Dance Gallery

BUSN2A-00105

Sailors "gamming" - talking and entertaining each other on a whaling-ship, 1800s.
Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

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1800s, 19th Century, American, Art, Crew, Dance, Deck, Folk Dance, Gamming, Historic, History, Illulstration, Maritime, Music, North America, Ocean, Recreation, Sail, Sailing, Sailor, Sea, Seaman, Ship, Story Teller, Transportation, Travel, United States, Us A, Vintage, Voyage, Whaler, Whaling

Slave family in colonial New York

Slave family making music in their cellar room of the Knickerbocker mansion, New York, 1700s.
Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

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1700s, 18th Century, African American, American, Art, Colonial, Colonial Life, Colonist, Colony, Cooking, Cookpot, Daily Life, Dance, Dancing, Domestic, Estate, Fiddle, Fire Place, Hearth, Heritage, Historic, History, Home, House, House Hold, Illustration, Kettle, Knickerbocker, Music, New York, North, North America, Northern, Servant, Sing, Singing, Slave, Slavery, Traditional, United States, Us A, Vintage, Violin

War dance

Native American war dance near the St. Lawrence River during the French and Indian War.
Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

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