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Graphic Materials, 1516-1931 | |||||||||||||
Locations: Geography and Map Division, Library of Congress; Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress | |||||||||||||
Graphic materials include three important watercolor paintings of scenes from the
Popol Vuh, the creation myth of the ancient
Quiché Maya, by the Mexican artist Diego Rivera; a series of eight large
paintings of the conquest and the defeat of Montezuma II, the Aztec emperor of
Mexico, by an unknown indigenous artist; and early photography of archaeological
sites by Désiré Charnay. Also included are important maps like those of Baptista
Boazio illustrating the voyages of Sir Frances Drake and the Carta marina navigatoria Portugallen navigations atque tocius cogniti orbis terre marisque, 1516, by the mapmaker Martin Waldseemüller . Material types include maps, paintings, and photographs. |
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Arranged alphabetically by creator or title. | |||||||||||||
Graphic materials in this series are held in the Geography and Map Division and in the Rare Book and Special Collections Division. Researchers are advised to contact the appropriate division prior to visiting in order to determine whether the desired materials will be available at that time. | |||||||||||||
Almendariz, Ricardo, coleccion de estampas copiadas de las figuras originales, que de medio y baxo relieve, se manifiestan, en estucos y piedras, en varios edificios de la poblacion antigua nuevamente descubierta en las immediaciones del pueblo del Palenque en la Provincia de Ciudad Real de Chiapa, una de las del Reyno de Guatemala en la American Septentrional [graphic], [1787] | |||||||||||||
LC Call No.: Kislak MS 1010 | |||||||||||||
Catalog record: https://lccn.loc.gov/2007574394 | |||||||||||||
Location: Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress | |||||||||||||
Boazio, Baptista. [Map and views illustrating Sir Francis Drake's West Indian voyage, 1585-6]. [London? : s.n., 1589] | |||||||||||||
LC Call No.: G3291.S12 s000.B6 | |||||||||||||
Catalog record: https://lccn.loc.gov/2007626708 | |||||||||||||
Location: Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress | |||||||||||||
Catherwood, Frederick. [Study of a Mayan monument] [graphic] / [Frederick Catherwood]. ca. 1841. | |||||||||||||
LC Call No.: F1435.3.S34 C38 1841 | |||||||||||||
Catalog record: https://lccn.loc.gov/2007582750 | |||||||||||||
Location: Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress | |||||||||||||
Charnay, Désiré, 1828-1915. Les anciennes villes du Nouveau Monde : voyages d'explorations au Mexique et dans l'Amérique Centrale / par Désiré Charnay, 1857-1882 ; ouvrage contenant 214 gravures et 19 cartes ou plans. Paris : Librarie Hachette et cie, 1885. | |||||||||||||
LC Call No.: F1219.C48 Copy 3 | |||||||||||||
Catalog record: https://lccn.loc.gov/02005380 | |||||||||||||
Location: Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress | |||||||||||||
Conquest of Mexico paintings, 1650-1690 | |||||||||||||
Materials: Oil on canvas | |||||||||||||
Dimensions (cm): 121.9 x 198.1 | |||||||||||||
Web URL: https://www.loc.gov/exhibits/exploring-the-early-americas/conquest-of-mexico-paintings.html | |||||||||||||
Location: Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress | |||||||||||||
Eight detailed canvases by an unknown artist painting in Mexico tell the
story of the 1521 Spanish conquest of the native Aztec people. These
images highlight battles between the Spanish and the Aztecs, ceremonial
encounters of the Spanish conquistador with the emperor Moctezuma, and
other pivotal historic moments:
