Katharine Birdseye Lang Papers
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 The bulk of this material appears to be unpublished.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
- Lang, Katharine Birdseye. (Person)
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
Topical
- 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
George A. Smathers Libraries
PO Box 117005
Gainesville Florida 32611-7005 United States of America
352-273-2755
special@uflib.ufl.edu