Expedition Gallery

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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Mariana Islands in the Pacific discovered by Magellan, 1521

The Ladrones, later called the Marianas, and a native outrigger drawn by Pigafetta on the Magellan expedition, 1521.
Hand-colored woodcut reproduction of a 16th-century illustration

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EXPL2A-00269

Meriwether Lewis and William Clark expedition losing notes and specimens in a canoe accident on the upper Missouri River.
Hand-colored woodcut reproduction of sketch by Patrick Goss, a member of the Corps of Discovery 1804-1806

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