New England Gallery

Hannah Duston escapes from capture by Native Americans

Hannah Duston and two other captives escaping from Abenaki Indians on the Merrimac River, New Hampshire, 1697.
Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

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Lobster boat off the Atlantic coast of Maine and Canada

Lobster fishermen in the Grand Manan Channel between Maine and New Brunswick, 1890s.
Hand-colored halftone reproduction of a 19th-century illustration

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Deacon Giless Distillery temperance cartoon, 1830s

"Bringing back the rum," temperance cartoon showing liquor barrels labeled with forms of death, Salem, Massachusetts.
Hand-colored woodcut from an 1830s temperance pamphlet

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