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Photographs of Palace of Chapultepec and street scene with burros, Mexico

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Description: Two card photographs: Palace exterior and a street scene in San Luis Potosi, with people walking and burros carrying water pots.
Type: Visual Materials(Opens in new tab)
Production date: 1891.
Call number: photPF 1088-1089
Provenance: Provenance unknown. In library as of mid-20th century.
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Photographs of scenes in Mexico

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Four photographs taken while researching his master's thesis in Mexico in 1906, including two views of the peaks of the Pachuca Mountains in Hidalgo province, one street scene in the city of Chihuahua, and one photograph of the botanist Cyrus G. Pringle

mssHM 52704

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Photographs of rural Mexico

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A group of 13 photographs (small snapshots and photographic postcards) depicting life in rural Mexico in the 1930s and 1940s. The five small photographs (3 x 3.5 inches) are scenes from a parade in a small town on September 16, 1938, Mexican Independence Day. Children are seen carrying a Mexican flag, a decorated truck has a banner that reads "Viva Mexico," and boys and girls are dressed in traditional vaquero attire. They were taken by an unknown photographer and have identifications in Spanish on the back. The eight commercially-made photographic postcards include scenes in Guanajuato; packed burros on narrow cobblestone roads; rows of clay pots, plates and cups alongside buildings; a woman making tortillas; and vaqueros loading hay on a donkey. There are two portraits with captions reading "Tipos Mexicanos," most likely made for the tourist trade. One shows a young man and woman posed next to a large cactus, holding hands, and the other is of a barefoot man wearing a straw poncho around his shoulders.

photCL 713

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Photographs of rural Mexico

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photCL 713

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Studio portraits of Native Americans of New Mexico and scenes of Santa Fe, New Mexico and surrounding territory

Visual Materials

24 cabinet cards with portraits, city scenes, and a few landscape views depicting Indian camps and the surrounding countryside. The 8 studio portraits include Native American men, women, and children in both traditional and Western dress and include Apache and Pueblo Indians, with individuals from the Tesuque Pueblo. The city scenes show locales in Santa Fe, New Mexico, and one depicts a Catholic religious demonstration on a Santa Fe street. There are also 4 views of burros. Most views are unidentified, but some contain printed or handwritten titles: Apache Girl - Indian School (photPF 20751); 229. Pueblo Senora from Tesuque (photPF 20754); 228. Pueblo Indian and daughter (photPF 20755); College Street, Santa Fe, N.M. (photPF 20764); Territorial Capitol, Santa Fe, N.M. (photPF 20765); Our Lady of the Rosary [Santa Fe] (photPF 20767); House of Representatives (photPF 20767); 215. A medley: scenes in Santa Fe, N.M. [of burros], May 1887 (photPF 20772); Guadalupe Church (photPF 20773).

photPF 20751-20774

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Mexico street scene [Photographer: Cox and Carmichael]

Visual Materials

This collection contains photographs by commercial photographers dated ca. 1890-1910 that show images of recreational scenes on Catalina Island, a hotel and public parks in Southern California, and various historical sites in Mexico City. Photographs of Catalina Island include views of Avalon, Sugarloaf Point, sailboats and glass-bottom boats, steamships, bathers at the beach, a tent city, and sailors of the steamship the "San Diego". California views include Missions San Gabriel, San Fernando, and San Juan Capistrano; the Coronado Hotel in San Diego; Central Park, St. James Park, and Hollenbeck Park (all based in Los Angeles); Adams Street in Los Angeles; the Shakespearean actress Helena Modjeska's home in Orange County; and an interior view of Columbia Savings Bank's then president Aaron M. Ozum's residence at 3131 Figueroa Street, Los Angeles. Photographs of Mexico depict the Cathedral de Mexico, Paseo de la Reforma, interiors and exteriors of Castillo de Chapultepec, Hotel Iturbide, Mercado Volador, Canal de la Viga, the daily lives of Mexican citizens, the Zócalo (now known as the Plaza de la Constitución), and various street scenes. Miscellaneous photographs are of cargo ships at shipping docks possibly in San Francisco, a steamship, and gardens. C.B. Waite photographed 19 of the 114 prints in this collection. Other photographers who contributed to this collection are Charles F. Ironmonger, Frank L. Park, Percy Cox and R.J. Carmichael, J.C. Hatton, Noren F. Swenson, and the Special View Company. Two photographers were identified on some photographs only by their surname: Graham and Scott.

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Photograph of the Corpus Christi Feast Day Procession in Santa Fe, New Mexico

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A cabinet photograph showing the Feast of Corpus Christi procession on San Francisco Street, adjacent to the plaza in Santa Fe, New Mexico. The photograph shows people carrying banners, onlookers along the plaza, and the town's buildings. The back of the mount has printed historical information about Santa Fe and advertisements for the Denver & Rio Grande Railroad and the Santa Fe Southern Railway. The photographer may be Dana B. Chase, who had a studio in Santa Fe and produced photographs with the same printed information on the back.

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Photographs of Palace of Chapultepec and street scene with burros, Mexico

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