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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

Vues de Rio de Janeiro Brésil Photograph Album

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Identifier: PICT-988-002
Abstract This album contains well-composed and preserved platinum prints. The first photo is a montage of individual portraits of Brazilian President Nilo Peçanha and his cabinet members. This is followed by a series of photographs of governmental and public buildings, city views, parks, gardens, and lastly the surrounding forest park of Tijuca.
Dates: 1909

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