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    Book/Printed Material
    Directorio del viajero en la República de Guatemala, América Central
    • Contributor: Ovalle, Manuel T.
    • Date: 1800
    • Resource: - 184 pages

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    Guia del viajero en la Republica de Guatemala.
    • Contributor: Castañeda, Francisco
    • Date: 1909
    • Resource: - 323 pages

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    Censo de la República 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
  • Map
    Map of Guatemala : reduced from the survey in the archives of that country, 1826. "On July 1, 1823, a Guatemalan National Constituent Assembly declared that the provinces that made up the Spanish Captaincy General of Guatemala, also known as the Kingdom of Guatemala, "are free and independent of old Spain, of Mexico, and of every other power." The new country was called the United Provinces of Central America. It included the provinces of Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, El Salvador,...
    • Contributor: Arrowsmith, Aaron
    • Date: 1826
  • Book/Printed Material
    Calendario de la Aurora, para 1845-
    • Contributor: La Aurora, Guatemala
    • Date: 1844
    • Resource: - 84 pages

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  • Book/Printed Material
    Guatemala por Fernando Septimo el dia 12 de diciembre de 1808. Oración eucaristica que pronunció el Sr. Dr. D. Isidro Sicilia y Montoya, arcediano de esta santa iglesia metropolitana el mártes 13. de diciembre de 1808. En la solemne acción de gracías que celebró la M.N. y M.L. ciudad de Guatemala, por la exaltación del Sr. rey D. Fernando VII. al trono de las Españas, 19 p. Plates numbered 17-37, pl. 26 wrongly numbered 36.
    • Contributor: Sicilia Y Montoya, Isidro
    • Date: 1809
    • Resource: - 215 pages

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  • 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. Wilson set: Library has 1899-1903 and 1907 only. PREMARC/SERLOC merged record LAC ecr 2021-12-08 update (1 card)
    • Contributor: Fiesta De Minerva (Guatemala) - Fiesta De Minerva, Guatemala - Woodrow Wilson Collection (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 1899
  • Map
    Nouvelle carte physique, politique, industrielle & commericale de l'Amerique Centrale et des Antilles : avec un plan spécial des possessions de la Compagnie belge de colonisation dans l'Amerique Centrale, état de Guatemala "Unlike Britain, France, Spain, the Netherlands, and Denmark, Belgium never had colonial possessions in the Americas. It entertained, nonetheless, certain colonial ambitions, as reflected in this map. Following the breakup of the United Provinces of Central America in the civil war of 1838-40, the caudíllo Rafael Carrera rose to power in Guatemala. Belgium became an important source of external support to the new regime...
    • Contributor: Compagnie Belge De Colonisation - Dally, N.
    • Date: 1845
  • Map
    [Portolan chart of the Pacific coast from Guatemala to northern Peru with the Galapagos Islands]. "Presented here is a detailed Spanish portolan chart on vellum of the Pacific Coast from Guatemala to northern Peru, including the Galapagos Islands. The face of the map, shown first, has a long axis extending east and west and wind roses with fleur-de-lis indicators pointing north. A distance scale at top right is partly torn away; a latitude scale, from 17 degrees north to...
    • Date: 1565
  • 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 the...
  • 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 wooden...
  • Book/Printed Material
    Central America; describing each of the states of Guatemala, Honduras, Salvador, Nicaragua, and Costa Rica; Their natural features, products, population, and remarkable capacity for colonization... John Baily was an Englishman who lived for many years in Central America. He was employed in 1837-38 by the government of Nicaragua to survey a potential canal route from the Caribbean Sea to the Pacific Ocean. In 1850 Baily published this book and a separate map of Central America that showed four proposed routes for an isthmian canal. Central America begins with an...

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    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....
  • Book/Printed Material
    A la Suprema junta central de España é Indias.

