Call Number:

WC040

Repository:

Princeton University Library: Manuscripts Division

Extent:

14 volumes

Language:

English

Preferred Citation:

Identification of specific item; Date (if known); Diaries of Frans and Gertrude Blom, Box and Folder Number; Special Collections, Princeton University Library.

Date:

1943-1959 1943-1959 (inclusive)

Creator:

Blom, Frans Ferdinand, 1893-1963

Form:

Diaries.

Abstract:

Consists of copies of diaries kept by Blom and his wife, Gertrude Duby Blom, from 1943 to 1959, while searching for Maya ruins in Chiapas, Mexico, in 14 volumes.

Swiss-born Gertrude Duby Blom was a journalist, social anthropologist, and documentary photographer. On an expedition to visit the Lacandon Indians in Mexico she met Frans Blom, a Danish archeologist and cartographer who was searching for Bonampak, the lost Mayan ruin. They teamed up on several subsequent expeditions and later married.

The collection consists of copies of diaries kept by Blom and his wife, Gertrude Duby Blom, from 1943 to 1959 in 14 volumes. The diaries concern the Bloms' explorations and search for Maya ruins in the jungles of Chiapas, Mexico, including ruins at Bonampak, and the life of the Lacandon Indians in the Lacandon Jungle of Mexico.

Arranged chronologically.