Series 1: Middle American Research Institute administrative documents and photographs. circa 1924-1940
Administrative documents (including plans for the Institute), circa 1924-1940
Photographs and postcards, circa 1929-1940
Scrapbooks/photo albums (2), circa 1929-1940
Series 2: Biographical and personal papers and photographs. circa 1890-1942
Personal documents and records, circa 1920-1942
Articles about Blom, circa 1920-1942
Clippings about Blom, circa 1920-1942
Annotated map of Denmark, circa 1930
Blom family photo album (Denmark), circa 1918-1923
Blom family photo album (Denmark), circa 1905-1914
Photo album and scrapbook, circa 1914-1929 (circa 1921-1929)
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Pages from personal scrapbook, circa 1925-1940
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Portraits of Frans Blom, circa 1920-1935
Photographs of Blom's apartment in New Orleans, circa 1930
Photographs of Mary (Thomas) Blom, circa 1935
Photographic prints and negatives of Mill Neck Manor in Great Neck, New York (home of Mary's mother, Lillian Sefton Thomas), circa 1935
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Photograph of the corner of Diego Rivera's Cortez mural (Motolinia), circa 1935
Blom's Danish Scouting photo albums (2), circa 1912
Photographs and photo albums of Blom's Danish family, circa 1890-1925
Photo album and photographic negatives of Blom in Danish Navy during World War I, circa 1914-1918
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Personal photo album: New Orleans and Louisiana, circa 1925-1935
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Photographic negatives of New Orleans, circa 1935
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Personal photo albums of various travels, circa 1930-1935
Photographic negatives of travel from New York to Paris and on the S.S. Normandie to Holland and Sweden, circa 1932-1935
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Photographs by P. Ingemann Sekal (of folk art in the 1930s), circa 1930-1937
Woodcut? depicting Temple of the Turtles, Uxmal (unknown creator), circa 1930
Series 3: Correspondence. circa 1920-1942, undated
Incoming professional correspondence, circa 1920-1942, undated
Correspondence with family, 1919-1924,
Series 4: Expeditions and travels. circa 1907-1941
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Subseries 1.1: Early years in Mexico. circa 1919-1924
Notebook, Las Chinampas, 1919
Notebook, 1920
Notebook, CMPA, Mexican Eagle Oil Company, Veracruz, 1919-1921
Diary in letters from Mexico (Breve fra Mexico), 1919-1921
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Notebooks/diaries, Veracruz, Mexico, 1921
Pages from photo album, Mexico, 1919
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Photo album, Mexico, 1919-1921
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Loose photographs from Blom's early years in Mexico, circa 1919-1923
Photographic negatives of Blom's early years in Mexico, circa 1919-1923
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Loose photographs from Blom's early years in Mexico, circa 1919-1923
Diary, Rio Nanchital, de la Venta, Pedragal Expedition, January-March 1922
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Diary fragment, with inventory of camp equipment, 1922
Travel diary, Tabasco, Chiapas, March-July 1922
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Diary in letters from Mexico, Palenque May 1922-February 1923
Las Ruinas de Palenque by Frans Blom (for the Direccion de Antropologia; typescript with photographs), 1923
Travel diary, Palenque Ruins, Chiapas, December 1922-September 1923
Palenque notebooks, circa 1922-1923
Palenque photo album, circa 1922-1923
Diary in letters from Mexico, 1921-1923
Diary in letters from Mexico, 1923-1924
Subseries 1.2: Carnegie Institution Expedition to Guatemala and National Geographic Pueblo Bonito Expedition. 1924
Notebooks, Carnegie Institution of Washington Middle American Archaeological Research, Guatemala, 1924
Report on the Ruins of Uaxactun and other Ruins in the Department of Peten, Guatemala (to the Carnegie Institution of Washington; typescript with photographs), 1924
Photo album: National Geographic Society, 1924 Pueblo Bonito Expedition, 1924
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Photographic negatives of the National Geographic Society, 1924 Pueblo Bonito Expedition, 1924
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Subseries 1.3: First Tulane Expedition to Middle America. 1925
Diary of Frans Blom on First Tulane Expedition to Middle America, 1925
First Tulane Expedition to Middle America, Report VI, 1925
Personal narrative on First Tulane Expedition to Middle America, 1925
Subseries 1.4: Third Tulane Expedition. 1927
Diary of Oliver La Farge, Third Tulane Expedition, 1927
Subseries 1.5: John Geddings Gray Memorial Expedition. 1928
Scrapbook of the John Geddings Gray Memorial Expedition, 1928
Diary of the John Geddings Gray Memorial Expedition, 1928
John Bristow, Jr.'s field notes for the John Geddings Gray Memorial Expedition, 1928
Webster McBryde diary of the John Geddings Gray Memorial Expedition, 1928
Field letters for the John Geddings Gray Memorial Expedition, 1928
Preliminary report of the John Geddings Gray Memorial Expedition, 1928
Trails and No Tears: Through the Maya Country with the John Geddings Gray Memorial Expedition (typed mss, with photographs), 1928
John Geddings Gray Memorial Expedition, assorted, 1928
Photograph of expedition team of the John Geddings Gray Memorial Expedition, 1928
Subseries 1.6: Uxmal Expedition and Chicago World's Fair. 1930-1933
Notebook: The Ruins of Uxmal in Yucatan (for the Chicago World's Fair), 1930
The Ruins of Uxmal in Yucatan, loose photographs, 1930
