Views of Maya ruins in the Yucatan. 1873.

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Views of Maya ruins in the Yucatan. 1873.

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Cabinet card views taken by archaeologist Augustus Le Plongeon and his wife, journalist Alice D. Le Plongeon, during their archaeological campaigns in the Yucatan peninsula. Included are general views of the ruins at Chichén Itzá and Uxmal (more than half are of the Nunnery Quadrangle), with many detailed views of sculptural reliefs. Augustus appears in two images, including one that shows him lounging against the Chac Mool statue that the couple discovered at Chichén Itzá. Nearly half of the views include Alice and/or native workers. Includes a studio portrait of Alice Le Plongeon.

42 photographic prints : collodion ; 10 x 15.5 cm. or smaller, on mounts 10.5 x 17.7 cm.

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Le Plongeon, Alice D. (Alice Dixon), 1851-1910

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Biographical/Historical Note Augustus Henry Julian Le Plongeon was born on Jersey, Channel Islands on May 4, 1826. After graduating from the Ecole Polytechnique in Paris he embarked on a series of adventures in the Americas, beginning with an attempt to sail to Chile with a friend in the late 1840s. Wrecked off the coast, they made their way to Valparaiso, Chile, where Le Plongeon took a position at a local college. When gold rush fever reach...

Le Plongeon, Augustus, 1826-1908

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French doctor and early archaeologist. From the description of Views of Maya ruins in the Yucatan. 1873. (Getty Research Institute). WorldCat record id: 419228157 Augustus Le Plongeon was a medical doctor, photographer, antiquarian, and amature archaeologist of French origins. In the early 1860s, after spending time in Chile and northern California, Le Plongeon moved to Lima, Peru, where he practiced medicine and photography, and became interested in Peruvian archaeology. On...