Thompson, EdwardHerbert, Collection of Negatives, 1888-1931: A Finding Aid (1860-1935). 188-1931

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Thompson, EdwardHerbert, Collection of Negatives, 1888-1931: A Finding Aid (1860-1935). 188-1931

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This collection contains negatives of photographs taken by E. H.Thompson during his explorations of the Yucatán Peninsula (1889-1908), Minnesota (1902), and Utah (1931). Many of the photographs are of Mayan artifacts (wooden, ceramic, and stone),Mayan ruins, ancient and contemporary architecture, engravings, and landscapes.

146 negatives

Peabody Museum Archives, Harvard University

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Thompson, Edward Herbert, 1860-1935

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Edward Herbert Thompson was born in Worcester, Massachusetts in 1860, and his family lineage in New England can be traced to colonial times. His paternal grandmother was a favorite niece of General Israel Putnam (or 'Old Put',) who fought at the Battle of Bunker Hill. As a small boy, Thompson's mother, a student of the artist Gladwin, planted the archaeological seed when they would search for arrowheads at the bottom of brooks near their summer home in Athol. At his uncle's farm, he...