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Explorations and Encounters, Exploring the Early Americas
This section presents materials from the voyages of exploration of Christopher Columbus, Hernán Cortés, and Francisco Pizarro, and material about the natives of the Americas they encountered.
Contributor: Christopher Columbus - Hernã¡N Cortã©S - Francisco Pizarro - TaãNo - Charles V - Holy Roman Emperor Site: LOC.gov web pages Original Format: Book - Three Dimensional Object - Map - Photo, Print, Drawing - Web Page -
Exploring the Early Americas Overview
Features selections from the more than 3,000 rare maps, documents, paintings, prints, and artifacts that make up the Jay I. Kislak Collection at the Library of Congress.
Site: LOC.gov web pages Original Format: Book - Three Dimensional Object - Map - Photo, Print, Drawing - Manuscript/Mixed Material - Web Page






![Plan of the siege of the Havana surrenderid [sic] Aug. 12, 1762 to the English commanded by the Earl of Albemarle General and Sir George Pococke K.B. Admiral](/collections/static/military-battles-and-campaigns/images/ct002019.jpg)


![[Base map of Alabama].](/collections/static/hotchkiss-maps/images/cwh00201.jpg)
![[December 25, 1944], HQ Twelfth Army Group situation map.](/collections/static/world-war-ii-maps-military-situation-maps-from-1944-to-1945/images/ict21204.jpg)
![[Rough sketch of the Rich Mountain battle area extending from Beverly, W. Va. to Clarksburg].](/collections/static/hotchkiss-maps/images/cwh00078.jpg)















![A map of the most inhabited part of New England... Thomas Jefferys, [London] Thos. Jefferys, 1755.](/collections/static/american-revolutionary-war-maps/images/ar079700.jpg)

![[January 18, 1945], HQ Twelfth Army Group situation map.](/collections/static/world-war-ii-maps-military-situation-maps-from-1944-to-1945/images/ict21228.jpg)