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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.

Barnum's Gallery of Wonders, no. 25

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

"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…