Architecture -- Mexico -- 19th century -- Pictorial works

Scope and Contents / Alcance y Contenido This series includes 59 albumen photographs from Mexico during the late 19th century. The subjects of these photographs include portraits, churches, plazas, views of towns and villages, landscapes, and Iztaccihuatl and Popocatepetl volcanoes. Most of these photographs were taken by Abel Briquet except for two boudoir cards that are attributed to James Woodsey. Some of these photographs may belong to Briquet’s albums “Vistas Mexicanas”, “Tipos Mexicanos”, and “Antiguedades Mexicanas”. ...

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.