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Costa Rica

 Subject

Subject Source: Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names

Scope Note: Coordinates: Lat: 10 00 00 N degrees minutes Lat: 10.0000 decimal degrees Long: 084 00 00 W degrees minutes Long: -84.0000 decimal degrees

Note: Inhabited by small, independent tribes of Boruca, Carib, Chorotega, Corobici and Nahua when Columbus landed in 1502; after many battles with native peoples, conquered by Spain in 1563; part of Nicaraguan intendency in 18th century; part of Mexican Empire 1821; official language is Spanish, though a Jamaican dialect of English is also spoken in some places.

Found in 4 Collections and/or Records:

Georgia O'Keeffe in Costa Rica, circa 1984

 Item — Box 7
Identifier: 2006.6.772
Dates: circa 1984
Found in: Georgia O'Keeffe Museum / Georgia O'Keeffe Foundation Photographs

Georgia O'Keeffe in Costa Rica, circa 1984

 Item — Box 7
Identifier: 2006.6.773
Dates: circa 1984
Found in: Georgia O'Keeffe Museum / Georgia O'Keeffe Foundation Photographs

Georgia O'Keeffe in Costa Rica, circa 1984

 Item — Oversize 2
Identifier: 2006.6.774
Dates: circa 1984
Found in: Georgia O'Keeffe Museum / Georgia O'Keeffe Foundation Photographs

Passport, 1974-1983

 Item
Identifier: 2020.5.6
Overview

Georgia O'Keeffe's passport. Includes travel to Nouasser (Morocco) in 1974 and Costa Rica in 1979.

Dates: 1974-1983
Found in: Georgia O'Keeffe Museum / Georgia O'Keeffe / Alfred Stieglitz Papers / Biographical material / Identification papers

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