LAL02-4. Latin American Library - Image Archive - Photograph Albums

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1928.  An album of 63 gelatin silver photoprints  taken or acquired during a voyage to South America on the S.S. American Legion. The views include the cities of Rio de Janeiro and Santos, Brazil where coffee is loaded, Montevideo, and Buenos Aires.  Also present are images of gauchos, gold miners, and mountain transportation.  Not all photographs are identified.

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1927-1928.  A single album of miniatures black and white photographs produced as a gift from the Egyptian Tobacco Company.  The views include San Salvador, Santa Ana, and Santa Tecla along with scenes of coffee workers.  The photographs are numbered and identified.

Scope and Contents 1930s Personal photograph album bound with green covered boards with simple embossed frame. The album contains 29 pages with 301 individual gelatin silver prints attached. Each print measures approximately 3 x 4.5 inches. The pages have minimal annotations noting film rolls, print numbers, and some location identification. The images suggest that this album documents possibly both personal and/or professional travel to several locations in northern Argentina highlighting Rosario de la...

Scope and Contents 1961-1962.  An album containing 68 gelatin silver prints (4.5” x 7”) taken by an unknown photographer.  It was assembled following an Argentine Red Cross mission to the settlement of Barrio Toba of Villa Chica in the Argentine Chaco region beginning in July of 1961.  The primary purpose of the mission seems to have been the building of a school for the community.   Many of the photos depict the inauguration of the school in January 1962 and other celebrations and official events that...

Scope and Contents c. 1900-1910.  An album bound with a red board cover with embossed flower design and the word “album” in black.  It contains 46 gelatin silver prints (3" x 4 1/2").  The images document the city of Buenos Aires in the early 20th century.  They feature scenes of the waterfront with ships and infrastructure, public architecture and monuments, industrial machinery, the zoo, trains and train stations, parks and public diversions, several portraits of men reading, and one of men in a park with...

Scope and Contents c. 1900-1910.  An album bound with a green board cover with embossed flower design and the word “album” in black.  It contains 48 gelatin silver prints (3" x 4 1/2").  The images document the city of Buenos Aires in the early 20th century.  They feature scenes of the waterfront with ships and infrastructure, public architecture and monuments, urban Buenos Aires from elevated vantage points, industrial machinery, the zoo, trains and train stations, parks and public diversions, several studio...

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c.1908.  An album of 211 gelatin silver prints.  The images were taken from across Mexico including the cities of Pachuca, Puebla, Jalapa, Toluca, Morelia, Guadalajara, Guanajuato, San Luis Potosí, Zacatecas, and Aguas Calientes.  The album provides images of urban and rural life including street scenes, churches, mining operations, markets, bullfights in Guadalajara, roads, trains, architecture, and indigenous people.

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1885.  A 30 page oversize album containing sixty original albumen photographs of Panama that date to 1885 and document work on the canal by the French company under Ferdinand de Lesseps.  Photographs show architecture and everyday life in Panama.  The album contains a dedication by P.M. del Valle to Sebastián Lerdo de Tejada of Mexico.

Content Description c.1890-1910. Personal photograph album consisting of twelve leaves and a front cover all made of board and unbound. The cover is decorated with a watercolor painting of a woman in a purple Victorian era dress holding a bouquet of flowers with the title, "Snap Shots," in the upper left corner. The leaves contain 4 to 8 gelatin silver chloride prints adhered to the board, plus two loose photographs, totaling 52 prints. None are identified, but they appear to be images of the colonial district...

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c. 1987.  An album of photomechanical photographs on 22 leaves used for teaching reading in rural Honduras as part of the literacy program of the Central Nacional de Trabajadores del Campo.

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c. 1890-1900.  A photograph album of 24 leaves containing 30 gelatin silver prints photographs of Costa Rica by H. N. Rudd and Paynter Brothers photographers. They show views of San José including the National Theater, other Costa Rican towns, the United Fruit Co. building, and banana and coffee production. All photographs are identified with captions.

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c. 1961.  A single album collection of 32 gelatin silver prints distributed by the Cuban Ministerio de Industrias.  The aim of the album is to extol the accomplishments of the Cuban Revolution with views of Havana and other Cuban cities, schools, industrialization, agricultural production and armed forces. Captions for each photograph are printed in Spanish, English, and French.

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1947.  An album containing 23 gelatin silver photographs.  The album was compiled to conmemorate a training class for the16th Regiment of the Montain Infantry in the Argentine army.

Content Description 1940s. Memorial photograph album, 20 x 14.5 cm, created by Campo de Mayo photography studio for the Group 2, Mounted Artillery Unit, First Calvary Division, of the Argentine Army. It begins with a portrait of a cadet titled, "Recuerdo de mi servicio," which includes a hymn and multiple signatures. The remaining nineteen prints are captioned and show scenes of military life and training at the camp. Several of the prints are autographed as is the back, inside cover of the album. 1...

