Library Lens
Assuredly there is no stronger bond among men than the pure love of liberty and truth. In this common devotion, racial differences are forgotten and party strife ceases.When Truth and Liberty speak, all else is silent.
| So read the message engraved on parchment and sent from Georgetown University to the University of Caracas in 1920. It was hand-delivered by Georgetown students and faculty of the first study abroad trip taken by a United States university. Photographs from that trip are part of the new video, Library Lens on Latin America, produced by Library staff and presented at the John Carroll Awards weekend in Puerto Rico this April. The seven-minute video, which will be the first in a series, |
Included in Library Lens on Latin America was Virgin of Sorrows, anon., Peru, 18th C. Gift of Andrew Boemi, B'67. |
gives an overview of the Latin American holdings in the Library. Highlights include:
- Books, journals and digital media from the Library's general collections
- Documents and photographs related to the construction of the Panama Canal
- Manuscripts relating to the Jesuit Order in Paraguay
- A letter from Simón Bolívar to General Lafayette, thanking Lafayette for gifts he brought to Bolívar from George Washington's family
- Paintings, prints and devotional objects from Mexico, Brazil, Chile, and elsewhere in Latin America
The video was filmed throughout the Library and produced in the Gelardin New Media Center, using only the Library's staff, student, and technical resources. The video is available for online viewing on the Library's website.