A number of log rafts float on water near the shore. Other logs and rafts rest on the shore. A person stands on a boat and other people are making a raft in the middle ground. A bridge runs across the river .
A man stands in the doorway of a wooden house with his hands behind his back, looking up. A wooden step leads up to the house with a mat resting on it and grass growing around.
Two children sit on a horse-drawn hay rake working. A colt stands nearby watching. Trees cover the background, the Fort River Covered Bridge visible on the far right.
A young girl, possibly Edith Barstow or Hettie Johnson, standing in front of the blackboard in the Hockanum schoolhouse reading her composition to the class.
Two white girls sit on the threshold of a house with an open book between them. Some stones line the entrance and form a small garden along the wall of the house with some plants growing under a window.
Two bearded white men, sit outside a house. One is wearing a three-piece suit and holding a newspaper while the second is wearing an overcoat and holding his hat in his hand.