Historical Collection

AGRI2A-00109
Sweet potato plant, a tropical vine with an edible tuberous root. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

AGRI2A-00054
African American slaves harvesting cane on a sugar plantation Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

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Black slaves harvesting sugar cane on a plantation in the US South, 1800s. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

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Coffee tree leaves, flowers, and fruit. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

AGRI2A-00124
Native workers harvesting coffee in Costa Rica, 1800s. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

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Rioters attack the Royal Palace during the French Revolution. Hand-colored engraving of a 19th century illustration

BUSN2A-00159
Making apple whiskey at a still in Rockland County New York, 1870s. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

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Power looms inside the Boott Cotton Mills, Lowell National Historical Park, Massachusetts. Photograph

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Slaters Mill, first US textile factory, Pawtucket, Rhode Island. Photograph

BUSN2P-00050
Textile mills along the Blackstone River, Pawtucket, Rhode Island. Photograph

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Spanish conquistador Juan Ponce de Leon. Hand-colored 19th-century woodcut reproduction of an earlier illustration

AGRI2A-00042
Cranberry bog pickers at work on Cape Cod, Massachusetts, 1890s. Hand-colored halftone reproduction of a photograph

EVCW2D-00119
Campfire cooking at a Confederate encampment living history demonstration, Shiloh National Military Park, Tennessee. Digital photograph of a living history demonstration on the Shiloh battlefield

BUSN2A-00064
Shah Allum, Mogul of Hindostan, reviewing troops of the British East India Company, 1781. Hand-colored woodcut

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African-American woman carrying sheaves on a rice plantation. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

William Johnson portrait
William Johnson, British colonial administrator of Indian affairs, 1700s. Photogravure reproduction of a portrait painting

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