Call Number:

PH-02226

Collection Name:

A trip to Mexico; being notes of a journey from Lake Erie to Lake Tezcuco and back....

Creator:

No. of Items:

13 items

Span Dates:

1880

Description:

Photographically illustrated book by H. C. R. (Henry Corry Rowley) Becher (1817-1885), entitled A trip to Mexico; being notes of a journey from Lake Erie to Lake Tezcuco and back.... (Toronto: Willing and Williamson, 1880), containing some photographs by Kilburn Bros. of Littleton, N.H. ... and some others "taken from photos or prints brought with [Becher] from Mexico." Captions for the thirteen albumen prints that illustrate the book follow.

958:0188:0001 -- The Aztec Calendar Stone. Built into the outer wall of the Cathedral, City of Mexico;
958:0188:0002 -- Railway- Vera Cruz to Mexico. Valley and mountains of Maltrata: Orizaba in the distance;
958:0188:0003 -- Terra Cotta Heafs, from the Pyramids of San Juan Teotihuacan;
958:0188:0004 -- The Volcano of Iztaccihuatl. 15,705 feet high;
958:0188:0005 -- Plaza de Arma, City of Mexico. Showing the Cathedral, Sagrario, and National Palace;
958:0188:0006 -- Guadalupe, Mexico (Taken from a balloon);
958:0188:0007 -- Chapultepec, Mexico;
958:0188:0008 -- The Volcano of Popocatapetl. 17,726 feet high;
958:0188:0009 -- The Pyramid of Cholula as it is;
958:0188:0010 -- The Pyramid of Cholula. West side, as Humboldt saw it about 1803;
958:0188:0011 -- The Tower of the Palace, Palenque;
958:0188:0012 -- The Palace of the Governor, Uxmal;
958:0188:0013 -- A part of the Palace of the Nuns, Uxmal.

Location(s):

F 1215 B39 HRC-P (958:0188:0001-0013)
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