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[Mayan monuments at Chichen-Itza, Yucatan, Mexico, 1932: Temple of the Three Lintels"]" – Historic Print

[Mayan monuments at Chichen-Itza, Yucatan, Mexico, 1932: Temple of the Three Lintels"]", 1932 — historic photograph
[Mayan monuments at Chichen-Itza, Yucatan, Mexico, 1932: Temple of the Three Lintels"]", 1932. Historic photograph from the Historic Print Archive collection.

(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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Few places in the Yucatan Peninsula are as recognizable as Chichen Itza, the Maya city whose stone buildings rose over several centuries before the Spanish arrived. This view shows the Temple of the Three Lintels, named for the carved stone lintels that once spanned its doorways. By 1932 the site drew steady numbers of visitors, and the Carnegie Institution had been working among its ruins since the mid-1920s. The photographer, Laura Gilpin, was known for her attention to landscape and to the texture of stone under strong light, which gives this temple its solid, quiet presence.

Created / published1932
Medium1 photographic print.
SubjectsPhoto by Laura Gilpin. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Religion--Temples; Mayas; Mexico--Chichen Itza; Shelf.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 1,087 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-131232

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