Welcome to The John Carter Brown Library The John Carter Brown Library welcomes individuals and communities from around the world to research, learn, and share knowledge about the early Americas through its collections Read more Tuesday November 10 You're Invited ... Coming up Past events Hours Monday-Thursday: 10 am–12:45 pm, 2 pm–4:45 pm Friday: 10 am–12:45 pm Reading Room For registered researchers Exhibition Gallery Admission is free and open to the public You're Invited ... Coming up You're Invited ... Initiative 2026 and Beyond at the JCB Event Screening of Becoming American at the JCB November 2026 Coming up Event JCB Reads: Suzanne Litrel on The Battle for Brazil Friday, November 20 at 12:00pm Conference Conference on Families in Early American and Atlantic Worlds Thursday, April 15 at 9:00am Event JCB Reads: Melissa N. Morris on Cultivating Colonies: Tobacco and the Origins of Atlantic Empires Thursday, April 29 at 12:00pm Welcome to the history of the early Americas, North and South Collections Seminars and Workshops Fellowships and Research Opportunities News Americana Welcome and Access Plan your visit Plan your visit Reading Room Appointments Class visit Newly added to our online collection Sample some of the items recently added to Americana, the JCB's digital collection. De insulis inuentis : Epistola Cristoferi Colom (cui [a]etas nostra multu[m] debet: de insulis in mari Indico nup[er] inue[n]tis. Ad quas perquirendas octauo antea mense: auspicijs et [a]ere inuictissimi Fernandi Hispaniarum Regis missus fuerat) ad magnificum d[omi]n[u]m Raphaelez Sanxis ... missa, 1493. Arte de la lengua maya, 1684 Descriptio Provinciae Moxitarum in Regno Peruano, 1791
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