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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.

Two men pick apples from a tree. One man is on a tall laddere picking, the other is transfering apples from a basket to a large barrel. Two more barrows stand nearby, another tree is visible to the left and Mt. Tom looms in the background.

A large maple tree stands near the road with corn fields on either side of the road.