Photographer for archaeological expeditions in Mexico including those of Edward Herbert Thompson (1857-1935) on the Thompson-Peabody Museum expedition to Uxmal, Kabah, Sayil, and Labná (1888-1891) and that of Alfred Percival Maudslay to Chichén Itzá (1889). Fourteen of his photographs from the Thompson-Peabody Museum expedition were published in Herbert J. Spinden, "A Study of Maya Art, Its Subject Matter and Historical Development, with two hundred and eighty-six illustrations in the text, twenty-nine plates and map", Memoirs of the Peabody Museum of American Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard University, Vol. VI (Cambridge: Peabody Museum, 1913).
Henry N. Sweet
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