Jay I. Kislak Collection, 2000 BCE-2007 CE

Collection Summary

Title	Jay I. Kislak Collection, 2000 BCE-2007 CE
Span Dates	2000 BCE-2007 CE
Bulk Dates	(bulk dates 600-1892 CE)
Creator	Kislak, Jay I., 1922-2018
Extent	1,350 items
Language	Collection material in English, with Spanish, Dutch, German, and indigenous languages of Nahuatl, Ixil, K’iche, and Q’eqchi’
Location	Geography and Map Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
Location	Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
Finding Aid Permalink	Cite or bookmark this finding aid as: https://hdl.loc.gov/loc.gmd/eadgmd.gm020010
LCCN Permalink	LC Catalog record: https://lccn.loc.gov/2020657371
Summary	The Jay I. Kislak Collection encompasses almost fourteen hundred rare books, maps, manuscripts, historical documents, graphic works, and archaeological objects related to the history of the early Americas, including the pre-Columbian cultures of the Caribbean and Mesoamerica.
Online Content	The Archaeological Objects Series of the collection has been digitized and is available on the Library of Congress website at https://hdl.loc.gov/loc.gmd/collgmd.gm000020. Other items that have been scanned are available through links in the catalog records listed in the Books, Manuscripts, and Graphic Materials series, below.