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Two apron-wearing women hang laundry to dry on a fence outside their house in Tuskegee, Alabama.

An older black woman seated in a chair, and a child, possibly her daughter or granddaughter, read together in Louisiana.

A dilapidated wood cabin, identified as the building Booker T. Washington started his school. A wooden fence and some trees are on the right. Caption on back: "The cabin in which Booker Washington started his school."

Booker T. Washington stands next to a chicken coop. At his feet is a group of chickens. He holds a pail of feed in one hand and sprinkles it for the chickens with the other.

A black man grazes a horse in his yard and talks to a woman. In the background, children are sitting on the steps of the house.

Pen and ink illustration of roadside gold (flower) with one stem and three sets of two large leaves and a number of smaller ones along the stem and two blooming flowers on top.

Two women walking down a road, one holding a coat over her arm and both looking at the camera. Behind them two horses pull a horsecar filled with people.

A man stands in a boat passing a bag to a man standing in a small fishing boat while a second man sits. Other boats and a roof of a building are visible in the background.

A man sits on a small fishing boat on the shore of Connecticut River looking out. A large boat, named Middletown, is moored across the river next to some harbor buildings with the Travelers Tower rising above the scene in the background.

A view down a river with a steep rocky wall on the left with trees growing around it in places. Train tracks run on the right and utility poles run along the river on both shores.

Two women and a man stand looking at the guard tower at the ruins of Newgate Prison.

The ruins of the Newgate Prison. Two women and a man stand in the arched gate looking at the camera while a second man sits looking off to the distance. They are identified as Anna Johnson, Dr. and Mrs. Dawson and Irving Johnson. A wheel of an…

A large tree grows in the center of the image with a stone wall and other trees on the left. Some boats are visible on the water behind in the middleground and houses peek from around trees in the background.

A view a zigzag fences separating fields. Some trees grow near the fences and a few houses are spread across the background. Tracks left in the dirt near the foreground imply the way is used as a road by wagons.

A view of an open stone gate with two men walking away from the camera.