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2006.R.7
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Contributing Institution: Special Collections
Title: Varias fotografias
Creator: Briquet, Abel
Identifier/Call Number: 2006.R.7
Physical Description: 1 album(s)(168 photomechanical prints)
Date (inclusive): circa 1890
Abstract: The album contains collotypes of Mexican antiquities, primarily Mesoamerican ceramic or stone objects, as well as two colonial
pieces. Most of the objects were photographed while on display in the former Museo Nacional de México. Also included are two
views of the Pyramid of the Niches at the Totonac site of El Tajin.
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Language of Material: Spanish; Castilian.
Open for use by qualified researchers.
Acquired in 2006.
The collection was digitzed by the repository in 2016 and the images are available online:
http://hdl.handle.net/10020/2006r7
Arranged in a single series:
Series I. Varias fotografias, circa 1890.
Varias fotografias, circa 1890, Research Library, The Getty Research Institute, Accession no. 2006.R.7.
http://hdl.handle.net/10020/cifa2006r7
Processed by Beth Ann Guynn
Scope and Content of Collection
The album contains collotypes of Mexican antiquities, primarily Mesoamerican ceramic or stone objects, as well as two colonial
pieces. Most of the objects were photographed while on display in the former Museo Nacional de México. Many of them are numbered
either on the object itself or on their bases, and a scale is often included in the image. Several objects are represented
in two or more views, either in the same image or in separate images. Also included are two views of the Pyramid of the Niches
at the Totonac site of El Tajin.
The objects depicted include a wide array of human, god, and animal figures (dogs, frogs, fish, jaguars, crocodiles, snakes,
tigers, etc.), as well as relief sculptures and musical instruments. Captions indicate that the objects came from Veracruz,
Santiago Tlatelolco, Tula, Oaxaca, Puebla, Tehuantepec, and Texcoco, and that they represent the Aztec, Zapotec, Toltec, and
Tlaxcalan cultures.
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Subjects and Indexing Terms
Oaxaca (Mexico) -- Antiquities
Puebla (Mexico) -- Antiquities
Tajin Site (Mexico)
Tehuantepec, Isthmus of (Mexico) -- Antiquities
Photolithographs -- Mexico -- 19th century
Aztec sculpture -- Mexico
Totonac architecture
Veracruz-Llave (Mexico : State) -- Antiquities
Collotypes -- Mexico -- 19th century
Texcoco de Mora (Mexico) -- Antiquities
Photomechanical prints -- Mexico -- 19th century
Tlateloco (Mexico) -- Antiquities
Photographs, Original
Tlaxcala (Mexico : State) -- Antiquities
Tula de Allende (Mexico) -- Antiquities
Museo Nacional de México