Diplomacy Gallery

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Us Navy squadron commanded by Matthew Perry sailing for Japan, 1852: USS Susquehannah, Saratoga, St Mary's, a supply ship, Plymouth, Perry in rowboat, Mississippi, and Princeton (left to right).
Hand-colored woodcut of an 1850s illustration

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Congress of Vienna, ending the Napoleonic Wars, 1814-1815

European statesmen meeting at the Congress of Vienna to close the Napoleonic Wars, 1815.
Hand-colored engraving reproduction of a 19th-century painting

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Marco Polo transported in Kublai Khan's elephant car during visit to China, 1200s.
Hand-colored 19th-century woodcut reproduction of an earlier engraving

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