Latin America:Caribbean Gallery

EXPL2A-00294

Tenochtitlan, capital city of Aztec Mexico, an Island connected by causeways to land, 1520s.
Hand-colored 19th-century woodcut reproduction of an early Spanish colonial map

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Ambrosio O'Higgins, Viceroy of Peru

Don Ambrosio O'Higgins, Spanish colonial administrator of Peru and of Chile.
Hand-colored woodcut reproduction of a 18th-century illustration

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Spanish attacked by Aztec warriors during La Noche Triste

La Noche Triste. when Aztec soldiers overwhelmed Cortes's forces in Tenochtitlan.
Printed color lithograph of a 19th-century painting by O. Graeff

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