Machu Picchu Photographs

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Core Title Machu Picchu Photographs

Collection description Machu Picchu, located in southern Peru's Eastern Cordillera, at an altitude of 2,430 meters (7,970 ft.), is a 15th-century Inca citadel. The site escaped detection by the Spaniards, but it may have been visited by the German adventurer Augusto Berns in 1867. Machu Picchu’s existence became more widely known in the West in 1911 when Yale University professor Hiram Bingham, who was led to the site by Melchor Arteaga, a local Quechua-speaking resident, first encountered the site.
"Machu Picchu is the most economically important tourist attraction in Peru, bringing in visitors from around the world. For this reason the Peruvian government wishes to repatriate the materials taken by Bingham to Yale. The ruins are commonly reached in a day trip from Cuzco by first taking a narrow-gauge railway and then ascending nearly 1,640 feet (500 metres) from the Urubamba River valley on a serpentine road. Smaller numbers of visitors arrive by hiking the Inca Trail. The portion of the trail from the “km 88” train stop to Machu Picchu is normally hiked in three to six days. It is composed of several thousand stone-cut steps, numerous high retaining walls, tunnels, and other feats of classical engineering; the route traverses a wide range of elevations between about 8,530 and 13,780 feet (2,600 and 4,200 metres), and it is lined with Inca ruins of various types and sizes. At Machu Picchu there is a hotel with a restaurant, and thermal baths are at the nearby village of Aguas Calientes. The Inca Bridge and other parts of Machu Picchu were damaged by a forest fire in August 1997, but restoration was begun immediately afterward. Concern for the damage caused by tourism was heightened by discussion of the building of a cable-car link to the site" -- Britannica, T. Editors of Encyclopaedia (2022, October 19). Machu Picchu. Encyclopedia Britannica. https://www.britannica.com/place/Machu-Picchu.

Creator Johnson, Payne B. (photographer)

Publisher University of Southern California. Libraries (digital)

Date Created 1978-06/2004-06

Coverage Temporal 1978-06/2004-06

Place Name Machu Picchu (archaeological sites), Machupicchu (districts), Peru (countries), South America (continents), South America (regions), Urubamba (provinces)

Subject Archaeological site location (lcsh)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

Format 60 photographs (extent), ruins (aat)

Internet Media Type multipart/related

Type images

Source 20210812-johnson-meso-shoaf (batch), Machu Picchu Photographs (subcollection), Payne B. Johnson Latin American Photographs (collection), University of Southern California (contributing entity)

Identifier 2 (box), 0550 (collection number), johnson-mcp (filename)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

Unique identifier UC1STO1686999

Permanent Link (DOI) https://doi.org/10.25549/johnson-oUC1STO1686999

Legacy Identifier johnson-mcp

Rights Johnson, Payne B.

Access Conditions Send requests to address or e-mail given. Phone (213) 821-2366; fax (213) 740-2343.

Repository Name USC Libraries Special Collections

Repository Location Doheny Memorial Library, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0189

Repository Email specol@lib.usc.edu