Dorothy Woodward Photograph Collection

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Dorothy Woodward Photograph Collection

1895-1909

https://nmarchives.unm.edu/repositories/22/resources/2027

This collection consists of mounted photographic prints taken in Mexico between approximately 1895 and 1909. Several photographers are represented, but the majority of images are by C.B. Waite, an Australian- born photographer who worked in Mexico and California. Other photographers represented are Cox & Carmichael, A. Briquet, and Scott (probably Winnfield Scott, a photographer who worked in Mexico around 1900). The photographs are captioned on front and many have printed text on back of mounts that suggests that they were made for sale to tourists. Subject representation is broad, including: identified civic and religious buildings, town views, occupations and activities, monuments and gardens, tropical flora, Precolumbian sites and artifacts, historical sites and reproductive prints of famous persons in Mexico's history. Market scenes and "typical" or distinctive aspects of Mexican life are included. The photographs are sharp, well-composed and preserved. Unusual images of note are: a pauper's funeral car, game cocks in baskets for transport, and a woman penitent on her knees at Monte Sacro in Amecameca.

63 items (2 boxes) : 63 photographic prints ; 21 x 26 cm., and 26 x 36 cm.

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Woodward, Dorothy, 1895-1961

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Dorothy Woodward, historian and educator, was born in Clearfield, Pennsylvania in 1895. After receiving her Ph.D. from Yale in 1935, she joined the faculty at the University of New Mexico where she taught Latin American history. She served in the Woman's Army Corps. from 1944-45 and in the New Mexico Civil Air Patrol. She retired from UNM in 1956 and was appointed to the UNM Board of Regents in 1957. She resigned in May 1960. She died the following year on April 4 in Denver, Colorado....

Waite, C. B. (Charles Burlingame)

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Briquet, Abel

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Briquet was a French photographer that worked in Mexico. He was commissioned to photograph the railways being constructed at the start of Porfirio Diaz's presidency. He also shot natural portraits of Mexican life and images depicting the growth of cities and the development of the country through the turn of the century. (http://www.getty.edu/news/press/exhibit/mexico.ht ml). From the description of Vistas Mexicanas, ca. 1880-ca. 1900. (Brigham Young University). WorldCat record id: ...

Cox & Carmichael

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