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Box 20

 Container

Contains 6 Results:

Maya Society oversized drawings of glyphs, approximately 1920-1940

 File — Box: 20, Folder: 1-1A
Identifier: MSS 279 Series 6 Sub-Series 1
Scope and Contents

Contains four packages of oversized drawings of Maya glyphs.

Dates: approximately 1920-1940
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / MSS 279, William Gates papers / Maya Society records / Maya Society print materials

Maya Society proofs of glyphs and dieties, approximately 1920-1940

 File — Box: 20, Folder: 2
Identifier: MSS 279 Series 6 Sub-Series 1
Scope and Contents

Contains proofs of Maya glyphs and deities. Also contains the first sheet to have been printed in glyphs.

Dates: approximately 1920-1940
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / MSS 279, William Gates papers / Maya Society records / Maya Society print materials

Maya Society printing plate, approximately 1920-1940

 File — Box: 20, Folder: 3
Identifier: MSS 279 Series 6 Sub-Series 1
Scope and Contents

Contains a printing pate with 38 cuts of plants from the De la Cruz-Badiano.

Dates: approximately 1920-1940
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / MSS 279, William Gates papers / Maya Society records / Maya Society print materials

Maya Society drawings and tracings and maps, approximately 1920-1940

 File — Box: 20, Folder: 4
Identifier: MSS 279 Series 6 Sub-Series 1
Scope and Contents

Contains drawings and tracings and maps in ink and pencil. Many of these were used as illustrations for Maya Society publications.

Dates: approximately 1920-1940
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / MSS 279, William Gates papers / Maya Society records / Maya Society print materials

Maya Society printed art work and maps, approximately 1920-1940

 File — Box: 20, Folder: 5
Identifier: MSS 279 Series 6 Sub-Series 1
Scope and Contents

Contains printed art work and maps, some of which are from drawings in box 20 folder 4

Dates: approximately 1920-1940
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / MSS 279, William Gates papers / Maya Society records / Maya Society print materials

Maya Society materials for Enoch Pratt Free Library exhibit, 1938 August

 File — Box: 20, Folder: 6-7
Identifier: MSS 279 Series 6 Sub-Series 1
Scope and Contents

Contains materials used in three displays in the Enoch Pratt Free Library, August 1938. One display titled "Yucatan Before and After the Conquest." Other display titled "A Unique Contribution to Yucatan History," promoting a Maya Society publication of the same title. Third display titled "Ancient Americana." Both folders contain some, but not all, of the materials used in the displays, including prints and pages from Maya Society publications.

Dates: 1938 August
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / MSS 279, William Gates papers / Maya Society records / Maya Society print materials

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