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Flooded farms
Photograph taken from a dry higher ground behind the Roger Johnson house looking toward the farms surrounded by flood water in the Northampton meadows.
Fort River bridge
A horse-drawn carriage faces away from the camera approaching the covered Fort River bridge seen in the middleground. A little fence leads up to it, some bare trees are scattered around, a line of telegraph poles line the right side of the photograph…
Hand sprays the grapevine
A man sprays the grapevines. Caption on reverse reads "New York West Park. Hand sprays the grapevines."
Hockanum ferry, Mount Holyoke
A ferry carries a horse-drawn carriage across the Connecticut river. Two women and a girl sit on the carriage, one holding a parasol. Two gentlemen, one in the front, one in the back guide the ferry as a third gentleman stands looking across to the…
Holyoke Mayor Parker and Mrs. Parker
A couple sitting on the porch of their house situated on the foothill of Mount Holyoke.
Holyoke Mayor Parker house
Two women sit on the step of the Parker house in Hockanum having a conversation. The house has a porch on the left and a chimney on the right. There are three windows on the second floor, all open, and two windows on the frist floor. An awning…
Hunting for something in a schoolhouse Christmas play
A boy kneeling before a dresser, rummaging in the bottom drawer. A pile of clothes is scattered on the floor next to him as a second boy looks on with his hands in his pocket.
In the Catskills exhibit flyer
A flyer for the 'In the Catskills' exhibit displayed in the Jones Library Special Collections from May to June 2016.
In the schoolroom
Students sit reading at their desks in the Hockanum schoolhouse. The teacher, Anna McQueston Johnson, looks over the shoulder of a boy sitting in the last row. Illustrations line the back wall of the class. She is in period dress.
In the sheep pasture
Sheep and a farm boy face away from the camera on a upland pasture that outlooks the Connecticut river and distant mountains.
John Burroughs stops to ask for directions
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' Study
A cow stands near John Burroughs study. Caption on reverse reads "The bark covered study where Buroughs did mainly all his writing."
Making the fire
Two boys stand by a wood stove in the Hockanum schoolhouse as a third boy kneels in front of it putting wood inside. The boy on the left is Luther Barstow. A chair stands against the wall on the right near a window.
Memorial Day at Hockanum cemetery
Two well dressed Civil War Veterans, each holding a bouquet, looking down at a gravestone with flag mounted in front of it and flowers around the base of the flag. Well kept picket fence at the rear of the graveyard. Connecticut river and Mount Tom…
Mending the pasture fence
A man repairs a fence, axe in hand. Caption on reverse reads "NY Crown Point Spring- mending the pasture fence."