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Photographs of plant and seed research in Asia and South America

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Photographs of plant and seed research in Asia and South America

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Description: 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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Production date: approximately 1888-approximately 1924.

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Call number

photCL 387

Provenance

Gift of Dr. and Mrs. C.A. Schroeder, April 1994.

Dimensions

various sizes, 20 x 26 cm and smaller.

Associated people

Briquet, Abel,

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