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It highlights the Living River experiential space, a Community and Settlement multimedia presentation spanning 400 years, and four major thematic sections: Natural History and Environment, Transportation, Trade, Commerce and Industry, and Culture and Symbol. The text supplied for teachers and students explains how natural systems shaped by Indigenous, European, African, and American settlement influenced restoration efforts, and traces naturalists’ early observations, illustrations, and evolving scientific and artistic interpretations.","ABOUT THE EXHIBITION  \nThe exhibition is divided into six sections. The Living River is an experiential space featuring an enlargement of Wade and Croome’s Hudson River Panorama, contemporary artist Don Nice’s Hudson River fish and contemporary photographs taken along the river. The Community and Settlement section includes images of people who have lived in our region over the past 400 years. That section is presented in a multi-media format viewable in the galleries. The other four sections: Natural History and Environment; Transportation; Trade, Commerce and Industry ; and Culture and Symbol present the majority of the exhibition. The text that follows is drawn from those four sections and is offered here to be read by teachers and students.  \nNATURAL HISTORY AND ENVIRONMENT  \nThe natural environment of the Hudson River is a series of complex, interlinking ecosystems that have been charted and studied for hundreds of years. Human settlement—first Native American and later European, African, and American—influenced and altered those natural systems. For more than a hundred years Hudson Valley residents have led efforts to restore and preserve the River’s natural beauty and habitats for future generations.  \nNATURALISTS  \nIn the late 18th century, the Hudson River Valley began to attract naturalists and scientists from Europe. They recorded the environment they found in detailed illustrations. During the 19th century, artists and print-makers produced images of the landscape for books and print editions. These images interpret natural history and make connections between science and art.  \nFirst Descriptions and Misconceptions  \nWhen Henry Hudson sailed up the river later named for him, he may have first believed he had discovered the passage to Asia he had set out to find. For three weeks, Hudson explored the river until his ship arrived just north of Albany. In his journal, first mate Robert Juet described the valley as filled with “great and tall Oakes…Grasse and Flowers, and goodly trees…Wal-nut trees, and Chestnut trees, Ewe trees, and trees of sweet…”  \n125 Washington Avenue | Albany NY 12210 | (518) [463-4478 | albanyinstitute.org](463-4478 | albanyinstitute.org)  \nMany 17th-century Europeans illustrated maps of the New World with mythical beasts, leading to mistaken beliefs about the flora and fauna of North America.  \nFirst Views  \nPictures of the landscape were almost unknown in America before 1800. Among the first were topographical views drawn by British military engineers. Among them, Captain Thomas Davies was distinguished for his technical skill. Captain John Montresor’s map includes details of coastal harbors and military outposts. During the Revolutionary War, both the British and the Colonists used his highly regarded map. The most well known landscape artists in the region at this time were the Scottish émigré brothers Alexander and Archibald Robertson, who founded NYC’s first art school, Columbia Academy.  \nNaturalists from Home and Abroad  \nIn 1785, 15-year-old Francois Andre Michaux of Paris accompanied his father, Andre Michaux, a French diplomat and botanist, on an exploration of North American forests. In 1802 he returned to collect trees to help restore forests damaged in the French Revolution. Botanical artists Pancrace Bessa and Pierre Joseph Redouté illustrated Michaux’s North American Sylva, first published in Paris in 1817.  \nFrench geographer and engineer Jacques Gerard Milbert toured the Hudson Valley in 1815 to collect plants. Milbert made drawings of most of the places he visited. Upon his return to Paris, he published these drawings as a set of 53 prints he called Itinéraire Pittoresque (Scenic Route) . They are the most complete and accurate depictions of the northeast at the time.  \nIn 1820, Amos Eaton, a botanist, geologist and co-founder of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy published one of the first books on native plants and geology in America. 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