Wikimedia Commons

File:Young folks' history of Mexico (1883) (14761535466).jpg

Original file ‎(1,730 × 2,700 pixels, file size: 1.92 MB, MIME type: image/jpeg)

Captions

Captions

Add a one-line explanation of what this file represents

Summary

edit
Description
English:

Identifier: youngfolkshistor01ober (find matches)
Title: Young folks' history of Mexico
Year: 1883 (1880s)
Authors: Ober, Frederick A. (Frederick Albion), 1849-1913
Subjects:
Publisher: Boston : Estes and Lauriat
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

View Book Page: Book Viewer
About This Book: Catalog Entry
View All Images: All Images From Book
Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book.

Text Appearing Before Image:
PHCENECIAN VESSEL. had just such temples and palaces of stone as we find inYucatan to-da\^ lyii^g ii^ ruins in the wilderness. Did thePhoenecians visit this country by coasting the shores ofAtlantis, or did part of the Atlantides themselves escape toCentral America and there build the cities buried in thevast forest there now ? It has not been proven that theydid, any more than that the Jews came from the north, orthe Malays and the Japanese from the west. And what has been proven by all our study of the ruinsand the records of this people ?
Text Appearing After Image:
PHCENECIAN ARCHITECTURE. Various Theories. 23 Only this, that there has long existed in Central America— in which we would embrace Southern Mexico and Yu-catan — an American civilization superior to any other onthis continent at the time of its discovery. There remains still one more theory to consider: Was itpossible for this civilization to have been developed by thepeople placed here by the Creator ? Was it possible for the Creator to place men and womenhere originally, without making them pass over from theother continent? It was possible, was it probable ? Some there are who think that this was done ; who claimthat our continent is oldest, according to its geological for-mation, and that it was as likely that people passed to theeastern hemisphere from the western as that they shouldhave passed to the western from the eastern. It is difficult for those who hold this theory to account inany other way for the many peculiarities in American ar-chitecture, for the totally differe

Note About Images

Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original work.
Date
Source

https://www.flickr.com/photos/internetarchivebookimages/14761535466/

Author Internet Archive Book Images
Permission
(Reusing this file)		 At the time of upload, the image license was automatically confirmed using the Flickr API. For more information see Flickr API detail.
Flickr tags
InfoField
  • bookid:youngfolkshistor01ober
  • bookyear:1883
  • bookdecade:1880
  • bookcentury:1800
  • bookauthor:Ober__Frederick_A___Frederick_Albion___1849_1913
  • bookpublisher:Boston___Estes_and_Lauriat
  • bookcontributor:The_Library_of_Congress
  • booksponsor:The_Library_of_Congress
  • bookleafnumber:24
  • bookcollection:library_of_congress
  • bookcollection:americana
Flickr posted date
InfoField
30 July 2014

Licensing

edit
This image was taken from Flickr's The Commons. The uploading organization may have various reasons for determining that no known copyright restrictions exist, such as:
  1. The copyright is in the public domain because it has expired;
  2. The copyright was injected into the public domain for other reasons, such as failure to adhere to required formalities or conditions;
  3. The institution owns the copyright but is not interested in exercising control; or
  4. The institution has legal rights sufficient to authorize others to use the work without restrictions.

More information can be found at https://flickr.com/commons/usage/.

Please add additional copyright tags to this image if more specific information about copyright status can be determined. See Commons:Licensing for more information.
This image was originally posted to Flickr by Internet Archive Book Images at https://flickr.com/photos/126377022@N07/14761535466. It was reviewed on 27 July 2015 by FlickreviewR and was confirmed to be licensed under the terms of the No known copyright restrictions.

27 July 2015

File history

Click on a date/time to view the file as it appeared at that time.

Date/TimeThumbnailDimensionsUserComment
current14:12, 27 July 2015Thumbnail for version as of 14:12, 27 July 20151,730 × 2,700 (1.92 MB)Fæ (talk | contribs)== {{int:filedesc}} == {{subst:chc}} {{information |description={{en|1=<br> '''Identifier''': youngfolkshistor01ober ([https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special%3ASearch&profile=default&fulltext=Search&search=insource%3A%2Fyoungfolkshisto...

You cannot overwrite this file.

There are no pages that use this file.

Retrieved from "https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=File:Young_folks%27_history_of_Mexico_(1883)_(14761535466).jpg&oldid=672780420"