Exploring the Early Americas

The Jay I. Kislak Collection

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Pre-Contact America  |  Urban Landscapes

Miniature Village Scene

Miniature Village Scene

House model. West Mexico. Nayarit. 200 BC–AD 300. Painted buff Ceramic. Jay I. Kislak Collection, Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress (1A)

House Model with Occupants

House Model with Occupants

House model. West Mexico. Nayarit. 200 BC–AD 300. Painted red ceramic. Jay I. Kislak Collection, Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress (1B)

House Model with Musicians

House Model with Musicians

House model. West Mexico. Nayarit. 200 BC–AD 300. Ceramic with traces of pre-fired paint. Jay I. Kislak Collection, Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress (1C)

Mexican Antiquities

Mexican Antiquities

José Luciano Castañeda. Monumentos antiguos existentes en la República Mexicana [Existing antique monuments in the Republic of Mexico]. [1824]. Jay I. Kislak Collection, Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress (02.00.02)

Seeing Maya Splendor

Seeing Maya Splendor

Frederick Catherwood (1799–1854). Back of Idol and Copan, ca. 1842. Pencil and brown wash drawing on paper. Jay I. Kislak Collection, Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress (03.00.02)

Heroic Archaeologist

Heroic Archaeologist

Claude-Joseph-Désiré Charnay (1828–1915). Ruines du Mexique et types mexicains [Ruins of Mexico and types of Mexicans]. Albumen prints, 1862–1863. Facsimiles. Jay I. Kislak Collection, Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress (04.00.001–04.00.004)

Fifteenth-Century Venice

Fifteenth-Century Venice

“Venecie” from Georg Braun and Franz Hogenberg. Théâtre du cites du monde. [Brussels?: 1576?–1620?]. Geography and Map Division, Library of Congress (7C.2)

Córdoba, Spain, ca. 1617

Córdoba, Spain, ca. 1617

“Corduba,” from Georg Braun and Franz Hogenberg Théâtre du cites du monde. [Brussels?: 1576?–1620?]. Geography and Map Division, Library of Congress (7E.1)

Rome, ca. 1578

Rome, ca. 1578

“Roma,” from Georg Braun and Franz Hogenberg. Théâtre du cites du monde. [Brussels?: 1576?–1620?]. Geography and Map Division, Library of Congress (7D.3)

Views of Tenochtitlán and Cusco

Views of Tenochtitlán and Cusco

Georg Braun and Franz Hogenberg. “Mexico, regia et celebris Hispaniae novae civitas (Mexico, regal and reknowned state of New Spain)” and “Cusco, regni Peru in novo orbe caput (Cusco, capitol of the kingdom of Peru in the New World)” in Civitates Orbis Terrarum. (Commonwealths of the world). Cologne: T. Graminaeus, 1572. Jay I. Kislak Collection, Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress (5)

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