Farming:agriculture Gallery

Agriculture in the Middle Ages

Peasants sowing and cultivating fields outside a walled town in the Middle Ages.
Printed halftone reproduction of a medieval manuscript miniature

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Medieval milking and churning

Peasants milking cows and a goat, and churning butter, 1100s.
Hand-colored 19th-century woodcut reproduction of a medieval illustration

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Conflict between English and Dutch colonists in Connecticut

English and Dutch farmers quarreling in colonial Connecticut, 1600s.
Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

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