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Keulen, Gerard van. Nieuwe groote en seer curieuse paskaart van geheel Westindien : vertoonende alle desselfs eylanden bayen, en rivieren mitsgaders alle droogtens en dieptens, nieuwelyks en seer naaukeurig by een gestelt uyt veele voornamen goede afpylingen en opservatien, door Ian Sikkena leermeester der wiskonst met privilegie = Nouvelle carte marine de toute les cotes de l'Amerique : montrant toutes les isles, bayes, et riviers aussi toutes les roches et profonts tous composé és plusieurs memoires de tres experimentes navigateurs par Jean Sikkena maistre mathematique /by Gerard van Keulen. Amsterdam : Gerard van Keulen, [1728?] | |||||||||||||
LC Call No.: G4391.P5 1728.K4 | |||||||||||||
Catalog record: https://lccn.loc.gov/2007626711 | |||||||||||||
Location: Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress | |||||||||||||
Rivera, Diego, 1886-1957. [Creation] [graphic] / Diego Rivera., [1931] | |||||||||||||
LC Call No.: N8214.5.A45C65 1750 | |||||||||||||
Catalog record: https://lccn.loc.gov/2008700230 | |||||||||||||
Location: Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress | |||||||||||||
Rivera, Diego, 1886-1957. [Human sacrifice before Tohil] [graphic] / D Rivera [partial monogram]. [1931] | |||||||||||||
LC Call No.: N8214.5.A45C65 1750 | |||||||||||||
Catalog record: https://lccn.loc.gov/2008700225 | |||||||||||||
Location: Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress | |||||||||||||
Rivera, Diego, 1886-1957. [Trials of the hero-twins] [graphic] / DR [monogram]., [1931] | |||||||||||||
LC Call No.: N8214.5.A45C65 1750 | |||||||||||||
Catalog record: https://lccn.loc.gov/2008700220 | |||||||||||||
Location: Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress | |||||||||||||
[Schöner Sammelband] [Saint Dié, France] : [Johann Schöner], [1517?] | |||||||||||||
LC Call No.: G1015 .S43 1517 Vault | |||||||||||||
Catalog record: https://lccn.loc.gov/2016586438 | |||||||||||||
Location: Geography and Map Division, Library of Congress | |||||||||||||
Schöner, Johann, 1477-1547, cartographer. [Celestial globe gores]. [publisher not identified], [1517] | |||||||||||||
LC Call No.: G1015 .S43 1517 Vault | |||||||||||||
Catalog record: https://lccn.loc.gov/2016586439 | |||||||||||||
Location: Geography and Map Division, Library of Congress | |||||||||||||
Schöner, Johann, 1477-1547, cartographer. [Fragmentary celestial globe gores]. [Strasbourg, France?] : [publisher not identified], [1517] | |||||||||||||
LC Call No.: G1015 .S43 1517 Vault | |||||||||||||
Catalog record: https://lccn.loc.gov/2016586440 | |||||||||||||
Location: Geography and Map Division, Library of Congress | |||||||||||||
Schöner, Johann, 1477-1547, cartographer. [Fragmentary terrestrial globe gores]. [Saint Dié, France] : [publisher not identified], [1517] | |||||||||||||
LC Call No.: G1015 .S43 1517 Vault | |||||||||||||
Catalog record: https://lccn.loc.gov/2016586441 | |||||||||||||
Location: Geography and Map Division, Library of Congress | |||||||||||||
Waldseemüller, Martin, 1470-1519, cartographer. Carta marina navigatoria Portvgallen navigationes, atqve tocius cogniti orbis terre marisqve formam natvram sitvs et terminos nostris temporibvs recognitos et ab antiqvorum traditione differentes, eciam qvor vetvsti non meminervnt avtores, hec generaliter indicat / consvmatvm est in oppido S Deodati compositione et digestione Martini Waldseemuller Ilacomili. [Strasbourg, France?] : [publisher not identified], [1516] | |||||||||||||
LC Call No.: G1015 .S43 1517 Vault | |||||||||||||
Catalog record: https://lccn.loc.gov/2016586433 | |||||||||||||
Location: Geography and Map Division, Library of Congress | |||||||||||||
Waldseemüller, Martin, 1470-1519, cartographer. [Manuscript copy of sheet 6 of Waldseemüller's Carta marina]. [Saint Dié, France] : [Johann Schöner], [1516?] | |||||||||||||
LC Call No.: G1015 .S43 1517 Vault | |||||||||||||
Catalog record: https://lccn.loc.gov/2016586443 | |||||||||||||
Location: Geography and Map Division, Library of Congress | |||||||||||||
Books, 1485-2007 | |||||||||||||
Location: Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress | |||||||||||||
