Fernando Gamboa y Charles Poletti en la instalación de una cabeza olmeca frente al Pabellón de México en la Feria Mundial de Nueva York 1964
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Source: digitalcollections.nypl.org
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Trailer for the film The Road to the Olmec Head (James Johnson Sweeney and Richard de Rochemont, 1963), which chronicles the retrieval of a colossal Olmec head from Veracruz, Mexico, to the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, for an exhibition titled “The Olmec Tradition”. Credit: Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Archives. Read more about this here: http://www.academia.edu/3551414/Doubling_Time
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A giant Olmec head discovered in 1946 gets a patch, San Lorenzo, Mexico. Photograph by Richard Hewitt Stewart, National Geographic
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Mexitlán, Tijuana, BC
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1950/52 Mexico - Fransico Eppens also did design many of the Mexican definitive stamps.