Exploration Gallery

EXPL2A-00128

Landing of Jean Nicolet on the Wisconsin shore of Lake Michigan, 1634, the first European to reach that region.
Hand-colored halftone of a 19th-century illustration

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EXPL2A-00173

Spanish conquistador on a horse with foal - the origin of the horse in colonial America.
Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century Frederic Remington illustration

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EXPL2A-00168

William Clark's sketch of an evergreen shrub leaf in the Lewis and Clark expedition diary, 1806.
Hand-colored halftone reproduction of a 19th-century photograph of Clark's handwritten page

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