Rare books in this series include the earliest dictionary of the indigenous language of Nahuatl, the Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana (1571) by Alonso de Molina, the Historia de Nueva-Espana, printed in Mexico City in 1770, by Francisco Antonio Lorenzana y Butron, and early printed archaeological tracts like the Descripcion Historica y Cronologica de las Dos Piedras (1792) by Antonio de Leon y Gama, as well as more modern works on Florida and the southeastern United States. | |||||||||||||
Arranged alphabetically by author or title. | |||||||||||||
Books in this series are held in the Rare Book and Special Collections Division. Researchers are advised to contact the Division prior to visiting in order to determine whether the desired materials will be available at that time. | |||||||||||||
Abbot, Abiel, 1770-1828. Letters written in the interior of Cuba, between the mountains of Arcana to the east, and of Cusco to the west : in the months of February, March, April, and May, 1828 / by the late Rev. Abiel Abbot. Boston : Bowles and Dearborn, 1829. | |||||||||||||
LC Call No.: F1763.A13 Copy 2 | |||||||||||||
Catalog record: https://lccn.loc.gov/02009612 | |||||||||||||
Abbot, George, 1562-1633. A briefe description of the whole worlde : wherein is particularly described, all the monarchies, empires, and kingdomes of the same, with their seuerall titles and scituations thereunto adioyning. At London : Printed by T. Iudson, for Iohn Browne, and are to be sould at the signe of the Bible in Fleete-Streete, 1599. | |||||||||||||
LC Call No.: G114.A1545 B754 1599 | |||||||||||||
Catalog record: https://lccn.loc.gov/2006584506 | |||||||||||||
Abbott, John S. C. (John Stevens Cabot), 1805-1877. History of Hernando Cortez / by John S.C. Abbott. New York : Harper, 1855. | |||||||||||||
LC Call No.: F1230.C913 Copy 5 | |||||||||||||
Catalog record: https://lccn.loc.gov/06000305 | |||||||||||||
An account of what pass'd in the engagement near Toulon : between His Majesty's squadron under the command of Admiral Matthews, and the combin'd fleets of France and Spain, &c. London : Printed by Edward Owen in Amen Corner, [1744] | |||||||||||||
LC Call No.: LB2391.G8 G37 1721 | |||||||||||||
Catalog record: https://lccn.loc.gov/2008571617 | |||||||||||||
Acosta, José de, 1540-1600. Historia natural y moral de las Indias : en que se tratan las cosas notables del cielo, y elementos, metales, plantas, y animales dellas : y los ritos, y ceremonias, leyes, y gouierno, y guerras de los Indios / compuesta por el padre Ioseph de Acosta religioso de la Compañia de Iesus. Impresso en Seuilla : En casa de Iuan de Leon, año de 1590. | |||||||||||||
LC Call No.: E141.A283 Copy 2 | |||||||||||||
Catalog record: https://lccn.loc.gov/02001938 | |||||||||||||
Acosta, José de, 1540-1600. Iosephi Acosta, Societatis Iesu, De natura noui orbis libri duo : et De promulgatione evangelii apud barbaros, sive, De procuranda Indorum salute, libri sex. Coloniae Agrippinae : In officina Birkcmannica, sumptibus Arnoldi Mylij, 1596. | |||||||||||||
LC Call No.: E141.A20 Copy 2 | |||||||||||||
Catalog record: https://lccn.loc.gov/02009567 | |||||||||||||
Adair, James, approximately 1709-1783. The history of the American Indians : particularly those nations adjoining to the Missisippi [sic], East and West Florida, Georgia, South and North Carolina, and Virginia : containing an account of their origin, language, manners, religious and civil customs, laws, form of government, punishments, conduct in war and domestic life, their habits, diet, agriculture, manufactures, diseases and method of cure, and other particulars, sufficient to render it a complete Indian system : with observations on former historians, the conduct of our colony governors, superintendents, missionaries, &c. : also an appendix, containing a description of the Floridas, and the Missisippi [sic] lands, with their productions : the benefits of colonizing Georgiana, and civilizing the Indians : and the way to make all the colonies more valuable to the mother country : with a new map of the country referred to in the history / by James Adair, Esquire, a trader with the Indians and resident in their country for forty years. London : Printed for Edward and Charles Dilly ..., MDCCLXXV [1775] | |||||||||||||
