Live Auction 2603The National Geographic Collection: The Art of Exploration
HIRAM BINGHAM (1875-1956)
Lot 83

HIRAM BINGHAM (1875-1956)

Peru, 1912-1915

Closed6 December 2012

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USD 12,500

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HIRAM BINGHAM (1875-1956)
Peru, 1912-1915
gelatin silver print
credit, date in ink, various stamps and collection labels affixed (on the reverse of the mount)
image: 4 5/8 x 37½in. (12.2 x 95.7cm.)
mount: 5½ x 38 5/8in. (14.4 x 98.5cm.)

Specialist note

In 1911, Hiram Bingham directed the Yale Peruvian expedition that discovered the ruins of Machu Picchu. National Geographic Society co-sponsored his second and third expeditions to Peru. He received the Society's Jane M. Smith Award in 1917. An explorer, scholar, writer, aviator, teacher, and businessman, Bingham also served as governor and U.S. Senator of Connecticut.
The present lot was part of Bingham's personal research files used to document progress at his archaeological dig.