Herbert N. Rosenberg Photograph Collection
Collection
Identifier: PICT-2016-002
Scope and Content
The Rosenberg Collection largely documents Rosenberg’s family or business trips on luxury cruises during the 1930s to Cuba, Jamaica, Haiti, Puerto Rico, and Curacao. In addition, the albums record visits to Mexico, Costa Rica, the Panama Canal, Colombia, Honduras, Guatemala, and Venezuela. Several of the photographs document Rosenberg’s family and friends at leisure on the cruise ships, but the majority depict harbors, historic monuments, bridges, ships, and the many cities and villages he visited in these travels. The collection includes photographs of local people he met or saw, stores, street scenes, government buildings, churches, fortresses, canals, sternwheelers, sailing ships, steam ships, dugouts, docks, native men dipping and loading bananas, a United Fruit Company railroad car and overseers, etc. In addition, Rosenberg saved brochures, itineraries, menus and other ephemera from his travels, which give more meaning to his images. There are also some photos of snow crystal prints of W. A. Bentley, Jerico, Vermont. Finally, the collection also includes some images of the family business, offices, employees, family life and vacations in the United States and Canada, including New York, Burlington, Montreal, Chicago, Detroit, Niagara Falls, New Brunswick, Chicago, and Boston.
Dates
- 1923-1938
- Majority of material found within 1934, 1935, 1936, 1937, 1938
Language of Materials
English
Access Restrictions
The collection is open for research.
Copy Restrictions
Duplication of print and photographic material is allowed for research purposes. User is responsible for copyright compliance. For more information see the Photographs and Images Research Guide and contact the Pictorial Archivist.
History
The Rosenberg photographs were given to Elmer Martinez, Director of the Spanish History Museum, Albuquerque, by Allen Rowen, from New York City, in July 1988. The museum is no longer open and Martinez donated them to the Center for Southwest Research. The first album has the address of Mr. Rosenberg, who lived on Convent Avenue, New York City. Mr. Rosenberg’s photographs document luxury cruises during the 1930s, when such pleasure voyages on ocean liners were just beginning to become available for vacations in the Caribbean. Some of the commercial scenes are likely related to his businesses. In addition, Rosenberg’s travels to Latin America occurred during a heightened period for cultural exchange programs between the United States and Latin America, during the incorporation of “Pan-Americanism” in U.S. foreign policy to combat the threat of fascism spreading to the Americas during World War II.
Extent
712 items (5 boxes) : 712 photographic prints
Abstract
The collection contains photographs taken by Mr. Herbert N. Rosenberg, of New York City, on trips to the West Indies, Central America, South America and Mexico in the 1930s. There are depictions of native peoples, markets, buildings, monuments, geographic features, and ships. Included are some images of the Rosenberg family and friends, and the Northeast.
Arrangement
Arrangement: The Rosenberg collection contains three albums and seven enlarged photos from the albums. Some images are missing from the album pages. Many have come loose and are now in photo sleeves rather than in their original locations on the album pages. Most are identified but a few have no matching information. The photographs and album pages were arranged into series based on their original groupings in albums by Rosenberg, and their original order has been preserved whenever possible:
- Series 1: Album 1, 1923-1934
- Series 2: Album 2, 1935-1936
- Series 3: Album 3, 1937-1938
- Series 4: Unidentified photos and enlargements
Physical Location
B2. Shelved by Pictorial Number. Oversize box shelved in Big Box location by Pictorial Number.
Separated Material
Book belonging to Rosenberg, from 1937 trip: From Mexico City to the Port of Veracruz, Over the Picturesque Standard Gauge Electrified Line of Mexico, Historical Descriptive Hand Book, by F. Castillo, with Illustrations, Seventh Edition, Revised, 1937, Graficos, S.A. Schedules. Catalogued for CSWR.
Processing Information
The Rosenberg photographs were given to Elmer Martinez, Director of the Spanish History Museum, Albuquerque, who donated them to the Center for Southwest Research. The collection was processed in fall of 2015 and spring of 2016, and is organized with a numbering system to help preserve the order of the album pages.
- Caribbean Sea -- Pictorial works
- Central America -- Pictorial works
- Colombia -- Pictorial works
- Cruise lines -- Pictorial works
- Cuba--Pictorial works
- Curaçao -- Pictorial works
- Guatemala -- Pictorial works
- Haiti -- Pictorial works
- Honduras -- Pictorial works
- Jamaica -- Pictorial works
- Latin America -- Pictorial works
- Mexico -- Pictorial works
- Ocean travel -- Pictorial works
- Panama Canal -- Pictorial works
- Photography
- Puerto Rico -- Pictorial works
- South America -- Pictorial works
- Tourism -- Pictorial works
- Travel -- Pictorial works
- United Fruit Company
- Venezuela -- Pictorial works
- West Indies -- Pictorial works
- Title
- Finding Aid of the Herbert N. Rosenberg Photograph Collection, 1923-1938
- Status
- Edited Full Draft
- Date
- © 2016
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
- Language of description note
- Finding aid is in English
Revision Statements
- Monday, 20210524: Attribute normal is missing or blank.
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
cswrref@unm.edu
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
cswrref@unm.edu