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Exhibits
The Latin American Library has an active schedule of exhibits and events throughout the academic year, which are held in the LAL gallery space on the 4th floor of Howard-Tilton Memorial Library.
Current Exhibit
- Recent Acquisitions at the Latin American Library: 2011-2012
This exhibit coincides with the Latin American Library’s Seventh Annual Open House and Book Sale, held on September 16, 2011. The cases contain a selection of noteworthy materials recently acquired by the Library in 2010-2011. These new acquisitions consist of printed works, photographs and microfilm on a wide variety of topics: colonial Andean history and early Andean linguistics, the history of newspapers and journalism, women’s studies, notarial culture, New World convents, colonial Central American history, the modern history and cultures of Honduras and Colombia, and much more.
Sadly, this past April, Mayanist scholar and artist Merle Greene Robertson passed away. Merle had a longstanding relationship with Tulane since the 1970s, and was a dear friend of the LAL. In turn, we are honored to be the repository of her life’s work.
This event was made possible through a generous endowment from the Zemurray Foundation to the Latin American Library in memory of Doris Zemurray Stone.
Past Exhibits
- Encounters with American Antiquity: Artists, Explorers, and Scholars at the Maya Ruins (1822-1930)(October 22, 2010 - February 28, 2011)
- See Cuba: A Century of Images from the Latin American Library, 1859-1959 (January 16-June 16, 2010)
- The Western Book in Spanish America (September - December, 2009)
- New Worlds of Food (April 1 - May 31, 2009)
- Maya Time Reckoning and the Language of Creation: Views from the Merle Greene Robertson Collection (February 6 – March 20, 2009 )
- Crescent City Connections: 200 Years of the Spanish-Language Press in the United States (December 5, 2008 -January 23, 2009)
- Taller Leñateros (August - November, 2008)
- Selected Brasiliana of the Latin American Library (March - April, 2008)
- Sacred Cenotes, Hidden Caverns: Fifty Years of Research in the Maya Area (February 13 – March 18, 2008)
- Shooting a Revolution: Photographs of Cuba (November 9 - 20, 2007)
- Travels to Haiti: A Voyage through Books and Maps (February - May, 2006)
- En Testimonio de Verdad: Scribes and Notarial Documents (April, 2005)
- Nahua Pictorial and Written Manuscripts (January, 2005)
- Between Race and Place (Prepared in conjunction with the Stone Center-sponsored conference, Nov., 2004 )
- Fifteen Centuries of Maya Literature from the Maya Lowlands (October - November, 2004)
- William Spratling: Sketches from Mexico (March, 2004)
- Caribbean Images (Spring, 2004)
- Reinventing Carnival in the Americas (Spring, 2004)
- Nativities/Nacimientos (December, 2003)
- Day of the Dead (October - November, 2002)
- Latin American Book Publisher and Dealer Catalogues(Summer, 2002)
- Tropicália: Brazilian Music and Culture of the 1960s (Winter - Spring, 2002)
- Historical Maps of Central America, Chiapas and Yucatán (Summer, 2001)
- Sidney David Markman Photographs of Antigua, Guatemala (Spring, 2001)
- Visions of Ecuador: Images from the Kelemen Collection (April - May, 2000)
- A Journey Through El Dorado: Images of Colombia from the Kelemen Collection (March - May, 2000)
- The Lost Churches of Sonora: Photographs from the Pál and Elisabeth Kelemen Collection (January - March, 2000)
- An Exhibition of the Partido Guatemalteco del Trabajo Papers (May, 1999)
- The Pearl of the Antilles and the Crescent City: Historic Maps of the Caribbean (January - February, 1999)
- Textiles of Guatemala (October, 1998)
- The Maya Rubbings of Merle Greene Robertson (January - June, 1997)
- The Feast of Espírito Santo in Portugal, the Azores Islands, and Brazil (May, 1996)
- A Sampler of Manuscripts and Photographs from the Latin American Library (April, 1996)
- The Paper Art of Mexico (May - September, 1994)
- Early Chronicles of the Americas in Manuscripts and Printed Books (July, 1991)