The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Wood engraving of a seated woman in a bonnet reading a letter beside a window with a flower box, by Winslow Homer.

Engraving of fashionable pedestrians with parasols and top hats on a city street before a Laces and Fancy Goods shop.

Engraved print of families picnicking in woods, with children climbing oak trees and a couple seated near food.

Wood engraving of turkeys surrounding a farm wagon in a snowy yard, with boys and a man handling the birds beside a haystack.

Harper&#39;s Weekly engraving: turkeys and produce by a haystack above, family arriving at a snowy doorway below, 1858.

Engraving of a Thanksgiving dinner table with seated families and a servant, above a lower scene of a dance in a parlor.

Engraving of a Thanksgiving dinner table scene above and a dance in an ornate room with children and adults below.

Harper&#39;s Weekly page with Winslow Homer engravings: pedestrians battling March winds, and umbrellas on a rainy city street.

Wood engraving of pedestrians with umbrellas and billowing skirts on a rainy city street, beneath a &#39;MUSIC&#39; storefront sign.

Engraving of a crowded cadet dance at West Point, with uniformed cadets and women in long gowns dancing under chandeliers.

Wood engraving of a crowded farmhouse interior with people peeling apples, a dancing woman, children, and a fireplace.

Engraved scene of Civil War soldiers playing football in camp, with tangled players in the foreground and tents behind.

Engraving of fashionable spectators under an awning cheering as racehorses gallop across a field at Saratoga, 1865.

Wood engraving of a crowded 19th-century seashore with children in tide pools, women with parasols, a man holding a lobster,

Wood engraving of a crowded barn with people husking corn among heaps of husks, lit by hanging lanterns.

Engraved Harper&#39;s Weekly page: oxen hauling corn past a barn, and couples dancing in a crowded room after a husking.

Engraving of crowded ice skating scene with men in top hats, women in bonnets, a sled, and city buildings behind.

Wood engraving of horseback riders and children on a shaded country road, titled May-Day in the Country, April 1859.

Engraving of a family group reading a book in a dim interior, with an elderly woman standing with a cane at right.

Hand-colored 1786 caricature of a farm yard with a woman feeding pigs and fowl and a man in a blue coat beside a Man Traps si

Hand-colored print of a woman in a pink dress and white bonnet reclining on a green sofa, titled The Merry Thought.

Hand-colored print of a man in a wide-brimmed hat carrying a large green hatbox with frilled white fabric, 1787.

Hand-colored caricature of a woman in a yellow hat standing before an enormous tan fur muff on grass.

Pen and ink caricature of a figure in a pink dress and bonnet holding an open umbrella, walking across a field.

Pen and ink caricature of a dandy in a wide hat, frilled neckcloth, tailcoat and riding boots, holding a crop outdoors.

Hand-colored print of a dressed man with a cane and black hat beside a pink sofa, with a zebra picture on the wall.

Etched caricature of a long-haired man in profile wearing a tricorn hat and boots, carrying a walking stick over his shoulder

Etching of an exaggerated fashionable woman in a ruffled bonnet and gown, with a hatched landscape behind her.

Sepia satirical print of crowded gallery visitors with caricatured faces viewing framed paintings on the walls.

Caricature lithograph of a seated Japanese emperor refusing gifts from an American envoy, with ships and a cannon behind them