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1800s Collection (#52)

Background image1800s Collection: PBUS2A-00038

PBUS2A-00038
Railroad president Thomas A. Scott. Hand-colored engraving of a 19th-century portrait

Background image1800s Collection: PBUS2A-00011

PBUS2A-00011
Joseph Pulitzer holding a press printing the New York " World" newspaper 1901. Hand-colored halftone of an illustration

Background image1800s Collection: PBUS2A-00003

PBUS2A-00003
Cartoon of Andrew Carnegie playing with blocks that spell LIBRARY, 1903. Hand-colored halftone

Background image1800s Collection: PBUS2A-00002

PBUS2A-00002
Fur trader John Jacob Astor, founder of Astoria on the Columbia River, 1811. Hand colored woodcut of a painting

Background image1800s Collection: PSCI2A-00056

PSCI2A-00056
George Stephenson experimenting with his safety lamp in an English coal mine, early 1800s. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

Background image1800s Collection: BUSN2A-00195

BUSN2A-00195
Depositors making a run on a bank during a financial panic in the 1800s. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th century illustration

Background image1800s Collection: BUSN2A-00192

BUSN2A-00192
Early oil well gushing in Pennsylvania 1880s. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th century illustration

Background image1800s Collection: BUSN2A-00169

BUSN2A-00169
Pandemonium in the New York Gold Room on Black Friday, September 24, 1869. Hand-colored halftone of a 19th century illustration

Background image1800s Collection: BUSN2A-00070

BUSN2A-00070
MIll worker tending mule-spinners, an industrial textile machine, 1800s. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th century illustration

Background image1800s Collection: BUSN2A-00067

BUSN2A-00067
A fleet of tea-ships in the China Sea, 1880s. Hand colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

Background image1800s Collection: BUSN2A-00063

BUSN2A-00063
Early logging in the White Mountains of Maine or New Hampshire. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

Background image1800s Collection: HUSG2A-00004

HUSG2A-00004
Irish emigrants saying goodbye to family and friends at Clifden, County Galway, 1800s Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

Background image1800s Collection: GGBR2A-00056

GGBR2A-00056
Irish potato harvesters on their way to England to find work, 1800s. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

Background image1800s Collection: Sailing in the English Channel, 1800s

Sailing in the English Channel, 1800s
Sailing-ships in the English Channel near the White Cliffs of Dover. Hand-colored engraving of a 19th-century illustration

Background image1800s Collection: Dartmouth, England, from the sea

Dartmouth, England, from the sea
Sailing ships approaching the harbor of Dartmouth, England. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

Background image1800s Collection: GGBR2A-00013

GGBR2A-00013
Interior of a poor Irish familys mud cabin in County Kildare, 1800s. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

Background image1800s Collection: GGBR2A-00011

GGBR2A-00011
Barefoot Irish peat-gatherers on the moors, 1800s. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

Background image1800s Collection: GGBR2A-00010

GGBR2A-00010
Hungry Irish people gathering seaweed for food, coast of County Clare, 1800s. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

Background image1800s Collection: BUSN2A-00071

BUSN2A-00071
Women screening coal coming out of a mine in England, 1800s. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

Background image1800s Collection: BUSN2A-00115

BUSN2A-00115
Whimsey engine drawing coal in the Staffordshire mines, England, 1850s. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

Background image1800s Collection: HSET2A-00073

HSET2A-00073
Plantation dinner guests fanned by a slave in the Deep South Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

Background image1800s Collection: HSET2A-00064

HSET2A-00064
Men served drinks by a young slave in a Louisiana plantation home. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration by Kemble

Background image1800s Collection: Black voters in Richmond, Virginia, 1871

Black voters in Richmond, Virginia, 1871
African-American citizens voting in Richmond, Virginia, 1871. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

Background image1800s Collection: First black voters in Washington DC, 1867

First black voters in Washington DC, 1867
African-American election official supervising the first black voters in Washington DC, 1867. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

