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John Burroughs sits writing at the desk he made at Slabsides. Caption on reverse reads "A busy day at Slabsides"

John Burroughs at Riverby packing grapes into wooden crates. Caption on reverse reads "He was an official fruit farmer, and here he is getting grapes ready for the city markets.

A small wooden shack sits among the trees. Caption on reverse "New York Catskills Roxbury sugarhouse at the edge of the Burroughs sap-bush."

John Burroughs burial place with Anna Tweed McQueston Johnson (Clifton Johnson's wife) standing on hillside. Caption on reverse reads "John Burroughs burial place beside 'boyhood rock'"

John Burroughs sits at his old desk at the West Settlement schoolhouse while a group of schoolgirls stand facing him

View of the Wittenberg Mountains in the background and a cow in a pasture with a stone wall, wood fence, and house in foreground. Caption on reverse states, "New York | Catskills The Wittenberg from Woodland Valley"

John Burroughs stands at the edge of a field with a house in the background. Caption on reverse reads "April at Slabsides when the swamp had been much subdued, and orderly cultivation had started."

Burroughs stands on the porch of a vine covered house. Caption on reverse reads "Slabsides"

John Burroughs stands newspaper in hand next to the door of a house. An american flag hangs to his left. Caption on reverse reads "At the backdoor of the 'Nest.' It was in this house that Burroughs lived during his last years."

John Burroughs lays across a wooden bench. Caption on reverse reads "New York, What he called the most restful position."

A cow stands near John Burroughs study. Caption on reverse reads "The bark covered study where Buroughs did mainly all his writing."

John Burroughs stands speaking to a woman in a dorrway. Caption on reverse reads "Burroughs, on a Catskills walking trip, stops at a farmhouse to ask directions."

John Burroughs stands next to a large tree, reaching up to a birdhouse.

John Burroughs stands looking out over a pond. Caption on reverse reads "A wayside pond near slabsides. Burroughs just naturally stopped there on a hot day, Lastly to rest, but more to find out what was going on amoung the creatures of the woodland…

A figure stands in a field, with two crates in their hands. Caption on reverse reads "a swamp no more."