Book/Printed Material The Mixteca country in the state of Oaxaca, Mexico.
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Image 1 of The Mixteca country in the state of Oaxaca, Mexico. We Fae Cu
- Contributor: Birkinbine, John
- Date: 1909
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Image 2 of The Mixteca country in the state of Oaxaca, Mexico. MOTT ra aa mas ni Wl MT NT MY Tt Hit III MA aA Ml WM A AT WA 1 A Wa Wid 1H i Wa Hl Ml WA MAH Wal 1…
- Contributor: Birkinbine, John
- Date: 1909
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Image 3 of The Mixteca country in the state of Oaxaca, Mexico. REPRINTED FROM THE JOURNAL OF THE FRANKLIN INSTITUTE SEPTEMBER 1909 THE MIXTECA COUNTRY IN THE STATE OF OAXACA MEXICO BY JOHN BIRKINBINE Consulting Engineer n Past President Franklin Institute American Institute of…
- Contributor: Birkinbine, John
- Date: 1909
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Image 4 of The Mixteca country in the state of Oaxaca, Mexico. LNT 2 rs ALO 202 JoHN BIRKINBINE and intervening long desert stretches which have made inter communication difficult The sierras approach each other near the City of Mexico and the adjacent states…
- Contributor: Birkinbine, John
- Date: 1909
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Image 5 of The Mixteca country in the state of Oaxaca, Mexico. eM Nal Bekah to Fmeoaeay S THE MixTEca Country 203 tion Mexico has passed from the verge of bankruptcy to a posi tion among nations of the Western Hemisphere where its credit…
- Contributor: Birkinbine, John
- Date: 1909
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Image 6 of The Mixteca country in the state of Oaxaca, Mexico. 204 JoHN BiIRKINBINE nudday nominally for siestas but few American shopkeepers or merchants devote more hours per day to counter business than the average Mexican merchant However the numerous fiestas recognized as…
- Contributor: Birkinbine, John
- Date: 1909
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Image 7 of The Mixteca country in the state of Oaxaca, Mexico. No THE MixtTEeca Country OS of Pennsylvania the bull is mountainous the average elevation above sealevel approximating that of its historic capital Oaxaca 5000 feet The population of the State in 1900…
- Contributor: Birkinbine, John
- Date: 1909
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Image 8 of The Mixteca country in the state of Oaxaca, Mexico. 206 JOHN BIRKINBINE sent such variety of form and direction as to merit the description of scrambled mountains In one valley is seen corn and wheat as predominating the mountain sides bearing…
- Contributor: Birkinbine, John
- Date: 1909
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Image 9 of The Mixteca country in the state of Oaxaca, Mexico. THe Mixteca Country 207 ture and masonry work equal what we consider remarkable in modern times and when it is remembered that each part had to be made of a size which…
- Contributor: Birkinbine, John
- Date: 1909
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Image 10 of The Mixteca country in the state of Oaxaca, Mexico. 208 JOHN BIRKINBINE in evidence but these are employed only on the streets or on adja cent farm lands in the valley for even these crude wooden con structions in which no…
- Contributor: Birkinbine, John
- Date: 1909
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Image 11 of The Mixteca country in the state of Oaxaca, Mexico. THE MrIxTEca CounrtvRY 209 A collection of adobe huts a cemetery and a church cover the site of San Pedro where General Porfirio Diaz routed the allied French and Austrian troops in…
- Contributor: Birkinbine, John
- Date: 1909
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Image 12 of The Mixteca country in the state of Oaxaca, Mexico. 210 JouHN BrrKINBINE was made apparent in two interviews in which he showed an inti mate knowledge of conditions and resources As a soldier he traversed the mountains of Oaxaca and among…
- Contributor: Birkinbine, John
- Date: 1909
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Image 13 of The Mixteca country in the state of Oaxaca, Mexico. Tur MIxTEcA COUNTRY ari wrought deposits of coal in the Mixteca country give promise of a more extensive modern iron industry in the future The coal is apparently in the upper Jurassic…
- Contributor: Birkinbine, John
- Date: 1909
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Image 14 of The Mixteca country in the state of Oaxaca, Mexico. 212 JouHN BIRKINBINE can be made with the Oaxaca coal fields and that this may be extended to the Pacific coast The mountains of Oaxaca also yield ores of the prices metals…
- Contributor: Birkinbine, John
- Date: 1909
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Image 15 of The Mixteca country in the state of Oaxaca, Mexico. THe MrxtTeca CounrrRY 20s a number of whom were boys supplied with instruments famil iar to ourselves rendered popular and classic music with excellent effect from scores illumined by candles On another…
- Contributor: Birkinbine, John
- Date: 1909
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Image 16 of The Mixteca country in the state of Oaxaca, Mexico. 214 JoHN BIRKINBINE Many streams having their sources in the higher mountains are well maintained in the dry seasons offering possibilities for water power improvement and one of the camps on the…
- Contributor: Birkinbine, John
- Date: 1909
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Image 17 of The Mixteca country in the state of Oaxaca, Mexico. THE MixtTeca Country 215 mountains of Oaxaca But noted relics of ability and industry evidenced by races whose history is now mere conjecture are adjacent to the Mixteca country such as the…
- Contributor: Birkinbine, John
- Date: 1909
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Image 18 of The Mixteca country in the state of Oaxaca, Mexico. 216 JOHN BIRKINBINE The illustrations presented are of work done before the advent of either Columbus or Cortez by inhabitants of Mexico whose history seems to have been forgotten 7 The cliff…
- Contributor: Birkinbine, John
- Date: 1909
About this Item
Title
- The Mixteca country in the state of Oaxaca, Mexico.
Names
- Birkinbine, John, 1844- [from old catalog]
Created / Published
- [Philadelphia? 1909?]
Headings
- - Oaxaca (Mexico : State)
- - Mixtec Indians
Notes
- - Also available in digital form.
Medium
- p. 201-216. illus. 23 cm.
Call Number/Physical Location
- F1321 .B61
Library of Congress Control Number
- 11023255
Online Format
- online text
- image