Images Dated 2011

EXPL2A-00352

The Hereford Mappa Mundi of 1280 - Jerusalem is at the center, Europe lower left, Africa lower right.
Printed color halftone reproduction 19th century

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Hannah Duston escapes from capture by Native Americans

Hannah Duston and two other captives escaping from Abenaki Indians on the Merrimac River, New Hampshire, 1697.
Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

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Battle of Cannae plan, 216 BC

Map of the Battle of Cannae, in which Hannibal defeated the Romans during the Second Punic War, 216 BC.
Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

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