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Writing compositions
Three boys sit at their benches writing in the Hockanum schoolhouse.
Wife of Curtis Burroughs stands with two pails at the homestead
Eliza Burroughs stands outside the homestead with two pails. Caption on reverse reads "Catskills Roxburry Going a-milking. The stones --- on the terrace of the old farm house of John Burroughs.
Wife of Curtis Burroughs at the homestead
Eliza Burroughs, wife of Curtis Burroughs stands near a flower garden, a cat at her feet.
Washing pans and pails
Eliza Burroughs, wife of Curtis Burroughs, washes pans and pails in the yard outside her home.
View from the fields
A view of a house in the middleground, partly obscured by a large tree on the right side and bushes in front of the house. A second, even larger tree stands behind the house. The scene is reflected in water in the foreground.
Titan's Pier
A man stands on the left of the photograph leaning on a tree root by the shore of Connecticut river looking out. A cliff looms over the river to the left of the man.
The two families
In an entrance to a barn a woman holds a young child, both looking down towards an older boy holding a shallow pan feeding a colt. Behind the colt, in a horse stall, is a horse with a feed bag on.
The skaters
Two boys putting on skates while on frozen pond on the meadow. Some trees and houses, belonging to Edward Johnson and Elliott Johnson, in the middleground and background.
The schoolhouse from the road
A one room brick schoolhouse in Hockanum and a small woodshed near it. One large, bare tree stands in front of the school and others are off to the right.
The schoolhouse during a flood
The Hockanum schoolhouse during a flood with water up to the floor level. Photograph was taken on Sunday, November 6, 1927. The description on the back of the photograph reads: "The water began to fall on Saturday night. Heavy rain Thursday. The rain…
The schoolboy
A boy walks down the road towards the camera carrying books tied by a string in his left hand.
The school at work
Students sit at their desks in the Hockanum schoolhouse, some reading, others writing. One student stands facing the wall.
The reading lesson
Margaret Johnson, Clifton Johnson's daughter, standing in front of the blackboard in the Hockanum schoolhouse reading from a book. She is in period dress. An unfinished multiplication problem is on the board behind her.
The new highway south of Titan's Pier
Image of three boys on the side of the new road up the hill. The old road off to the left goes through "Pass of Thermopolae" and by "Titan's Pier" then rejoins the new road around the hill. Mount Tom is in the background. Utility poles on both sides…
The long, lazy hamlet, Hockanum
Remains of a pier on the Northampton side of the Connecticut river, with a row boat pulled up on the shore. Farms visible across the river at the foot of Mount Holyoke in the background.