The
Kislak Collection represents a lifetime of collecting informed
by passion and intellect.
-- James H. Billington,
The Librarian of Congress
To celebrate
the donation of the Jay I. Kislak Collection, the Library
of Congress presents an exhibition featuring fifty highlights
from
the more than 4,000 rare books, maps, documents, paintings,
prints, and artifacts.
Captions (clockwise from left): Baptista Boazio,
Detail from Cartagena [Colombia], 1589; Alexandre Olivier Exquemelin,
Detail from De Americaensche Zee-Roovers
(The Buccaneers of America),
1678; Detail from "The Conquest of Tenochtitlán," second half
of
seventeenth century;
Diego Rivera,
Detail from The Creation, ca. 1931. |
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