French Canada Gallery

EXPL2A-00128

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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British army gathering to capture Quebec, 1759

General Wolfe assembling the British army on the Plains of Abraham to take Quebec, 1759.
Hand-colored halftone reproduction of a Frederic Remington illustration

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EXPL2A-00218

French missionary Louis Hennepin's map of the Mississippi River valley, Gulf Coast, and Great Lakes after LaSalle expeditions 1697.
Hand-colored 19th-century woodcut reproduction of part of Hennepin's original map

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