French missionary Louis Hennepin map of the Mississippi River valley and Great Lakes after LaSalle expeditions 1697. Hand-colored woodcut

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Hand-colored 19th-century woodcut reproduction of part of Hennepin's original map

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Size: 2869px × 4047px
Photo credit: © North Wind Picture Archives / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
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