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

by 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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  • Primary Category: Reference
  • Project Option: 6×9 in, 15×23 cm
    # of Pages: 326
  • Isbn
    • Softcover: 9781006867088
    • Hardcover, Dust Jacket: 9781006867071
    • Hardcover, ImageWrap: 9781006867064
  • Publish Date: Apr 14, 2015
  • Language English
  • Keywords archaeology, Alice Dixon, Mexico, Maya
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About the Creator
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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 has carried-out ethnographic and archaeological research in Mexico and Guatemala for more than 50 years. He taught at the University of Minnesota, San Francisco State University, and College of San Mateo. Desmond has carried out ethnographic fieldwork at Santo Tomas Jalieza, Oaxaca, and archeological fieldwork including excavations, ground penetrating radar surveys , close range photogrammetry recording at Chichén Itzá, Uxmal, Labna, Dzbilchaltun, Pyramid of Izamal, and Balankanche Cave. Desmond's books, A Dream of Maya and Yucatán through her eyes are about the photography, writings and field work of Alice Dixon and Augustus Le Plongeon. Desmond's photos of Mexico are archived by Harvard's Peabody Museum, and of the Mesoamerican Archive and Research Project at the Getty Research Institute.

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