Latin American and Caribbean Studies

Descripción de la colección digital: John Carter Brown Library is an independently administered and funded center for advanced research in history and the humanities, founded in 1846 and located at Brown University since 1901.

Digital Projects:

- Archive of Early American Images
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.
- Spanish America Collection (https://archive.org/details/jcbspanishamerica)
The JCB Library has the largest collection in the world of books printed in Spanish America as a whole prior to ca. 1820, over 7,000 titles, encompassing the output of presses in Mexico, Peru, Central America, Argentina, Chile, and elsewhere.
- Haiti Collection
The John Carter Brown Library holds one of the world's great collections relating to Haiti. Our rare books, maps and newspapers tell the story of the founding of the French colony of Saint Domingue (once the most lucrative colony in the Americas), its demise through the Haitian Revolution (the world's only successful slave revolution) and the founding of Haiti in its place.
- Maps at the John Carter Brown Library
Maps of the Americas through 1825
- Código Brasiliense - John Carter Brown Library
- Indigenous Languages of the Americas (John Carter Brown Library)
An online bibliography of texts held in the JCB collections that can be browsed by language, genre or region; each record includes a link to the digital version of that text in the Internet Archive