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Photographs to accompany Olmsted agricultural report

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An album with 101 photographs of the Mexican Petroleum Company facilities throughout San Luis Potosí, Mexico. Subjects depicted include farms and agricultural workers, livestock, crops, fields and rivers, oil wells, swamps and marshes, villages, village life and urban street scenes in Ebano and San Luis Potosí. Four of the pages have panorama images, created by taping 2, 3, or 5 photographs together (panoramas vary in width from 38 to 93 cm), which show men on horseback, a village with children, an oil field, and a train yard. The album includes four maps intended to accompany the report. The maps are labeled "Map of the Property of the Mexican Petroleum Company - San Luis Potosi, Mexico"; "Map Showing Headquarters at Ebano..."; "Map Showing Ebano and the Railroad Station at Ebano" and "Map of Mexico...". Each map includes the printed words "Partial Index to Photographs" and each map is dotted with locations labeled with numbers in red.
Type
Visual Materials(Opens in new tab)
Production date
1911
Call number
photCL 105
Provenance
Received from Lucille Miller, January 1959.
Dimensions
images 8 x 14 cm-16 x 21 cm, sheets 25 x 30 cm, volume 26 x 34 cm
Associated people
Doheny, Edward L.
Olmstead, Frank H.
Associated organization
Mexican Petroleum Company.
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