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Spain) Exposición Histórico-Americana (1892 : Madrid
A major cultural exhibition in Madrid, this 1892 publication captures a wide-ranging effort to mark the four hundredth anniversary of the European encounter with the Americas. It offers a window into how history, collecting, and national display came together at the end of the 19th century.
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Catalogo de los Objetos Etnologicos y Arqueologicos Exhibidos por la Expedición Hemenway
by Jesse Walter Fewkes, Adolph Francis Alphonse Bandelier, Spain) Exposición Histórico-Americana (1892 : Madrid, United States. Commission to the Madrid Exposition (1892- )
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Published in 1893, this catalog is credited to the Exposición Histórico-Americana (1892: Madrid, Spain) rather than to a single named author. It documents the Historical American Exposition held in Madrid in 1892, an event organized as part of the commemoration of the 400th anniversary of Columbus’s 1492 voyage.
As a work, it reflects the collaborative nature of a large international exhibition: objects, documents, and collections were assembled to present the history of the Americas through a late-19th-century Spanish lens. That makes the catalog useful not only as a reference to the exhibition itself, but also as a record of how museums, officials, and scholars of the time chose to represent the past.
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