Missionary Gallery

PEXP2A-00059

Father Pierre Jean de Smet, a Jesuit missionary to Native Americans on the western US frontier, 1800s.
Hand colored woodcut of a 19th century photograph

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EXPL2A-00030

Missionary Father Valverde addresses the Inca king Atahualpa during the Spanish conquest of Peru, 1532.
Printed color lithograph of a 19th-century illustration

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Children at San Juan Bautista Mission, California, 1800s

Nuns leading Native American children into San Juan Bautista Mission, California, 1800s.
Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

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