Architectural Lantern Slides of Mexico
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Lantern slides created in Mexico during the late 19th or early 20th century. Image subjects include primarily ruined or preserved Mayan sites including temples and palaces. These lantern slides were intended for use in architectural pedagogy.
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Chichén Itzá: Imagined reconstruction of one of the platform temples

Chichén Itzá: Interior view of a small temple at the site

Chichén Itzá: One of the platform temples

Chichén Itzá: One of the smaller temples

Chichén Itzá: Relief carving from the palace complex showing ruler and Mayan glyphs above

Mitla: Distant context view of one of the palace complexes

Mitla: Distant context view of one of the palace complexes

Mitla: Grand Hall of Columns, with monoliths which would have supported a flat roof

Mitla: Interior, small chamber with intricate mosaic fretwork and geometric designs

Mitla: One of the palace complexes

Mitla: View of one of the palace structures

Palenque: Overall view looking up, Temple of the Sun showing roof-comb

Temple of the Feathered Serpent

Teotihuacán: Architectural sculpture in the shape of an abstracted form of the feathered serpent

Teotihuacán: View looking down from the Adosada platform at the staircase of the Temple of the Feathered Serpent

Teotihuacán: View looking up slope of the Temple of the Feathered Serpent

Uxmal: End block of Palace of the Governor and another structure below

Uxmal: Nunnery Quadrangle, facade of one of four structures facing a courtyard

Uxmal: Overall view of Uxmal ruins from below

Uxmal: View of the long facade of the Palace of the Governor

Yaxchilan: One of the structures at Yaxchilan

Yaxchilan: View of front of Structure 33, Yaxchilan