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Background imageWork Collection: Catching a jumping fire victim, circa 1900

Catching a jumping fire victim, circa 1900
Fire victim jumping from a burning building into firemens life-net, circa 1900. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

Background imageWork Collection: PPRE2A-00221

PPRE2A-00221
George Washington as a surveyor in Virginia. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th century illustration

Background imageWork Collection: Blacksmith shop

Blacksmith shop
Blacksmith and his apprentices at their forge. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

Background imageWork Collection: Coal mine disaster in England, 1860s

Coal mine disaster in England, 1860s
Volunteers lowered into a coal mine to attempt rescue of trapped miners in England, 1860s. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

Background imageWork Collection: Iroquois with his ox-drawn timber cargo

Iroquois with his ox-drawn timber cargo
Iroquois man transporting cut timber by ox-drawn sledge, 1890s. Hand-colored halftone reproduction of a 19th-century illustration

Background imageWork Collection: NATI2A-00020

NATI2A-00020
Zuni family planting their crops, New Mexico. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

Background imageWork Collection: PBIB2A-00072

PBIB2A-00072
King Hiram of Tyre brings men to help the Israelites cut cedars to build Solomons temple. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

Background imageWork Collection: HOUS2A-00011

HOUS2A-00011
Man weaving on a large hand-loom. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

Background imageWork Collection: GATL2A-00025

GATL2A-00025
Ox-drawn wagons carrying harvested sugar cane on a Jamaica plantation, circa 1890. Hand-colored halftone reproduction of a 19th-century illustration

Background imageWork Collection: GATL2A-00026

GATL2A-00026
Ripe bananas brought to the wharf, Annatto Bay, Jamaica, 1880s. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

Background imageWork Collection: GATL2A-00036

GATL2A-00036
Natives loading a schooner with coconuts at Kingston, Jamaica. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

Background imageWork Collection: AGRI2A-00124

AGRI2A-00124
Native workers harvesting coffee in Costa Rica, 1800s. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

Background imageWork Collection: GEUR2A-00055

GEUR2A-00055
Russian peasant women at work, carrying large stones on a litter. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

Background imageWork Collection: AGRI2A-00030

AGRI2A-00030
Asian workers curing raisins in the vineyards of California, 1890s. Hand-colored engraving of a 19th-century illustration

Background imageWork Collection: AGRI2A-00001

AGRI2A-00001
American farm family gathering pumpkins and husking maize, 1800s. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

Background imageWork Collection: Father and son plowing a field

Father and son plowing a field
Farm boy leading a team of horses while his father steers the plow. Hand-colored halftone reproduction of an illustration

Background imageWork Collection: AGRI2A-00107

AGRI2A-00107
Farmer plowing sod with a team of horses, 1800s. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

Background imageWork Collection: Apple pickers

Apple pickers
Young woman carrying a basket of apples from an orchard. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

Background imageWork Collection: AGRI2A-00085

AGRI2A-00085
Farm women pouring milk into a churn in dairy barn. Hand-colored engraving of a 19th-century illustration

Background imageWork Collection: Cotton-press, 1800s

Cotton-press, 1800s
African-American workers baling cotton in a cotton-press, 1800s. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

Background imageWork Collection: HOUS2A-00095

HOUS2A-00095
Arab bakers at their bread oven in Cairo, Egypt, 1880s. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

Background imageWork Collection: Fish market at a Norwegian port, 1880s

Fish market at a Norwegian port, 1880s
Fishermen selling their fresh cod in Bergen, Norway, 1880s. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

Background imageWork Collection: EVCW2A-00049

EVCW2A-00049
Nurse treating a wounded soldier in a Civil War hospital. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th century illustration

Background imageWork Collection: Knitting mill workers

Knitting mill workers
Workers at their machines in a knitting mill, 1800s. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

Background imageWork Collection: Textile workers collecting their pay, 1890s

Textile workers collecting their pay, 1890s
Payday in the weaving department of a textile mill, 1890s. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th century illustration

