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The Columbian Exchange: Plants, Animals, and Disease between the Old and New Worlds Alfred W. Crosby, Professor Emeritus, University of Texas at Austin ©National Humanities Center Illustration Credits | |
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Jaguar in a Rainforest | Digital Imagery © 2001 PhotoDisc, Inc.
Photographers: Alan and Sandy Carey |
Leopard | Digital Imagery © 2001 PhotoDisc, Inc.
Photographer: James Gritz |
Jodocus Hondius, "Designatio Orbis Christiani," 1607, place of origin unknown. | Yale University Library Map Collection |
"America," mapmaker unknown, 1586. Relief shown pictorially. "American anno Dm 1492 a Christophoro Columbo nomine Regis Castellae primum detecta." Includes inset portraits of Christopher Columbus and Queen Isabella, and a tableau featuring a ship, flying fish, explorers and natives in costume. | Reed College Library Special Collections |
Tapir | Digital Imagery © 2001 PhotoDisc, Inc.
Photographers: Albert J. Copley |
Elephant | Digital Imagery © 2001 PhotoDisc, Inc.
Photographer: Jeremy Woodhouse |
Rattlesnake | Digital Imagery © 2001 PhotoDisc, Inc.
Photographer: Adalberto Rios Szalay/SextcSol |
Camel | Digital Imagery © 2001 PhotoDisc, Inc.
Photographer: Sami Sarkis |
Plants cultivated by Native American farmers and unknown to Europeans before Columbus. Classe XXI. Monoecia syngenesia; by C. G. Giesslev, after engraving by Johann Gessner, Tabulae Phytographicae, Vol. II. Zurich, 1804. | Rare Books and Special Collections
Division, Library of Congress
LC-USZC4-5362 |
"Ananas cosmosus" [pineapple], in Gonzalo Fernández de Oviedo y Valdés, La historia general de las Indias, Book 8. Seville, 1535. | Rare Books and Special Collections
Division, Library of Congress
LC-USZC4-5349 |
"Lactuca capitata. Cabbage Lettuce," in John Gerard, The herball, or the Generall historie of plantes. London, 1633. | Schoenberg Center for Electronic Text and Image, University of Pennsylvania Library |
"Allocamelus" [llama], in Edward Topsell, The History of Four-Footed Beasts and Serpents and Insects. London, 1607, 1658. | Da Capo Press? |
Horse, in Carol Ruini, Dell'anotomia et dell'infirmità del cavallo. Bologna, 1598. | Rare Books and Special Collections
Division, Library of Congress
LC-USZC4-5305 |
Theodor de Bry, "The Towne of Secota," after a drawing by John White, in Thomas Hariot, A Briefe and True Report of the New Found Land of Virginia. Frankfurt, 1590. | Rare Books and Special Collections
Division, Library of Congress
LC-USZC4-5267 |
[Cheerios] | PictureQuest |
"Epidemic of smallpox in Mexico," in Bernardino de Sahagún, Historia general de las cosas de Nueva España [General History of the Things of New Spain, known as the Florentine Codex], Vol. 4, Book 12; c. 1575-80. | James Lockhart, ed., tr. We People Here: Nahuatl Accounts of the Conquest of Mexico. University of California Press, 1993, p. 185. |
Dead Africanized honey bees, Las Vegas, Nevada, May 2000. | Steve Marcus / Las Vegas Sun. |
Zebra mussels attached to a single threehorn wartyback mussel, Illinois River, 1993 | Illinois Natural History Survey |
Soldiers on horseback, fig. 41 of image series captioned "The Spaniards enter Mexico," in Bernardino de Sahagún, Historia general de las cosas de Nueva España [General History of the Things of New Spain, known as the Florentine Codex], Vol. 4, Book 12; c. 1575-80. | James Lockhart, ed., tr. We People Here: Nahuatl Accounts of the Conquest of Mexico. University of California Press, 1993, p. 3. |
Jaune Quick-To-See Smith, "The Red Mean: Self Portrait," 1992; part of the artist's series "The Quincentenary Non-Celebration." | Smith College Museum of Art, Northampton, Massachusetts; purchased, Janet W. Ketcham Fund, 1993. Courtesy Bernice Steinbaum Gallery, Miami, Florida. |
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