Shore Collection

Colonial family banished from Puritan Massachusetts, 1600s
Punishing heretics by exiling them from Massachusetts Bay Colony, 1600s. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

Newport, Rhode Island, beach scene, 1870s
Summer residents enjoying the beach in Newport, Rhode Island, 1870s. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

Sailing ships in the Spice Islands
Volcano on Tidore in the Moluccas, seen from the neighboring island of Ternate, 1800s. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

Cape Cod wilderness as the Pilgrims found it
Wooded shore of Cape Cod before the Plymouth colonists arrived. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

Coney Island beach lit by electric light, 1880s
Swimming by electric light at Coney Island, New York, 1880s. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

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Native Americans around a fire on the Virginia/North Carolina coast, 1500s. Hand-colored woodcut reproduction of an illustration from Hariot

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Native village of Warus-Warus, Ceram, in the Moluccas (Spice Islands). Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

Beach at Trouville-sur-Mer, France
Vacationers on the beach at Trouville-sur-Mer, northwest coast of France, early 1900s. Printed color halftone reproduction of a contemporary illustration

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Cluricauns of Irish folklore leading a traveler astray. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

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Fashionable young women driving a carriage on the beach, 1880s. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

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Carolina colonists fleeing in canoes from a Native American attack. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

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The way the Indians fished, using spears and dugout canoes, Virginia Colony, 1500s Hand-colored woodcut reproduction of a John White illustration

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Outrigger canoes at a native village in the Nicobar Islands, Bay of Bengal, 1800s. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19-century illustration

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Young woman relaxing on the beach, 1890s. Color lithograph reproduction of a 19th-century illustration

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Hungry Irish people gathering seaweed for food, coast of County Clare, 1800s. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

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