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"Living Curiosities at Barnum's Museum"

Image of Maximo and Bartola alongside other curiosities, William Johnson/What is it, Albino child and their Black mothers" as part of Barnum's…

Exhibiting Degeneracy: The Aztec Children and the Ruins of Race

Account of Maximo and Bartola in the context of C19 racial formation in Victorian England

Barnum's Gallery of Wonders, no. 25

Color advertising print of a fashionably dressed couple being waited on by two small Indians.

Memoir of an eventful expedition in Central America : resulting
in the discovery of the idolatrous city of Iximaya, in an unexplored
region; and the possession of two remarkable Aztec children, descendants
and specimens of the sacerdotal caste, (now nearly extinct,) of
the ancient Aztec founders of the ruined temples of that country,
described by John L. Stevens, esq., and other travellers / translated
from the Spanish of Pedro Velasquez, of San Salvador.

Fictional travel narrative about Maximo and Bartola's origins in Iximaya.

Memoir of an eventful expedition in Central America resulting in
the discovery of the idolatrous city of Iximaya...and the possession
of two remarkable Aztec children...described by John L. Stevens,
and other travellers. Translated from the Spanish of Pedro Velasquez.

Fictional narrative recounting the origins of the Aztec Children in El Salvador

The book of wonders; or, pictorial miscellany for the family circle,
by Mark Forrester.

Description of people who saw Maximo and Bartola in New York. Reiterates their origin story found in the travel narrative.

Buchanan's journal of man; The "Aztec Children"

Joseph Rhodes Buchunan's reflection on the Aztec Children as they performed in the U.S. during 1851

An Account of two remarkable Indian Dwarves exhibited in Boston under the name of Aztec Children; The American Journal of the Medical Sciences, For April 1851

Medical report including scientific measurements of their bodies, temperament, etc. Also includes assessment by Dr. Warren and other doctors studying…

A Brief Notice of the Aztec Race

Gives an account of their bodies, of their behaviors, how they have been received in London, and an assessment of whether they are a new race of…

A Brief Notice of the Aztec Race (Alternative Version)

Read at a special meting of the Ethnological Society of London on July 6th, 1853