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Photographs of Sinaloa, Mexico

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Description: A collection of photographs of the state of Sinaloa in Mexico, chiefly showing scenes of farms, landscapes, ranch workers and operations, sugar plants, villages, and villagers. There are photographs of sisal plants in the wild and on farms; roadside inns; wagon stops; and a few ranch houses.
Type: Visual Materials(Opens in new tab)
Production date: [approximately 1900-approximately 1910]
Call number: photCL 25
Provenance: Purchased from Hardy, May 1945.
Dimensions: images 20 x 25 cm, pages 25 x 30 cm
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Regina Fuchs photographs and travel ephemera from Guatemala

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The travel ephemera included in this collection consists of brochures, menus, luggage tags, and postcards primarily produced by United Fruit Company. The photographs show villagers in native attire, some are indigenous people. Of the photographs, approximately sixteen are small snapshots taken primarily aboard ship. The rest of them depict the countryside, villages, villagers, and the hotels and haciendas, in which Fuchs stayed. Some photographs have locations and are identified as Chichicastenango, Momostenango, Huitan, and Lake Atitlan. There are also images of Fiesta de San Isabel, an "Indian Market," the All Saints procession, a local flour mill, dancers, women and children, women rolling tortillas in a plaza, Mayan ruins, and other local sights. There are photographs of three women travelling together; one is presumably Regina Fuchs.

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Regina Fuchs photographs and travel ephemera from Guatemala

Manuscripts

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Wagon carrying boxed plant specimens from Mexico bound for San Marino ranch, circa 1912

Visual Materials

Photo taken during William Hertrich's expedition to Mexico to collect plants for the grounds of Huntington's San Marino ranch. MS note reads "Boxed plant on wagon." The numbering system of this album is unclear - this appears on the verso of the 13th page in the envelope of volume 12 (1- ).

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Photographs of plant and seed research in Asia and South America

Visual Materials

Black-and-white photographs documenting agriculture and village life in Asia and South America, including in Mexico, Guatemala, Chile, Peru, Costa Rica, Manchuria, North Korea, China, India, and Siberia. The photographs primarily focus on the relationship between villagers and agriculture and many of the images are related to farming, harvesting, transportation and commerce, as well as landscape views of farms, plantations, and groves, plants and trees, and town streets and buildings, indigenous dwellings, children, and townspeople. Aside from a set of 12 card photographs depicting scenes in Mexico in the late 1880s by photographer A. Briquet, the photographs are various size snapshots depicting: Costa Rica, ca. 1897 (4 photographs); locations in Asia, dating from 1905-1911 (49 photographs); the Sinaloa State in Mexico, 1918 (24 photographs); Peru, 1921 (21 photographs); Chile (66 photographs), 1921; Guatemala and Honduras, ca. 1924 (60 photographs); Saharanpur and Dehradun, India, ca. 1924 (27 photographs). Photographers are primarily unidentified.

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Photograph album of automobile road trips across the United States and into Mexico

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An album of 296 snapshot photographs documenting two excursions by automobile across the United States and into Mexico in the late 1930s by a group of young men who appear to have been students at Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) in Worcester, Massachusetts. The first trip, in July and August of 1937, includes numerous scenes in Washington, D.C., Tennessee, Alabama, Texas, Mexico, New Mexico, Arizona, California, Utah, Wyoming, and New York. Their travels involved stops at the Tennessee Valley Authority power station at Muscle Shoals, Alabama; Carlsbad Caverns National Park; Grand Canyon National Park; Boulder Dam; Death Valley; Sequoia and Yosemite national parks; Yellowstone National Park; and Niagara Falls. In Mexico, they toured the capital and saw a bullfight. The majority of photographs have handwritten captions in white pencil describing locations. Other images depict collegiate sports, including track and golf, and some mountain climbing. Another western excursion in 1938 includes visits to the Royal Gorge of the Arkansas, Colorado locations, and another visit to Yosemite National Park. The remaining photographs consist of views of the WPI campus, the destructive impact of the 1938 New England hurricane, and stops at unidentified hydroelectric engineering sites.

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Plant specimen in Mexico, circa 1912

Visual Materials

A negative of a photo taken during William Hertrich's expedition to Mexico to collect plants for the grounds of Huntington's San Marino ranch. The numbering system of this album is unclear - this is stored in an envelope with three other negatives.

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Photographs of Sinaloa, Mexico

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