Major Otto Holstein photographs from Chan Chan, Peru

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Major Otto Holstein photographs from Chan Chan, Peru

1925-1926

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Photographic prints and copy negatives made by Major Otto Holstein in and around the ruins of Chan Chan, Peru between 1925 and 1926. Some of these photographs were later used by Holstein to illustrate his article publication "Chan-Chan: Capital of the Great Chimu" in the American Geographical Society's publication Geographical Review.

425 Photographic prints; 68 Copy negatives

National Museum of the American Indian (U.S.) Archive Center

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National Museum of the American Indian (U.S.) Archive Center

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Tello, Julio C. (Julio César), 1880-1947

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Holstein, Otto, 1883-1934.

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American Geographical Society of New York

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The American Geographical Society, also known as the AGS, is an organization of professional geographers, founded in 1851 in New York City. It was founded by a group of New Yorkers, among them philanthropists, historians, publishers and editors. They included George Folsom, Henry Grinnell, Henry Varnum Poor, Hiram Barney, Alexander Isaac Cotheal, Henry Evelyn Pierrepont, S. De Witt Bloodgood, John Romeyn Brodhead, Joshua Leavitt and Archibald Russell....