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Landscape photography -- Latin America -- 19th century -- Pictorial works

 Subject
Subject Source: Unspecified ingested source

Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:

Amerique du Sud Photograph Album, 1886

 Collection
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

Views of Central America Photograph Album

 Collection
Identifier: PAAC-0084
Scope and Contents / Alcance y Contenido This collection consists of an album of 63 photographs. When it was bound it was entitled “Views of Central America and Mexico”. However, it is important to note that most of the photographs, if not all, were taken in Guatemala during the late 19th century, which was an important economic transition period in Guatemalan history. These photographs include villages, towns, churches, architecture, landscapes, volcanoes, coffee plantations and portraits of Indigenous people. The photographs in this...
Dates: ca. 1877 - 1885