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  • [Builder's half model of the ship Andrew Jackson]

    Builder's half model of the clipper ship Andrew Jackson. Model most likely made by her designer Mason Crary Hill. Construction is in 13 lifts, possible pine and mahogany. The Andrew Jackson was ...

    Contributor: Hill, Mason Crary
    Site: American Memory-cultural
    Original Format: Three Dimensional Object
    Date: 1855

  • Pre-Contact America, Exploring the Early Americas

    Deals principally with the pre-contact cultures of Mesoamerica, a territory that includes most of the modern countries of Mexico, Guatemala, Belize, western Honduras, and El Salvador.

    Contributor: Aztecs - Incas - Mayas
    Site: LOC.gov web pages
    Original Format: Book - Three Dimensional Object - Map - Photo, Print, Drawing - Web Page

  • LC #220 Whitman's Cardboard Butterfly

    Contributor: Whitman, Walt - Neale, John Mason
    Site: American Memory-cultural
    Original Format: Three Dimensional Object
    Date: 1850-00-00

  • 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

  • [Ships at the Erie Basin, New York]

    Photograph of the Erie Basin outside New York Harbor with several large ships at dockside. Handwritten labels identify ships as the THERESE of New York, the BENARES of Glasgow and the GREAT ...

    Site: American Memory-cultural
    Original Format: Three Dimensional Object

  • 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

  • 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

  • Exploring the Early Americas Themes

    Exploring the Early Americas features: "Pre-Contact America;" "Explorations and Encounters;" and "Aftermath of the Encounter" themed sections.

    Site: LOC.gov web pages
    Original Format: Book - Three Dimensional Object - Manuscript/Mixed Material - Photo, Print, Drawing - Web Page