Dwelling Gallery

Slave couple marrying by jumping over a broom

Broomstick wedding ceremony of African-American slaves, from an eyewitness before the Civil War.
Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

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Apaches receiving beef rations from Indian agents at San Carlos Reservation, Arizona, 1890s.
Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century Frederic Remington illustration

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Cecil Rhodes in South Africa, 1900

Cecil John Rhodes, British colonial administrator, on his verandah near Cape Town, South Africa, c. 1900.
Hand-colored halftone reproduction of a photograph

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