Views of Aztec, Maya, and Zapotec ruins in Mexico. 1859-1929.

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Views of Aztec, Maya, and Zapotec ruins in Mexico. 1859-1929.

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Views of Pre-Columbian architecture, monuments, carvings, and inscriptions in Mexico made by archaeologists and expeditionary photographers working in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Photographers include: Désiré Charnay (21); Garduño (1); Teobert Maler (21); Alfred P. Maudslay (3); and C. B. Waite (3). There are two photographs from C.I.F. (Catálogo internacional de fotografía), and six photographs by unidentified photographers. Sites depicted include: Teotihuacán, Tenochtitlán, and Santa Cecelia Acatitlán, Estado de Mexico; Teopanzolco, Morelos; Palenque, Chiapas; Mitla, Oaxaca; Chichén-Itza, Hochob, Ichpich, Tantah, and Uxmal, Yucatan.

59 photographic prints : albumen, gelatin developing out paper (d.o.p.) ; image 32 x 25 cm., on sheet 45 x 33 cm.

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Maler, Teobert, 1842-1914

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Charnay, Désiré 1828-1915

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Claude-Joseph-Désiré Charnay was a French photographer, archaeologist, and writer, best known for his travels and photographs of early South and Central American sites. Born in Fleurie, he travelled to New Orleans, where he became a teacher. He travelled extensively throughout Mexico and Central and South America, pioneering the use of photography to document his journeys and discoveries. He made several important finds, and published numerous books about his discoveries, as well as translatio...

Maudslay, Alfred Percival, 1850-1931

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Garduño.

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Catálogo internacional de fotografía.

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Waite, C. B. (Charles Burlingame)

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