Handicraft Collection

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

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Quilting party in western Virginia, 1850s. 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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Old-time shoemaker working outdoors. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

Making silk in early China
Silk-making in the early days of China. Hand-colored halftone reproduction of a 19th-century illustration

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Man weaving on a large hand-loom. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

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Old Knickerbocker family around the tea table, New York Colony, 1700s. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

Pioneer girl spinning
Pioneer woman at her spinning-wheel by the fireside. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

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Young girl learning to sew, frontier America. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

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Woman reenactor sewing, Yorktown battlefield, Virginia. Digital photograph

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Woman reenactor sewing, Yorktown battlefield, Virginia. Digital photograph

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Woman reenactor knitting at Yorktown battlefield, Virginia. Digital photograph

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Woman reenactor knitting at Yorktown battlefield, Virginia. Digital photograph

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Woman reenactor sewing at Yorktown battlefield, Virginia. Digital photograph

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African-American woman reenactor in a sewing circle at Yorktown, Virginia. Digital photograph

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Native woman spinning cotton in the ancient way, Mexico. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustratioin

Burmese women and a spinning wheel
Burmese woman spinning, another at a loom (left), and a woman (right) from Ava, former capital of Burma. Antique hand-colored print

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Chiefs throne inlaid with ebony and ivory, Cameroons. Printed color halftone reproduction of a photograph

Washington family at Mount Vernon
Domestic life at Mount Vernon, 1700s. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

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Cobblers tools at a reenactment at Yorktown battlefield, Virginia. Digital photograph

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Women decorating pottery on the roof of a Pueblo village, New Mexico. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

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Pueblo women firing pottery, New Mexico, 1800s. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

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Patriotic American colonial woman spinning to avoid importing British cloth before the Revolutionary War. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

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Women spinning with large wheels, 1800s. Hand colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

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Colonial spinning wheel. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

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Woman weaving on the porch of her Appalachian cabin, 1800s. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

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Ladies enjoying their sewing circle, 1800s. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

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Women sewing at home by light from a window. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

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Reenactors weaving on belt looms at a Revolutionary War reenactment, Yorktown battlefield, Virginia. Digital photograph

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Reenactor weaving on a belt loom at a Revolutionary War reenactment, Yorktown battlefield, Virginia. Digital photograph

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Weaving on a laptop hand-loom, Yorktown battlefield, Virginia. Digital photograph

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Womens sewing circle reenacted at Yorktown battlefield, Virginia. Digital photograph

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African-American woman reenactor sewing at Yorktown battlefield, Virginia. Digital photograph

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Woman reenactor knitting at Yorktown battlefield, Virginia. Digital photograph

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Woman reenactor knitting at Yorktown battlefield, Virginia. Digital photograph

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Knitting needles and handspun wool yarn at a Yorktown reenactment, Virginia. Digital photograph

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Knitting needles and handspun wool at a Yorktown reenactment, Virginia. Digital photograph

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Knitting needles and handspun wool at a Yorktown reenactment, Virginia. Digital photograph

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Knitting needles and handspun wool at a Yorktown reenactment, Virginia. Digital photograph

Norwegian immigrant homestead, Old World Wisconsin
Norwegian immigrant farm woman reenactor spinning wool in the Kvaale House, built circa 1848, at Old World Wisconsin, Eagle WI. Digital photograph

Handmade candles drying, Charles Towne Landing Historical Site, reconstructed settlement in South Carolina. Digital photograph

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A rural English cottage, with a woman spinning, a traveler, and a hunter, 1600s. Hand-colored 19th-century woodcut reproduction of a 17th-century illustration

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