Homemade Collection

Chinese Infernal Machines, 1857. Creator: Unknown
Chinese Infernal Machines, 1857....floated down at night with the view to blow the ship [H.M.S. Encounter] up...a sampan, towed by a canoe...The fuze was lighted in the bamboo tubes in the side...Two

Goat team, between 1910 and 1917. Creator: Harris & Ewing. Goat team, between 1910 and 1917. Creator: Harris & Ewing
Goat team, between 1910 and 1917. African American man with wagon pulled by goats

Orange packer of Sunkist oranges, self-built trailer, California, 1939. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Orange packer of Sunkist oranges. Self-built trailer. California

Cutting the pies and cakes at the barbeque dinner, Pie Town, New Mexico Fair, 1940. Creator: Russell Lee
Cutting the pies and cakes at the barbeque dinner, Pie Town, New Mexico Fair

Junior air raid warden, Washington, D. C. 1942. Creator: Gordon Parks
Washington, D.C. Junior air raid warden

Daughter of Negro tenant churning butter. Randolph County, North Carolina, 1939. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Daughter of Negro tenant churning butter. Randolph County, North Carolina

Pottery butter churn on porch of Negro tenant... Randolph County, North Carolina, 1939. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Pottery butter churn on porch of Negro tenant family. The churn is covered with a cloth to keep the flies out. Randolph County, North Carolina

Pottery butter churn on porch of Negro tenant family, Randolph County, N Carolina, 1939. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Pottery butter churn on porch of Negro tenant family. The churn is covered with a cloth to keep the flies out. Randolph County, North Carolina

Native of North Carolina, member of Wheeley Church... near Gordonton, North Carolina, 1939. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Native of North Carolina. Sunbonnet, and homemade old-fashioned knit gloves. This woman is a member of Wheeley Church congregation. Near Gordonton, North Carolina

Member of the congregation of Wheeleys church... near Gordonton, North Carolina, 1939. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Member of the congregation of Wheeleys church who is called " Queen." She is wearing the old fashioned type of sunbonnet. Her dress and apron were made at home

Baby with club feet wearing homemade splints, FSA camp, Tulare County, California, 1939. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Tulare County, California. In Farm Security Administration (FSA) camp for migratory workers. Baby with club feet wearing homemade splints inside shoes

Coverlet, c. 1941. Creator: Regina Henderer
Coverlet, c. 1941

Homemade Cloth, 1935 / 1942. Creator: Frank J Mace
Homemade Cloth, 1935/1942

Gourd head banjo, ca. 1859. Creator: Unknown
This gourd banjo illustrates an earlier style of banjo played by African Americans who used local sources to create their instruments

Bob and His Fiddle, 1876-1888. Creator: O. Pierre Havens
A stereograph titled " Bob and His Fiddle" printed and photographed by O. Pierre Havens of Savannah, Georgia. The albumen prints depict an African-American boy holding a homemade fiddle

Jenny Darney, A Remarkable Character in Cumberland, 1821. Creator: Robert Cooper
Jenny Darney, A Remarkable Character in Cumberland, 1821. Portrait of a pipe-smoking travelling eccentric who was well known in the southern part of the county of Cumberland...The country people knew

Boys playing with a home-made go-kart, Horley, Surrey, 1965

Boys playing with a home-made go-kart, Horley, Surrey, 1965

Boy driving a home-made go-kart, Horley, Surrey, 1965

British engineers with the Expeditionary Force making hand grenades out of tobacco tins, c1914. From The Manchester Guardian: History of the War, Vol. II.-1914-15. 1915

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