Credit: Library of Congress Media type: print Museum Number: Annotation: After his first transatlantic voyage, Christopher Columbus sent an account of his encounters in the Americas to King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella of Spain. Several copies of his manuscript were made for court…

Credit: Library of Congress Media type: lithograph Museum Number: 91721148 Year: 1893

Credit: Library of Congress Media type: photograph Museum Number: HABS, MASS,12-HING,5-16 Year: 1931

Credit: Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco Media type: painting Museum Number: Annotation: Painted in 1670, this rare painting is one of only about 35 paintings that exist today that reflect the New England settlement after the Pilgrims landed at Plymouth Rock in…

Credit: Library of Congress Media type: painting Museum Number: Annotation: Like the other seventeenth-century British colonies, Virginia aspired to convert the native populations. The Virginia Company’s instructions to its governors required them to make conversion one of their objectives. The most famous early…

Credit: Worcester Art Museum Media type: painting Museum Number: Annotation: Elizabeth Clarke Freake and Baby Year: 1671

Credit: Association for the Preservation of Virginia Antiquities. Media type: painting Museum Number: Year: 1616

Credit: Architect of the Capitol Media type: painting Museum Number: Year: 1840

Credit: Van Pelt Library, University of Pennsylvania Media type: painting Museum Number: Annotation: Cole, Last of the Mohicans Year: 1827

Credit: New York State Historical Association Media type: painting Museum Number: Annotation: Cole, Last of the Mohicans Year: 1827

Credit: Architect of the Capitol Media type: painting Museum Number: Annotation: DeSoto’s discovery of the Mississippi Year: 1855

Credit: Architect of the Capitol Media type: painting Museum Number: Annotation: Vanderlyn, Landing of Columbus Year: 1847