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A Catalog of the 19th Century Photographs of Alice Dixon and Augustus Le Plongeon

de Lawrence G. Desmond

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This book is a catalog of 1,034 photographs taken by Alice Dixon and Augustus Le Plongeon in Yucatan, Mexico, and Belize from 1873 to 1885. The subjects photographed are: landscapes and cityscapes, colonial and ancient Maya architecture, bas-reliefs, birds, mammals, portraits, and ethnographic photos. The original photos are archived at: The American Museum of Natural History, the Donald Dixon album in London, the Getty Research Institute, the Peabody Museum at Harvard University, and the Philosophical Research Society in Los Angeles. Duplicates of the photos were made with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities (Grant RT-20746), and the duplicate photos can be viewed at the Wilson Library of the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill in the "Lawrence G. Desmond collection of Augustus Le Plongeon and Alice Dixon Le Plongeon Photographs." Collection ID number: 5268.
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  • Categoría principal: Referencia
  • Características: 15×23 cm
    N.º de páginas: 326
  • ISBN
    • Tapa blanda: 9781006867088
    • Tapa dura, sobrecubierta: 9781006867071
    • Tapa dura impresa: 9781006867064
  • Fecha de publicación: abr. 14, 2015
  • Idioma English
  • Palabras clave archaeology, Alice Dixon, Mexico, Maya
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Lawrence G. Desmond
California and Switzerland

Lawrence G. Desmond received a PhD in anthropology and archaeology from the University of Colorado-Boulder; an MA in anthropology from the Universidad de las Americas in Cholula, Mexico, and carried-out archaeological research in Mexico and Guatemala for more than 40 years. He taught at the University of Minnesota and San Francisco State University. His books, "A Dream of Maya" and "Yucatán through her eyes," are about the 1870s photography and studies of the ancient Maya by Alice and Augustus Le Plongeon. His photos of Mexico and Guatemala are at Harvard University's Peabody Museum, photos of the Moses Mesoamerican Archive and Research Project are at the Getty Research Institute, archaeology project photos and research materials at Tulane University, earliest photos at the Bancroft Library at UC-Berkeley. He is a senior research fellow in archaeology with the MMARP at Harvard University, and a research associate with the Dept. of Anthropology at the California Academy of Sciences.

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