Dress up: What Did People Wear?
See, hear, and learn what American men, women and children wore at different times in the past.
Wôbanaki Men’s Clothing from 1660
Colonial American Women’s Clothing from 1700
Colonial American Men’s Clothing from 1700
Wôbanaki Boys’ Clothing from 1700
Wôbanaki Girls’ Clothing from 1700
Wôbanaki Men’s Clothing from 1700
Wôbanaki Women’s Clothing from 1700
Colonial American Women’s Clothing from the 1770’s
Men’s Clothing from the 1770s
Colonial American Girl’s Clothing Around 1770
Wôbanaki Men’s Clothing from 1770
Wôbanaki Women’s Clothing from 1770
American Women’s Clothing from 1800
Wôbanaki Women’s Clothing from 1800
Wôbanaki Boys’ Clothing from 1800
American Women’s Clothing at 1860
American Men’s Clothing at 1860
American Girl’s Clothing at 1860
A Union Soldier’s Uniform from the Civil War, around 1865
American Women’s Clothing from 1900
American Men’s Clothing from 1900
American Girl’s Clothing at 1900
Magic Lens
Use the Magic Lens to reveal what the handwriting in old documents says.
First Person Oral Histories
Encounter history firsthand through stories told by people who lived and made it.
Tool Demos: How Did They Use That?
Watch these video demonstrations to see early American tools in action.
Carding Wool with Hand Cards
Churning Butter
Drilling Holes with Brace and Bit
Drilling with a Screw Auger
Loading and Firing a Flintlock Musket
Loading and Firing a Percussion Musket
Preparing Timber for Construction with Broad Axe and Adze
Shaping Wood with a Plane
Shaping Wood with Draw Knife and Shaving Horse
Spinning with a Great Wheel
Splitting Wood with a Froe
Threshing with a Flail
Weaving a Tape with a Tape Loom
Winding Yarn on a Niddy-Noddy
Winnowing with a Winnowing Basket
Historic Places: Explore Where People Lived
Explore this feature to learn more about the people of the past and the places they lived.
