Online Collections

What do we mean by "Luso-Hispanic? The term "Luso-Hispanic" (derived from the Latin names for both entities of the Iberian Peninsula, i.e., Portugal was Lusitania and Spain was Hispania) encompasses Latin America, the Caribbean, Hispanics and Portuguese in the United States, the Iberian Peninsula, and other places where Iberian culture dominated and has survived. The Hispanic Division participates in the Library of Congress' ongoing exhibition program and contributes to its digitized collections.

• Hispanic Americans in Congress
• Hispanic Heritage Month 2008
• Hispano Music and Culture of the Northern Rio Grande: The Juan B. Rael Collection
• Huexotzinco (Huejotzingo) Codex
• Kraus Collection of Sir Francis Drake
• Kraus Collection: Spanish American Manuscripts
• The Luso-Hispanic World in Maps
• The Portuguese in the US
• Puerto Rico at the Dawn of the Modern Age
• Spain, The United States, & The American Frontier: Historias Paralelas
• The United States and Brazil: Expanding Frontiers, Comparing Cultures
• The World of 1898: The Spanish-American War

Exhibits and Pictorial Collections

• 1492: An Ongoing Voyage
• The 1562 Map of America by Diego Gutiérrez
• Christopher Columbus: Images in Color (bibliographic text of items available in the Prints & Photographs Division)
• Exploring the Early Americas: The Jay I. Kislak Collection
• National Hispanic Heritage Month: 2007
• Puerto Rico at the Dawn of the Modern Age
• Portuguese in the US
• Spain, the U.S. & the American Frontier: Historias Paralelas
• Spanish-American War
• The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
  See also Primary Documents in American History: Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
• The United States and Brazil: Expanding Frontiers, Comparing Cultures

Although Luso-Hispanic items form part of the collections in American Memory, the bulk of such material will be found in the Prints and Photographs Reading Room through manual searches. If you cannot come to the Library, free-lance researchers may be able to search materials for a fee. A list of free-lance picture researchers can be obtained from the Prints and Photographs Reading Room. An other list of free-lance researchers for research in the book collections may be obtained from the Main Reading Room of the Library of Congress.

• Search historical Latin American images on American Memory
• Search historical Latin American images only from the Detroit Publishing Company Photographs on American Memory

Exhibit Loans & Reproductions

Works from the Library's collections may be loaned for exhibition to qualified institutions. Requests for such loans should be directed to the Registrar, Interpretive Programs Office, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C., 20540-8800.

Reproductions of images from the Library's collections may be procured through the Photoduplication Service of the Library.