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Anna McQueston and her students at the Hockanum schoolhouse
Anna McQueston and her students, sitting and standing in front of the door to the Hockanum schoolhouse.
The Hockanum schoolhouse after flood, 1895
Photograph of the Hockanum schoolhouse after a flood in 1895. Anna McQueston (later Mrs. Clifton Johnson) is in the doorway.
Illustration of Mother Goose rhyme Three Blind Mice
Clifton Johnson's illustration of the Mother Goose rhyme Three Blind Mice.
Illustration for the cover of The New England Country
Pen and ink illustration of the design used for the cover of the book The New England Country.
Illustration of meadow-weed
Pen and ink illustration of meadow-weed, used in the magazine The Interior in 1898.
Man riding horse illustration
Pen and ink illustration of a man riding a horse in the country side, blowing a horn.
Cover of The Isle of the Shamrock
Cover of a travel book of Ireland titled The Isle of the Shamrock
Black children at the well
A black girl is pulling on the well rope of a tall well house while a boy waits with a pail at his feet. Caption on back: "Did you ever see a well that had as high a roof as this from which the children are getting water?"
Black couple clearing palmetto scrub for a garden
A black couple is hard at work clearing the ground of palmetto scrub to make way for a garden. Caption on back: "Grubbing up palmetto scrub to clear ground for a garden patch".
Packing vegetables to ship north
A black man and two black boys are packing vegetables in a barnyard to be shipped north. Caption on back: "The two boys are helping a farmer pack tomatoes and cabbages to ship north".
Drink from the Suwanee River
A black boy, sitting in a rowboat, has filled his felt hat with water and is taking a drink from it. Caption on back: "Way down on the Suwanee River. This is the stream which inspired that wonderfully popular song, The Old Folks at Home".
Thin pine woods and palmetto scrub
Flat land populated by thin woods of pine and palmetto scrub, typical of the Florida landscape. Caption on back: "Rockledge: a characteristic landscape - thin pine woods and palmetto scrub".
Black children and their schoolhouse
Black students and their teacher (?) stand outside the dilapidated school. Caption on back: "Negro children and their schoolhouse. Such buildings for their race in Southern country regions are far too common."
Two black women chatting at the garden by a house
One black woman has stopped her hoeing to brush the mosquitoes away while she chats with another black woman in front of a house. Caption on front: "Suwanee River Mosquitoes."
The washerwoman
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…