Latin America:Caribbean Gallery

Rio de Janeiro about 1700

Rio de Janeiro from the harbor while a Portuguese colony, circa 1700.
Hand-colored woodcut reproduction of an 18th-century illustration

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GATL2A-00009

Uncle Sam leading Cuba away from the Old World, saying, "That wicked man is going to gobble you up, my child," 1901.
Hand-colored woodcut of a 1901 illustration

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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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