From a photograph by Miss Emma L. Coleman]
[Illustration: TRACING SEED CORN IN A FARMER'S BARN
From a photograph by Miss Emma L. Coleman]
[Illustration: A FARMYARD SCENE AT DEERFIELD, MASSACHUSETTS
From a photograph by Miss Emma L. Coleman]
From a photograph by Miss Emma L. Coleman]
From a photograph by Miss Emma L. Coleman]
[Illustration: GUNDALOW LOADED WITH SALT HAY
From a photograph made by Miss Emma L. Coleman, about 1880, on Parker River, Newbury, Mass.
Similar craft were early used in Boston harbor and with a stump mast and lateen sail carried cargo up the Merrimack River]
[Illustration: BRUSHING UP THE HEARTH. NIMS HOUSE, DEERFIELD, MASSACHUSETTS
From a photograph by Miss Emma L. Coleman]
Used a hundred years ago by Mrs. Jane Morrill Cummings
From a photograph by Miss Emma L. Coleman]
[Illustration: TITLE-PAGE OF "THE DAY OF DOOM"
From the original owned by the late John W. Farwell]
Minister at Mendon, Mass. Born 1659, died 1715
[Illustration: GRAVESTONE OF MRS. MARY ROUS
[Illustration: GRAVESTONE OF WILLIAM DICKSON, CAMBRIDGE, MASS., 1692]
[Illustration: GRAVESTONE OF CAPT. JOHN CARTER, WOBURN, MASS., 1692]
[Illustration: FIRE BACK CAST AT THE SAUGUS IRON WORKS IN 1660 FOR THE PICKERING HOUSE, SALEM
The letters I A P stand for John Pickering and Alice his wife]
[Illustration: PRICE SHEET OF JOSEPH PALMER & CO., CHANDLERS
[Illustration: WEIGHTS AND VALUES OF COINS
A table engraved by Nathaniel Hurd of Boston
Original engravings are owned by the American Antiquarian Society, Worcester, and the Pocumtuck Valley Museum, Deerfield]
[Illustration: SHINGLE HORSE ON WHICH WERE SHAVED SHINGLES, CLAPBOARDS AND BARREL STAVES
From a photograph by Miss Emma L. Coleman]
Dried apples hang on strings against the wall]
[Illustration: CHARCOAL BURNERS PREPARING A KILN
From a photograph made in 1884 by Miss Emma L. Coleman]
[Illustration: SPINNING WITH THE WOOL WHEEL
[Illustration: AN OLD-TIME NEW ENGLAND LOOM
Now in the museum of the Society for the Preservation of New England Antiquities]
[Illustration: PROSPECT OF THE HARBOR AND TOWN OF BOSTON IN 1723
From an engraving (central part only) after a drawing by William Burgis]
[Illustration: A VIEW OF CASTLE WILLIAM, BOSTON, ABOUT 1729
Showing a ship of war of the period, probably after a drawing by William Burgis]