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A Christmas blackboard decoration
A boy stands on a chair drawing holly across the top of the blackboard with chalk in his right hand and an eraser in his left hand.
A Christmas play
A group of children stands in front of the blackboard in the Hockanum schoolhouse dressed in costumes including a long white beard, top hat, and sideburns. Boy in the front left is Charles Thayer and the small girl to the left is Edith Barstow.
A class photograph
Students and their teacher, Miss Lawrence, stand in front of the Hockanum schoolhouse for a photograph. The students are identified as: Lillian Treadwell, Norman Barstow, Peggy Lyman, Warren Johnson, Eleanor Johnson, Henry Drozdal, Dotty Barstow,…
A crofter piling peat on the Isle of Skye in Scotland
A woman wearing a dress and headscarf piles cubes of peat outside her thatch-roofed cottage.
A dialog in a schoolhouse entertainment
Two boys wearing fake beards sit facing each other pretending they are warming their hands in a fireplace. A jug and a glass stand on a table in front of them. The building is the Hockanum schoolhouse.
A game in the field
A group of children playing (cricket?) in the field by the school house. Mount Tom visible in the background. The teacher is Miss Lawrence and the children are Eleanor Johnson, Norman Barstow, Peggy Lyman, Richard Thayer, and Warren Johnson.
A game of tag
A group of children including Edith Barstow, W. Kiley, and Luther Barstow play tag around a large tree.
A group of farm buildings
A house and attached barns seen across a field. Mount Holyoke visible in the background. (February 2022 - Believed to be the Drozdal Farm at 133 Hockanum Road.)
A man by the Old Bridge
View down the length of the covered bridge. A man, possibly Richard Johnson, stands, leaning an arm against one corner looking over at the stream below. A sign over the bridge is a warning about a six ton weight limit and anyone crossing the bridge…
A punishment
A boy stands in the Hockanum schoolhouse with his arm stretched out to the side holding a book as punishment. Two other boys, Charles Thayer and Oscar Johnson sit reading in their seats. Two windows let light in, a clock and a couple illustrations…
A Roxbury Trout brook
A log lays over a small brooks waterfall. Caption on reverse reads "New York Catskills A Catskills waterfall and troutbrook that attracted Burroughs to them In his youth."
A schoolhouse Christmas play, Santa Claus arrives
A tall boy, dressed in a long white beard and animal skin coat stands in between two shorter boys in front of the blackboard. A pile of clothes and two sacks are scattered on the floor around them.
A schoolhouse entertainment, the ghosts
Three children, each wrapped in a sheet and white masks, standing in front of the blackboard.
A schoolroom corner in the Catskills
A teacher stands by a student seated at a desk with two students at the desk in front of her. Caption on reverse reads "New York : A schoolroom corner in the Catskills. John Burroughs studied in one of these desks in boyhood"
A swamp no more
A figure stands in a field, with two crates in their hands. Caption on reverse reads "a swamp no more."