subject: Rural Children

 

Farm Boy Boxers

description
  • – Two young teenage boys wearing boxing gloves and trunks, boxing in an open field with a barefoot adult wearing overalls apparently timing in the background
subjectcollectiondate
  • – 1910
publisherrelation
  • – From the collection of the North Brookfield Historical Society at the Haston Free Public Library, North Brookfield, Massachusetts http://www.northbrookfield.net/library.htm
format
  • – image/jpg
source
  • – Part of a glass plate collection of Darrell Hyder
language
  • – English

Children working with hay, Charlemont, Mass.

description
  • – Image shows two young boys trying to push a huge pile of hay into a barn. The caption on the back of the photograph reads,"The haymakers getting in a big two-boy load."
subjectcollectiondate
  • – ca. 1900
publishercreatorrelation
  • – Image is part of the Clifton Johnson Collection, 1880-1940. Jones Library Special Collections, Amherst, Massachusetts. http://www.joneslibrary.org
format
  • – image/jpg

Bringing in wood, Chesterfield, Mass.

description
  • – View of two children, a young boy and a toddler girl, carrying firewood, the entrance to a large barn looming in the background. This photograph is an illustration in"The Farmer's Boy,"written and illustrated by Clifton Johnson and published in 1894. Caption on back reads,"The little lady's first lesson in how to get in wood for the farmhouse fire."
subjectcollectiondate
  • – ca. 1894
publishercreatorrelation
  • – Image is part of the Clifton Johnson Collection, 1880-1940. Jones Library Special Collections, Amherst, Massachusetts. http://www.joneslibrary.org
format
  • – image/jpg

Holding the horses in the dooryard, Sunderland, Mass.

description
  • – View of two large horses hooked up to a disc harrow outside a large barn. Two young children stand nearby, one of them holding the reins of the horses. A large pile of firewood rests next to another outbuilding in the background.
subjectcollectiondate
  • – ca. 1900
publishercreatorrelation
  • – Image is part of the Clifton Johnson Collection, 1880-1940. Jones Library Special Collections, Amherst, Massachusetts. http://www.joneslibrary.org
format
  • – image/jpg

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