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1492: An Ongoing Voyage
August 13, 1992-February 14, 1993
Examines the first sustained contacts between Native American peoples and European explorers, conquerors, and settlers between 1492 and 1600.
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American Treasures of the Library of Congress
May 5, 1997-August 18, 2007
Provides unique insight into various aspects of American history and culture. Objects displayed are organized according to the three categories that Thomas Jefferson used for his library: memory, reason, and imagination.
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Books That Shaped America
June 25–September 29, 2012
Marks a starting point—a way to spark a national conversation on books and their important in Americans' lives, and, indeed, in shaping our nation. This exhibition will preface the National Book Festival scheduled in September 2012.
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Creating the United States
April 12, 2008–May 5, 2012
Offers insights into how the nation’s founding documents were forged and the role that imagination and vision played in the unprecedented creative act of forming a self–governing country.
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Earth As Art 3: A Landsat Perspective
May 31, 2011–May 31, 2012
Showcases Landsat 7 images created by the United States Geological Survey. Since 1972, Landsat satellites have collected from space information about Earth’s continents and coastal areas.
Earth as Art: A Landsat Perspective
July 23, 2002-July 3, 2005
Showcases images from the collection of Landsat photographs held in the Geography and Map Division that have been selected for aesthetic rather than scientific value.
Exploring the Early Americas
Ongoing exhibition, opened December 12, 2007.
Features selections from the Jay I. Kislak Collection to examine indigenous cultures, the drama of the encounters between Native Americans and Europeans, and the changes caused by the meeting of the two worlds.
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Language of the Land: Journeys Into Literary America
August 5, 1993-January 18, 1994
Offers a tour of four sections of the United States through literary maps that focus on geographical areas, individual authors, and particular works. Features passages from authors whose works are rooted in a particular place as well as images of the places.
Los Angeles Mapped
January 28, 2006-January 2007
Shows historical maps of Los Angeles from the Library’s Geography and Map Division. These diverse works provide a guide to some remarkable stories of the city’s history.
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Maps in Our Lives
September 14, 2005-August 19, 2009
Explores surveying, cartography, geodesy, and geographic information systems. It draws on the Library’s American Congress on Surveying and Mapping Collection as well as on historic maps.
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World Treasures of the Library of Congress: Beginnings
June 7, 2001-March 15, 2003
Looks at how various cultures explained the beginning of the world, depicted the first human beings, and defined the heavens and the earth by drawing upon unique items from the Library’s international collections in more than 450 languages.
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