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Amerique du Sud Photograph Album, 1886

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Identifier: PICT-988-001
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.
Dates: 1886

Mexico: Nineteenth Century Views Photograph Album

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Identifier: PICT-986-014
Abstract This souvenir album from Mexico contains photographs of the best-known and most distinctive sights that a collector or traveler in the late nineteenth century might consider representative of that country. The photographs are well-composed and captioned in Spanish and English.
Dates: 1880-1899

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Architecture -- Latin America -- 19th century -- Pictorial works 1
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City and town life -- Mexico -- 19th century -- Pictorial works 1