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Background imageWork Collection: Pittsburgh coke ovens, 1880s

Pittsburgh coke ovens, 1880s
Steel workers at the Pittsburgh coke ovens, showing their dwellings on the hilltop, 1880. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

Background imageWork Collection: BUSN2A-00070

BUSN2A-00070
MIll worker tending mule-spinners, an industrial textile machine, 1800s. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th century illustration

Background imageWork Collection: BUSN2A-00063

BUSN2A-00063
Early logging in the White Mountains of Maine or New Hampshire. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

Background imageWork Collection: BUSN2A-00046

BUSN2A-00046
Women garment workers in the dressmaking department of a factory, about 1890. Hand-colored engraving of a 19th-century illustration

Background imageWork Collection: GGBR2A-00011

GGBR2A-00011
Barefoot Irish peat-gatherers on the moors, 1800s. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

Background imageWork Collection: BUSN2A-00071

BUSN2A-00071
Women screening coal coming out of a mine in England, 1800s. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

Background imageWork Collection: BUSN2A-00115

BUSN2A-00115
Whimsey engine drawing coal in the Staffordshire mines, England, 1850s. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

Background imageWork Collection: HUSG2A-00015

HUSG2A-00015
African-American man collecting pay for cotton delivered in Austin, Texas, 1870s. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

Background imageWork Collection: HUSG2A-00009

HUSG2A-00009
African-American workers collecting pay after harvesting strawberries in Virginia during Reconstruction. 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: HUSG2A-00028

HUSG2A-00028
African-American oyster peddler in Baltimore, 1880s. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

Background imageWork Collection: BUSN2A-00164

BUSN2A-00164
Weaving at Spitalfields, England, 1700s. Hand-colored engraving from a Hogarth illustration

Background imageWork Collection: AGRI2A-00121

AGRI2A-00121
Slaves bringing in loads of cotton after a days picking, early 1800s. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

Background imageWork Collection: AGRI2A-00008

AGRI2A-00008
African-American slaves unloading rice barges in South Carolina 1800s Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

Background imageWork Collection: AGRI2A-00010

AGRI2A-00010
African-American slaves returning from the fields at twilight on a sugar plantation, 1800s. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th century illustration

Background imageWork Collection: AGRI2A-00035

AGRI2A-00035
African American slaves picking baling and ginning cotton by steam Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

Background imageWork Collection: AGRI2A-00044

AGRI2A-00044
African-American woman carrying sheaves on a rice plantation. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

Background imageWork Collection: AGRI2A-00079

AGRI2A-00079
Plantation slaves loading rice to a barge on the Savannah River on the Georgia South Carolina border 1800s. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

Background imageWork Collection: AGRI2A-00114

AGRI2A-00114
Slaves bringing in the cotton harvest. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

Background imageWork Collection: AGRI2A-00146

AGRI2A-00146
African-American field hands hooking up sugar cane in Louisiana, 1800s. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century Kemble illustration

Background imageWork Collection: AGRI2A-00131

AGRI2A-00131
Bringing tobacco to market in early Virginia. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

Background imageWork Collection: AGRI2A-00127

AGRI2A-00127
African-American hauling baled cotton to market with a team of mules, 1800s. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

Background imageWork Collection: Building the Great Pyramid of Cheops

Building the Great Pyramid of Cheops
Pharaoh Khufu (Cheops) supervising construction of the Great Pyramid. Hand-colored halftone reproduction of a 19th-century illustration

Background imageWork Collection: Canal pilot on the Erie Canal

Canal pilot on the Erie Canal
" Buffalo Jack, " a canal-boat pilot on the Erie Canal, 1800s. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

Background imageWork Collection: HUSG2A-00013

HUSG2A-00013
Chinese merchant and accountant in San Francisco, circa 1890. Hand-colored halftone reproduction of a photograph

Background imageWork Collection: PREV2A-00088

PREV2A-00088
Ben Franklin arriving in Philadelphia as a young man looking for work. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration



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