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Copán Site (Honduras) -- Photographs

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:

Edwin Ferdon slides and negatives of Mesoamerica and Southern Mexico

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 3250
Scope and Contents

249 slides and 287 nitrate negatives of Mesoamerican/Southern Mexico from 1906-1956.

Dates: 1906-1956
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / Edwin Ferdon slides and negatives of Mesoamerica and Southern Mexico

Spanish and Maya sites, approximately 1920-1935

 Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS 1587 Series 3 Sub-Series 2
Scope and Contents The subseries includes photographs of Maya artifacts and sculpture. Artifacts includes polychrome and heiroglyphic vases, plates, and bowls, stone tools and lithics, stone and ceramic stulpture, obsidian blades, pottery shards, jewelry pieces, pieces from stone architecture, conch shell with heiroglyphics, and other archaeological artifacts. Artifacts came from several sources including private collections, museums, and excavations. Topics of artifacts include animals, geometric and faunal...
Dates: approximately 1920-1935
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / MSS 1587, Rhoads and Morley families papers / Rhoads and Morley families photographs / Sylvanus G. Morley photographs

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