Dancing Gallery

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

BUSN2A-00166

French fur traders and Native Americans dancing at a rendezvous in the north woods.
Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

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NATI2A-00105

"The flyer" - a Native American shaman in Raleigh's Colony, 1500s.
Hand-colored woodcut reproduction of a John White illustration

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