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A woman wearing a white cook’s hat frosts a cake in the middle of a 1930s professional bakery kitchen.

A Bakery for the Modern Women of 1930s Wilmington

This oval embroidery in a wooden frame shows a young boy and girl in an open doorway. The girl is seated facing outward toward the landscape and working on sewing cabbage nets. A boy leans against her chair, gazing at her work while holding a bowl and spoon. At their feet is a dog and a basket of yarn.

The Industrious Cottager: Salacious, or Simply Hard at Work?

Ink engraving on paper showing a woman with a feathered headdress, nude above the waist, sitting on an oversized armadillo, carrying a bow and an axe. In the background are two armies battling one another and three cannibals cooking human limbs over a fire.

Two Artists and an Armadillo in Antwerp

A large piece of gridded paper with an in-progress drawing of a floor plan of a church. A triangular architect scale rests on top.

Going to Church: Documentation of Historic Structures

Pressed glass jar with engraved metal lid, stand, and tongs with talon grabbers and an eagle’s head hook.

Fermentation Frenzy

A youth in a classical robe and with black, curly hair looks up and over their shoulder to the left. The image is made of red, black, and white lines suggesting colored chalk.

François Boucher, Two Ways

Battle scene showing the death of a general with figures surrounding him.

America’s First Drawing School: A Scrapbook Set to Inspire Students

A photograph of a white porcelain rooster with its beak open.

The Many Iterations of a Much Beloved Form

A hand-colored etching by George Cruikshank depicts the fight between Tom Molineaux, depicted on the left, and Tom Cribb, depicted on the right. They stand with fists raised ready to fight and are surrounded by five men in the ring. In the background a massive crowd come to watch the match is visible.

The Remarkable Career of Tom Molineaux

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