Miscellaneous papers relating to the excavation of Maya ruins, circa 1880-1900.

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Miscellaneous papers relating to the excavation of Maya ruins, circa 1880-1900.

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The collection chronicles young Edmund Lincoln's experiences during the Peabody Museum's second archaeological expedition to Copán, Guatemala. Manuscript materials include Lincoln's travel diary, three letters to his cousin Hannah Lincoln, two manuscripts, and a typescript. There are three photograph albums (containing 25, 95, and 122 photographs), and 32 loose photographs.

3.5 linear feet (5 boxes)

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SNAC Resource ID: 8240198

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Owens, J. G. (John G.), -1893

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Peabody Museum of American Archaeology and Ethnology.

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Waite, C. B. (Charles Betts), 1861-1927

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C.B. Waite (circa 1860-1929) was a traveling photographer in the American Southwest and Mexico. From the description of C.B. Waite photographs of Mexico, circa 1900s-1920s. (Brigham Young University). WorldCat record id: 221164714 ...

Lincoln, Edmund 1870-

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Edmund Lincoln served as photographer and assistant to Harvard University's Peabody Museum of American Archaeology and Ethnology's second archaeological expedition to Copán, Guatemala in 1892-1893. From the description of Miscellaneous papers relating to the excavation of Maya ruins, circa 1880-1900. (Getty Research Institute). WorldCat record id: 80147479 ...

Shorkley, George, 1871-1945.

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Gordon, G. B. (George Byron), 1870-1927

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Sir Leonard Woolley directed the excavations at Ur in southern Iraq from 1922 to 1934 for the Joint Expedition of the British Museum and the University of Pennsylvania Museum. As part of this involvement, the University of Pennsylvania Museum sent Leon Legrain, Curator of the Babylonian Section, as a cuneiformist during the 1924–1925 and 1925–1926 seasons. Most of the records of the Ur expedition are located at the British Museum. The Museum Archives hold only a few records. From the...