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Caption on back: "This house is on Bull Run Battlefield, and at the time of the fighting was the home of a free negro. The little boy is watching his mammy water the plants."

Booker T. Washington standing in a field patting an ox. A pair of oxen is hitched to a little wagon with a man standing on top of it. A pile of earth is partly visible on the right, next to the cart.

Booker T. Washington holds a bucket and feeds a group of pigs.

With plants in hand, Booker T. Washington stands in the woods and looks up into the trees.

Booker T. Washington stands in a field with a student who is driving a horse-drawn plow.

A pair of young black sisters sit on a porch in Tennessee. One is in a chair and sewing. The other is on the porch itself, and is holding a doll and looking up at the other.

Caption on back: "A boy hunter and his four-legged companions. The dogs have to wait while he shows two of his boy friends just how the gun works. Did you count the dogs?"

Booker T. Washington kneels in the woods, searching for flowers. His son David stands next to him.

A black man driving a cart has stopped in the road to speak with two black women.

Cover of Highways and Byways of the South, by Clifton Johnson, published 1905.

A black boy chops wood in front of a schoolhouse in Tennessee, while two other boys and a girl look on. In the background, a woman, perhaps the teacher, is speaking with a girl.

A black woman sells cabbages from a cart in Charleston, South Carolina. A man has come to buy and is weighing one in his hand.

Booker T. Washington stands over a pig patting its back in a fenced field holding a bucket in his left hand. A calf is partly in shot on the right and farm buildings are visible behind the fence.

A black woman performs domestic work in an early 20th century kitchen in Alabama. Around her are bottles, boxes, utensils, and dishes.

One page, typed, signed letter from Booker T. Washington to Clifton Johnson, on Tuskegee Institute stationery. Washington thanks Johnson for sending a book for the library and inquires about the photographs Johnson had recently taken.