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
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Thursday July 09

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Welcome to the history of the early Americas, North and South

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Americana

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A view of a reading room desk with a travel book
Image of the reading room
Photo of the reading room and guest book.

Newly added to our online collection

Sample some of the items recently added to Americana, the JCB's digital collection.

State of Rhode-Island... Resolved, that all the troops...when called to service, shall be under the same rules and regulations as the Continental Army (Dec. 11, 1776)

The Declaration of Independence, 1776

Plan of the island of Rhode Island under French Occupation, [ca. 1780]