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A black woman stands behind a two-wheel cart, holding a bowl and possibly a cabbage in her hands. A man faces her on the other side of the cart holding a package in his hand. Two men stand nearby, watching, one standing in the doorway of a white…

Formerly known as the Prospect House, this building is still standing on the corner of Amity and North Prospect Streets. Two stories were added and it was covered with stucco since its previous incarnation. It has also been known as Drake's Hotel,…

A white woman feeds milk to a calf from a bowl. Turkeys and chickens walk around the yard behind them near a wooden fence separating the yard. Other chickens walk around the other side of the fence and there is a barn and a tall tree in the…

A white girl is stooping over a lamb feeding it from a bottle with a stone building in the background.

A white man stands by a stone wall holding a walking stick in his right hand looking towards a two story wooden house in the middle ground. Some trees grow in front of the house and on the left.

Two white girls, one sitting in a small rocking chair, and the other standing next to her, both look down at a book the sitting girl is holding. They are on a porch of a house with a window and a door behind them.

A fence extends away from the camera with a utility pole running perpendicular across the frame. Some trees grow in the middle ground. A blockhouse of Fort Mackinac stands on top of a hill on the left and a town is visible by the edge of Lake Huron…

A young white man ties the front limbs and head of an alligator while two other young men look on. One stands on top steps of a wooden cabin leaning against the side while the other stands on the outside.

A girl, identified as Margaret Johnson, sits on the grass playing a straight flute while a cat stands next to her. The Connecticut River is blurry behind her.

A small tree grows in the foreground surrounded by plant litter with other trees and bushes growing around. A small clearing is partly visible in the middle ground with thick trees growing in the background.

A black boy wearing an apron sweeps a large porch of a house. There is a chair and a rocking chair next to him. Two windows are on the side of the house, one with open and one with closed shutters.

Two boys, identified as Stephen and roger Johnson, playing in a tree house. Charlie is climbing the ladder carrying a pail while Stephen waits in the tree house. There is a gate on the right and woods in the background.

A girl and a boy walking along a snow covered road on a cold wintry day.

A metal fence with a cobbled path leading from the camera through the gate and onto a town common towards houses in the middle ground. Caption reads: "the Plestor from the churchyard gate, with Gilbert White's House in the middle distance and…

A white man plowing a field on a hill. Two horses pull the plow. A farmhouse is in the middle ground and a mountain rises in the background.