Collection Items

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    Book/Printed Material
    Guatemala por Fernando Septimo el dia 12 de diciembre de 1808. OracioĢn eucaristica que pronuncioĢ el Sr. Dr. D. Isidro Sicilia y Montoya, arcediano de esta santa iglesia metropolitana el maĢrtes 13. de diciembre de 1808. En la solemne accioĢn de graciĢas que celebroĢ la M.N. y M.L. ciudad de Guatemala, por la exaltacioĢn del Sr. rey D. Fernando VII. al trono de las EspanĢƒas, 19 p. Plates numbered 17-37, pl. 26 wrongly numbered 36.
    • Contributor: Sicilia Y Montoya, Isidro
    • Date: 1809-01-01
    • Resource: - 215 pages

  • Book/Printed Material
    Calendario de la Aurora, para 1845-
    • Contributor: La Aurora, Guatemala
    • Date: 1844-01-01
    • Resource: - 84 pages

  • Book/Printed Material
    Guia del viajero en la Republica de Guatemala.
    • Contributor: CastaƱeda, Francisco
    • Date: 1909-01-01
    • Resource: - 323 pages

  • Book/Printed Material
    Directorio del viajero en la RepĆŗblica de Guatemala, AmĆ©rica Central
    • Contributor: Ovalle, Manuel T.
    • Date: 1800-01-01
    • Resource: - 184 pages

  • Book/Printed Material
    A la Suprema junta central de EspaƱa Ʃ Indias.

  • Map
    Nouvelle carte physique, politique, industrielle & commericale de l'Amerique Centrale et des Antilles : avec un plan spĆ©cial des possessions de la Compagnie belge de colonisation dans l'Amerique Centrale, Ć©tat de Guatemala Relief shown by hachures. Available also through the Library of Congress web site as a raster image. Includes inset of "Carte du district de Santo-Thomas", 1:480,000 and indexed inset of "Plan gĆØnĆØral de la ville de Guatemala." Includes national flags.
    • Contributor: Compagnie Belge De Colonisation - Dally, N.
    • Date: 1845-01-01
  • Map
    Map of Guatemala : reduced from the survey in the archives of that country, 1826. Available also through the Library of Congress web site as a raster image.
    • Contributor: Arrowsmith, Aaron
    • Date: 1826-01-01
  • Book/Printed Material
    Censo de la RepĆŗblica de Guatemala. 2A cataloging per Mrs. Metz; bh20 04-28-88 by11 to bh00 03-15-88; bh20/bh99 to SCD 05-23-88; fe13 06-15-88; fr29 07-01-88 SOURCE:ap unbound v. [1], p. 21-88; v. [2], p. 159-219; v. [3], 220-306; v. [4], p. 307-449.
    • Date: 1880-01-01
  • Periodical
    Album de Minerva. Unknown Borders in colors. Issued to commemorate the "Fiesta de Minerva", celebrating the completion of the year's labors of the students of Guatemala. PREMARC/SERLOC merged record
    • Contributor: Fiesta De Minerva, Guatemala - Woodrow Wilson Collection (Library of Congress) - Fiesta De Minerva (Guatemala)
    • Date: 1899-01-01
  • Book/Printed Material
    A Syrian Voyage in Central and South America. Father Henri Lammens was born into a Catholic family in Ghent, Belgium, in 1862. At the age of 15 he joined the Jesuits and later settled permanently in Lebanon. He mastered Latin and Greek and taught Arabic in Beirut. His first work was an Arabic dictionary, FaraĢ„'id al-lugha (The pearls of language), dating from 1889. He also served as editor for the Jesuit newspaperā€¦
    • Contributor: Shartouni, Rashid - Lammens, Henri
    • Date: 1894-01-01
    • Resource: - 133 pages

  • Book/Printed Material
    Popol Vuh: Transcription in QuichĆ© Mayan and Translation into Spanish. The Popol Vuh, which has been translated as Book of the Council, Book of the Community, Book of the People, and The Sacred Book, is the creation account of the K'iche' or QuicheĢ Mayan people of present-day Guatemala. Popol is also defined as "woven mat," and vuh or vuj as "book." The text weaves together Mayan stories concerning cosmologies, origins, traditions, and spiritual historiesā€¦
    • Contributor: XimĆ©nez, Francisco
    • Date: 1700-01-01
    • Resource: - 134 pages