The Ruins of Uxmal in Yucatan, speech and loose documents, 1930
Field letters, Uxmal Expedition, 1930
Notes and other materials, Uxmal Expedition, 1930
A Trip to the Ruins of Kaba, Sayil and Labna...(Uxmal Expedition for Chicago World's Fair), 1930
Recent explorations in Uxmal, Yucatan (Americanist Congress, Hamburg), 1930
Articles on the Uxmal expedition, 1930-1932
Nunnery at Uxmal, Yucatan, circa 1930
1933 Chicago World's Fair materials (on replica of Nunnery at Uxmal), circa 1933
Photo album: 1933 Chicago World's Fair, circa 1933
Photographic negatives of the Chicago World's Fair, circa 1933-1934
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Photograph of Curiaco Aguilar, field assistant to Blom on the Uxmal Expedition, circa 1933
Annotated copy of Eduard Seler's 1917 book Die Ruinen von Uxmal (used by the Uxmal Expedition of 1930), circa 1930
Copy of Illustrated News of London with article on Uxmal expedition, 1930
Subseries 1.7: Tulane Expedition to Honduras and Guatemala. 1935
Jens Yde's report: An Archaeological Reconnaisance of Northwestern Honduras, Tulane Expedition, circa 1935
Diary of 1935 Tulane Expedition by Matilda Geldings Gray, 1935
Diary of Frans Blom, Republic of Honduras, February 1935-March 1935
Diaries and photo albums of Honduras and Guatemala Expeditions (3 volumes; typescripts with photographs), 1935
Fragment of diary, Honduras, 1935
Alphabetical file of photographs of Central America, circa 1935
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Small photo album with images of the area in and around the San Clemente ruins, circa 1935
Loose photographic prints of Guatemala/Honduras, circa 1935
Five small albums of contact prints of images of Guatemala, 1937
Subseries 1.8: Assorted other travel and research. 1913-1941
Notebook, Biblioteque Royale de Belgique, 1913
Photo album, Mexico, 1932-1934
Assorted photographs of Chiapas and Oaxaca (mostly from 1941), circa 1941
Annotated map of Southern Mexico and Guatemala, undated
Early map of the Yucatan (with notes and analysis by Frans Blom), undated
Map of the Maya Area and adjacent regions, with hand-drawn route annotations from 1921-1928, 1924-1928
Map of La Peninsula de Yucatan, with hand-drawn route annotations, circa 1907-1935
Series 5: Writings and research. circa 1922-1940
Assorted manuscripts, typescripts, and reprints of short articles, stories, and speeches, circa 1922-1940
In the Shadow of Volcanos! A Trip through the past and present of Guatemala (typescript), 1937
Conquest of the Yucatan (typescript), undated
Conquest of Maya (typescript), undated
An Album of Mayan Art and Civilization, compiled by Frans Blom; manuscript draft?) circa 1941
Assorted unindentified manuscripts and fragments, undated
Assorted Danish writings, undated
Card file index (mostly arranged by subjects of Blom's research; includes one cardfile box (4) of unidentified cards), undated
The Story of Architecture in the Mayan Era: A Dissertation (by Gerhardt Kramer), 1935
Gerhardt Kramer articles in the Walther League Messenger, 1930-1934
Ruins in the State of Chiapas (unknown author), undated
Report on the Flights over the Peninsula at Yucatan by Colonel Lindbergh on October sixth, seventh, and eight, 1929 (by O.G. Ricketson, Jr.), circa 1929
Report of Archaeology Reconnaissance Survey of the Indian Mounts and Relics in Spanish Honduras, Central American (by R.A. Steinmayer), undated
Protection against common tropical diseases (by Ernest Carrol Faust), undated
Fifty Years of Maya Research (by Dr. P. Schellhas), circa 1935
Amatitlan. The place where the Amatles stay: An Indian Story of to-day (by Frank h. Schmolck; translated by Francis Bennet), 1937
A Geographical List of American Indian Tribes and Bibliographic Notes on the Maya Indians (both by Levon Harris Arpee), 1936
Mapping Mayan Cities in Yucatan (by Robert Merrill), 1936
Land of Gog and Magog and A Lesson from the Mighty Choctaw(by Oliver La Farge), 1926, undated
Assorted writings by others, undated
Cronica de Calkini (transcription and notes by Ralph Roys), 1929
Yucatan letters (unidentified), 1804-1808, undated
Yucatan letters (unidentified), 1804-1808, undated
The Book of Chilam Balam of Tizimin, undated
The Book of Chilam Balam of Kava, undated
Titulos de Ebtun (transcribed and edited by Ralph L. Roys), 1931
Cronica de Nakuk Pech (1526), undated
Guerra de Castas, Chiapas, 1870, undated
Transcription and translation of 1561 Mayan manuscript (by Alfred Tozzer), 1920
Diego de Cardenas, Conquista de los Indios Lacandones, 1637, undated
Series 8: Printed material. circa 1922-1942
Corridos and woodcuts from El Incendio Press, Oaxaca, Mexico, circa 1900-1940
Printed articles on American archaeology from National Geographic Magazine, circa 1913-1923
Danish printed material, circa 1920-1942
Catalogs, reports and other printed items for archaeology and related fields, circa 1920-1942
Carnegie Institution Reports with notes by Blom, circa 1932-1934
Printed ephemera from the Chicago World's Fair, circa 1933
Designs adapted from the Indians of America by George Warrington Bass, undated
Mayan Masks and Figurines Calendar (creator unknown), 1934
Assorted printed material, undated
Series 9: Notes and sketches. circa 1915-1942
Assorted notes, circa 1915-1942
Sketchbooks, sketches, and illustrations, undated
Series 10: Appointment books, miscellany, and unidentified material. circa 1915-1942
Appointment books, 1935-1940
Miscellany, circa 1920-1940
Miscellaneous personal photographs, undated
Unidentified personal photographs, circa 1920-1940
Unidentified photographic negatives (mostly personal images), circa 1920-1940
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Unidentified archaeological shards/small objects, circa 1920-1940