Sail Boat Gallery

Pharos, the lighthouse of ancient Alexandria

Harbor and lighthouse of ancient Alexandria, a great center of Hellenistic culture and trade.
Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

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Charleston, South Carolina, 1700s

Port of Charleston, South Carolina, before the American Revolution.
Hand-colored 19th-century halftone reproduction of an illustration

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French colonists building a ship, South Carolina, 1560s

Shipbuilding at Archer's Creek, South Carolina, by French colonists left behind by Ribault, 1562.
Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

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