1870s Gallery

Riverboats at Shreveport, Louisiana, 1870s

Stevedores loading barrels at the Red River levee at Shreveport, Louisiana, 1870s.
Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

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Thomas Nast cartoon about Boss Tweed corruption

"Who stole the people''s money? 'Twas him" cartoon about Tammany Hall scandal, 1871.
Hand-colored woodcut reproduction of a Thomas Nast cartoon

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Mississippi River and the city of Minneapolis, 1870s

Minneapolis, village of St. Anthony, and St. Anthony's Falls on the Mississippi River, Minnesota, 1870s.
Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

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