Background imageWork Collection: BUSN2A-00231

BUSN2A-00231
Interior view of the salt-works in West Virginia. 1850s. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th century illustration

Background imageWork Collection: Boston hat and fur store, 1850s

Boston hat and fur store, 1850s
Hat and fur store of Klous & Company, Court Street, Boston, 1850s. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

Background imageWork Collection: BUSN2A-00257

BUSN2A-00257
Girl throwing clay to drive out air in a pottery factory, Trenton New Jersey, 1870s. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

Background imageWork Collection: BUSN2A-00004

BUSN2A-00004
Textile workers in a northern mill, mid-1800s. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

Background imageWork Collection: BUSN2A-00042

BUSN2A-00042
Lowell girls weaving in Massachusetts textile mills, 1850s. Hand-colored engraving of a 19th-century illustration

Background imageWork Collection: Dry-goods sales room in Boston, 1850s

Dry-goods sales room in Boston, 1850s
Second floor of Driggss Lace & Bonnet store in Boston, 1852. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

Background imageWork Collection: Irish farmers harrowing poor soil, 1800s

Irish farmers harrowing poor soil, 1800s
Irish family harrowing rocky soil on a mountain farm in County Mayo, 1800s. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th century illustration

Background imageWork Collection: Street vendor in London, 1800s

Street vendor in London, 1800s
Peddler on a street in London, 1800s. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century Gustave Dore illustration

Background imageWork Collection: AGRI2A-00006

AGRI2A-00006
White overseer with African-American field-hands cutting sugar-cane, 1800s Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

Background imageWork Collection: AGRI2A-00014

AGRI2A-00014
Picking cotton on a plantation in the Deep South, 1800s. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

Background imageWork Collection: AGRI2A-00115

AGRI2A-00115
African-American slave with bag of picked cotton, US South, 1800s. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

Background imageWork Collection: AGRI2A-00129

AGRI2A-00129
African-American field-hands picking cotton, late 1800s. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

Background imageWork Collection: Hebrew captives carrying bricks in ancient Egypt

Hebrew captives carrying bricks in ancient Egypt
Slaves carrying bricks for buildings in ancient Egypt. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

Background imageWork Collection: Slaves milling grain in ancient Pompeii

Slaves milling grain in ancient Pompeii
Slaves grinding grain in a bakery in ancient Pompeii. Hand-colored woodcut of a 9th-century illustration

Background imageWork Collection: HUSG2A-00014

HUSG2A-00014
Chinese-American pharmacist weighing medicines in a Chinatown drugstore, San Francisco, 1890s Hand-colored halftone reproduction of a 19th-century illustration

Background imageWork Collection: GAFR2A-00048

GAFR2A-00048
Prospectors working the diamond diggings near Colesberg, South Africa, 1872. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

Background imageWork Collection: GAFR2A-00053

GAFR2A-00053
Native workers descending into a diamond mine near Johannesburg, South Africa, 1890s. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th century illustration

Background imageWork Collection: Railroad blocked by snow in the Rockies

Railroad blocked by snow in the Rockies
Digging out a railroad snowed under in Colorado, 1880s. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

Background imageWork Collection: Railroad tunnel under construction

Railroad tunnel under construction
Portal of a railroad tunnel under construction, 1800s. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

Background imageWork Collection: Digging a railroad tunnel

Digging a railroad tunnel
Workers building a railroad tunnel, 1800s. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

Background imageWork Collection: Danger ahead for a steam locomotive

Danger ahead for a steam locomotive
Flagger warning a railroad crew to brake for danger ahead on the tracks. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

Background imageWork Collection: BUSN2A-00050

BUSN2A-00050
Boott Cotton Mills on the Merrimac River in Lowell, Massachusetts, 1850s. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

Background imageWork Collection: BUSN2A-00222

BUSN2A-00222
Nevada silver miners changing the shift, 1870s. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration



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