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Explorations and Encounters
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Conquest of Mexico Paintings
“The Battle of Otumba”
Second half of the seventeenth century. Oil on canvas. Jay I. Kislak Collection, Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress (095.00.00)
“The Capture of Tenochtitlán”
Second half of the seventeenth century. Oil on canvas. Jay I. Kislak Collection, Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress (096.00.00)
“The Capture of Cuauhtémoc”
Second half of the seventeenth century. Oil on canvas. Jay I. Kislak Collection, Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress (097.00.00)
Explorations and Encounters
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Conflict and Accommodation
Cruelty Illustrated
Theodor de Bry. Americae pars quinta nobilis & admiratione plena Hieronymi Bezoni. [Frankfurt: 1595.] Jay I. Kislak Collection, Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress (083.00.02)
The Oztoticpac Lands Map
Oztoticpac Lands Map. Mexico, ca.1540. Manuscript on amatl paper. Geography and Map Division, Library of Congress (088.00.00)
Techialoyan Land Record
Techialoyan land record. San Juan Tolcayuca, México. Aztec, seventeenth century. Manuscript map on amatl (fig-tree bark paper). Geography and Maps Division, Library of Congress (089.00.03)
Natural History of Brazil
Willem Piso. Gulielmi Pisonis medic Amstelaedamensis De Indiae. . . . (Willem Piso, doctor of Amsterdam and of the Indies. . . .). Amsterdam: Ludovicum et Danielem Elzevirios, 1658. Jay I. Kislak Collection, Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress (084.01.02)
Aztec Tribute Lists
“Matrícula de Tributos” (Roll of tributes) in Francisco Antonio de Lorenzana. Historia de Nueva‑Espaÿa (History of New Spain). Mexico: Joseph Antonio de Hogal, 1770. Jay I. Kislak Collection, Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress (069.00.03)
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