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Oversize prints, 1880-1969

 File — Box: 2

Scope and Content

From the Collection: Collection includes prints by A. Briquet, Cox & Carmichael, José María Lupercio, C.B. Waite, William Henry Jackson, Kilburn Brothers, (La) Rochester Photo Co., Yeañs and Yañezs. Subjects include city views and landscapes; market scenes; railroads; agriculture; recreation; religious art; public, governmental and religious buildings; pre-Columbian ruins (Mitla); popular types and militia members (Rurales), pyramid at Teotihuacan, and cactus. Of note are images of people enjoying a public swimming pool in Mexico City and boating on Lake Chapala (both fisherman and sportsmen), a thatched hut, a ribbon-covered statue of San Benito, the Basilica of Guadalupe seen at a distance and showing the chapel above, a traditional Mexican kitchen with ceramic pots and wood-burning stove, oxen teams plowing in fields (one in vine-covered ruins in Guerrero with apparently Anglo-European overseer standing by), "popular type" portraits of water and firewood carriers, Popocatepetl, and Chapultepec Castle seen above rows of maguey. There are stereographs: a missionary's home in Mexico City (Kilburn Bothers) and a cityscape by Briquet that is part of the Vistas Mexicanas series.

Locales in Mexico include Guadalajara, Guanajuato, Guerrero, Juarez, Lake Chapala, Mexico City, Mitla, Orizaba, Santa Anita, Tampico, Teotihuacan, Tepeyac, Toluca and Veracruz.

Dates

  • 1880-1969

Extent

From the Collection: uncounted items (3 boxes) : uncounted photographic prints

Language of Materials

From the Collection: Spanish; Castilian

Repository Details

Part of the UNM Center for Southwest Research & Special Collections Repository

Contact:
University of New Mexico Center for Southwest Research & Special Collections
University Libraries, MSC05 3020
1 University of New Mexico
Albuquerque NM 87131
505-277-6451