Finding aid for the Alexander von Humboldt colored lithographs 0574

Sarah Jardini for History Associates Incorporated

USC Libraries Special Collections

2023 July

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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

Biographical / Historical

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.

Scope and Contents

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.

Conditions Governing Access

Advance notice required for access.

Conditions Governing Use

All requests for permission to publish or quote from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the Department of Special Collections at specol@usc.edu. Permission for publication is given on behalf of Special Collections as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which must also be obtained.

Rights Statement for Archival Description

Finding aid description and metadata are licensed under an Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) license.

Immediate Source of Acquisition

Purchased for the Boeckmann Center for Iberian and Latin American Studies.

Preferred Citation

[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