Town Gallery

EXPL2A-00139

Timbuktu in Africa, as drawn by Rene-Auguste Caillie, the first European visitor, 1828.
Hand-colored 19th-century woodcut reproduction of Caillie's illustration

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Bakers at their trade in the late Middle Ages

Bakers of York, showing their guild ordinances, England, 1590s.
Hand-colored 19th-century woodcut reproduction of an earlier illustration

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Washington DC and the original Capitol building, 1810

Washington DC from Capitol Hill in 1810, and an inset view (upper right) of the original Capitol (which burned in 1814).
Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

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