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Archive for May 22nd, 2007

Archive of Early American Images

Posted by ccameron on May 22, 2007

Highlighting a free link to the image collection at the John Carter Brown Library at Brown University.   This is a database of graphic representations of the colonial Americas, from Hudson Bay to Tierra del Fuego, drawn entirely from primary sources printed or created between 1492 and ca. 1825. Instructions:
The homepage at http://www.jcbl.org will instruct you to download a viewer from Lunar Imaging to your desktop.
Open the Lunar Imaging software and select John Carter Brown Library.
Username: jcbresearcher; password: researcher. Choose online resources in the left frame and choose the archive to begin your search.

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