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Contributing Institution:
USC Libraries Special Collections
Title: Alexander von Humboldt colored lithographs
Creator:
University of Southern California. Boeckmann Center for Iberian and Latin American Studies
Creator:
Humboldt, Alexander von, 1769-1859
Identifier/Call Number: 0574
Identifier/Call Number: /repositories/3/resources/3421
Physical Description:
0.02 Linear Feet
1 oversize folder
Date: 1813
Abstract: Collection consists of four color lithographs from von Humboldt's 1813 book Vues des Cordillères, et monumens des peuples
indigènes de l'Amérique.
Language of Material:
French.
Container: 1
Alexander von Humboldt (1769-1859) was a German scientific explorer and ethnographer who in 1799-1804 took a research trip
through the Spanish colonies in the New World and encountered various peoples, cultures and social groups: missionary Native
peoples in the Venezuelan rainforest, enslaved Africans on Cuba's sugar plantations, and a mixed race upper class in the capital
of Mexico.
Collection consists of four color lithographs from von Humboldt's 1813 book Vues des Cordillères, et monumens des peuples
indigènes de l'Amérique. The lithographs depict indigenous peoples of Michoacan in their traditional dress, the Penipé Cordage
Bridge, and a river raft near Guayaquil, Ecuador.
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Immediate Source of Acquisition
Purchased for the Boeckmann Center for Iberian and Latin American Studies.
[Box/folder no. or item name], Alexander von Humboldt colored lithographs, Collection no. 0574, Boeckmann Center for Iberian
and Latin American Studies, Special Collections, USC Libraries, University of Southern California
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Ethnology
Lithographs
Mexico -- History -- Archival resources