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A painting of a girl standing with her back facing the illustrator wearing a hat and a white dress. She is looking up with both hands raised looking at a bean bag in the air, preparing to catch it. A hand-written copy of Bean Bag Song, a poem by…

Pen and ink drawing of the world map from Gulliver's travels. Numbered notes on drawing correspond to locations on the map. 1) Lilliputia, as described in the book, would be in southern Australia. 2) This was about where Gulliver came to land in…

Sketch of the map from Gulliver's Travels drawn on tracing paper.

A black girl stands next to a desk with a man sitting on a chair. He is holding a pen and they are both looking at a notebook resting on the desk in between them. A world map hangs on the wall in front of them and a calendar and portraits hang on the…

A white woman stands at the door of a wooden house resting her right hand on the frame, looks at a second woman, identified as Anna McTweed Johnson. A shed to the right of the of the house has two signs, one reading: "PELGIAN HARES FOR SALE HERE" and…

A white woman stands at a podium looking down at a paper a boy is holding. A girl and a boy sit in a chair to the right. There is a stove in the center of the room and a map of New Jersey hangs on the wall.

A white boy stands and reads out of a book in a classroom with other boys sitting around him looking at their books. Maps and illustrations of birds hang on the wall behind them. Town identified as Coye in caption (possibly Coye-la-Foret).

A white boy stands in front of the teacher's desk. The teacher stands facing him looking at a paper, reading. Some posters hang behind him with a shelf filled with papers, books, and bottles behind him while a map hangs to the left. A person leans on…

A group of children sit at desks writing, while a man writes standing at a taller desk. A clock, globe, maps and different images hang on the wall.

A man sits on a chair in a middle of a group of students sitting on benches arranged in a horseshoe. They are all holding books and one girl is standing. A large map of the world hangs on a wall behind her.

A man standing by a girl showing him a chalk tablet. Three other children, two boys and one girl sit on a bench, working. A map hangs on the wall and a window lets sunlight in on the left wall.

A view of a school room with wooden benches and a number of kids reading while two boys look around.The teacher stands near one girl pointing to a page in a book in front of her. A large map of the United States hangs on the back wall between two…

A girl, identified as Hettie Johnson, pouring sap into a tray to boil down. A boy, identified as Oscar Johnson is kneeling down tending the fire. They are in a backyard, next to a tree with a shovel and a broom resting against it. A barn is visible…

A girl holding a pail helping a younger boy drink from it. There is a fence behind them and a barn with a wagon in front of its open doors in the background. A part of another building is visible on the right. A tree stands by the children and…

Two boys, identified as Stephen and roger Johnson, playing in a tree house. Charlie is climbing the ladder carrying a pail while Stephen waits in the tree house. There is a gate on the right and woods in the background.