Foot Travel Gallery

Freed slaves escaping after the Emancipation Proclamation

Freed Negroes coming into the Union lines at Newbern NC, after the Emancipation Proclamation, 1863.
Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

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Ancestral Puebloan/Anasazi women carrying water in pots up to a mesa top.
Hand-colored halftone reproduction of a 19th-century illustration

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Arctic explorer Robert Peary meeting the Relief Expedition on the Greenland Ice-cap, August 5, 1892.
Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

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