Grain Gallery

Lake Erie grain boat in a snowstorm

Steamship carrying grain on Lake Erie in a snowstorm, headed for Buffalo, New York, 1880s.
Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

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Grain barges leaving Chicago for the Erie Canal

Barges loaded with grain from Chicago bound for the Erie Canal, under tow on Lake Michigan, 1870s.
Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

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George Washington and the Custis children with Afroamerican field hands at Mount Vernon.
Hand-colored engraving of a 19th-century illustration

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