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Exhibitions History

men work inside a mine

Subterranean Worlds: Under the Earth in the Early Americas

Spring - Summer 2015
printers work a printing press

Printers' Devils and Printers' Delights: The Book in Spanish America

Fall 2014 - Winter 2015
view of college edifice

Off to College: Higher Education in the Americas, 1551-1825

Spring - Fall 2014
colored map of Saint-Domingue

The Other Revolution: Haiti, 1789-1804

Winter - Spring 2014
scene of sugar cane planting

Sugar and the Visual Imagination in the Atlantic World, circa 1600-1860

Fall 2013
image of an opened book showing printed text on one page and an image of a man smoking tobacco on the opposite page

New World, New Eyes: America in Early Children's Books

Fall 2013
hand-painted picture of peacock, vase and flowers

Neue Welt: Germans and the Americas, 1493-1830

Spring - Summer 2013
sixteenth-century map showing Atlantic coasts

The Florida Story: Reconnaissance and Rivalry on a Maritime Periphery

Winter 2013
handwriting sample with scrawls in the shape of a bird

Mind Your Business: Records of Early American Commerce at the John Carter Brown Library

Fall 2012
Europeans and Africans at the shore

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

Spring - Summer 2012
text and diagrams related to early printing

The Illustrated Colonial Printer: An Exhibition to Accompany The Colonial Printer by Lawrence Wroth

Winter 2012
illustration of sixteenth-century technological developments

Drugs from the Colonies: The New American Medicine Chest

Fall - Winter 2011
colored plan of the city of Antwerp, Belgium

Melchor Pérez de Soto: A Book Collector Faces the Inquisition

Summer - Fall 2011
map of the western hemisphere

Spanish Historical Writing about the New World

Spring - Summer 2011
printed text in Spanish

The Age of Spanish American Revolutions: Spanish South America

Spring - Fall 2011
printed text in Hebrew

Jews and the Americas: 165 Years of Collecting at the JCB

Fall 2010 - Winter 2011
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