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1862-63 Charnay & Viollet-Le-Duc

All the photographs of Uxmal (there are no images of Kabah, Sayil, or Labná) included in Claude Joseph Désiré Charnay, Cités et Ruines Américaines, published in 1862-63. Charnay's photographs were mounted in Vol. 1, the lavish folio volume, published 1862. These and other photographs taken in 1859 and 1860 by Charnay are the earliest photographs of Maya ruins. The text was printed in a small accompanying volume, published 1863, which included an essay by Viollet-le-Duc, with a few diagrams reproduced below. The images on this web site were scanned from 35mm slides I have taken of the copy in the Library, Special Collections, of the AMNH (RF-106-D). Except for the 5 marked as copy photographs, these are all original albuminium prints. Reproduced Courtesy of The Library, Special Collections, American Museum of Natural History.


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Plate 35. "Maison du Nain, a Uxmal". West face.
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Plate 36. "Palais des Nonnes, a Uxmal". Front facade of North Building.
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Plate 37. "Palais des Nonnes, a Uxmal". Detail of east end of front facade of North Building.
1859-60/1862. This is a contrasty copy photograph mounted in the AMNH volume.
Plate 38. "Palais des Nonnes, a Uxmal". Front facade of East Building.
1859-60/1862
Plate 39. "Palais des Nonnes, a Uxmal". "Detail of the facade called egyptian". Northwest corner of East Building.
1859-60/1862. This is a contrasty copy photograph mounted in the AMNH volume.
Plate 40. "Palais des Nonnes, a Uxmal". "Facade of the snake". Front facade of West Building.
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Plate 41."Palais des Nonnes, a Uxmal". "Detail of the facade of the snake".
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Plate 42. "Palais des Nonnes, a Uxmal". North facade of South Building.
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Plate 43. "Palais des Nonnes, a Uxmal". South end of East Building.
1859-60/1862. This is a contrasty copy photograph mounted in the AMNH volume.
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