Amerique du Sud Photograph Album, 1886
Collection
Identifier: PICT-988-001
Scope and Content
Album with mounted photographs. Most notable is a folded panorama of the harbor and city view of Rio de Janeiro. The panorama is a collotype, possibly from a photograph by Brazilian photographer Marc Ferrez. Photos apparently taken in South American countries other than Brazil include residential buildings (one with fantastic, eclectic architecture), a Victorian-era interior, family groups, horses and carriages, gauchos with cattle, and a landscape taken at Isla de Lobos - on the Atlantic coast of Uruguay - showing sea lions on a rocky seashore. There are many blank pages in album. Bound in green cloth with leather corners and spine; title "Amerique du Sud, 1886" in gilt on cover; marbled end papers.
Dates
- 1886
Creator
- Ferrez, Marc, 1843-1923 (Person)
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.
Extent
uncounted items (1 box) : 1 photograph album; uncounted photographs
Language of Materials
Portuguese
Abstract
Album with mounted photographs. Photos apparently taken in South American countries other than Brazil. Includes residential buildings, family groups, horses and carriages, gauchos with cattle, and a landscape taken at Isla de Lobos - on the Atlantic coast of Uruguay - showing sea lions on a rocky seashore. There are many blank pages in album. Bound in green cloth with leather corners and spine; title "Amerique du Sud, 1886" in gilt on cover; marbled end papers.
Physical Location
B2. Shelved in Big Box location by Pictorial Number. Filed in box with PICT 988-002
Processing Information
Boxed with another photograph album, PICT 988-002, Vues de Rio de Janeiro Bresil.
- Albumen prints
- Architecture -- Latin America -- 19th century -- Pictorial works
- City and town life -- Latin America -- 19th century -- Pictorial works
- Collotypes
- Driving horses -- Latin America -- 19th century -- Pictorial works
- Gauchos -- 19th century -- Pictorial works
- Interior architecture -- Latin America -- 19th century -- Pictorial works
- Landscape photographs
- Landscape photography -- Latin America -- 19th century -- Pictorial works
- Latin America -- 19th century -- Pictorial works
- Lobos Island (Maldonado, Uruguay) -- 19th century -- Pictorial works
- Panoramic photographs
- Photograph albums
- Photography, Panoramic -- Latin America -- 19th century -- Pictorial works
- Rio de Janeiro (Brazil) -- 19th century -- Pictorial works
- Sea lions -- Latin America -- Pictorial works
Creator
- Ferrez, Marc, 1843-1923 (Person)
- Title
- Finding Aid of the Amerique du Sud Photograph Album, 1886, 1886
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Pictorial Collections Staff
- Date
- © 2008
- 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