Jamestown Gallery

Starving colonists at Jamestown

Jamestown colonists dealing out the last kernels of corn during the Starving Time, 1609-1610.
Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

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PEXP2D-00022

Statue of John Smith, at the original site of Jamestown, Virginia.
Photograph of a bronze memorial statue in Colonial National Historical Park

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EXPL2A-00237

Title page of John Smith's book, "A True Relation... in Virginia... " 1608.
Hand-colored 19th-century reproduction of the original document

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