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Ibiblio: 1492: An Ongoing Vogage: Inventing America

Curated by ACT

Archived exhibition reveals how European writers and mapmakers thought about America during the Age of Discovery. Describes the allegorical images Europeans sometimes used to portray America and features the Gutierrez map, drawn in 1562, which is full of depictions of giants, cannibals, mermaids, monkeys, and sea monsters.

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cartography
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history of cartography, history of mapmaking, ibiblio, travel narratives, age of discovery, age of exploration, gutierrez, iibiblio: 1492: an ongoing vogage: inventing america, pre-colonial period literature
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