This article analyses the Photographs, essays, and travel Diary of the English explorer Alice Dixon Le Plongeon on her stay in the Yucatán Peninsula during the second half of the nineteenth century (1874 – 1885). Dept her Pioneering work as an explorer and photographer of Chichén Itzá and Uxmal, Dixon has not been part of the group of foreign travers-men and women-who compose the multicultural, multilingual fee of Latin America. My study ‘Rescues Dixon’s work’, paving particular attention to the materials (furCJEU, clothing, household, photographic instruments) that built her experience and knowledge as an archaeologist and photographer in the Yucatán. An analysis of the presence, circulation, and reflection on objectives (“things” under Bill Brown’s definition) contributions to the study of the complex relationship between Travelers’ own Identities and the territories they visited, advances the role of material culture in the definition of “the feminine” in the nineteenth century, and outcomes new ways to approach the construction of scientific and ethnographic knowledge in men’s experiences. Summary This article analyses the photographs, trials and travel diary of English explorer Alice Dixon Le Plongeon at her passage through the Yucathan Peninsula during the second half of the nineteenth century (1874-1885). Despite his pioneering work as an explorer and photographer Chichén Itzá and Uxmal, Alice Dixon has so far not been part of all foreign travellers and travellers who make up the multicultural and multilingual fee in Latin America. This work rescues Dixon’s work, paying particular attention to the material dimension (furniture, clothing, domestic and photographic instruments) on which the experience and knowledge of the traveller is built as archaeologist and photographer in Yucatán. An analysis of the presence, circulation and reflection of and on the objects (“things” in the definition of Bill Brown) contributes to the study of the complex relationship of travellers with their own identity while travelling and with the territory visited, highlights the role of material culture in the definition of ‘female’ in the 19th century, and proposes new ways of approaching the construction of scientific and ethnographic knowledge in the writing of women travellers.