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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Bacons Rebellion in Jamestown, Virginia, 1676

Governor Berkeley facing angry colonists during Bacon's Rebellion in Jamestown, 1676.
Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

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Chief Powhatan of Virginia, father of Pocahontas, 1607.
Hand-colored woodcut reproduction from John Smith's account, "The Generall Historie of Virginia..." 1624

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