Tulum Photographs

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Core Title Tulum Photographs

Collection description Tulum (Spanish pronunciation: [tu?lum], Yucatec Maya: Tulu'um).
A pre-Columbian Mayan site. The city served as a major port for Coba and it is located in the state of Quintana Roo. One of the last cities built, this walled city, was populated by Mayas and flourished between the 13th and 15th centuries. The city was abandoned by the end of 16th century.
“See also John Lloyd Stephens, 'Incidents of travel in Central America, Chiapas, and Yucatan,' with numerous engravings. Revised from the latest American edition, with additions, by Frederick Catherwood. London: Arthur Hall, Virtue & Co., 1854. https://digitallibrary.usc.edu/asset-management/2A3BF1QKX7SV5?WS=SearchResults.”

Creator Johnson, Payne B. (photographer)

Publisher University of Southern California. Libraries (digital)

Date Created 1981-05, 1982-12, 1992-01

Coverage Temporal 1981-05, 1982-12, 1992-01

Place Name Central America (regions), Mexico (countries), North America (continents), Quintana Roo (states), Tulum (archaeological sites)

Subject Archaeological site location (lcsh)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

Format 20 photographs (extent), ruins (aat)

Internet Media Type multipart/related

Type images

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

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