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Mono Lake Paiute-Miwok artist Lucy Telles, "with her largest basket." Photo taken in Yosemite Valley, at Yosemite National Park, 1933.

Swiss colonial science. Fritz and Paul Sarasin were scientists who travelled to British controlled Ceylon and Dutch ruled Celebes during the last decades of the 19th century. The elephant slain here had a calf that was shipped to Basel Zoo...

Figurines depicting the sale of an enslaved person. Menschenhandel, manufactory Kilchberg-Schooren, around 1775, painted porcelain. On display at the National Museum Zurich in the Swiss Global Entanglements exhibition from 13.9.2024 - 19.1.2025...

View of the Swiss Global Entanglements exhibiton at the National Museum Zurich from 13.9.2024 - 19.1.2025. Copyright: Swiss National Museum. Used with permission (Press release).

View of the Swiss Global Entanglements exhibiton at the National Museum Zurich from 13.9.2024 - 19.1.2025. Copyright: Swiss National Museum. Used with permission (Press release).

Winfield Scott as a major general in 1814, during the War of 1812. Portrait by David Edwin and Joseph Wood, 1814. Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

Map of Fort George and surrounding areas during the War of 1812, from The Pictorial Field Book of the War of 1812 by Benson Lossing.

US Colonel Winfield Scott leads the Americans into Fort George at the end of the Battle of Fort George (27 May 1813) during the War of 1812, engraving by Alonzo Chappel, 1857. Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

The Roman Levant around 200 CE, during the height of imperial consolidation under the Severan dynasty (193 - 235 CE), formed one of the empire’s most dynamic and interconnected frontier regions. Administratively divided into the provinces...

The death of US General Zebulon Pike at the Battle of York (27 April 1813) during the War of 1812, engraving by an unknown artist, 1839. Canadian Military History Gateway, Department of National Defence.