Buffalo Gallery

Entrance to the Erie Canal at Buffalo, New York, 1880s

Lake Erie freighters and Erie Canal barges along the waterfront of Buffalo, New York, 1880s.
Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

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Great Falls on the Missouri River

Bison overlooking the Great Falls of the Missouri River, Montana, before settlement.
Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

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EXPL2A-00244

Possibly the earliest engraving of an American buffalo, 1558 - first mentioned by Cabeza de Vaca.
Hand-colored 19th-century woodcut reproduction of the original 16th-century engraving

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