  • Book/Printed Material
    The Art of Three Languages: Cakchikel, QuichƩ, and Tzutuhil
    Arte de las tres lenguas kakchiquel, quichĆ© y tzutuhil     Arte de las tres lenguas kakchiquel, quicheĢ y tzutuhil (The art of three languages, Cakchikel, QuicheĢ, and Tzutuhil) is a Mayan Indian language grammar and devotional handbook by Dominican Father Francisco XimeĢnez (1666-circa 1722), parish priest of the pueblo of Santo TomaĢs Chichicastenango (in present-day Guatemala), probably written between 1700 and 1703. Leaves 1-93 contain a Cakchikel-QuicheĢ-Tzutuhil grammar. Leaves 94-119, the "Tratado Segundo deā€¦
    • Contributor: NoreƱa, Alonso De, Active 1567 - XimĆ©nez, Francisco
    • Date: 1700
    • Resource: - 242 pages

  • Map
    Inter-American Highway. The Inter-American Highway is the portion of the Pan-American Highway system that runs from Nuevo Laredo, Mexico, to Panama City, Panama, a total of 5,390 kilometers. The First Pan American Congress of Highways took place in October 1925 in Buenos Aires, Argentina, under the auspices of the Pan American Union. The congress was followed by a program of surveys and further meetings to discussā€¦
    • Contributor: Inter-American Highway Commission
    • Date: 1931-01-01
    • Resource: - 1 page
  • Map
    Map of the Mayance Nations and Languages. This circa-1934 map, prepared for Maya Society Quarterly and printed by the National Printing Office, Guatemala, shows the distribution of the Mayance (Mayan) nations and languages in present-day southern Mexico, Guatemala, and western Honduras in the period from about 1000 to 1500. The map is based on the research of William E. Gates (1863--1940), an American Mayanist and collector of Mesoamerican manuscripts who workedā€¦
    • Contributor: Gates, William - Maya Society
    • Date: 1934-01-01
    • Resource: - 1 page
  • Map
    Map of Central America, 1856.
    Map of Central America     This 1856 map of Central America was created by the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey, based on information provided by the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee, and edited and printed by the New York mapmaker and publisher Adolphus Ranney (1824-74). It shows the extreme southern part of Mexico and the six countries of Central America: Guatemala, Honduras, San Salvador (El Salvador), Nicaragua, Costaā€¦
    • Contributor: Ranney, Adolphus - United States Coast and Geodetic Survey - Julius Bien and Company - United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Foreign Relations
    • Date: 1856-01-01
    • Resource: - 1 page
  • Photo, Print, Drawing
    Musicians Playing the Marimba. This photograph from Guatemala shows a group of indigenous musicians playing a marimba. The marimba, believed to have originated in southern Africa, was brought to South America in the early 16th century by Africans taken there as slaves. In the 1890s, the Guatemalan marimba builder Sebastian Hurtado made an instrument with a wooden resonator pipe instead of a gourd, an innovation that formed theā€¦
  • Photo, Print, Drawing
    Playing the Marimba. This photograph from Guatemala shows an indigenous musician playing a marimba made from gourds of different sizes. Two young girls are holding the instrument. The marimba, believed to have originated in southern Africa, was brought to South America in the early 16th century by Africans taken there as slaves. In the 1890s, the Guatemalan marimba builder Sebastian Hurtado made an instrument with a woodenā€¦
  • Photo, Print, Drawing
    Native Orchestra, Marimba. This photograph from Guatemala shows indigenous musicians playing two different types of marimbas, drums, a violin, and a harmonica. The photograph is from the collection of the Columbus Memorial Library of the Organization of American States (OAS), which includes 45,000 photographs illustrative of life and culture in the Americas. Many of the photographs were taken by prominent photographers on OAS missions to member countries.ā€¦