Cuba before Columbus
A 1921 archaeological monograph by M. R. Harrington, published in New York by the Museum of the American Indian, Heye Foundation, on the pre-Columbian Indigenous peoples of Cuba. The pictures are plain black-and-white photographs, a site plan with hatched cave and rock outlines, and a sketch-like landscape, so they document excavation and terrain rather than decoration. A designer could draw on their austere scientific record style, with hatched schematic maps and grainy rock-surface photography.
