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Image shows a group of women at work sorting rags in the rag room of a paper-making company. The rags are piled in large baskets beside each woman. All the women are wearing hats or bonnets of some type and are working in the bright light coming…

View of two large horses hooked up to a disc harrow outside a large barn. Two young children stand nearby, one of them holding the reins of the horses. A large pile of firewood rests next to another outbuilding in the background.

View shows the Cummington Cattle Show and a rolling landscape filled with horse-drawn carts and carriages parked in a circle to create an exhibition space. In the background is a large farmhouse with small tents set up to the side and people watching…

Image of two men working with logs in a cove off the Connecticut River. One man is standing upright and holding a long pike pole while the other man is bent over the log and is pulling on the log with a chain and a short pole. These men may be…

Image shows two young boys trying to push a huge pile of hay into a barn. The caption on the back of the photograph reads, "The haymakers getting in a big two-boy load."

Image of an older man standing before the opening of a large, brick charcoal kiln with an armful of wood. Cut firewood, waiting to be placed in the kiln and turned into charcoal, rests in a stack in the foreground. Prescott was one of the towns…

View of two children, a young boy and a toddler girl, carrying firewood, the entrance to a large barn looming in the background. This photograph is an illustration in "The Farmer's Boy," written and illustrated by Clifton Johnson and published in…

An elderly woman sits in a rocking chair outside a house knitting.

A boy is hanging off the back of a horse-drawn avoiding water while a man steers the horse through the flooded street. A house and barn visible in the middleground and a mountain on the left in the background.

A boy hoeing corn in a field, looking down, facing away from the camera. Mt. Holyoke visible in the background.

A boy leans on a a hoe in an onion patch in Hockanum. He is looking away from the camera towards farm buildings visible behind. The patch belonged to Edward Johnson.

A man cutting down rye in a Hockanum field. He faces away from the camera. Woods and Mt. Holyoke visible in the background.

Main road after a rain shower from Hadley to Hockanum and South Hadley. Edward Johnson's house visible on the right side of the road with a fenced garden and some trees around the house.

A large mullein plant with a large tree and gated fence in the background south of Roger Johnson's house.

A boy stands on a hay tedder leading a horse in Hockanum. A barn is visible in the background and a mountain on the left.