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c. 1920s.  An album of twelve mounted gelatin silver prints (7 x 9 1/2 inches), each with the blind stamp of “Photo Sport, Guatemala.”  The photographer is unknown.  The images provide views from across Guatemala and include public buildings in Antigua, an ancient Maya stela from Quiriguá, and Lake Atitlán.

Scope and Contents c. 1890.  An album of 10 leaves containing 12 gelatin silver prints (7 x 9 inches) taken by an unnamed photographer.  As a single work, the album depict some of the perennial Havana sites popular with 19th century photographers. The images include the Prado, El Morro, and the Hotel Inglaterra. Pieced together, the first three images of the album form a panorama of the city from an elevated vantage point across the bay.  Scenes from the waterfront are also present.  Each image is identified...

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19th century.  A single album of 28 pages each containing an albumen print.  The images include urban landscapes, villages and country scenes, coastal views, plantation harvests, and portraits of the different people in Jamaica at that time.  Some of the photographs are identified.

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1877-1898.  A photograph album of 32 leaves containing 116 albumen and gelatin silver prints taken by Captain Joshua W. Reynolds.  The images document different voyages taken by Captain Reynolds in the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean. Most are of Veracruz, Tampico, Havana, and Mexico City. The album includes an early 1877 photograph of the cathedral of Mexico, which includes the Aztec calendar stone. Most of the photographs are identified in Reynolds' own hand.

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1933.  An album of 100 personal gelatin silver snapshots taken by an unknown traveler in the countries of Colombia, Cuba, Guatemala and Mexico. All photographs are identified.

Content Description 1930s-1940s. 12 loose, black photograph album pages (13.5 x 8.75 inches) with 46 silver gelatin prints attached. The owner of the album and photographer are unknown. The prints suggest that these images were taken during a trip or vacation taken to South America at some time during the 1930s to 1940s. The prints measure 4 x 6 inches. There is no other part of the associated album to accompany the pages, nor is there any clue as to the original order of the pages. The pages are arranged...

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1919-1920.  An album of 45 leaves containing 512 gelatin silver prints snapshots taken while the photographer was working in Peru.  The images include urban and rural scenes from Lima, Callao, Pachacama, Huancayo, and Piura.  In addition are scenes from Colón, Panamá and the Canal, and Jamaica.

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1899-1919.  Photomechanical reproductions of 61 photographs of the urban upper class of Chile by Chilean photographer, Luis A. Ross de Ferari.  The album was published in 1990 in celebration of 150 years of photography.  It is in the format of a weekly calendar and includes a biography of Luis A. Ross.

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1896.  A photograph album of 26 leaves containing 32 original albumen prints photographs by pioneer Brazilian photographer Marc Ferrez of Rio de Janeiro.  They show views of Rio de Janeiro and the surrounding countryside and botanical garden, Petrópolis, African and Indian peoples, and coffee plantation workers. All photos are identified by captions.

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1882-1888.  An album of 65 leaves containing original albumen photographs taken by Sanfred Robinson.  The images include views of Maya people, architecture, villages, port, and coffee plantations across highland Guatemala. All of the photographs are identified.

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1930.  An album of 129 gelatin silver prints taken by a U.S. Marine on duty in Ocotal, Nicaragua.  The images include views of marines patrolling, tropical scenes of the flora and fauna, various scenes of people and places, and the Panama Canal Railway.  Some photographs have identifications.

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c. 1914.  An album of 41 gelatin silver prints on 22 leaves taken by R. Z. García Fot. of Monterrey.  The photographs were taken at two railway field hospitals, one was in Acámbaro, Guanajuato.  The images include scenes of amputations, operation rooms, nurses and surgeons, some of whom are named, and other groups of people.

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c. 1900.  An album containing 210 postcards from throughout Mexico showing colonial architecture, archaeological sites, and views of people at work.  Several of the postcards have notes inscribed by Zelia Nuttall, who may have collected the cards.

Scope and Contents c. 1952-1954.  An album of 23 leaves containing 46 gelatin silver prints photographs bound with a leather cover with the Argentine seal on it.  The album is divided into five sections:  Vivienda (Housing and Neighborhoods), Cultura del Cuerpo y del Espiritual (Sporting, Educational, and Cultural Facilities), Sanidad (Clinics and Hospitals), Abastecimiento (Markets), Circulación y Transportes (Traffic and Transportation planning).  The album was intended as a propaganda tool used by the Juan...

Scope and Contents c. 1885.  An album of 144 gelatin silver prints (between 5”x7” and 7” x 9”; one-third are 3” x 4”).  Ninety photographs are of Cuba and 54 photographs are of Mexico.The Cuba photographs section begins with a map of the country and two New York and Cuba Mail Steamship Company route maps detailing the company’s New York to Cuba to Mexico connections. Some of the Cuba photographs are numbered and contain captions.  The photographer is not named. Images of Havana dominate the...