Road Gallery

Visitors arriving at the White House in carriages, 1870s

Winter carriage traffic at the White House the final days of the Grant Administration, 1877.
Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

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Village green in Concord, Massachusetts, 1830s

Center of Concord, showing the courthouse (left), church, and homes, circa 1830.
Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

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Tenochtitlan, capital city of Aztec Mexico, an Island connected by causeways to land, 1520s.
Hand-colored 19th-century woodcut reproduction of an early Spanish colonial map

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