Outdoor Gallery

HOUS2A-00085

Boys playing sports, including bowling, spinning a top, stilts, and a swing, England, 1600s.
Hand-colored woodcut reproduction of a 17th-century illustration

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Independence Day festivities in New York City, 1834

Fourth of July celebration in New York City, looking south on Broadway from Cortlandt Street, 1834.
Hand-colored halftone reproduction of a 19th-century illustration

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Making soap

Woman making soft soap by hand with an outdoor kettle to render lard.
Hand-colored halftone reproduction of a photograph

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