Women Gallery

Medieval rose garden

Garden with roses enclosed by a wattle fence, from Boccacio's "Cento Norelle," 1490.
Hand-colored woodcut reproductioin of a 15th century illustration

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1400s, 15th Century, Art, Boccacio, Country Side, Europe, European, Female, Fence, Flower Garden, Flower Garden Rose Garden, Heritage, Historic, History, Illustration, Ladies, Lady, Medieval, Middle Ages, Rose, Rural, Traditional, Vintage, Wattle, Wattle Fence, Woman, Women

HOUS2A-00141

French-Canadian woman baking bread in an outdoor oven, circa 1900.
Hand-colored halftone reproduction of a turn-of-the-century illustration

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1800s, 1900s, 19th Century, 20th Century, Apron, Art, Bake, Baker, Baking, Bread, Canada, Canadian, Chore, Cook, Cooking, Female, Food, French Canada, French Canadian, Historic, History, Home, Home Made, House, House Wife, Illustration, North America, Outdoor, Outdoors, Oven, Quebec, Traditional, Vintage, Woman, Women

Italian immigrants tenement in New York City, 1870s

Ragpickers Court on Mulberry Street in the Italian neighborhood, New York City, 1870s.
Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

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1800s, 1870s, 19th Century, American, Apartment, Art, Child, Children, Chore, City, Conversation, Crowded, Daily Life, District, East Side, Ethnic, Ethnic Neighborhood, Extended Family, Family, Female, Heritage, Historic, History, Home, House, Illustration, Immigrant, Immigrants, Italian, Laundry, Life Style, Little Italy, Male, Man, Manhattan, Men, Mulberry Street, Neighborhood, New York, New York City, North America, Poor, Poverty, Slum, Talk, Talking, Tenement, Traditional, United States, Urban, Us A, Vintage, Wash, Washin G, Woman, Women