Chore Collection

Churning milk to make butter
Girl working a churn on a spring morning. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

Nantucket fishing village in the 1800s
Pony cart hauling water in Siasconset village, Nantucket Island, 1870s. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

Quaker women spinning in church
Quaker ladies doing their chores while at worship services. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

Dutch colonists in early New Amsterdam
Dutch settlers outdoors along the Battery, New Amsterdam, 1600s. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th century illustration

Natives gathering food in Florida, 1500s
Florida Native Americans gathering crocodiles, fish, and other wild animals and plants, 1591. Hand-colored Debry engraving of a LeMoyne painting

Dutch canal and tow-path, 1800s
Dog-cart with fresh vegetables and people towing a barge along a Dutch canal, 1800s. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

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Pair of horses pulling a plow - calendar illustration for the month of March. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

Putting in seed on a bonanza farm, 1800s
Seeding grain on a bonanza farm, North Dakota, early 1890s. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

Italian cooks preparing a meal, 1500s
Cooks preparing food in an Italian kitchen, 1500s. Hand-colored 19th-century woodcut reproduction of an earlier illustration

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French-Canadian woman baking bread in an outdoor oven, circa 1900. Hand-colored halftone reproduction of a turn-of-the-century illustration

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New England colonial couple in farmhouse dooryard, late 1600s. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

Erie Canal boats wintering in New York harbor
Erie Canal boats anchored for the winter at the East River docks, New York City, 1880s. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

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

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Quilting party in western Virginia, 1850s. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

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Young Dutch woman gathering cabbages in a basket, 1800s. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th century illustration

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Milking-time in a dairy barn, 1870s. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

Washboard for scrubbing laundry in the 1800s
Woman reenactor doing laundry with a washboard, living history demonstration, Shiloh National Military Park, Tennessee. Digital photograph

Oregon Trail wagons camping for the night
Pioneers camp at sunset along the Oregon Trail, 1850s. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

Settlers plumping mill for grinding corn
Frontier settlers plumping mill for grinding corn. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

Italian immigrants tenement in New York City, 1870s
Ragpickers Court on Mulberry Street in the Italian neighborhood, New York City, 1870s. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

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Weaver at his loom in Europe, 1600s. Hand-colored engraving of a 17th-century illustration by J. Amman

Seamstress, 1800s
Woman sewing to earn money at home, 1800s. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

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Woman stitching a patchwork quilt, 1800s. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

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Young Puritan woman reading while spinning at her wheel. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

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Outdoor kitchen in a Jamaica town, 1890s. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

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Plum pudding served for a frontier familys Christmas dinner, 1800s. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration by A.B. Frost

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Family waiting for roast pig and a pot of food cooking for Christmas dinner. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

Colonial boy learning to read at home
Grandmother teaching a child to read in colonial America. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

Hay harvest, 1800s
Farmers haying, a calendar illustration for June, 1850s. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th century illustration

A hay ride, 1800s
Children riding atop a hay wagon pulled by a pair of horses, 1800s. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

Sulky plow, 1800s
Farmer riding a sulky plow drawn by a pair of horses, circa 1890. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

Scots housewife preparing haggis, 1800s
Chopping the ingredients for haggis in Scotland, 1800s Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century E. A. Abbey illustration

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Mexican women making tortillas, 1800s. Color lithograph reproduction of a 19th-century illustration

Georgia Cracker family tending their cookpot, 1890s
Cracker women cooking outside their poor, rural cabin in Georgia, late 1800s. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

Country life in medieval Europe
Country life in France in the late Middle Ages. Hand-colored 19th-century woodcut reproduction of a 1517 edition of Virgil published in Lyons

Union soldiers at Camp Cameron, Civil War
Soldiers of the Seventh New York Regiment around a campfire at Camp Cameron, Washington DC. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

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African-American boy reading to his family of former slaves, 1870s. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

Slaves husking corn on a plantation
Slaves social gathering at a plantation corn-husking, 1800s. Hand-colored halftone of a 19th-century illustration

Slave cabin on a southern plantation
Slave family outside their cabin on a southern plantation. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

Greek women at their household chores
Women occupied with sewing, spinning, and other household chores in ancient Greece. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

Benjamin Franklin as a boy in Boston
Young Ben Franklin with his family in Boston. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

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Young Abe Lincoln cutting wood for his mother at their Indiana log cabin. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

Pioneer woman cooking outside a log cabin on the banks of the Susquehanna River, Pennsylvania. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

Homesteaders in the Rocky Mountains
Pioneer familys homestead in the far west. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

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Paleo-Indian caribou hunters. Photograph of a Maine State Museum diorama

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Paleo-Indian caribou hunters. Photograph of a Maine State Museum diorama

Pueblo women in New Mexico
Pueblo Indian women drawing water from the Rio Grande in New Mexico. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

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Meat strips drying to make " jerky" outside a tepee on the plains. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

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