Graphics Database
Old Sturbridge Village has a significant collection of period graphics images a portion of which has been scanned and is made available online. To browse the graphics collection, click on a subject below or enter a search term in the box above. Important Terms of Use: Old Sturbridge Village retains the copyright for these graphic images. The images may be used or reproduced for non-commercial personal or educational use only. Any other use requires the explicit permission of Old Sturbridge Village.
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| Agriculture & Horticulture | Farming, farm work, crops, livestock, farm tools and implements, gardens, gardening. (114 images) |
| Architecture | Houses and housing, outbuildings, style, construction, paint and decoration, architects and builders. (31 images) |
| Art & Artists | Paintings, watercolors, silhouettes, drawings, engravings. Makers, production, distribution, ownership, economics. (10 images) |
| Books, Literacy & Reading | Literacy, reading, book ownership, printing and publishing. (11 images) |
| Children | Childbirth, child rearing and child-rearing advice, motherhood, discipline, work, play, toys. (45 images) |
| Clothing & Dress | Clothing, accoutrements, fashion, dressmaking, tailoring, millinery (87 images) |
| Community Life | Neighborhoods, visiting, voluntary associations, social structure and inequality, care of the poor and disabled, taverns and inns, town government, militia. (9 images) |
| Crafts & Trades | Blacksmithing, coopering, pottery, printing, shoemaking, tinning, cabinetmaking, carpentry. Apprenticeship and shop practices. Tools, products and economic patterns. (56 images) |
| Economic Life | Commerce and storekeeping, economic exchange, markets, prices, standard of living, money and banking. (25 images) |
| Education | Students, teachers, schoolhouses, instruction and discipline, schoolbooks, academies, colleges. (51 images) |
| European Scenes and Views | (25 images) |
| Family Life | Childbirth, child rearing,, motherhood, fatherhood,power and authority in the family; women (34 images) |
| Food & Foodways | Food preparation and preservation, diet, cookery and recipes, drinks and beverages, drinking, table manners and customs, utensils and equipment. (9 images) |
| Fruit, Flowers and Herbs | (264 images) |
| Furniture & Furnishings | Furniture, curtains, floor coverings, wallpaper. Makers, style, production, distribution and consumption. (142 images) |
| Health, Illness & Medicine | Diseases, healing practices, practitioners, Indian healers, dentists and dentistry, medical training, unorthodox medicine,phrenology, patent medicines, medical implements. Also: mortality, life expectancy, funeral customs and practices. (35 images) |
| Landscape & Environment | Land use, environmental practices and regulations, fencing, landscape aesthetics, settlement pattern. (4 images) |
| Leisure and Recreation | Sports, games, pastimes, entertainers and entertainments, frolics, huskings, raisings and other parties. (53 images) |
| Manners & Customs | Bathing and cleanliness, etiquette, ritual observances, holidays, celebrations, posture and body language, personal appearance and grooming, speech and dialect. (21 images) |
| Maps | (50 images) |
| Migration & Population | Growth of population; westward migration from New England; population movement within New England; European immigration to New England; the immigrant Irish in New England. (5 images) |
| Mills & Waterpower | Waterwheels: dams; carding, saw, fulling and grist mills; millwrights and millers. Design, construction, operation, and economics. (41 images) |
| Music & Dance | Instrumental and vocal music, sacred and secular: music and dance instruction; composers, performers, instruments, music books. (29 images) |
| OSV Collections and Manuscripts | Old Sturbridge Village museum collections,studies of objects (79 images) |
| People of Color | Life and culture of Native American and African American people in New England. (8 images) |
| Pets and Animals | (20 images) |
| Politics and Law | Parties, elections, events and issues, wars, presidents and other political figures, federal and state government statutes, courts, justices of the peace, lawyers, legal education and practice, crime and punishment (4 images) |
| Reform Movements | Temperance, Antislavery, Women's Rights. (45 images) |
| Religion | Religious denominations; ministers and priests; beliefs and practices; worship; churches and meetinghouses. (15 images) |
| Textiles | Quilts, samplers, embroideries, household textiles. Makers, production and ownership. (4 images) |
| Tools & Technology | Tools and machines of trades, crafts, manufacturing & agricultural implements and equipment (22 images) |
| Travel & Transportation | Travel, roads and turnpikes, canals, railways, vehicles, economics of transportation , communications, postal system. (21 images) |
| Views of Cities and Towns | (69 images) |
| Women’s Life and Work | Status, social, cultural and economic roles of women; housework; dairying; textile production; sewing; dressmaking and millinery; household outwork (5 images) |
| Youth / Courtship & Marriage | Youth (adolescence), apprenticeship, working out, other work training, choosing work, courtship & marriage. (15 images) |