Wild Life Gallery

Passenger pigeons filling the skies before they were hunted to extinction

Shooting passenger pigeons, which are now extinct, for sport in Louisiana, 1870s.
Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

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William Clark's sketch of a trout in the Lewis and Clark expedition diary.
Hand-colored halftone reproduction of a 19th-century photograph of Clark's handwritten page

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Alligator in the Florida Everglades

Alligator, a threatened species, resting on a limestone outcropping in Everglades National Park, Florida.
Digital photograph

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