barber is cutting a man's hair while a young boy peers up inquisitively at the process. Caption on back "The Hair-cut" and "The little boy watched the woodshed barber so closely that the craftsman said, "I guess you're goin' to learn the trade…

View of the Lothrop house, later the Phi Delta Theta house, corner Boltwood and College Ave.

Portrait of John L. Lovell taken at his Amherst Picture Gallery.

Eight-page newspaper published once by J. L. Lovell, Amherst resident and photographer. The newspaper includes miscellaneous advertisements alongside stories and articles about the new photographic technologies being practiced in Amherst.

The small double-sided card advertises J. L. Lovell’s Amherst Picture Gallery, and offers $2.00 off photographic processes and prints. These cards would have encouraged residents of Amherst to have their photo taken by Lovell in his downtown…

John L. Lovell’s home, on North Prospect Street, still stands. It is easily recognizable by its rounded dormer windows, in a Gothic Cottage style relatively rare to Amherst. A similar image, also captured by Lovell himself, exists in stereoscopic…