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| Thomas Barker Tile Makers 1803 lithograph National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa |
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| Anonymous Photographer Carpenter holding Folding Rule ca. 1845 hand-colored tintype National Museum of American History, Washington DC |
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| Auguste Delâtre after Jean-François Millet The Gleaners ca. 1855 etching Dallas Museum of Art |
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| Edward von Steinle Reaper 1867 graphite and gouache on paper Städel Museum, Frankfurt |
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| Camille Pissarro The Maidservant ca. 1875 oil on canvas Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, Virginia |
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| Paul Gauguin Breton Women Haymaking (series, Joies de Bretagne) 1889 lithograph British Museum |
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| Kenyon Cox Home-Study-Magazine-for-Machinists . . . 1898 lithograph (magazine cover) Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum |
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| Anonymous Photographer Gardeners bedding-out plants in parterre at Elizabeth Park - Hartford, Connecticut ca. 1910 lantern slide Archives of American Gardens, Washington DC |
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| David McCosh Woman Ironing 1931 oil on canvas Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC |
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| Walker Evans Truck Drivers, New York City ca. 1934 gelatin silver print Moderna Museet, Stockholm |
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| Leroy Flint Shovelers 1937 etching (WPA project) Art Institute of Chicago |
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| Seymour Fogel Industrial Life 1941 tempera on paper (study for WPA mural) Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC |
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| Anonymous Printmaker Look 'em over ca. 1942 lithograph (poster) (issued by War Production Co-ordinating Committee) National Museum of American History, Washington DC |
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| William H. Johnson Woman Ironing 1944 oil on panel Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC |
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| Joel Sternfeld Egg Harbor, New Jersey 1972 inkjet print Whitney Museum of American Art, New York |
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| Bruce McKaig Dressed for School ca. 1995 hand-colored stereoview photograph National Museum of American History, Washington DC |
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| Caroline Walker Measuring 2019 oil on canvas Kunstmuseum, The Hague |
Clearista
For Death, not for Love, hast thou
Loosened thy zone!
Flutes filled thy bower but now,
Morning brings moan!
Maids round thy bridal bed
Maids round thy bridal bed
Hushed are in gloom,
Torches to Love that led
Light to the tomb.
– Meleager (140-70 BC), translated by Andrew Lang (1887)