Smith Rescued by Pocahontas – Historic Reproduction
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Smith Rescued by Pocahontas comes to life in this historic image, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. It is part of the Snapshots of the Past archive, gathered over 25 years of research.
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Smith Rescued by Pocahontas
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Pocahontas, the daughter of Powhatan, stands at the center of this scene, which shows her throwing herself over Captain John Smith as warriors raise their clubs. Smith described the rescue in his 1624 *Generall Historie of Virginia*, written years after the events of December 1607, when he was taken captive near the Chickahominy River. Historians still debate whether the episode happened as he recounted it, but the story became one of the most repeated tales of early Virginia. Prints like this one, made in the 19th century, turned it into a romantic image of colonial encounter.
| Original scan | 8,502 × 6,654 px · prints to 28 × 22 in at 300 dpi |
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| Reference | 02687u |
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