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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 -
Aftermath of the Encounter, Exploring the Early Americas
The encounter between the Americas and Europe altered both civilizations. This section covers three dramatic changes: Language and Religion, Competition for Empire, and Documenting New Knowledge.
Contributor: Sir Frances Drake - Amerigo Vespucci - Claudius Ptolemy - Alexander Von Humboldt - John Gould - Juan Ponce De LeóN Site: LOC.gov web pages Original Format: Book - Three Dimensional Object - Map - Photo, Print, Drawing - Manuscript/Mixed Material - Web Page










![[April 8, 1945], HQ Twelfth Army Group situation map.](/collections/static/military-battles-and-campaigns/images/ict21308.jpg)





![[Map of parts of Caroline, Hanover, and Henrico counties, Va. west of the Mattaponi River and the Richmond, Fredericksburg, and Potomac Railroad].](/collections/static/hotchkiss-maps/images/cwh00025.jpg)

![A correct map of a section of the United States showing the allignment [sic] of the Pittsburgh, Marion, and Chicago Railway between Chewton, Penna. and Marion, Ohio and connections.](/collections/static/railroad-maps-1828-to-1900/images/rr005350.jpg)





![Boston its environs and harbour, with the rebels works raised against that town in 1775... Sir Thomas Hyde Page, [1775?].](/collections/static/american-revolutionary-war-maps/images/ct000070.jpg)

![Carte particulière d'une partie de la Louisianne ou les fleuve et rivierres [i.e. rivières] onts etés relevé a l'estime & les routtes [i.e. routes] par terre relevé & mesurées aux pas, par les Srs. Broutin, de Vergés, ingénieurs & Saucier dessinateur](/collections/static/louisiana-european-explorations-and-the-louisiana-purchase/images/ct000681.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)
![[Plan of Fort Henry and its outworks.]](/collections/static/civil-war-maps/images/cw0414000.jpg)
