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Katharine Birdseye Lang Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MS Group 054

Scope and Content

Manuscripts, tracings, drawings, photographs, and publications relating to Lang's career reproducing Aztec and Mayan manuscripts, including the Codex Borbonicus, the Codex Florentinus, the Madrid Codex (Codex Tro-Cortesianus) and illustrations for the The De la Cruz-Badiano Aztec Herbal of 1552 (William Gates, editor, 1939). Includes her own manuscript and illustrations for her text, "The Drama of the Aztec Manuscripts," and a related exhibition for the Pan American Union in 1946. Includes some publications used by her for reference purposes. The bulk of this material appears to be unpublished.

Dates

  • Creation: 1937-1949

Creator

Access

The collection is open for research.

Biographical/Historical Note

Katharine Birdseye Lang was an illustrator of pre-Colombian and other Aztec and Mayan manuscripts. Worked for the Carnegie Institute of Washington. Lang was a graduate of the Pratt Institute School of Library Science and a noted philatelist. She lived in St. Petersburg, Florida, after about 1950. Newspaper clippings about her work and a photograph of her are found in Box 2.

Extent

1.5 Linear feet (3 boxes)

Language of Materials

English

Abstract

Manuscripts, tracings, drawings, photographs, and publications relating to Katharine Birdseye Lang's career reproducing Aztec and Mayan manuscripts.

Physical Location

University of Florida Smathers Library Building

Title
A Guide to the Katharine Birdseye Lang Papers
Status
Completed
Author
Finding aid created by Frank Orser
Date
August 2011
Description rules
Finding Aid Prepared Using Dacs
Language of description
English
Script of description
Latin
Language of description note
Description is written in English.

Repository Details

Part of the Special and Area Studies Collections, George A. Smathers Libraries, University of Florida Repository

Contact:
George A. Smathers Libraries
PO Box 117005
Gainesville Florida 32611-7005 United States of America
352-273-2755