Animal Power Collection

Coal mine in England, 1850s
Removing coal in the Bradley mine, Staffordshire, England, 1850s. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th century illustration

Erie Canal barge at Troy, New York
Barge on the Erie Canal at West Troy, New York, in the late 1800s. Hand-colored halftone reproduction of a 19th-century illustration

Logging in Wisconsin, 1800s
Hauling logs with a horse-drawn sledge in northern Wisconsin, 1880s. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

Shackletons Manchurian ponies, Antarctica, 1908
Manchurian ponies used by Shackleton in the Antarctic, 1908-09. Hand-colored halftone reproduction of a photograph

Erie Canal at Schenedtady, New York
Erie Canal barge towed through Schenectady, New York, 1800s. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

Spanish familys ox-cart, California, 1800s
Spanish family traveling by oxcart, Californis, 1800s. Hand-colored woodcut of a Frederic Remington illustration

Plowing rice paddies with water buffalo
Using water buffalo to plow rice paddies in China. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

Ancient Egyptian agriculture
Farmers plowing, sowing, and harvesting grain in ancient Egypt. Engraving with a watercolor wash

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Loggers with an ordinary haul on an ox-drawn sledge, Minnesota, 1890s. Hand-colored halftone of a 19th-century photograph

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Pueblo farmer plowing the soil near Laguna Pueblo, New Mexico, 1800s. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

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

US soldiers in the Philippines after the Spanish-American War, 1899
Water-buffalo dragging guns of the US Armys Utah battery into position against Filipino insurgents, 1899. Hand-colored halftone reproduction of a 19th-century photograph

Mules towing a barge on the Erie Canal
Grain-boat towed by a mule team on the Erie Canal, 1800s. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

Los Angeles when a Mexican village
Mexican pulque carrier in Los Angeles, 1800s. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th century illustration

An outing on the Erie Canal in the early 1800s
Passengers enjoying a cruise on the Erie Canal, 1820s. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

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James A. Garfield as a boy, working as a mule rider towing a canal boat. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

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Miners digging and loading coal into an underground mule-drawn cart in Pennsylvania, 1860s. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

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Marco Polo transported in Kublai Khans elephant car during visit to China, 1200s. Hand-colored 19th-century woodcut reproduction of an earlier engraving

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Neighbors celebrating Christmas Eve with a sleigh ride, 1800s. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

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Farmer plowing sod with a team of horses, 1800s. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

Cotton-press, 1800s
African-American workers baling cotton in a cotton-press, 1800s. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

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Dogs pulling travois to carry water for Native American women, western plains. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

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Large team of oxen pulling a barn at a moving-bee, 1870s. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

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Clearing farmland in spring for planting, using ox and horse teams to plow and pull stumps. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

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Bringing tobacco to market in early Virginia. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

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African-American hauling baled cotton to market with a team of mules, 1800s. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

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