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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 (001.00.01)
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 (001.00.02)
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 (001.00.03)
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 (002.00.03)
Seeing Maya Splendor
Frederick Catherwood (1799–1854). Back of Idol at Copan, ca. 1842. Pencil and brown wash drawing on paper. Jay I. Kislak Collection, Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress (003.00.03)
Heroic Archaeologist
Claude-Joseph-Désiré Charnay (1828–1915). Ruines du Mexique et types mexicains (Ruins of Mexico and types of Mexicans), 1862–1863. Albumen prints. Jay I. Kislak Collection, Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress (004.00.00)
Fifteenth-Century Venice
“Venecie” from Hartmann Schedel. Liber chronicum (Book of chronicles). Nuremberg: A. Koberger, 1493. Facsimile. Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress (007.00.02)
Córdoba, Spain, ca. 1617
“Corduba,” from Georg Braun and Franz Hogenberg. Théâtre du cites du monde. [Brussels?: 1576?-1620?] Facsimile. Geography and Map Division, Library of Congress (007.00.03)
Rome, ca. 1578
“Roma,” from Georg Braun and Franz Hogenberg. Théâtre du cites du monde. [Brussels?: 1576?-1620?] Facsimile. Geography and Map Division, Library of Congress (007.00.04)
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 (005.00.00)
Nanjing, China, in 1400
Jin ling tu yong (The city of Nanjing in 1400). Nanjing: Zhu Zhifan, 1624. Facsimile. Rare Book Collection, Asian Division, Library of Congress (007.00.01)
Sixteenth-Century Istanbul
“Byzantium, nunc Constantinopolis” (Byzantium, now Constantinople) from Georg Braun and Franz Hogenberg. Théâtre du cites du monde. [Brussels?: 1576?-1620?] Facsimile. Geography and Map Division, Library of Congress (007.00.05)
Fabled City of Timbuktu
Réné Caillié. “View of the City of Timbuctoo” from Travels through Central Africa to Timbuctoo and across the Great Desert to Morocco, performed in the years 1824–1828. Vol 2. London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, 1830. Facsimile. General Collections, Library of Congress (007.00.06)
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