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Milking on the Greene Farm

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Description: Barn interior on the Greene Farm with cows in stalls, with one man milking a cow, and another man standing and holding a bucket and milking stool.
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Howland House Kitchen Fireplace

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Description: View of kitchen fireplace in Howland House. The Howland House was built in 1667 and still stands. It is also known as the Jabez Howland House and is the on...
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Judson House Slave Kitchen

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Description: View of the slave kitchen in the Judson House. Built circa 1750 by Captain David Judson, the kitchen features a large brick hearth and fireplace with tools...
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Telfair Academy Kitchen

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Description: View of the old kitchen at the Telfair Academy. Room features a fireplace with cooking and other kitchen tools, a mantle with tableware and other small dec...
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Van Cortlandt House Colonial Kitchen

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Description: Interior view of the colonial kitchen at the Van Cortlandt house featuring simple wooden table and chairs, a large fireplace for cooking, cooking implemen...
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George Washington's Bedroom

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Description: General, and later president, George Washington's bedroom. Features room with a dresser, chairs, fireplace, and a canopied bed with side table.
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George Washington's Headquarters

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Description: General George Washington's Headquarters. Room features a table set as a desk and chairs, fireplace, and built in cabinet with china.
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Hammond-Hardwood House

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Description: The Hammond-Hardwood House's colonial kitchen features a fireplace with furniture surrounding it, a clock and candle holders atop the mantle, and lamps and...
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Farmhouse Kitchen

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Description: Interior of farmhouse kitchen featuring a fireplace for cooking, an adjacent brick oven, and a table in the center of the room set with metal dishes. Cooki...
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Fairlawn Home Kitchen

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Description: The Fairlawn home's colonial kitchen and fireplace. The view features a cooking fireplace with a built in oven, a spinning wheel, irons, fireplace tools, ...
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Fairlawn Home Dining Room

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Description: The Fairlawn home's colonial dining room. Features area rugs, a fireplace with hanging kettles, fireplace tools, displayed plates and figurines and a built...
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Set Dinner Table

Date: 1910
Description: View of small dining room, with a table set for dinner. The walls are decorated with posters and ceramics are on display throughout the room.
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Dining Room

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Description: Interior view of a dining room featuring table with a small sculpture in the center, rustic chairs, a screened in fireplace, decorative vases, flower arran...
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Painting of a Cook

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Description: Amateur painting by Eleanor R. Craighill. Representing a woman in an apron and hat polishing(?) a pot in front of the kitchen fireplace in the Governor's P...
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Basket Making

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Description: View of old man making baskets and an old woman sewing outside of a log cabin. Other handmade wooden items appear throughout the image and tools hang on th...
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Spinning Wool

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Description: View of woman sitting with spinning wheel, bulk wool and a yarn winder by a stone wall with a cooking fireplace in it. Plants grow on the ground nearby, th...
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Dining Room

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Description: A view of an early American dining room in Michie Tavern.
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New York State Reformatory

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Description: A view of the dining room. There is a utensil and plate at each seat, with cups and bowls grouped at the head of the table, with a large serving utensil. C...
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The Whitehall Hotel

Date: 1902
Description: Elevated view of tables in an arcade in the Whitehall Hotel. Each table is covered in cloth, set with plates and glassware, and decorated with a vase of fl...
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Broom and Wash-Basin

Date: 1920
Description: Unidentified man standing in (a farmyard?) with a broom and wash-basin.

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