17th Century Gallery

Hannah Duston escapes from capture by Native Americans

Hannah Duston and two other captives escaping from Abenaki Indians on the Merrimac River, New Hampshire, 1697.
Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

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La Fontaine, Moliere, Racine, and other French writers, 1600s

Conversation among French authors La Fontaine, Boileau, Moliere, and Racine.
Hand-colored woodcut reproduction of a 19th-century illustration

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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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