Background image1800s Collection: HUSG2A-00015

HUSG2A-00015
African-American man collecting pay for cotton delivered in Austin, Texas, 1870s. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

Background image1800s Collection: HUSG2A-00009

HUSG2A-00009
African-American workers collecting pay after harvesting strawberries in Virginia during Reconstruction. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

Background image1800s Collection: HUSG2A-00023

HUSG2A-00023
Freed African-Americans traveling through St Louis, leaving the South after the Civil War. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

Background image1800s Collection: HUSG2A-00027

HUSG2A-00027
Visiting pastor having dinner with an African-American family, 1880s. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

Background image1800s Collection: HUSG2A-00030

HUSG2A-00030
African-American church congregation in Washington DC, 1870s. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

Background image1800s Collection: BUSN2A-00187

BUSN2A-00187
Unloading tea-ships in the British East India Companys docks, London, 1860s. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th century illustration

Background image1800s Collection: HUSG2A-00016

HUSG2A-00016
African-American mother rocking and singing to her children in a cabin. Hand-colored halftone reproduction of a 19th-century illustration

Background image1800s Collection: HUSG2A-00028

HUSG2A-00028
African-American oyster peddler in Baltimore, 1880s. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

Background image1800s Collection: HUSG2A-00022

HUSG2A-00022
Freed African-Americans embarking for the North on riverboats after the Civil War. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

Background image1800s Collection: HUSG2A-00032

HUSG2A-00032
Former slaves fleeing to Kansas from yellow fever outbreak in South, 1870s. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

Background image1800s Collection: BUSN2A-00127

BUSN2A-00127
Front of the old British East India House. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th century illustration

Background image1800s Collection: HUSG2A-00033

HUSG2A-00033
Former slaves on a boat to the North after the Civil War. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

Background image1800s Collection: HUSG2A-00003

HUSG2A-00003
African-American man traveling on foot. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

Background image1800s Collection: HUSG2A-00034

HUSG2A-00034
African-American family eating hoe-cake and clabber in a cabin. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th century illustration

Background image1800s Collection: HUSG2A-00020

HUSG2A-00020
African-American prayer meeting in a cabin. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

Background image1800s Collection: HUSG2A-00046

HUSG2A-00046
Former slave couple in spring outside their cabin in Virginia after the Civil War. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

Background image1800s Collection: HUSG2A-00052

HUSG2A-00052
African-American woman in New Orleans, 1880s. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

Background image1800s Collection: Emancipated slaves fleeing to Union-held soil, 1863

Emancipated slaves fleeing to Union-held soil, 1863
Former slaves reaching Union lines after the Emancipation Proclamation, 1863. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

Background image1800s Collection: Mother and baby in a slave cabin

Mother and baby in a slave cabin
African-American mother rocking and singing to her child in a cabin. Photo of a slave cabin combined with a hand-colored halftone illustration

Background image1800s Collection: PBLA2A-00005

PBLA2A-00005
Dred Scott in 1857, who lost Supreme Court case and was returned to slavery after residing in a free state. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

Background image1800s Collection: Tuskegee Institute mechanical drawing class, 1890s

Tuskegee Institute mechanical drawing class, 1890s
Tuskegee Institute class in architectural and mechanical drawing, 1890s. Hand-colored halftone reproduction of a 19th-century photograph

Background image1800s Collection: Freedmen in printing class at Hampton Institute, Virginia, 1870s

Freedmen in printing class at Hampton Institute, Virginia, 1870s
Former slaves learning printing at Hampton Institute in Virginia, 1870s. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

Background image1800s Collection: PBLA2A-00007

PBLA2A-00007
Booker T. Washington, president of Tuskegee Normal School, 1890s. Hand-colored woodcut reproduction of a photograph

Background image1800s Collection: PBLA2A-00010

PBLA2A-00010
Joseph Hayne Rainey, first black US Congressman, admitted to the House in 1871. Hand-colored halftone reproduction of a photograph



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