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

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Brushing up the Hearth. Nims House, Deerfield, Massachusetts

From a photograph by Miss Emma L. Coleman

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The Old Hand Loom

Used a hundred years ago by Mrs. Jane Morrill Cummings