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Edgar L. Hewett Photographs and Ephemera Collection
Collection
Identifier: PAAC-056
Scope and Content
Collection of photographs, photographic negatives, photo albums, postcards, and ephemera collected by Edgar Lee Hewett. Content includes travels, archaeological expeditions, mementoes, and images of friends and family. While the collection is closely associated with Hewett, materials given to or collected by Hewett are intefiled with material he created. Additionally, other collections material from the School for Advanced Research, the Archaeological Institute of America, and the...
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1906 - 1940; 1860 - 1959
Views of Central America Photograph Album
Collection
Identifier: PAAC-0084
Scope and Contents / Alcance y Contenido
This collection consists of an album of 63 photographs. When it was bound it was entitled “Views of Central America and Mexico”. However, it is important to note that most of the photographs, if not all, were taken in Guatemala during the late 19th century, which was an important economic transition period in Guatemalan history. These photographs include villages, towns, churches, architecture, landscapes, volcanoes, coffee plantations and portraits of Indigenous people. The photographs in this...
Dates:
ca. 1877 - 1885
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- Antigua (Guatemala) 1
- Archeology 1
- Church buildings -- Latin America -- Photographs 1
- City and town life -- Latin America -- 19th century -- Pictorial works 1
- Coffee plantation workers 1
- Costa Cuca (Guatemala : Coast) 1
- Egypt 1
- Escuintla (Guatemala) 1
- Farmers -- Latin America 1
- Guatemala -- Pictorial Works 1
- Indian art 1
- Indian women -- Central America -- Photographs 1
- Indians of Central America -- Clothing -- Guatemala 1
- Indigenous peoples--Central America--Social Conditions 1
- Landscape photography -- Latin America -- 19th century -- Pictorial works 1
- Mayas -- History 1
- Mesa Verde 1
- Mexico 1
- Museums - New Mexico 1
- New Mexico - History 1
- Photographs 1
- Plazas -- Guatemala 1
- Pueblos 1
- Railroad trains -- Photographs 1
- Rock art 1
- Turkey 1
- Volcanoes -- Guatemala 1 ∧ less
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- Barrios, Justo Rufino, 1835-1885 1
- Hewett, Edgar L. (Edgar Lee), 1865-1946 1
- Sarkis Shmavonian Rare Books (Berkeley, Calif.) 1
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