Mirror-Travels Obsidian

Obsidian
Mirror-Travels
Refracting Ancient
Mexican Art and
Archaeology
1. Frontispiece
Anonymous
Lithograph
Vicente Riva Palacio, ed., México a través de los siglos..., vol. 1
(Barcelona, 1888–1889)
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2. Front cover
Anonymous
Color media on cloth
Vicente Riva Palacio, ed., México a través de los siglos..., vol. 2
(Barcelona, 1888–1889)
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3. Atlas title page
Genaro Lopéz
Lithograph
Alfredo Chavero, Antigüedades mexicanas (Mexico City, 1892)
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4. The Aztec Calendar Stone
Francisco de Agüera
Engraving
Antonio de León y Gama, Descripción histórica y cronológica de las
dos piedras... que se esta formando en la plaza principal de México...
(Mexico City, 1832), pl.2
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5. Archway, Casa del Gobernador, Uxmal
Andrew Picken after Frederick Catherwood
Chromolithograph
Frederick Catherwood, Views of Ancient Monuments in Central
America, Chiapas and Yucatan (London, 1844), pl. 10
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6. Carta histórica y arqueológica
Mexico City, 1885
Antonio García Cubas
Color lithograph
Atlas pintoresco y histórico de los Estados Unidos Mexicanos
(Mexico, 1885), pl. 10
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7. Section of the Vienna Codex
Unknown
Hand-colored etching and aquatint
Alexander von Humboldt, Vues des Cordilleres, et monumens des
peuples indigenes de l’Amerique (Paris, 1810), pl. 47
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8. Parade float from President Porfirio Díaz’s visit to Yucatan
Merída, 1906
F. Gómez Rul (Mexican, active 1900s)
Gelatin silver print
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9. The Raymond Special on the Metlac Bridge, Veracruz, Mexico, ca. 1897
Charles Burlingame Waite
Gelatin silver print
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