Agriculture Gallery

Feudal lord instructing peasant workers

Peasants receiving their lord's orders before going to work, 1400s.
Hand-colored 19th-century woodcut reproduction of a manuscript miniature illustration

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Cotton wharf in Charleston SC, 1870s

Black stevedores loading bales on the cotton wharf in Charleston, South Carolina, 1870s.
Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

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Medieval manor and fields

Arrangement of manor lands and a farming village in the late Middle Ages.
Hand-colored 19th-century woodcut reproduction of an earlier illustration

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