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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








![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)





![[December 18, 1944], HQ Twelfth Army Group situation map.](/collections/static/world-war-ii-maps-military-situation-maps-from-1944-to-1945/images/ict21197.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)




![[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)

![[December 23, 1944], HQ Twelfth Army Group situation map.](/collections/static/military-battles-and-campaigns/images/ict21202.jpg)

![[Map of Chancellorsville battlefield, May 3-4, 1863].](/collections/static/hotchkiss-maps/images/cwh00138.jpg)

