Journal et nottes [sic] du voyage aux ruines del Palenque : années 1832,33 / par Jean Frederic Waldeck. 1834-1853.

Newberry Library

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The Newberry was founded on July 1, 1887 and opened for business on September 6 of that year. The Newberry’s establishment came about because of a contingent provision in the will of Chicago businessman Walter L. Newberry (1804-68), which left what later amounted to approximately $2.2 million for the foundation of a “free, public” library on the north side of the Chicago River, if his two children died without issue. After the deaths of Mr. Newberry’s daughters and then, in 1885, of his widow, t...

Edward E. Ayer Manuscript Collection (Newberry Library)

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Stephens, John L., 1805-1852

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New Jersey author. From the description of Letter to [ ? ] Sargeant [manuscript], 1841-1843. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647812236 Appointed Special Ambassador to Central America by United States president Martin Van Buren, Stephens arrived in Belize in October 1839, and he traveled through Zacapa, Guatemala not long after. From the description of Some words of the Chorti language of Zacapa / collected by John L. Stephens, 1839. [between 1851 an...

Catherwood, Frederick.

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Catherwood, with John Lloyd Stephens, traveled to Central America October 1839-July 1840 and again from the autumn of 1841 through June 1842. Catherwood completed this work (part of a survey of Mayan civilization) during the second expedition when he visited Kabah. The expeditions' fruit included two books, Incident of travel in Central America : Chiapas and the Yucatan (1841) and Incidents of travel in the Yucatan (1843). Catherwood also published a smaller work in 1844, Views of ancient monume...

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...