Mexico: Selected Photographers Collection
Scope and Content
Collection includes prints by A. Briquet, Cox & Carmichael, José María Lupercio, C.B. Waite, William Henry Jackson, Kilburn Brothers, (La) Rochester Photo Co., Yeañs and Yañezs. Subjects include city views and landscapes; market scenes; railroads; agriculture; recreation; religious art; public, governmental and religious buildings; pre-Columbian ruins (Mitla); popular types and militia members (Rurales), pyramid at Teotihuacan, and cactus. Of note are images of people enjoying a public swimming pool in Mexico City and boating on Lake Chapala (both fisherman and sportsmen), a thatched hut, a ribbon-covered statue of San Benito, the Basilica of Guadalupe seen at a distance and showing the chapel above, a traditional Mexican kitchen with ceramic pots and wood-burning stove, oxen teams plowing in fields (one in vine-covered ruins in Guerrero with apparently Anglo-European overseer standing by), "popular type" portraits of water and firewood carriers, Popocatepetl, and Chapultepec Castle seen above rows of maguey. There are stereographs: a missionary's home in Mexico City (Kilburn Bothers) and a cityscape by Briquet that is part of the Vistas Mexicanas series.
Locales in Mexico include Guadalajara, Guanajuato, Guerrero, Juarez, Lake Chapala, Mexico City, Mitla, Orizaba, Santa Anita, Tampico, Teotihuacan, Tepeyac, Toluca and Veracruz.
Dates
- Creation: 1880-1969
Copy Restrictions
Limited duplication of photographic material is allowed for research purposes. User is responsible for all copyright compliance. For more information see the Photographs and Images Research Guide and contact the Pictorial Archivist.
Extent
3 boxes (Photographic prints)
Language of Materials
Undetermined
Abstract
Collection includes prints by A. Briquet, Cox & Carmichael, José María Lupercio, C.B. Waite, William Henry Jackson, Kilburn Brothers, (La) Rochester Photo Co., J. Yeañs and Mauricio Yañezs.
Physical Location
High Security Area
Subject
- Horne, Walter H., 1883-1921 (Person)
- Jackson, William Henry, 1843-1942 (Person)
Geographic
- Title
- Finding Aid of the Mexico: Selected Photographers Collection, 1880-1969
- Status
- Edited Full Draft
- Author
- Pictorial Collections Staff
- Date
- © 2008
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Code for undetermined script
- Language of description note
- Finding aid is in English
Revision Statements
- Monday, 20210524: Attribute normal is missing or blank.
Repository Details
Part of the UNM Center for Southwest Research & Special Collections Repository
University Libraries, MSC05 3020
1 University of New Mexico
Albuquerque NM 87131
cswrref@unm.edu