Treasures of the Americas
Subtitle: Jay Kislak Collection debuts at the Library
By: by Helen Dalrymple
Contributors: Library of Congress. Public Affairs Office
Series: Library of Congress information bulletin -- vol. 74, no. 4; Library of Congress information bulletin -- v. 74, no. 4.
Publisher: Library of Congress, Public Affairs Office
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Washington, DC
Language: eng
Number of pages: 87
Subjects: Indians; First contact with Europeans; Indians on Central America; History; Indian of Mexico; Indians of North America; Discovery and exploration; European; Ethnic relations; Jay I. Kislak Collection (Library of Congress)
Other titles: Treasures of the Americas :; Cultures and history of the Americas.
Notes: "[C]elebrates the recent donation to the Library [of Congress] of the Jay I. Kislak Collection. The exhibition features 50 items from the more than 4,000 rare books, maps, documents, paintings, prints and artifacts relating to the early Americas from the time of the indigenous peoples of Mexico, Central America and the Caribbean through the period of European contact, exploration and settlement."--Page 79.

Published in conjuction with exhibition "The cultures and history of the Americas", held April 20-July 23, 2005, at the Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. The exhibition highlights some of the treasures of the Kisalk Collection.

The exhibition is a preview of the permanent Kislak space to open in the Northeast Galleries of the Thomas Jefferson Building.

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Online version of the exhibition is available at http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/kislak/.