| Frederick Catherwood Kabah, 3rd Casa 1843 Engraving, from a daguerreotype 5 x 7.5 in. Archive Farms The Patrick Montgomery Collection, Object No. 2010.559b LL/112613 Notes: Catherwood was one of the first to use daguerreotypes for archeological studies, but those he took on this expedition were destroyed so he used his own drawings as illustrations in this book. For further information, see The Daguerreotype: Nineteenth-Century Technology and Modern Science by M. Susan Barger & William B. White, pg 77
Publication: Incidents of Travel in Yucatan, John Stephens, Harper & Brothers, New York, 1848, Vol I, pg 399
Imagining Paradise, George Eastman House/Steidl, 2007, pg 38-39
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