The first image shows a woman holding a baby, with a dog at her side, surrounded by three children seated in chairs outside a farmhouse. A split rail fence is visible in the foreground. This CDV has a two-cent blue U.S. Internal Revenue Bank Check stamp affixed to the back, bearing a cancellation date of 16 Aug. 1864.
The second image shows four men outside the barn adjacent to the farmhouse, with the corner of the latter visible on the right. One is standing in front of a team of horses or mules holding a farm implement, while another stands atop a pile of hay loaded in the wagon. The other two men are standing in an empty wagon, pulled by a second team of mules or horses. The same split rail fence is visible in the foreground.
The third image shows two men outside a barn, perhaps taken on the opposite side of the barn in the second image or a different location on the same property. One man sits atop a horse-drawn cultivator, reins in hand, with the other standing behind it. A split rail fence is visible in the foreground.
The photographer who captured this trio of images, Ira Gardner “I.G.” Owen (1835-1887), owned and operated a studio in Newton, New Jersey, from 1860 to 1872.
by The_Public_Historian