My Flight to Inca-Land
Accession number | AR.EP.BK.0629 |
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Places |
Machupicchu (Cuzco [Peru])
Cuzco (Peru)
Peru
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Date |
1943
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Measurements |
6 x 9 inches
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Materials/Techniques |
text
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Work types |
booklet
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Description
TRANSCRIPTION
My Flight to Inca-Land
A Tourist Guide
A Souvenir Booklet by Dr. Louis R. Effler
Toledo, Ohio
Lima, Peru / Cuzco / Arequipa and the VIIIth Pan-American Peace Conference
Copyright 1943
Dr. Louis R. Effler
Press of Buettner and Breska / Toledo, Ohio
EXHIBITION
Encountering Ancient America: Machu Picchu in Popular Culture, 1911-1965
February-April 2018
After the archaeologists came the adventurers. Foreign travel writers journeyed to Machu Picchu in the decades after its excavation, drawn by the allure of an “untouched” pre-Columbian ruin. In this period, little infrastructure surrounded the site: only by traveling with local guides could these men access Machu Picchu. Richard Halliburton, who visited the site in the 1920s, summarized the colonial attitude of such adventurers: “To think that such wonders and such romances could still be discovered in this all-discovered age…To think that in 1911, even as in 1511, there could still be new worlds to conquer.”
Collection
Repository
Accession number | AR.EP.BK.0629 |
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Creator | |
Places |
Machupicchu (Cuzco [Peru])
Cuzco (Peru)
Peru
|
Date |
1943
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Measurements |
6 x 9 inches
|
Materials/Techniques |
text
|
Work types |
booklet
|