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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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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Pizarro capturing Inca stronghold in Peru, 1533

Pizarro's assault on the Inca fortress of Sacsahuaman, Peru, 1533.
Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

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