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A hand-colored engraving of the now-extinct passenger pigeon as seen and recorded in Virginia by Mark Catesby in his The Natural History of Carolina, Florida, and the Bahama Islands, 1731. [Special Collections, U.Va. Library] | web (72dpi) newspaper (150dpi) book/magazine (300dpi) |
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“An American Log-house,” drawn by the French cartographer Georges-Henri Victor Collot in 1796, captures the vulnerability of a pioneer woman on a frontier that threatened illness, starvation, and death. [Special Collections, U.Va. Library] | web (72dpi) newspaper (150dpi) book/magazine (300dpi) |
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This image of the Rotunda by Benjamin Tanner, as displayed on Herman Böÿe’s A Map of the State of Virginia, 1827, corrected previous artists’ inaccuracies in the representation of the terracing and the arcading across the north end. [Special Collections, U.Va. Library] | web (72dpi) newspaper (150dpi) book/magazine (300dpi) |
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Virginia author Mary Johnston (right), shown with Fola LaFollette, was the sole Virginia delegate at the 1910 National Suffrage Convention in Washington, D.C. [Special Collections, U.Va. Library] | web (72dpi) newspaper (150dpi) book/magazine (300dpi) |
