Papers, 1827-1853 (bulk 1827-1832) [microform].

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Papers, 1827-1853 (bulk 1827-1832) [microform].

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Newspapers, receipts, publishing prospectuses, tracings, notes, some letters, an inventory of drawings, and a statistical chart, relating primarily to Waldeck's expedition to the ruins of Palenque and other sites in the Yucatan.

1 box ; 32 x 37 cm.

Texas State University-San Marcos, Albert B. Alkek Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 7111210

Texas State University-San Marcos, Albert B. Alkek Library

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Waldeck, Frédéric ˜deœ 1766-1875

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French traveller, artist, engraver, and Americanist. Waldeck, of German or Austrian origin, may have been born in Prague, Paris, or Vienna, in 1766. He travelled to Mexico in 1825 to work for a silver mining company, and later lived in Mexico City where he gave classes in painting and drawing. Throughout his travels in Mexico, he made drawings of the Indian antiquities and ruins, especially in Palenque and Uxmal between 1832 and 1835, and in 1837, back in Paris, where he...

Edward E. Ayer Collection (Newberry Library)

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