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View of a river between two large industrial mills on either side of the photograph. Woods and hills visible in the background behind the complex.

A white boy stands in front of a dilapidated

A white woman doing laundry by water standing under a roofed building with walls on two sides and slanted roof towards the water. Town identified as Coye in caption (possibly Coye-la-Foret).

A black woman smoking a pipe stands in front of a cauldron with steam rising from it holding a cloth she took just took out. Two other figures are visible through the steam in the left background in front of a wooden building. Wooden basins rest on a…

A woman kneels before a tub with a washboard inside by the shore of a river. A child sits next to her and a man is nearby, all looking at the camera.

Two white women and a white man stand in front of a wooden house with a stone and brick chimney attached looking at a boy leading a younger boy across a plank over a stream.

A white woman stands on a plank by a stream holding a child and looking at the camera while two children stand next to her. A second woman stands nearby washing her hands in a bowl resting on a tree stump. A three story white building is behind them…

People standing by a flood-washed road in the foreground, a couple of buildings, a car and a boat wait the other side of the water.

A black woman smoking a pipe stands in front of a cauldron with steam rising from it holding a cloth she took just took out. Another woman is visible through the steam on the right, possibly sitting in front of a wooden building with wooden basins…

A pole with a large watch hanging from it shows time. It is behind a white fence next to a sidewalk which also turns left near the camera. A road extends on the right with trees growing on either side.

A well-kept street with row houses on the left and a carriage parked by the sidewalk. A tree grows on the right in the foreground and a tower of a meeting house is visible in the background.

A black girl has a wooden bucket of water on her head which she is balancing with a hand on each side. Captions on back: "Suwanee River: the water carrier" and "A girl in a Negro settlement carrying a pail of water home from the spring. She has it on…

Several men sitting on the edge of a dock while one man remains standing. A two-masted cargo sailing ships tied up in the foreground while a large three-master dominates the center of the photograph. A barge is tied up to the vessel and is loaded…

A man stands in a meadows, location identified as Coate, near a bare tee with other trees in the middle ground and background.

A large, round wooden watering trough filled with water stands next to a blossoming tree. A large boulder stands surrounded by shrubs in the foreground on the right and thick vegetation makes up the background.