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    Coleccion de estampas copiadas de las figuras originales, que de medio y baxo relieve, se manifiestan, en estucos y piedras, en varios edificios de la poblacion antigua nuevamente descubierta en las immediaciones ...
    Binder's title: Coleccion de estampas. | Coleccion de estampas     The ancient Mayan city of Palenque is located on a natural shelf in Mexico's Chiapas State. It flourished as the seat of a powerful royal court in the 7th century AD, but was abandoned in the 9th century and reclaimed by the forest. It was discovered in the mid-1700s by villagers from nearby Santo Domingo do Palenque. In 1787, King Charles III of Spain...
    • Contributor: Jay I. Kislak Collection (Library of Congress) - Río, Antonio Del - Almendariz, Ricardo
    • Date: 1787

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    The Art of Three Languages: Cakchikel, Quiché, and Tzutuhil.
    Arte de las tres lenguas kakchiquel, quiché y tzutuhil     Arte de las tres lenguas kakchiquel, quiché y tzutuhil (The art of three languages, Cakchikel, Quiché, and Tzutuhil) is a Mayan Indian language grammar and devotional handbook by Dominican Father Francisco Ximénez (1666-circa 1722), parish priest of the pueblo of Santo Tomás Chichicastenango (in present-day Guatemala), probably written between 1700 and 1703. Leaves 1-93 contain a Cakchikel-Quiché-Tzutuhil grammar. Leaves 94-119, the "Tratado Segundo de...
    • Contributor: Ximénez, Francisco - Noreña, Alonso De, Active 1567
    • Date: 1700
    • Resource: - 242 pages

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  • Map
    Map of Central America including the states of Guatemala, Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua & Costa Rica, the territories of Belise & Mosquito, with parts of Mexico, Yucatan & New Granada : shewing the ...
    Baily's map of Central America     "John Baily was an Englishman who lived for many years in Central America. He was employed in 1837-38 by the government of Nicaragua to survey a potential canal route from the Caribbean Sea to the Pacific Ocean. This map, published in London in 1850, was accompanied by a book, Central America, published separately, which contained much of the detailed information that Baily gathered to...
    • Contributor: Baily, John
    • Date: 1850
  • 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 worked...
    • Contributor: Gates, William - Maya Society
    • Date: 1934
    • Resource: - 1 page
  • 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 discuss...
    • Contributor: Inter-American Highway Commission
    • Date: 1931
    • Resource: - 1 page
  • Book/Printed Material
    Popol Vuh: Transcription in Quiché 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 Quiché 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 histories...
    • Contributor: Ximénez, Francisco
    • Date: 1700
    • Resource: - 134 pages

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  • 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, Costa...
    • Contributor: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Foreign Relations - Julius Bien and Company - United States Coast and Geodetic Survey - Ranney, Adolphus
    • Date: 1856
    • Resource: - 1 page
  • 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, Farā'id al-lugha (The pearls of language), dating from 1889. He also served as editor for the Jesuit newspaper...
    • Contributor: Lammens, Henri - Shartouni, Rashid
    • Date: 1894
    • Resource: - 133 pages

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  • Map
    Carte des provinces de Nicaragua et Costa Rica "Jacques Bellin (1703-72) was a prolific cartographer attached to the French Marine Office. In 1764, he published Le Petit Atlas Maritime (Small maritime atlas), a work in five volumes containing 581 maps. Nicaragua and Costa Rica, shown in this map from the second volume of the atlas, were at the time provinces of the Captaincy General of Guatemala, part of the Spanish Empire. The...
    • Contributor: Bellin, Jacques Nicolas
    • Date: 1764
  • Photo, Print, Drawing
    Playing the Marimba. This photograph from Costa Rica shows a marimba player accompanied by two guitarists. 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 the...
  • Photo, Print, Drawing
    Marimba: One of the Favorites. This photograph from Honduras shows three marimba players playing one marimba, on which are painted the words "Mi Farolito," presumably the name of 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...