The 1888 caption reads: “Party of Walloons coming to settlement at Albany.” In 1624, a ship with 30 Protestant Walloons (French-speaking people from what is today southern Belgium) landed in New Netherland; 18 of the men were sent to the location near present-day Albany.

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