Introduction
Island 1: Discovery -- The New World in the Sixteenth Century
Island 2: Early Portuguese Settlements
Island 3: Brazil in the Seventeenth Century
Island 4: The Nineteenth Century -- Brazilian Independence and International Exploration
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Brazil:

A Quincentenary Exhibit

 originally displayed April-May 2000
Thomas Cooper Library, University of South Carolina

based on an exhibit by Patrick Scott
hypertext by Mila Tasseva

 image from Blaeu's Atlas

Detail from Willem Janssoon 
Blaeu's Le grand atlas
(see Island 3)

In April 2000 Brazil celebrated the five hundredth year since the first Portuguese landed on the coast of South America. Brazil would become not only the largest Portuguese-speaking nation in the world, but among the largest countries of any language and continent. 

Brazilian history is not an area in which the library has deliberately or recently built up rare collections. It is a tribute to the historical importance and quality of the original South Carolina College library, and to the generosity of more recent donors, that such an exhibition can be mounted for the Thomas Cooper Library special collections, and that it includes so many significant and beautiful items. 

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Updated 19 September 2002 by the Department of Rare Books and Special Collections.
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