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1986-1992 (Creation)
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Includes a 1986 edition of National Geographic: Our Search for the True Columbus Landfall, a 1992 edition of National Geographic: Search for Columbus, a pamphlet called "Columbus Menu" about food discovered in the New World, two copies of a program for an event held in Toronto (1992) called "The Renaissance Ball" put on by the Colombo Caboto Committee. Also includes a sketch of Cabot Tower by D. Power, a letter from the Chair of the Colombo Caboto Committee asking Penny Petrone to be an honorary member, one page of handwritten notes about inhabitants of the Americas before 1492, an advertisement for a library exhibition on pre-Contact civilizations, several photocopies of an article from The Globe and Mail about Columbus, an article from the Thunder Bay Art Gallery advertising an exhibition about Columbus, a marked up map of the Chicago Historical Society Museum, amd a visitors' guide to the "Native American Heritage" exhibit in Washington D.C. put on by the National Geographic Society. Further includes two 1991 newspaper clippings, one from The Chronicle Journal and one from The Sunday Sun, as well as pages from a 1992 article from The Chronicle Journal, all concerning Columbus. Additionally, an article on Columbus torn out of a magazine, and a program for the "Chicago Humanities Festival II: Culture Contact".