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Exhibitions

An exhibition is a selection of items that are interpreted and presented as a visual and narrative experience

Elemental: Crafting Books from Nature

The interplay between natural elements and human craftsmanship

Learning to Sail, Living at Sea: Vernaculars of Transatlantic Knowledge

Boundaries of Enlightenment: Exploring Authority and Enquiry in Spanish America

1846: Inventing Americana at the John Carter Brown Library (2023)

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Curated by José Montelongo, 2025

Highlighted projects

Projects are different types of aggregated materials, including research collections, collaborative efforts, and catalogs from past exhibits

Illustrating Knowledge of the Americas in European Print, 1590–1781

Student-Led Project, 2022-2024

The Book in the Americas (JCB Exhibition Catalogue)

Textual Afterlives: Generating Editions and Editing Generations of Americana (Digital Catalogue, 2019)

Printer's Devils :: Printer's Delights (Digital Catalogue, 2015)

Atlantic Materia Medica (Digital Catalogue, 2009)

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444 objects

Early Mexican Imprints (16th and 17th Centuries)

426 objects

Works related to the Nahuatl language

457 objects

A Selection of Items on Slavery and Abolition

254 objects

Early Peruvian Imprints (16th and 17th Centuries)

431 objects

Early Printed Works in the United States

1,040 objects

Books about Brazil and Portugal

510 objects

Maps of the Caribbean

521 objects

Portraits

2,610 objects