Exhibitions at the John Carter Brown Library
Since 1904, visiting scholars and staff at the JCB have curated over 200 exhibitions at the John Carter Brown. Below are a sample of the stories that have been told with our materials. We invite you to page through some of these curated collections and dive deeper into individual objects.
Curated Collections
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Elemental: Crafting Books from Nature (Digital Exhibition, 2025)
Curated by Jose Montelongo
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Boundaries of Enlightenment: Exploring Authority and Enquiry in Spanish America (2024)
Curated by Jose Montelongo
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Learning to Sail, Living at Sea: Vernaculars of Transatlantic Knowledge (2024)
Curated by Bertie Mandelblatt
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1846: Inventing Americana at the John Carter Brown Library (2023)
Curated by Bertie Mandelblatt, Karin Wulf, and José Montelongo
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Constellations: Reimagining Celestial Histories in the Early Americas (Digital Catalogue, 2020)
Curated by The John Carter Brown Library
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Controlling Colonial Impressions (Digital Exhibition, 2019)
Curated by History of the Book in the Americas (class, 2019)
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By a Lady: Women and Natural History in the Americas, 1650-1830 (Digital Exhibition, 2019)
Curated by Lilian Tabois
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Textual Afterlives: Generating Editions and Editing Generations of Americana (2019)
Curated by Stijn van Rossem
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Women of the Page (Digital Catalogue, 2017)
Curated by Tanya Tiffany
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The Americas on Fire (Digital Exhibition, 2017)
Curated by Jake Frederick and Junia Furtado
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![Orbis Typus Universalis Iuxta Hydrographorum Traditionem Nuremberg, [1513?]](https://nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/americanaplatform/media/images/exhibitionproject129c.2e16d0ba.fill-800x600.format-webp.webp)
Global Americana: The Wider Worlds of a Singular Collection (2017)
Curated by The John Carter Brown Library
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Sugar and the Visual Imagination in the Atlantic World, circa 1600-1860 (Digital Exhibition, 2013)
Curated by K. Dian Kriz
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![America Augustae Vindelicorum [Augsburg], 1750?; 1701-1750 Gottfried-Berhard Goetz; Balthasar Sigmund Setlezkÿ](https://nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/americanaplatform/media/images/exhibitionproject138c.2e16d0ba.fill-800x600.format-webp.webp)
Encountering the New World, 1493 to 1800 (1991)
Curated by Susan Danforth
![Orbis Typus Universalis Iuxta Hydrographorum Traditionem Nuremberg, [1513?]](https://nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/americanaplatform/media/images/exhibitionproject12_VeRv1t0.2e16d0ba.fill-1600x1200.format-webp.webp)
![America Augustae Vindelicorum [Augsburg], 1750?; 1701-1750 Gottfried-Berhard Goetz; Balthasar Sigmund Setlezkÿ](https://nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/americanaplatform/media/images/exhibitionproject13.2e16d0ba.fill-1600x1200.format-webp.webp)