• Laura Gilpin (photographer)

View of the ruins of the North Colonnade from the top platform of the Temple of the Warriors, Chichén Itzá Site, Yucatán, Mexico

between 1932 and 1946

- Labels attached to the verso of photographs PH1981:0217 - PH1981:0220 were removed at the time of conservation by David Kolody in June, 1983 (Kolody).

Gelatin silver print

comp.: 24.6 x 35.0 cm sheet: 27.8 x 35.3 cm

PH1981:0218

• exterior view

labelled, imprinted and numbered - in typescript, black ink and pink pencil, on a paper label detached from the verso of the object: "FROM THE COLLECTION OF THE / MUSEUM OF THE / CRANBROOK ACADEMY OF ART / BLOOMFIELD HILLS, MICHIGAN / 1955.353" labelled, imprinted and numbered - in typescript and black ink, on a paper label detached from the verso of the object: "A: PHOTOGRAPH / BY: LAURA GILPIN / TITLE:" with title / "Copyright. / 327 / COLORADO: SPRINGS: COLORADO" [framed within black borders]

Chichén Itzá Site; Yucatán; Mexico;

• architecture

• ruins
• wall
• columns (architectural elements)
• colonnade
• capitals

© Amon Carter Museum of American Art