Mesoamerica Collection
Welcome to our Mesoamerica project
In 2021, Cal State LA and USC were awarded a nearly $500,000 grant from the Council on Library and Information Resources to catalog and digitize Mesoamerican and Spanish colonial materials. Use the links below to explore unique collections of Mesoamerican, Indigenous, Spanish colonial artifacts, rare books, and photographs. These valuable and rarely seen objects highlight the rich histories and diverse cultural heritage of Mexico and the Central American Isthmus, and the profound contributions to art, science, architecture, and language by the Maya, Toltec, Aztecs, and Shaft Tomb cultures, among other Indigenous peoples.
Follow these links to see the various collections
The University of Southern California Digital Library :
The Verle and Elizabeth Annis Papers
Payne B. Johnson Latin American Photographs
California State University, Los Angeles:
Mesoamerican and Colonial Mexico Rare Book Collection
Using photogrammetry technology, manipulate the objects in the MAW collection here:
The following images are a very small sample of the diverse and fascinating items spanning the years from 1,500 B.C. to around the year 1500 A.D.
