1893 World Colombian Exposition

yucatan exhibit

Yucatan Ruins Exhibit


Description of the Yucatan Ruins Exhibit from the Book of the Fair Guidebook:

More imposing and complete than anything within the building, however, are the reproductions of the Yucatan ruins displayed, as I have said, outside its walls. The explorations were made by E. H. Thompson, United States consul and an agent of the Exposition, his moulds consisting of the portal from the central structure of the group of ruins at Labna, the facade of the Serpent house, and three sections of the house of Nuns, the last from the ruins of Uxmal.


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