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[Photograph album of scenes in Mexico]

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Description: Photograph album with various snapshots chiefly documenting a trip to Mexico by Los Angeles, California, resident Charles A. Finlayson around 1930, including images of buildings and streets in Mexico City, a visit to a park with deer, buildings under construction, the canals of Xochimilco, and Aztec ruins at Teotihuacan, as well as images, presumably, of Finlayson. Throughout the album, there are also images of the derailment of a locomotive and train cars, presumably of the National Railroad of Mexico, which were carrying military cannons, with photographs of executed men who had been hanged from utility poles along the tracks.
Type: Visual Materials(Opens in new tab)
Production date: approximately 1930?
Call number: photCL 371
Creator: Finlayson, Charles A (1897-1957)

Photograph album of Veracruz, Mexico

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An album of 39 photographic postcards of scenes of rural and city life in the state of Veracruz, Mexico, taken by unidentified photographers in the 1930s. The commercially-made images have captions in Spanish etched into the negative, and many have an MF mark for The Mexico Photographic Company. The images include street scenes, outdoor markets, city buildings and bridges, as well as automobile, bus, and train travel. Detailed scenes of rural life include women selling pots or washing clothes at the river, family groups posing in front of their homes, and men in labor activities such as loading lumber onto mules.

photCL 668

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photCL 370

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Two albums with 96 photographs of family portraits and scenes taken in Illinois, Maine, Nebraska, California, and New Mexico. The first volume contains images of domestic life and residential streets in Evanston, Illinois, in 1887-1888; a family vacation to Searsmont and Appleton, Maine, in the summer of 1889; and life in Schuyler, Nebraska, in 1890. The second album begins with a family trip through New Mexico and California from February to March 1890, then turns to scenes of domestic life and street scenes in Omaha, Nebraska, from 1890 to 1893. Among the locations are Santa Fe, New Mexico; Colton, California; Alhambra, California; Santa Barbara, California; San Francisco, California; Collinsville, California; and Council Bluffs, Iowa. While most of the photographs are arranged chronologically, the end of second volume contains some additional family photographs from 1888-1890. Both volumes contain a number of informal family portraits, with many taken outdoors. Notable images include interior views of the family's parlor and dining room, with family members seated for a meal, laundry drying outdoors, the interior of the Schuyler National Bank, a maypole, a President's Day celebration in 1891, and the display of silver wedding gifts. The two group portraits from Collinsville, California, include a Chinese man dressed in traditional clothing. One photograph in the second album created with flash photography is labeled "First Flash Light Picture ; New Years Eve Dec. 21, 1891", and there is also a self-portrait of the family photographer with a camera.

photCL 143

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An album of 115 amateur photographs of people and places, chiefly in Southern California, New Mexico, and Colorado, presumably kept by civil engineer Edwin B. Davey (1893-1961) in the 1910s. Subjects mainly appear to reflect Davey's work surveying for the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railroad in the American Southwest and recreational activities in Southern California. Snapshots include six photographs of a U. S. Navy seaplane (labeled "Santa Barbara Fiesta," July 3-6, 1919); three photographs showing houses of Davey and his wife, Genevieve Davey, including at 1418 Ivy Street in Glendale, California; two photographs of "picking beans" in Oxnard, California, October 1918; four photographs showing a parade near the Glendale Pacific Electric Station; American soldiers in an unidentified camp and on a trip to Mexico in September 1917; ten photographs of Ralph DePalma racing in the Santa Monica Road Race in March 1919; six photographs of a group of women swimming and in a rowboat near the Long Beach pier; an unidentified train derailment showing a Pullman car labeled "Antonio," which has "Rock Iland [i.e. Rock Island] #6" written on one of the images; images of men with surveying equipment, including one identified as Las Vegas engineers in 1913, and scenes of railroad construction and surveying at Raton, New Mexico, including a railroad tunnel identified as "Raton Pass Tunnel," and the Colorado/New Mexico state line; a group and individual portraits of the baseball team of Central High School presumably in Pueblo, Colorado; and studio and amateur portraits of young men. In addition, there are a few snapshots of the desert including the Cajon Wash and Hesperia, California, and people at various train stations, such as Colorado Springs, Colorado; Long Beach, California; and Lamy, New Mexico.

photCL 162

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Scenes in Yosemite photograph album

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1 photograph album containing 13 black-and-white photographs of landscapes in Yosemite Valley, California, taken by photographer Carleton Watkins in the 1870s. The images focus on the natural scenery including mountains, waterfalls, and trees. Each photograph is labeled with a typed caption pasted to the album page.

photCL 409

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Photograph and scrapbook album of women's trip to Mexico

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A travel album of photographs, ephemera and typescript narrative, documenting a car trip taken by four Texas women to Mexico and back in August and September 1938. Typed diary pages are pasted on several album pages detailing the people and places the women encountered and the experiences they had. The photographs include snapshots of residents, towns and villages, ancient temples, churches and convents, with some images of the four women who are only identified as Elizabeth, Juanita, "Sister," and M.S. They are seen with their guide, "Mr. Castillo," on a riverboat in Xochimilco in Mexico City, and also traveling by car in the mountains and countryside. Comments in the narrative discuss the use of travel conveniences such as Western Union and Wells Fargo, having to speak Spanish, the activities of indigenous peoples, and scenic wonders. The album is bound in wooden covers and has a carved illustration depicting a rural Mexican scene, most likely purchased on the trip. Also included in the album are photographic postcards, menus, brochures, and other ephemera collected from the trip.

photCL 661

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