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A black boy sitting in a boat and drinking out of a hat. Trees line the shore on both sides of the river. Caption reads: "Way down on the Suwannee River. This is the stream which inspired that wonderfully popular song 'The Old Folks at Home.'"

An advertising billboard reading: "PFEIFFER LUMBER Co. OPPOSITE DEPOT." The billboard shows a person on a small wagon looking at a billboard reading: "WE GIVE BETTER LUMBER AT THE SAME PRICE OR EQUAL GRADES AT A LOWER PRICE." A second billboard…

Pen and ink illustration of three geese with a farmer and cottage in the background.

Advertising card for the business of F. H. Howe, a grocer located in Merchants' Row in Amherst in the 1880s. The cartoon on the card shows a drunk monkey and illustrates Victorian humor.

A woman stands behind a large loom in an attic with light falling in through the window next to her.

Image of a woman working alone in an attic on a large loom in the bright daylight from the large window beside her.

One of the marsh sisters weaving horse hair sieves for bolting floor. Some potted plants sit on a table by a window and two doors stand behind the loom.

Woman seated at room full of weaving looms. Caption on reverse reads, "Arts and Crafts at Jones Library."

A woman, identified as Anna Johnson, wearing a wedding dress of Mrs. Edward Johnson and standing next to a large elm tree. Roger Johnson's house in the background.

Two white men kneel on the ground and weed a field. Each has a bag next to him. A white tarp covers the ground near them. A fence runs along the field on the right with a large bare tree in front of it. A house and a number of trees are in the…

A black man, woman, and a white boy hold a log on their shoulders with one large sack hanging off it and a second one rests on the ground. Other people stand around looking on the scene. A fence runs across the middle ground and trees grow in the…

A girl, identified as Margaret Johnson, stands with her hands outstretched looking up as the snow falls around her. She is wearing a warm coat, a bonnet, and mittens.

Two boys (one possibly Stephen Johnson) stand by a well in front of the Old Hadley Farm Museum.

A boat in a river moored to the shore. Trees bloom in the middleground with houses and town buildings in the background.

View of the front and right side of the church and a covering of snow on the ground.