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| Description: | Photograph from album with the caption: "Old Barn." The view is down a hill towards the barn which has a fenced enclosure. A horse-drawn buggy is near the ... |
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| Description: | Photograph from album with the caption: "New Tenant House." View towards the front of the two-story house which has a porch. There is a wire fence with woo... |
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| Description: | Photograph from album with the caption: "West View of Old Blacksmith Shop." View towards the log building, which has an exposed chimney on the right side, ... |
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| Description: | Photograph from album with the caption: "West View of Old Mill," with a view towards the front of the log building. There is a wooden walkway with a railin... |
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| Description: | Three-quarter view towards the front and left side of a log building with a peaked roof which is built into a hill. The left side of the building is below ... |
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| Description: | View from road towards a fence and a shed at Walnut Grove. Fields are in the background surrounded by trees. A sign on the tree in the right foreground rea... |
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| Description: | Panoramic view of Walnut Grove farm. Handwritten on back: "This shows the house, barn & shop etc. taken from the road going to Steeles Tavern. Walnut Grove... |
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| Description: | Elevated view over roofs of farm buildings toward the Blue Ridge Mountains. Handwritten at bottom: "Blue Ridge Mts." |
| Date: | 09 15 1937 |
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| Description: | View looking up towards the back of the log mill building, which is built into the side of a hill. There are three small window openings. Two wheelbarrows ... |
| Date: | 09 15 1937 |
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| Description: | View of old foundation and debris. A fence, small building and the Walnut Grove brick manor house are in the background on the left. |
| Date: | 09 1937 |
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| Description: | View of side of the McCormick Mill, built into the side of a hill on the right. There are small windows, one on the lower level, and another on the upper l... |
| Date: | 09 1937 |
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| Description: | View of side of the log McCormick Mill, built into the side of a hill on the left. On the ground level is a doorway near the corner on the left, and a smal... |
| Date: | 09 1937 |
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| Description: | View down wooden walkway towards the front of the mill, which is built into a hill. The roof has been removed, and the interior stairway to the second floo... |
| Date: | 01 1938 |
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| Description: | Men are standing on scaffolding working on the roof near the top of the chimney. A tree is near the log building on the right, and mountains are in the dis... |
| Date: | 01 1938 |
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| Description: | Men are standing on scaffolding working on the roof near the top of the chimney. A tree is near the log building on the right. Handwritten on back: "Slave ... |
| Date: | 01 1938 |
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| Description: | View of the end of the building showing scaffolding around the the log walls, and the peaked roof above. Handwritten on back: "Slave Quarters in process of... |
| Date: | 02 07 1938 |
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| Description: | Man standing outdoors using a frow to split shingles. |
| Date: | 02 07 1938 |
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| Description: | Man using an axe to split wood for shingles. |
| Date: | 02 07 1938 |
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| Description: | Handwritten on back: "3. Man at right is cutting off sap wood. R. Man at left is using a frow (knife) to split block into thinner sections." |
| Date: | 02 07 1938 |
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| Description: | Handwritten on back: "7. A pile of completed split shingles. 7500 of these were made for the slave cabin and the mill." |
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