Pioneer Gallery

First settlers of Hartford, Connecticut, 1636

Thomas Hooker's congregation migrates from Massachusetts to settle Hartford, Connecticut, 1636.
Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

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Explorers Meriwether Lewis and William Clark with their Native American guide Sacagawea.
Digital photograph of a bronze statue in Charlottesville Virginia

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General Wayne's victory at the Battle of Fallen Timbers, opening the Ohio Valley for settlers, 1794.
Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

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