Precolumbian Sites Album
Scope and Content
This album contains prints depicting various precolumbian sites of Meso-America. Several significant architectural structures, today reconstructed, are shown prior to excavation and reconstruction. Locales included are Acambalam, Chiapas, Chichén-Itzá, Chunkanab, Hochab, Isla de Mujeres, Mitla, Nancuchich, Oaxaca, Palenque, Tantah, Tchpich, Uxmal, Xcakochna, Xkichmol, Xlottsal and Yucatan. Photographers represented are Alfred Percival Maudslay, C. B. Waite and Teobert Maler. Album is 11 1/4 x 14 1/4 in. and prints are 9 x 9 in, or smaller.
Also called Mesoamerican Sites Album.
Dates
- Creation: 1890-1905
Access Restrictions
The collection is open for research.
Copy Restrictions
Limited duplication of photographic material is allowed for research purposes. User is responsible for all copyright compliance. For more information see the Photographs and Images Research Guide and contact the Pictorial Archivist.
Extent
1 album (bound in brown leather, containing 49 photographic prints)
Language of Materials
Undetermined
Abstract
This album contains prints depicting various precolumbian sites of Meso-America.
Arrangement
Photographs are bound into the album, arranged by site.
Physical Location
B2. Shelved by Pictorial Number.
Precolumbian Sites Album Online
All of the photographs are available in the Precolumbian Sites Album, part of the Center for Southwest Research's digital Pictorial Collections.
- Title
- Finding Aid of the Precolumbian Sites Album, 1890-1905
- Status
- Edited Full Draft
- Author
- Pictorial Collections Staff
- Date
- © 2008
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Code for undetermined script
- Language of description note
- Finding aid is in English
Revision Statements
- Monday, 20210524: Attribute normal is missing or blank.
Repository Details
Part of the UNM Center for Southwest Research & Special Collections Repository
University Libraries, MSC05 3020
1 University of New Mexico
Albuquerque NM 87131
cswrref@unm.edu