Désiré Charnay photographs of Mitla, Uxmal, Chichen Itza, and Palenque
odd: label: Local Call Number(s)
content: NAA Photo Lot 4449
name: label: Creator
content: Charnay, Désiré, 1828-1915
place: label: Place
content: Uxmal Site (Mexico)
label: Place
content: Mitla Site (Mexico)
label: Place
content: Palenque Site (Mexico)
label: Place
content: Chichén Itzá Site (Mexico)
label: Place
content: Mexico -- Antiquities
creator: label: Creator
content: Charnay, Désiré, 1828-1915
bioghist: label: Biographical/Historical note
content: Claude Joseph Désiré Charnay (1828-1915), a French archeologist and pioneer of expeditionary photography, explored and documented Mexico and Central America. He was commissioned by the French government in 1857 to collect artifacts and document archeological sites in Mexico. Charnay completed three tours between 1858-1860, 1880-1882, and 1886; the latter two trips were funded by New York resident Pierre Lorillard and were largely photographic expeditions. Charnay later went to Madagascar (1863), North America (1867-70), South America (1875), Australia and Oceania (1878), and Central America (1880-83). He was among the first to use photography to record Meso-American archaeological sites, as well as the Indigenous peoples of Mexico whom he encountered.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 12 Prints (albumen)
label: Extent
content: 1 Print (silver gelatin)
unitdate: label: Date
content: circa 1857
custodhist: label: Custodial History note
content: Probably donated to the Bureau of American Ethnology circa 1948.
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: National Anthropological Archives
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NAA.PhotoLot.4449
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Prints
label: Type
content: Photographs
altformavail: label: Existence and Location of Copies note
content: Copy negatives in 43,193.
bibliography: label: Bibliography
content: Photographs may have been published in Désiré Charnay Cités et ruines Américaines. Mitla, Palenqué, Izamal, Chichen-Itza, Uxmal. Recueillies et photographiees par D. Charnay. Avec un texte par [E.E.] Viollet-le-Duc, suivi du voyage et des documents de l'auteur. With atlas. (Paris: Gide, 1862-1863).
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Photographs
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents note
content: Photographs made by Désiré Charnay depicting the Grand Palace at Mitla, the Governor's Palace at Uxmal, a convent at Chichen Itza, and a large stone tablet at Palenque.
relatedmaterial: label: Location of Other Archival Materials
content: Casts made by Charnay held in the anthropology collections of the National Museum of Natural History in accessions 042420 and 013211.
label: Contained in
content: Numbered manuscripts 1850s-1980s (some earlier)