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Detail of a hand colored, engraved print of Grenada shows a scene of naval warfare, as seen by smoke engulfing one ship.

Prise de l'isle de la Grenade...

Roger fils
1782
printed list and descriptions of commodities

General orders of the government of officers in the plantations

H. Teape
1764-1805
Detail of a hand colored manuscript estate plan shows a large compass rose and trees on the estate.

[Estate plan of 300 acres of land near Holetown, Barbados]

John Hapcott
1646
Printed document shows details of a sugar plantation with manuscript notes.

Particulars of two valuable sugar plantations, St. Kitts . . .

Brettell, Rupert Street, Haymarket
1828
Detail of a printed book shows a page with text in Dutch.

Pertinent en waarachtig verhaal van alle de handelingen en directie van Pedro Van Belle

1689
Detail of an engraved, hand colored full-page illustration shows a yam.

A collection of exotics, from the Island of Antigua

Lydia Byam
1797
Detail of a printed map shows text in French, latitude and longitude lines, and small mountains.

Le pilote de l'isle de Saint-Domingue et des débouquemens de cette isle…

1788
Detail of a printed page shows text in Latin.

Christoforo Columbus, de insulis inventis, 1493

1493
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colorful eighteenth-century map of the northern coast of Hispaniola
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Plano y Descripcion Del Puerto del Guarico questa en la Ysla Española…, 1736

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Plan of the city of Cartagena in present-day Colombia with decorative cartouche and other decorative elements
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Civitas Carthagena in Indiae occidentalis continente sita…, 1588

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woodcut image of an Indigenous Brazilian man being treated for an illness
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Europeans and Africans at the shore

Voyage to the Islands: Hans Sloane, Slavery, and Scientific Travel in the Caribbean

Spring - Summer 2012
colored map of Saint-Domingue

The Other Revolution: Haiti, 1789-1804

Winter - Spring 2014
Image depicting an angel hovering over Mary and Jesus

Women of the Page: Convent Culture in the Early Modern Spanish World

Spring 2017

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