SPAIN IN THE NEW WORLD:
An Exhibit of Texts and Images

MSU Libraries
October 5- November 30, 2001
Fourth Floor West - Main Library

The texts and images produced by the European participants in the unfolding of perhaps the most significant event of the European early Modern period, the discovery of the New World, and its subsequent exploration and colonization, are abundant and varied. They served to communicate, document, preserve, recount, rationalize, defend, decry, and above all, to express the overwhelming experience of the meeting of previously unknown worlds. These texts and images, and the later expressions of a transplanted Spanish culture and sensibilities, afford us a means towards better understanding of that distant encounter and its legacy in the Latin America we know today.

Produced by Mary Jo Zeter
with contributions by:
Kathleen Weesies, Mary Black and Terrie Wilson
Special thanks to Theresa Moore, Graphic Artist.