Review of The Invention of the Colonial Americas: Data, Architecture, and the Archive of the Indies, 1781-1844 by Byron Ellsworth Hamann. Getty Research Institute, August 2022. 328 p. ill. ISBN 978-1-60606-775-8 (h/c), $60.00. https://shop.getty.edu/products/the-invention-of-the-colonial-americas-data-architecture-and-the-archive-of-the-indies-1781-1844-978-1606067734. Reviewed September 2022 by Lane Goldszer, Research & Instruction Librarian, College for Creative Studies, lgoldszer@collegeforcreativestudies.edu.