Oxen Gallery

GATL2A-00025

Ox-drawn wagons carrying harvested sugar cane on a Jamaica plantation, circa 1890.
Hand-colored halftone reproduction of a 19th-century illustration

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Freed slaves escaping after the Emancipation Proclamation

Freed Negroes coming into the Union lines at Newbern NC, after the Emancipation Proclamation, 1863.
Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

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Stockade which became Wall Street

Dutch colonists building the perimeter stockade which became Wall Street, Manhattan Island, 1650s.
Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

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