LC Call No.: E77.A213 1775 Copy 2 | |||||||||||||
Catalog record: https://lccn.loc.gov/04003634 | |||||||||||||
Admission of Florida : memorial of the people of the territory of Florida for admission into the Union, February 20, 1839 : read, laid upon the table, and 5,000 extra copies ordered to be printed.[Washington] : Thomas Allen, print., [1839] | |||||||||||||
LC Call No.: F315.A36 1839 | |||||||||||||
Catalog record: https://lccn.loc.gov/2007570037 | |||||||||||||
Album pintoresco de la isla de Cuba [graphic].[Havana] : B. May y Ca., [ca. 1855] ; Berlin : Oilprinting Storch & Kramer. | |||||||||||||
LC Call No.: F1763.A39 1850 Copy 2 | |||||||||||||
Catalog record: https://lccn.loc.gov/84176091 | |||||||||||||
Alcedo, Antonio de, 1735-1812. The geographical and historical dictionary of America and the West Indies : containing an entire translation of the Spanish work of Colonel Don Antonio de Alcedo ... with large additions and compilations from modern voyages and travels, and from original and authentic information / by G.A. Thompson ; in five volumes. London : Printed for James Carpenter, 1812-1815. | |||||||||||||
LC Call No.: E14.A36 Copy 3 | |||||||||||||
Catalog record: https://lccn.loc.gov/02001642 | |||||||||||||
Alègre, d'. Histoire de Moncade, dont les principales avantures se sont passées au Mexique, premiere[-seconde] partie : avec Le marquis de Leyva, nouvelle espagnole. A Amsterdam : Chez J. Wetstein & G. Smith, 1737. | |||||||||||||
LC Call No.: PQ1951.A76 H57 1737 | |||||||||||||
Catalog record: https://lccn.loc.gov/2006593863 | |||||||||||||
Alsedo y Herrera, Dionisio de, 1690-1777. Compendio historico de la provincia : partidos, ciudades, astilleros, rios, y puerto de Guayaquil en las costas de la mar del sur / por Don Dionysio de Alsedo y Herrera. Madrid : Manuel Fernandez, 1741. | |||||||||||||
LC Call No.: F3741.G9 A6 1741 | |||||||||||||
Catalog record: https://lccn.loc.gov/2007570852 | |||||||||||||
Altamira, Rafael, 1866-1951. Análisis de la Recopilación de las leyes de Indias, de 1680 / Rafael Altamira y Crevea. Buenos Aires : Instituto de Historia del Derecho Argentino, 1941. | |||||||||||||
LC Call No.: KKT2680.A65 A483 1941 | |||||||||||||
Catalog record: https://lccn.loc.gov/2006584211 | |||||||||||||
Amati, Giacinto, 1778-1850. Viaggi di Cristoforo Colombo tratti dall'opera : ricerche storico-critico-scientifiche sulle origini, scoperte, invenzioni, ecc. ecc. / dell'abate Don Giacinto Amati ; aggiuntevi storiche notizie ed illustrazioni sopra le precedenti edizioni. Milano : Colle stampe di Giovanni Pirotta, 1830. | |||||||||||||
LC Call No.: E111.A48 Copy 2 | |||||||||||||
Catalog record: https://lccn.loc.gov/07022448 | |||||||||||||
American Antiquarian Society. Archaeologia Americana : transactions and collections of the American Antiquarian Society. [Worcester, Mass.] : [American Antiquarian Society], [1820-1885 (Worcester, Mass. : Printed for the American Antiquarian Society by William Manning)] | |||||||||||||
LC Call No.: E172.A3 | |||||||||||||
Catalog record: https://lccn.loc.gov/2008219100 | |||||||||||||
American Historical Association. Annual report of the American Historical Association. Washington : U.S. G.P.O., 1890- | |||||||||||||
LC Call No.: E172.A60 | |||||||||||||
Catalog record: https://lccn.loc.gov/04018261 | |||||||||||||
American journal of archaeology : the journal of the Archaeological Institute of America. New York : Macmillan Co., 1897- | |||||||||||||
LC Call No.: CC1.A6 | |||||||||||||
Catalog record: https://lccn.loc.gov/12030242 | |||||||||||||
Anales de Tula : Museo Nacional de Antropología, Mexico City (Cod. 35-9) / comentario, Rudolf A.M. van Zantwijk. Graz, Austria : Akademische Druck- und Verlagsanstalt, 1979. | |||||||||||||
LC Call No.: F1219.56.M87 A53 1979 Copy 2 | |||||||||||||
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