File:View of about fifty mummies awaiting burial, Mexico, ca.1905 (CHS-684).jpg

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View of about fifty mummies awaiting burial, Mexico, ca.1905
Photograph of a view of about fifty mummies standing along the sides of a sunny corridor awaiting burial, ca.1905. A long corridor runs from the foreground to the background at center and dried mummies can be seen leaning against the stone walls on left and right. When the poor of Mexico were unable to pay the fees for burial, the bodies were kept as shown for a fixed period of time and marked for identification. The dryness of the air prevented decay. If the fee was not paid within the necessary time, the bodies were finally buried promiscuously.
Call number: CHS-684
Filename: CHS-684
Coverage date: circa 1905
Part of collection: California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960
Type: images
Part of subcollection: Title Insurance and Trust, and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection, 1860-1960
Repository name: USC Libraries Special Collections
Format: glass plate negatives
Microfiche number: 1-224-
Archival file: chs_Volume90/CHS-684.tiff
Repository address: Doheny Memorial Library, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0189
Subject (adlf): religious facilities
Geographic subject (country): Mexico
Format (aacr2): 2 photographs : glass photonegative, photoprint, b&w ; 13 x 20 cm.
Rights: Digitally reproduced by the USC Digital Library; From the California Historical Society Collection at the University of Southern California
Project: USC
Accession number: 684
Repository email: specol@usc.edu
Contributing entity: California Historical Society
Date created: circa 1905
Publisher (of the digital version): University of Southern California. Libraries
Format (aat): photographic prints; photographs
Legacy record ID: chs-m14581; USC-1-1-1-14140
Access conditions: Send requests to address or e-mail given. Phone (213) 821-2366; fax (213) 740-2343.
Subject (file heading): Mexico -- General
Subject (lcsh): Skeletons
Date circa 1905
date QS:P,+1905-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902
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Source http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/ref/collection/p15799coll65/id/15220
Author Unknown authorUnknown author

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