Black and white photograph of four children seated on the steps of a porch, The youngest child is wearing a Native American feather headdress.

Black and white photograph of the construction of an abutment for William's Bridge on the Erie Canal. Three men are visible on the top of the structure.

Black and white photograph of a ditch, Eerie Canal.

Black and white photograph of five men standing on bank of canal next to a row boat. Some men are holding tools, and a bridge is visible in the background.

Black and white photograph of four female children of various ages, seated on and around the steps of a porch.

Black and white photograph of a grader, a machine used to level ground, by the Erie Canal. Two wheeled vehicles, pulled by horses, are visible in the image.

Black and white photograph of the Maybees Waste Weir, located on the Erie Canal section of the New York State Barge Canal. Taken by Robert Merrill from the canal bank.

Black and white photograph of Lena Billington Merrill, the wife of Robert Merrill, taken from an interior room of a house. A piano with open sheet music is visible to the left of the subject.

Black and white photograph of Frank W. Blair. Blair is standing on a grass footpath, and wearing a suit, tie, and flat-topped hat.

Black and white photograph of the Boxwood Cemetery in Medina, New York, An unidentified woman, possibly Merrill's wife Lena, is visible in the midground of the image.

A young boy and girl stand in front of a playhouse next to a garage.

Yacht squadron in Macatawa Bay looking northwest

Lake front from north end of lake-front lots

Lake front looking north from Grand Ave at water edge

Macatawa site of Grand Ave & Illinois Ave. Phoenix cottage looking northwest. Two houses are visible on top of a hill in right side of the frame.

Delta from side creek at road blockade between Salida and Denver, Colorado. In the foreground, two automobiles are parked on the roadway, and in the distance behind a small hill the top of a steam locomotive is visible.

Shoemaker Ranch near Folsom, New Mexico: Bone pit main excavation looking east down Wild Horse Arroyo

Shoemaker Ranch near Folsom, New Mexico: Bone pit main excavation looking north. An automobile is visible in the background.

Shoemaker Ranch near Folsom, New Mexico: same site of hearths 1,2&3 looking south from a hill-top

Shoemaker Ranch near Folsom, New Mexico: Junction of north branch and Wild Horse Arroyo W from hill

Shoemaker Ranch near Folsom, New Mexico: From junction of Cimarron River and Wild Horse Arroyo looking northwest, range pole same as in #1, and about west

Shoemaker Ranch near Folsom, New Mexico: From junction of Cimarron River and Wild Horse Arroyo looking west

Shoemaker Ranch near Folsom, New Mexico: Looking west up Wild Horse Arroya from back of station #6

Shoemaker Ranch near Folsom, New Mexico: Looking west up Wild Horse Arroya