urn:taro:utexas.blac.00054 Christian Heilskov Rasmussen Photographs, 1983-1987 Benson Latin American Collection University of Texas Libraries, 2008 Finding aid encoded by Megan Jorgeson, February 2008Finding aid written inEnglish. Descriptive Summary Heilskov Rasmussen, Christian Christian Heilskov Rasmussen Photographs 1983-1987 Spanish 33288354 approx. 176 photographic prints; 4 x 5 inches to 8 x 10 inches Benson Latin American Collection, The University of Texas at Austin Twenty-one black and white photographs and five postcards by Christian Heilskov Rasmussen of churches in Yucatán (Mexico) Biographical Sketch

Anthropologist and photographer Christian Heilskov Rasmussen was born in Denmark in 1943. Rasmussen lived in Mexico from around 1974 until at least 1987. He worked at the Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia in Mérida and did field work among the Maya Indians.

 Scope and Contents Note

Series one, Photographs, contains twenty-one photographs of architectural and artistics details of churches in Yucatán, Mexico taken between 1983-1986.

Series two, Postcards, contains five postcards of Rasmussen's photographs.

Series three, Ephemera, contains one pamphlet for the Museo Regional de Valladolid

The churches pictured are located in Ichmul, Dzibichaltun, Dzidzantun, Paraíso, Maní, Mérida, Tabi, Pustunich, Tixpéual, Tixcacaltuyub, Tixcuytún, Yascabá, and Yohtolín.

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Cite as: Christian Heilskov Rasmussen Photographs, Benson Latin American Collection, University of Texas Libraries, the University of Texas at Austin.

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The Christian Heilskov Rasmussen Photographs are classified under the following Subject Headings in the University of Texas Libraries catalog:

Subjects Churches--Mexico--Yucatán (State)--Photographs Yucatán (Mexico : State)--Photographs Document Types Photographs Box and Folder Inventory Photographs, 1983-1987 1Photographs, 1983-1986 11Ichmul, Chikindzonot, 1986 12Ichmul, Chikindzonot, 1986 13Ichmul, Chikindzonot, 1986 14Dzibichaltun, Mérida, 1985 15Dzidzantun, Dzidzantun, 1984 16Paraíso, Halachó, 1985 17Maní, Maní, 1986 18Maní, Maní, 1983 19Maní, Maní, 1984 110Maní, Maní, 1984 111Mérida-Catedral, Mérida, 1985 112Mérida-Catedral, Mérida, 1984 113Tabi, Sotuta, 1985 114Tabi, Sotuta, 1985 115Tabi, Sotuta, 1985 116Pustunich, Ticul, 1986 117Tixpéual, Tixpéual, 1986 118Tixcacaltuyub, Yascabá, 1984 119Tixcacaltuyub, Yascabá, 1984 120Tixcacaltuyub, Yascabá, 1984 121Yascabá, Yascabá, 1985 2Huasteca Potosina Photographs, 1987[?][approx. 150 b/w prints] Postcards, 1987, n.d. 122Burro de piedra, Ichmul, n.d. 123Angeles, catedral de Mérida, n.d. 124Iglesia de Tixcuytún, n.d. 125Espaldaña de iglesia, Yohtolín, n.d. 126Nuestras plantas, 1987 Printed Material, n.d. 127Museo Regional de Valladolid, n.d.